Woohoo!
I've been playing a number of freeroll multi-table tournaments lately, as well as other multi-table and single table tournaments. Today, I won a freeroll with 1811 entrants, the most entrants I've ever beat to win a tournament. As a freeroll, it's both easier and more difficult to win the whole thing. It's way harder to get deeper in the tournament due to a lot of inexperienced players, players that will never fold any hand that might win, and people that just plain don't take the event seriously. It's easier later in the tournament as people tend to tighten up too much and you can, if you're an experienced player, outmaneuver the players later in the tourney with a bit of a chip stack.
I won an Absolute Poker polo shirt, deck of cards, and mouse pad. Not a thrilling prize, but probably worth at least 15 bucks on ebay.
This success comes the day after a horrible day for my personal bankroll. I lost 80 percent of it, mostly playing tournaments, and mostly just not hitting shit. Less than average starting hands, far less than average flops and later boards, and tons of suckouts and bad beats. As a result, with my personal bankroll I've been playing the lowest SNG level available. Not the funnest thing.
I also qualified for the first time ever yesterday for a second round freeroll on Pokerstars. It used to be the case that they tournaments allowed a maximum of 2500 people and only 16 got to the second stage tournament. I got to 20th in the first stud tournament I ever played there, but didn't replicate any success beyond that any time since. Now, they allow 99 of 12,000 players to qualify for the second round freeroll event. In the first tournament I've played on pokerstars since that change, I qualified. That's just within the top .8 percent in a tournament. It's not an easy feat to obtain.
I'm trying to develop bankrolls for myself on sites other than Full Tilt where my main bankroll resides. Since I don't have the disposable income, freerolls are the only option open to me.
There was an interesting discussion Poker After Dark between Phil Hellmuth and Huck Seed related to freerolls. A lot of hype had been given to Chris Ferguson's success in taking 1 dollar and turning it into 20,000, going slowly and carefully up the levels over 3 years. Phil and Huck were considering a prop bet that Huck couldn't do the same, but only getting to 10k over two years. Huck was interested in the freerolls on full tilt that pay like 16 positions with 900 players allowed per tournament. I've cashed in two of those tournaments. I played almost every freeroll over 12 hour periods on like 12 poker sites for a time when I had killed my bankroll and didn't have other disposable income.
If you have the money, unless you're unreasonably risk tolerant, freerolls with small prize pools (500 or less) are an incredible waste of time.
I've been playing a number of freeroll multi-table tournaments lately, as well as other multi-table and single table tournaments. Today, I won a freeroll with 1811 entrants, the most entrants I've ever beat to win a tournament. As a freeroll, it's both easier and more difficult to win the whole thing. It's way harder to get deeper in the tournament due to a lot of inexperienced players, players that will never fold any hand that might win, and people that just plain don't take the event seriously. It's easier later in the tournament as people tend to tighten up too much and you can, if you're an experienced player, outmaneuver the players later in the tourney with a bit of a chip stack.
I won an Absolute Poker polo shirt, deck of cards, and mouse pad. Not a thrilling prize, but probably worth at least 15 bucks on ebay.
This success comes the day after a horrible day for my personal bankroll. I lost 80 percent of it, mostly playing tournaments, and mostly just not hitting shit. Less than average starting hands, far less than average flops and later boards, and tons of suckouts and bad beats. As a result, with my personal bankroll I've been playing the lowest SNG level available. Not the funnest thing.
I also qualified for the first time ever yesterday for a second round freeroll on Pokerstars. It used to be the case that they tournaments allowed a maximum of 2500 people and only 16 got to the second stage tournament. I got to 20th in the first stud tournament I ever played there, but didn't replicate any success beyond that any time since. Now, they allow 99 of 12,000 players to qualify for the second round freeroll event. In the first tournament I've played on pokerstars since that change, I qualified. That's just within the top .8 percent in a tournament. It's not an easy feat to obtain.
I'm trying to develop bankrolls for myself on sites other than Full Tilt where my main bankroll resides. Since I don't have the disposable income, freerolls are the only option open to me.
There was an interesting discussion Poker After Dark between Phil Hellmuth and Huck Seed related to freerolls. A lot of hype had been given to Chris Ferguson's success in taking 1 dollar and turning it into 20,000, going slowly and carefully up the levels over 3 years. Phil and Huck were considering a prop bet that Huck couldn't do the same, but only getting to 10k over two years. Huck was interested in the freerolls on full tilt that pay like 16 positions with 900 players allowed per tournament. I've cashed in two of those tournaments. I played almost every freeroll over 12 hour periods on like 12 poker sites for a time when I had killed my bankroll and didn't have other disposable income.
If you have the money, unless you're unreasonably risk tolerant, freerolls with small prize pools (500 or less) are an incredible waste of time.
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