pokerstar hubbles

i have been playing on ps for 3 years now played several hubbles[freerolls with 9,000 people in it]i have made it close but never made it to round two 2,000 prize pool. last week i won in 5 card draw. yesterday i won a ticket in limit holdem. round two here i come

Well done bud and good luck in 2nd round.

I've played several of these hubbles, but never made it through to next round. Mind you, they are donk fests and I stopped playing them after a while.

I've built a bankroll just from the freerolls there. I qualified in a HORSE freeroll, got 60 cents in the round 2, and I'm now up to $14.09 from playing microstakes (one 25 cent tourney to get me over a dollar, then the rest 1c/2c cash games).

congrats, you going to have to pick a good time to spend it, make sure you can concerate, cause it sucks to get a ticket like that and then waste in by going all in the first hand, hope the outcome is good

The only good thing about the Hubble is that Poker Stars lets you bank the tickets. I wish Absolute, Cake, Doyles, etc. would let you do that. I feel better playing the Hubble because if I can't make the game on Saturday, I can use my ticket any other day I choose.

ohh damn congrats on the ticket tho!

I'm the same way..Haven't been able to place in Hubbles freeroll and NL hold em is my game but for some reason I won a ticket for Omaha and I don't even play much Omaha..Oh well

Still wish Pokerstars would have better freerolls

The second round game is almost like real poker. Even if they got lucky and won their first time, people have at least 5 hours invested in getting there. More likely, the players have 40,50, 100 hours invested to get there. So nobody wants to donk out early. People play tighter, they are more likely to slowplay a good starting hand, and they can be bluffed out of pots.

I think the best advice I can give you is don't get ladder-panic. If you survive to get close to the money, or get into the money, you can move up in position without winning hands, as people ahead of you get ladder-panic, think they need to win a big hand, go all-in, and go all-out.

When you get close to the bubble, don't play any hand you are not willing to go all-in with, because the big stacks will put you all-in, thinking you won't call and go all-out so close to the bubble.

Gee, wish I knew that you could bank the ticket. I won 1 about 2 weeks ago and by the saturday felt like a dogs breakfast with the flu....result: the donks really irritated me and I ended going out in the early stages.

Thanx for the info.

It's also good to know that the Saturday morning game is always Hold 'Em, and the Sunday game rotates between the other poker games, such as Stud, Omaha, and Draw.

I stopped playing the Astronmer Freerolls once I won a stake, and I haven't been back - so I haven't looked closely enough to be certain, but I imagine the rotation includes every game you win a ticket in from. If I was an expert Badugi player, and I won a ticket at Badugi, but couldn't ever use it to make money playing Badugi, I'd be pretty annoyed.

good job, way to go. i've won 3-4 tickets so far. but it's been awhile because they changed it from top 200 to top 72 gets a ticket. i'm about sick of freerolls though. there's very little learning in those. it doesn't matter how you play, tight, aggressive, it just doesn't matter, it's all about straight luck with those.

Congrats on making round 2 - I qualified a few times, but even if you cash you only get $1 or less if I remember correctly, so my advice would be to play aggressively and go for it!

Havent played a freeroll there in a long time- just too many people and it takes far too long imho

Best of luck though

You can win those freerolls just with luck!
So many people are going all in almost every time...
You should stop waisting your time and play other tournements!

I used to have 8 or 9 tickets banked, but used them up. Now it's back to the freerolls again. I just played in two at the same time tonight (no limit OHL8 and pot limit Omaha). Funny, they started an hour apart, but finished at almost the same time. Anyway, got a ticket in both of them. I just hate playing for 3 or 4 hours and not getting a ticket, so was glad it worked out.

I had a stretch where I played in about 10 of those. I got knocked out in the first hour 7 times, won a ticket the other 3. Still have them, all from May of last year, 17th, 28th, 30th. When I do think about using them it's always some second round game I don't want to play like Omaha.

Congrats! Funny, I've probably won 20 tickets, including all but the 2 games you won. The Hubble is brutal. Last one I played was over a year ago, and was 12000 people. So this is a good solid hour or two of total donkfest. I struggle w/NLHE to boot, so never got anywhere but tilt city.

Nope. Sunday is still just Stud (Hi & HL), Omaha (PL, Limit HL, and maybe NL HL (???)), Limit Holdem. I don't think I've ever seen razz in there, nor do I recall seeing HORSE, which is surprising - but I could be wrong. The other games like 5-card stud, 2-7 single draw, badugi, are recent astronomer additions. So my guess is that Badugi & 2-7 single/triple draw won't be added anytime soon, at least not until their popularity increases. As long as Poker Stars is offering $2k no matter how many sign up, I'm sure they like to see as many tickets as possible jammed in there.

I didn't know it either at first. Played the NLHE and never made it past 1000 left. Would be nice if their congratulatory email mentioned that you can keep them forever. Instead they point to right to Saturday's NLHE :

PokerStars Tournament #140502915, HORSE
Freeroll Super Satellite
3632 players
Target Tournament #140492038
64 tickets to the target tournament

Tournament started 2009/02/16 5:22:00 ET


Dear divebich,

You finished the tournament in 46th place.

This qualifies you for a seat in Tournament #140492038. A ticket to this tournament was issued in your name. You can use this ticket to register. See Tournament #140492038 Lobby for further details.
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Almost a little deceptive. Anyway, I got 17 tickets squirrelled away now. Next Sunday, Omaha HL - yippie!!!