PokerStars World Record Week-10k player SNGS/$10k added

#2 25th December 2008, 12:03 AM

Thanks for the info. I will register in this tournament and wish me luck guys.

#3 25th December 2008, 12:10 AM

Mind boggling.

I would love to hear the logic of calling these sit'n'goes.

#4 25th December 2008, 3:31 AM

I was wonderind that too, but I guess sngos are defined as any game that begins when filled, while tournaments have definite start times. Pokerstars already has 360 plyr sngos and 180 plyr tournaments.

Nice money added, but I assume these will be 5 min blinds. No mention of the blind or payout structure. I'm sure I'll give atleast one of these a try...thanks for the heads up, TRB.

#5 25th December 2008, 4:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dj11

Mind boggling.

I would love to hear the logic of calling these sit'n'goes.

A sit and go is any tourney that begins when a certain number of players are registered, rather than starting at a specific time. While you may think of a sit and go as a smaller tournament, that is not always the case.

#6 25th December 2008, 4:26 AM

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Originally Posted by silverslugger33

While you may think of a sit and go as a smaller tournament, that is not always the case.

True. These are nothing but multi-table SNGs. They're basically just the big brother of the 180 man SNGs.

#7 25th December 2008, 4:41 AM

Pokerstars has lots of stuff going on this last week of the year!

#8 25th December 2008, 4:56 AM

A sign up South Dakota SnG. $40,000 (added). It costs $5 and starts when everyone in South Dakota signs up. At least those with an adequate internet connection.

SOrry about the sad attempt at humor on X-Mas eve. My A-game is on Holiday....

#9 25th December 2008, 4:38 PM

10,000 players with a $1 buy in. Depending on the payout structure may just be a giant headache.

#10 25th December 2008, 4:42 PM

Here's the link for all of the event info:

http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/prom...week/?utm_id=5

#11 25th December 2008, 9:55 PM

Looks like they are splashing cash on every 1,000,000th hand in ring games too. Even micro stakes.

#12 25th December 2008, 10:58 PM

I think I'm going to attempt to play in one or a few of these SnG's. I'm curious how long one of these will last? I would say one of these bad boys will run at least 4 hours. If they are adding $10,000 that means it will be a $20,000 SnG, that is pretty sweet! The Sunday Million this weekend is going to be sweeeeeet too!

#13 25th December 2008, 11:05 PM

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Looks like they are splashing cash on every 1,000,000th hand in ring games too. Even micro stakes.

Yea, Bella already got some Christmas loot in a stud game.
This is the 3rd or 4th time I'm saying this--Stars 25% bonus also a sweet promo.

#14 25th December 2008, 11:21 PM

This is going to become awesome , I think I'm sign up in the 10k Sit'n go

#15 26th December 2008, 12:59 AM

Weee - turned my step 3 ticket into a step 4 ticket so gonna use it in the warm-up or Sun mil this weekend. They have the guarantees juiced up for this event.

#16 26th December 2008, 1:41 AM

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Originally Posted by dakota-xx

Weee - turned my step 3 ticket into a step 4 ticket so gonna use it in the warm-up or Sun mil this weekend. They have the guarantees juiced up for this event.

Congrats dakota. I played a ton of the steps SNGS this past spring trying to win a WSOP package. Got one step 5 ticket and flamed out in that one.

I would consistently finish 3rd or 4th so that I could try again, and occassionaly finish 1st or 2nd so I could move up a step. But went out early when I final made step 5.

Good luck in whatever you choose to play in this Sunday.

#17 26th December 2008, 2:55 AM

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Originally Posted by UnknownFlush

I don't like to playing step in SNG but good job to coming so far

Well it would be tough to work your way up - I was lucky enough to win my step 3 in a freeroll and don't have any money invested at all.

#18 26th December 2008, 5:32 PM

Well I thought I was going to play in this, but I have two VISA gift cards, one is a "Walmart GreenDot" card and the other is a "WesBanco" and neither one of those mofo's work! How dissapointing.. I'll have to figure something else out I suppose.

#19 26th December 2008, 5:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dj11

Mind boggling.

I would love to hear the logic of calling these sit'n'goes.

It's easy. You put up your dollar, 10,000 entries trigger the start.

You 'sit' down immediately, go all-in and you get up and 'go'. ...

But seriously, as mentioned later, it is really that it has a number trigger, not a time trigger. Most folks (rightfully so...) think that 'SnG' means it is a rapid start game, small number of entries, and you 'go' in a reasonable time frame.

The actual meaning I've seen before is exactly as it says. You 'sit' and it 'goes' as soon as a magic designated entry number is reached. Has no relationship to the amount of time needed to play.

#20 26th December 2008, 8:14 PM

hah.that was a good idea how really how it goes down

and the sunday mill. i think is 2.5 this week so that may boost up entrys from 7k to like 15-15k

#21 26th December 2008, 8:28 PM

thanks for sharing TRB, this is good. i usually play on FT.

#22 26th December 2008, 8:42 PM

I might try to play in one of these SNG's but i believe the problem with Pokerstars is that they don't allow freeroll players to build their bankroll up seriously the fields for the weekly round 1's are to big but with FT you can easily accumilate FTP points which can be used to satelite into some nice tourneys and they have regular freerolls that cater for different types of players and take less time and have less of a field that PS

#23 26th December 2008, 9:15 PM

What a great idea from Pokerstars,to come up with a series of 10,000 seater $1 sng's.
This is a great opportunity for players who can only afford,or who only like to enter small entry fee games,to get a chance of winning a nice amount of cash.
I don't know for sure,but these could pay down to 1,000th place,or have a $1,000 1st place prize.
Will deff give one of these a bash.

#24 26th December 2008, 9:44 PM

yeah these are like playing the 20k @ 7est which usually cost 11$ for only 1$. hope to play in a couple myself. only running this weekend though

#25 27th December 2008, 5:56 AM

does anyone have any idea how many of these SNG's they are going to run, and at what time are they going to start sign ups?

#26 27th December 2008, 6:27 AM

There are now the first two open of no more than ten total that will be running. One is regular (10 min rounds, 2k chips); the other is a turbo (5 min rounds, 2k chips). Both have the slower blind structure as well. Based on the break schedule posted it looks like these games are anticipated to run in the 5-6 hour mark (though I'd guess the turbo would be faster). 1st place payout is $2350 and tourney pays top 15%.

#27 27th December 2008, 6:36 AM

These look ok actually. Especially the regular one. 2000 starting chips with 10minute blinds is better than I'm used to anyway Not gonna be able to play in the ones registering now. Need some shut eye Hopefully though I'll be able to play in one tomorrow....

#28 27th December 2008, 7:11 AM

Noooooes! The normal blinds one got up to 5.5k in about 30 min but now it's down to 4.7k and waning.

#29 27th December 2008, 2:32 PM

As of 8:31 PS Server time the non-turbo has 7920 registered and the turbo has 3596 registered.

#30 27th December 2008, 3:13 PM

Is anyone in it?

#31 27th December 2008, 3:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by schnozzinkobenstein

Is anyone in it?

http://www.cardschat.com/f42/10-000-...5/#post1029405

#32 27th December 2008, 3:56 PM

Well the non-turbo 10k SNG has been running for one hour now (just went on 1st break). In just one hour 4965 players were eliminated...so just about 1/2 of them. I'm thinking about 5-6 hours to finish a non-turbo is about right then.

#33 27th December 2008, 5:06 PM

So for anyone morbidly curious in the numbers (like I am), the 1st 10K non-turbo SNG just went on 2nd break with 1763 players remaining. So not quite to the money after two hours (1500 paid).

#34 27th December 2008, 5:34 PM

I am doing much better in the turbo SNG. Only 200 left to get into the money, about an hour and a half in. People are pushing some crazy stuff but it has slowed down recently.

I am 235 / 1600 at the moment

#35 1st January 2009, 10:16 PM

As I continue to track this once per hour, I see they are now on their 3rd break and there have 607 players remaining (just a few people shy of tier 3 payouts).

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