Are you going to pay them out of the jackpot and even if you do, they won't be making tip money so no one is going to want to deal this thing. There is still the problem of the dealers though. Make the freeroll accessible to more people, use part of the drop to rent out a ballroom, more people will be happy. If I recall correctly, the Shoe does not have a hotel section BUT it does rent out ballrooms for meetings! What the Wynn and Caesar's do to combat this is rent out a ballroom in the hotel part of their establishments and set up poker tables there. Jeremy this is the main problem with having a freeroll - allocating space and dealers for it.
If we did an 80 hour minimum freeroll, what would you think about having it at 8am? This is what would have to be done to have 250 people. This current freeroll is just one promotion that we will try. But as I mention before it would have to be around 100-150 people and take place in one day. If it does take many hours to qualify we will consider a minimum hours for a future freeroll.