I still miss those games. There was one at 6pm PST every day that I played virtually every day as I was off work, had time to get cleaned up and have dinner before settling in to play it.
If you played extremely tight/aggressive (almost a push or fold game) early it was pretty easy to cash in. I would make 5 or 6 final tables every year and finished 1st twice.
I was so stoked about beating such large fields I still have the emails from PS saved.
PokerStars Tournament #682421007, No Limit Hold'em
Freeroll
9203 players
$1000.00 USD added to the prize pool by PokerStars
Total Prize Pool: $1991.20 USD
Tournament started 2013/02/10 21:00:00 ET
Dear Orsino12,
You finished the tournament in 1st place. A USD 294.12 award has been credited
to your
real money account.
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The 2nd one was much less money but a lot more players and was one of the very last of these games and happened to be Christmas morning...
PokerStars Tournament #1392637095, No Limit Hold'em
Freeroll
16750 players
$1000.00 USD added to the prize pool by PokerStars
Total Prize Pool: $1557.10 USD
Tournament started 2015/12/25 7:00:00 PT [2015/12/25 10:00:00 ET]
Dear Orsino12,
You finished the tournament in 1st place. A USD 178.36 award has been credited to your Real Money account.