Who says pokerstars FPP are useless

This is one of 5 or 6 FPP freerolls that I have placed in this week alone I'm starting to get more constistent in
MTT play online and now am doing well at both live MTT's and on-line MTT"S

PokerStars Tournament #86396968, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: 10 FPP
4731 players
$500.00 added to the prize pool by PokerStars.com
Total Prize Pool: $500.00
Tournament started - 2008/05/01 - 19:40:00 (ET)

Dear whyme250,

You finished the tournament in 659th place.
A $0.15 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 23.45 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/leader-board/


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

fifteen cents is fifteen cents. but i think you won a lot more on your confidence.

I've played in those before 10 point 500 dollar freeroll.....They are tough to get through.The best I finished was 354th place or something like that so hang in there and your BIG payday will come......

^ they are tough. i played the 10fpp mtt 8 days in a row. didnt place crap in any of em and i played my best poker. nice job on the 15 cent win! lol

well i think kif im correct pokerstars fpp's are worth 1.6 cents compared to the points to tournament buyins they offer....so really you lost 1 cent...so anything over 15 cents and your alright, sorry if this brings your confidence down and someone correct me if the fpps are worth more!

If my luck and cards have turned sour, I will start playin in some FPP's . There not bad, if you can survive the donks.

save them up and play in bigger satellites. That is a lot more rewarding

I used to play them, but honestly I can make so much more (even at micro) sitting at a ring game for that much time. Now I play mostly STTs and save my FPPs. Though I think that I may enter that new million dollar tourney, so I will probably spend my FPPs until I win a seat to that (probably play the 500 FPP satelitte).

no one says pokerstars FPPs are useless. they're amazing,.

I'll take the guaranteed 1.3 cents/FPP for the platinum bonus instead, although supernova is 1.5 cents/FPP.

Anyone who says that FPPs are useless is absolutely insane.

Pokerstars FPP = Bodog "Poker Points"?

These FPP games are a great way to gain experience and yes, confidence. Keep up the good work

Good to know you're gaining confidence playing 10FPP games. I personally think time is better invested playing low-limit tournaments, because even with a tiny edge, you'll win more than 15 cents in 2-hour sessions

i want like 1 million FPPs.
plz.

well clearly, but some people don't have any money or they did and busted their account and all they have left to build with is the FPPs they accumulated

I have started a couple of bankrolls playing the 70fpp sngs........
they are definately a good way to get re-started after a bad run if you don't want to deposit.

You're right - I didn't think about he bankroll-rebuilding part

Just curious - What do you think is the best use of FPPs? Playing satellites or buying poker books on their online store?

I haven't accumulated enough FPPs to do anything yet...

what do you play (stakes etc) and how much time do you spend playing?

i like the 70 fpp sattellite. . . if you cash you can unregister for 11 or 12 worth of T$

I play 15 hours a week on $5 buy-in SnGs and $3-5 buy-in MTTs

Accumulated ~300FPPs over the past 5 months. They accumulate slowly so I can't buy anything with them

what are you going to do with your 300 FPP?

I plan on getting an Xbox with my FPP

congratulations surviving a freeroll, that s something !!

I'm accumulating the 500FPPs required to clear the $50 bonus. So I won't do anything to them unless the bonus is in my bankroll. Not sure if I use them the bonus will be lost...

For Pokertars, its not lost if you spend them. Go to the cashier and check your bonus status.

screw the little freerolls to make 15c. give me a tshirt baby. you can never have enough tshirts.

i dont play the fpp games anymore but i used to play the sunday night couple grand 50 fpp game. does any1 know if they still run these games as they were a decent payout for time spent playin.

wat

I've played in about 8 of these and with a great deal of luck have hit the money twice for a grand total of about $.75 (highest was 240ish) . I find the play in these things to be pretty ridiculous. But they are entertaining for a couple of hours and good for experience in learning how to preserve chips and make the most of your stack under tough conditions. I am glad that the way poker is played in these things is not how it is really played. I'd probably quit.

They can be valuable.

I played in a 1000 FPP tourney last year and won a $12,000 WSOP Main Event package.

Hand History Posting and Rakeback

how did u do in the ME? or did u take the $$$?

I sold about 80% of myself and played (picking up the extra $1000 for wearing Pokerstars gear).

From my blog:

On Saturday I grabbed a cab to the Rio for Day 1. My plan was to play tight, small-pot poker on Day 1, and try to make it to Day 2 with at least an average stack.

We started at noon with each blind level lasting 2 hours and I played only a handful of times during the first few hours. There were recognizable players and celebrities everywhere in the massive Amazon room, but none at my table.

I slipped a note about myself to a Pokernews reporter covering our area. I didn't know if he'd consider it newsworthy but figured it was worth a try. Sure enough, he gave me a small blurb on their live coverage blog.

Live Reporting | 2007 World Series of Poker | Event 55 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Holdem

After a break I settled back in my seat and a fellow with a media badge, tapped me on the shoulder. He was from ESPN and had read the Pokernews mention. He briefly interviewed me and wished me good luck. Had I gone further in the tournament I'm sure he would have been back to further explore the "feel-good" story of Pat Fleming and his Bement backers.

We were playing ABC poker with a raise of 3 times the Big Blind being typical. I had pocket Kings once and AK once, winning a small pot each time when all folded to my standard raises.

After about 8 hours we went on a 90 minute dinner break and I was hovering at a little over 20,000 chips (we started with 20,000).

At about 11pm my stack was about 18,000 and I was dealt pocket Queens. At this point in the tournament, the big blind was 600 and the small blind was 300, with a 75 chip ante per player. With 10 players at my table, that meant each pot started with 1650 in blinds and antes.

Two more players entered the pot for 600 each and the action was on me. The pot now contained 2850, so I made a raise to 2800. The small blind folded, the big blind called me, and the other two players both folded. There was now 7850 in the pot.

The flop was Jack, 7, 4. He checked and I bet 6000, about 3/4 the pot. He went all-in for a total of 7200. Since it only cost me another 1200 to stay in this 20,000+ pot, I called.

We then turned over our hole cards and I fully expected him to have 2-pair or three of a kind, since he had check raised me on the flop. I was praying he had something like Ace/Jack or King/Jack.

I was thrilled to see he only had a pair of fives, and badly trailed my pair of Queens. I was an 88% favorite to win the 22,250 pot and be sitting with over 30,0000 nearing the end of Day 1 and be in great shape (at this point, the average chip stack was about 32,000).

He needed a 5 to win, I needed anything but a 5, to hold him off.

Forty-Three unseen cards.
Forty-One of them were not a 5.
Two of them were 5's.

Alas, it was not to be. He caught one of the two remaining fives on the turn and I was left with a short stack of 8,000. The blinds were soon to go to 400/800 with a 100 ante, meaning I could last only about 4 orbits before being blinded away.

This put me in "shove" mode, looking for any decent hand to try to double up with and get back in the game. A few hands later I committed all my chips with pocket sixes and was called by a big stack with KJ. A classic 50/50 "coin flip" which I was unable to win, eliminating me about 12 hours into Day 1.

Live Reporting | 2007 World Series of Poker | Event 55 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Holdem

Overall, I was pleased with the way I played. I didn't feel I missed many opportunities and got my money in the pot as a huge favorite. The cards just didn't fall my way this time.

Great job I cant stand those 5 thousand ppl freerolls you are much better off playing in CC freerolls. lot less ppl and bigger rewards for finishing higher.

I PUT UP 70FPP'S AND GOT MYSELF A TICKET TO THE SUNDAY 100K. YOU NEVER KNOW WHERE IT WILL GO. SPEND THEM WISELY.