Long tourneys

So last night i played in the usa freeroll on full tilt and finished 8th. (Now i happen to cash 3 days after i first deposit) Tourney started at 8 and i was knocked out at 2:30am. Needless to say it took a while as i expected. It was also of course a freerolll so the payout was small, but not the point here.

Just wondering what the longest tourneys some other people had played in and what the outcome ended up being. It wasn't so much the length that was so long is was more the ending at 2:30 when i had to be up at 6:30.

This coupled with my cash in the daily doller the day before puts me at $10.50 between the two for about .50 hour profit. Its more about the fun of the game though than the money obviously.

You did well,
Got 0.60 for 2 hour yesterday lol...
Also sometimes 3 hours play, not ITM...

And yes, you have to play the FR's for fun, because you need to get in top 3 for a well profit...Not looking at $500 FR's offcourse...

right on, i played in that game to yesterday, i think i placed 20th or something can't remember ,but the longest tourny for me was pokerstars freerolls or bodog with like anywhere between 9000-12000 people made it into the money but can take more then 4 hrs and thats with like 80-200 players left, one time i played for more then 5 hrs once ko with 1.25

I could be mistaken, but I don't believe PS has freerolls where 12,000 people make it ITM, even on a 20% payout structure, that would be 60,000 people in the freeroll.

Back on the subject, the longest one I have played was the Daily Dollar on FT a while ago and it was 8 hours... and in my opinion, it wasn't worth it even though I did turn my $1 into quite a larger amount, I would rather play a bigger buy-in and not deal with all of the idiots in the Daily Dollar... every time I play it, I regret it just because of that, whether I make the money or not, lol

Awhile back pokerstars had event qualifying tourneys where the winner of each table advanced to the next round against the other table winners, this format continued until I think only 10 players remained. The tourney I played took over 6 hours, but to make it harder if you won your table you might need to wait an hour or so for the other tables to finish before the start of the next round.

Last week I participated in a 50K tourny (through freeroll satelite).
I dropped out after 3 hours, but the tourny lasted more than 10 hours.
Thats why I dont like "deep stack" big tournys.

I have never played a tourney like that, but I like the concept. So it is kind of like a Step tournament, you have to win the whole table to proceed, sounds like fun.

finaled tabled a pokerstars tourney well over 6 hrs

Came 2nd in a $22 deepstack. 9 hours 58 mins, which made me lol

I think my longest tourney was on Stars, I would say something like 5 or 6 hours.
I was tiiiired, but I did a pretty well job, so it helps to keep the eyes opened

I cam 9th in an $11 deepstack once and it took just over 12 hours so that was quite on the quick side

I took 3rd in a $33 deepstack ( don't ever play these unless you have ATLEAST 10 hrs to kill)
12 1/2 hrs. I saw 2 A.M. twice lol (daylight savings)

I played the same tourny last night (Stars) placed 10th started at 3:00P got knocked out at midnight payout was $95.00. I still havn't decided if it was worth the time I put in, I can make the same amout playing 4 hours of $16 turbo SnGs (at least on a good night).

I also played in that USA fr and have been for the last few days or so, they are extremely long but so are most fr, but I myself havent cashed out yet on the usa one

i do have to say that 6hours for anything less than a dollar always pisses me off but o well its part of playing fr

I have played fr that I wasnt knocked out until like 8 hrs later and only ended up with a few bux, but at the time my br was empty so I was desperate

dont play in games where u know u've gotta b up in a few hours or u have to go do sumthing. Ur only jus gonna worry ur self/get tired and not play ur A game.
The longest session ive played in a MTT was online and it hit the 7hour mark. By that time ur ITM n it feels good to b rushin on adrenalin.

Some of those FR's put on by the big poker sites are terrible but if you don't have a BR and you have some time what else are you going to do. The big thing is to think of it as a lerning experience. Once you get past the all-in donks you can play some good poker and if your game is improving then the investment of time is more fruitful.

making the Final table in those 2700 player freerolls on FT takes time..., seven hours isnt unusual... and that is about the longest i have lasted...
Good to practice your patience...
GL

aC

Hi Jaggi,

A few weeks ago I came 1st out of 3700 people for $509. It took 9hours though and I felt like crap for the next 2 days

I play a lot on Cake site. I won a ticket last week to play in the $1000 tourney on Sat and came in 6th and won $45. These games don't last nearly as long because there is a lot less players. Try one of the $1000 satelites and see how you like them.
1Birddog

I think my longest was when I won a $25,000 Guarantee on FT a few weeks ago. 1354 entrants, took about 7 hours, ending after 1am on a work night. Then again I seldom go to bed by that time anyway, but trouble was I was so amped up from winning it that I got about 2 hours of sleep before having to get up. It was worth it though.

I've since found that I'm more comfortable playing the mid-stakes 90-player turbo deepstack KO SnG's. I've cashed about $1000 in the last 2-3 weeks playing those, including a 1st place finish last night worth $300 including KO bounties. These last about 1.5 - 2 hours give or take. Not as profitable as a major MTT win, but not as grueling and the odds of cashing are better (for me).

i play in 1 and fell asleep just to wake up to make the cut. So make sure if you do a long one your rested

my ok longest was 13 hours and I got 3rd of 1400 ppl 11$ deep stack on ps

The longest I've every played was in a national bar league (worldtavernpoker.com) where you play a 17 week season then the qualifiers for all the bars in your region play in a large regional. This year my region (Raleigh NC area) had around 400 qualifiers.

The game started @3:00pm and I busted out at 9:00PM around 60th place. 6 hours of f2f poker. I was beat. And I didn't qualify for the national tournament (top 30, so close!).

Play was very serious, Nationals are in Vegas or Atlantic City, Vegas this time around, and the Nationls finalists get seats at the WSOP.

It was fun but grueling.

Never played on world tavern poker. How is it?
1Birddog

I also played the $250 Usa last night and made $1 =) took like 4 to 5 hours i think. Longest iv been was the 2700 on FT which was about 6-7 hours.

It's not an online poker service so you can't "play on" it. It's a USA league run through a website and played, in person, at bars. The bar pays them a fee and the web site does the game management and supplies the end of season prizes. A bar will typically setup the game for a weak sales night and bring in extra customers. No gambling allowed so all legal for most states.

The bar I usually play at will get 40-60 players on a Tuesday night for 2 games (7:00 and 10:00)

All of which is horribly off topic, but does result in some huge end of season games (Bang! back on topic!)

I've been tempted to start a thread on bar leagues and specifically World Tavern Poker but didn't want to risk getting labeled a spammer. Maybe I will and just cross my fingers...

I have no business affiliation with World Tavern Poker but I am a satisfied user. Admins, if you have a problem please PM and it's the last time I'll post anything about WTP.

Ive been playing a 1800 free cash tournament once.
I was running great and ended up in the 100ths with my chipammount.

The tournament lasted almost about 4 hours untill i got knocked out and finished 198th.

They should really create a system where there will be 1 day breaks after every x ammount of hours.

once i had played freeroll on Pokerstars like about 6hours~, finished 2nd. won my first money on Pokerstars ^_^ that was like about half year back

The longest ive played is 7 hours in a $5 buy in on pokerstars to finish 28th

Yeah, I played in several of these a while back. Once I had to wait over 2 hours for the other tables to finish before we could start the next round. A couple of times I was too tired to wait. Not knowing how long it was going to take, I just said to heck with it and went to bed.
The U.B. $50 freerolls typically take 6 hours. The blinds go up so slowly. Also, there are so many sitters that eat the clock up. Even if a sitter has clicked "sit out", if he gets transferred to a new table, the clock process starts all over again. With an initial 20 seconds to act, then 60 seconds extra time, it gets very maddening. They need to fix that, so once you are "sitting out", you are not dealt cards until you unclick it.

I finish 2nd on a pokerstars freeroll like 2 years ago.. men I play like 6 hrs in that tourney. over 6000 people... so sick, from that day I never try again , but if you want play just for fun... do it, ;P

man, in all the many years gone past, i must have had many games 6-8 hrs long, and usually for a small payout (at best). 12000 ppl is too many for a game, unless its the WSOP, now that i got a bankroll, i prefer sit n gos- usually 1 table- a quick game, alright payout, and 1 in 3 win is my kind of odds. thx for the warnings of the deepstack games too- now i know I'll never touch em
and congrats to all the above players that played some great games

Longest one I've played was definitely the deestack tourney on Stars on the weekend. I went out after the 7th break and there were still around 8tables left playing at that point. Close to 8hrs. and nowhere near the end of it... 30min. levels for an online tourney.... pretty long for sure. I got so tired in that tourney that once when I woke up with AA, I just shoved like 90bb's on a 3-bet AI (and I actually got called.. LOL.. which only prolonged the agony, lol).

I've considered playing these tourneys again, but it's just such a huge time committment that I haven't bothered to. Good practise for Deepstack play (and decent to be used for a Deepstack Live tourney with super slow structure, as in 2 or 3-day event.... which I'm contemplating here coming up later this year). Like I said... I've thought about it but even in the tourney lobby it says something about having the coffee on (& I suggest having meals made in advance, lol).

Longest freeroll.... it was on Carbon Poker. I was considering playing in a priv. league and some of the games were being held on Carbon. I didn't really want to deposit so I thought I'd give one freeroll a try, just after downloading the site and fairly late at night.
I think there were around 1,000 entrants and for sure only Top10 got paid. I went out in 11th with K-K... damn!!!!
I thought afterwards as I hobbled towards my bed at 5am,.."Why didn't I just pick up a VisaGiftCard at 7/11 and deposit on there tomorrow. Instead I've just written off my entire day tomorrow and won't be able to make any $$ working.....for what??.. to try to win like $5 or $10?"
I didn't/couldn't/& wouldn't play another one after that, lol... but I didn't deposit either.

I have been quite constantly playing rebuys on the ipoker network. These usually take about 4-6 hours, so you really do have time to wait for a lot of hands.

The upside is that the ROI you can make in these tournaments is very
nice since the other players generally aren't patient enough to wait for good spots.