freerolls at pokerstars

does anyone else think that the max ppl in the tournys at pokerstars is a lil to much???....i mean 10,000 ppl or 12,000 ppl i know they r freerolls but wow just wandering if anybody thought that was to many ppl??

Hell ya that's alot of ppl, but it's very easy to beat, just wait for AA/KK/ and monster hands of that sort, push and you usally end up with atleast 1 caller, do it again, and again

Not only that, but the prize is just an entry into ANOTHER tournament or several thousand. I stopped playing thme a long time ago.

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very true me too i actually unistalled pokerstars but i read another thread earlier about the 1 mill take down so i will give that a shot just reinstalled it pretty sure there will be 10,000,000,000,000,000 ppl lol but oh well ill try it

There's one freeroll on pokerstars that's pretty decent,

Satellite to the Daily Eight Grand, prize pool is around $400 dollars,

you play with 10,000 players but the good thing is its a Turbo.

ITS Way to many people. What i want to know, has anyone here ever come in top 10 or even won one?

Won a couple (not the daily 60 grand). But it takes ALL FRIGGEN DAY.


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ya i know are there's alot of poeple on the freeroll and it hard to get a hand or there's just alot of donkie's on that site

Freerolls at pokerstars are the worst ever...The max amount of people is absurd and you usually only get entry into another tourney :/ Awful waste of time imo

I quit playing at those freerolls with more than 3000 players. When the tourneys drag on for 5+ hours it gets so boring. I hate pokerstars because their freerolls are just satelittes into a bigger prize pool tourney. You could have more than 8+ hours just to get a payout, what a drag

yeah that is alot of people, but sometimes you will get one with 4k or less, i did an omaha hi and got 79th and got a ticket, but lost in the satelite.... but yeah it is alot of people, and the odds are like 1 in 100 , so play allot and be smart

kym

i have made 88th place before,it took over 3 hours though,by the time i was out i was through playing for the day had to get up and walk around awhile,was tired of sitting.that was a hubble and no i didnt even come close to winning in the next game[the sattalite tourney you go to after placing in the hubble].

I'm just guessin here..... but I don't think this post will count towards your 50.


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I don't think I've ever been above 900 at PS, you really need to have some time to sit and play but the prize is like anything else, good luck in the next stage.

I have seen the Hubble free rolls at Poker Stars with like 12,000 people in them. I must agree this is a ridiculous amount of people playing in one tournament. Also by what I understand you only win an entry into another tournament although I may be wrong. Just out of curiosity though how long does the free roll with 12,000 people in it take to finish?

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A freeroll with 12000 players ?? Looks like you don't only need to be a ppl but also have lucky with some crazy noobs that are all-in maniacs..

Yep, true... Anyway the times there are no freerolls on other rooms, I play those tourneys for the experience I gain...

Today out of 12k players I ended 121st First 100 got the ticket for Round 2.... I was angry as hell, but oh well, it's experience after all...

I actually came in 6th in the Hubble two months ago. It took 5 hours total but I could've stopped shortly after 4 hours because I believe the top 100 get the 2nd round ticket. I was playing such a long time that I figured, what the heck, I'll see where I could finish. In the end, my pocket Jacks were cracked by the big stack who played a hand like 7-6 and hit full house.

I haven't play in the Hubble since then but I've recently tried the Daily Eighty Grand and that's more feasible - finished in the top 100 just short of 2 hours (but still out of the money). What I hate about this one though is that it starts at 1:30 so I'm usually at work.

Ya I do play those rarely for kicks but the ft ones have a much lower field and if you win one of those they have many players who wanna swap money from ft to pokerstars etc... However you need to go to the full tilt lobby menu and check the info, they have alot of scammers names posted and such, something to be wary of. Check out all the info first. They are not liable for those transactions.

I have won a couple of them, but never made it long into the weekend games. If you can hold out and only play the monster hands (and NOT get unlucky) for the 1st hours all the P$Fs are gone and so are most of the "non players"

I don't seem to be able to join these freerolls. Or it's me not finding them, althgouh I look in the freeroll departement. Strange thing.
Luckily I know some Belgian sites that host there.

There's almost no point in playing in the massive field of pokerstars freerolls. With that many players in the field, people make unbelievably erratic plays. If you want a FR, stay away from PS.

Hey Captain, I was at your table a couple of times in the Stud-8 freeroll yesterday. I remember your avatar. Glad to see you wound up getting a ticket too.

I agree that PS really should do something to make their freerolls more worthwhile. One thought I have is to maybe have a small cash prize pool in the round 1 tourneys and pay like the last 3 tables in addition to giving out tickets to round 2. I mean, you have to survive usually 4 hours or so to even get a ticket, why not have some incentive after that?

The thing about the PS round 2 freerolls that I find really hilarious is that so many people start shoving early in them too, just like in the round 1 freerolls. I mean, you'd think that after playing for 4 hours just to get an entry, most everyone would actually take the round 2s seriously. That's why I usually stick to the limit round 2s on Sunday.

yes, this freerolls are annoying on pokerstars - it takes around 2 1/2 hours to get to the top 100 and than the saturday tourney is again around 2000-2500.

i think i invested around 30 hours (i hope, it can easily be 40..) in this freerolls till i gave up.. making 1.70$ so i averaged a decent 5.6 cents an hour..

When I first started online poker, I did these alot, and won several tickets, but have never managed to do anything in the round 2 tournies, so I have basically given up on them.......but they really are good for the moments when you are tilting and just want to blow off some steam and join in with the "all-in every hand gang".

I never play these freeroll with 10000 people.. It takes your all day..

There is alot of people in them. But be ultra tight and in a hour 12k becomes less than 1k.

I think that iv won 1 ticket from these freerolls. But its just shame how long it does to finish the tourney. Sometimes it feels that the 2700 player freeroll at fulltilt is huge ones but then someone remainds me about ps and ft freerolls start to fel easy ones again lol.

Keep in mind guys and gals, the 2006 wsop main event had almost 3,000 people, and thats not exactly a free roll

They're rediculous... for freerolls with a small amount of people give PokerWorld a shot sometime. I can't stand their GUI but their daily 5pm 300$ freeroll usually only has approx 400-600 players, with a cap at 2000.

I dont agree freerolls in pokerstars are suck or worst ever. Its only one tournament with a lot people. Its pretty fun. I play in this freerolls everyday and i reach some tickets to play for money. GL

Every year I give away around 300 lbs of pork, I sell around 30,000 lbs. Its is in my best interest to do these "giveaways" to attract new customers. However I can not afford to give away 10,000 lbs. Poker sites are the same way. Freerolls get people in the door but the sites make no money on them (there is no rakes in tournaments) So if you were them wouldnt you rather have a couple free rolls and a lot of cash tournaments, or would you rather do all the work, it takes the same amount of effort to do freerolls as it does buy ins, and receive nothing or do all the work and get paid?

Now that I think more about it, in general the PokerStars freerolls are a pain to go through, but they have some special freerolls that can make up for it.

Cowboy8112's post reminded me that for this year's WSOP Main Event, PokerStars gave away something like 80 packages worth $12,500. Of course you had to survive two tournaments to win the package, but apart from FullTilt, I don't recall any other poker rooms offered a freeroll for a $10,000 buy-in tourney.

They need freerolls that produce cash right away. The closest thing they have right now is the 10FPPP games