Pokerstars BR from play chips or freeroll

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I rarely play at pokerstars and don't feel like depositing there. Was thinking about trying to get a BR from freerolls. These are just insane donk fests and much time is needed for little reward. I decided to play in a play chip tourney and am doing well.

I looked into it and there are sites that pay you for play chips around $10 per million. I am almost thinking with multi tabling these might be the easier way to go.

Either way would take some time, but i think i might give it some and try it out.
 
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I've heard of many ppl doin that. gl
 
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There is a few sites that will buy your chips for around $7-$11 per million play chips. As for the freerolls on PS go. Your first have to beat out 7500 people to even get a ticket to play in the $2k round 2 tourny. I would try getting to a mil or more play chip route instead of the freeroll. Seems like more of a challenge to me and once you get to a million you are garunteed $ vs playing the round 2 freeroll for 2 hrs and not making anything but some small change. Just my opnion though,.
 
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ok so you guys are saying that PS will give you some money if you have 1mil play chips?
 
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ok so you guys are saying that PS will give you some money if you have 1mil play chips?

NO, PS will not give you money for your play chips. But, there are sites that buy play chips and then sell them. Don't really get it but I guess there are people out there willing to pay to have millions of chips. It is possible on PS because you can transfer play chips. Ive heard of it for Full Tilt, but you cannot transfer play chips so would have to break their rules and dump the chips.
 
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Be warned, this is not as easy as it sounds.
 
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If you like pokerstars that much
Might as well try the America's cup of poker which runs every few minutes
It's alsome
 
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is the americas cup of poker open to everyone then? ie uk?

thanks:confused:
 
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is the americas cup of poker open to everyone then? ie uk?

thanks:confused:

It is open to the following --> USA, Mexico, Canada, Colombia, Chile, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil and Argentina. Don’t worry if your country is not listed, all remaining Latin America countries are invited to play as ‘Rest of LATAM’, taking the total number of teams to 10.
 
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Pokerstars does not support $ for play chip transfers.
Some people have side businesses that do thing, but from other posts I've read the market has dropped out. Those people just aren't buying play chips anymore (I guess they're harder to resell).

If you think that playing hours of freerolls for what comes to a few pennies per hour is too much work, then bite the bullet and buy a gift card (that works).

You cannot withdraw money unless you have made a deposit, so you might as well make things easier for yourself and deposit now. Once you have money it's much MUCH easier to make money.
 
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Pokerstars does not support $ for play chip transfers.
Some people have side businesses that do thing, but from other posts I've read the market has dropped out. Those people just aren't buying play chips anymore (I guess they're harder to resell).

If you think that playing hours of freerolls for what comes to a few pennies per hour is too much work, then bite the bullet and buy a gift card (that works).

You cannot withdraw money unless you have made a deposit, so you might as well make things easier for yourself and deposit now. Once you have money it's much MUCH easier to make money.


^^^^This
 
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The thing I wonder about with playing with play chips is how it affects your game. No matter what limits you play with play money it's not gonna be like real money so how much do you guys think it affects your real money game? Surely grinding out millions of play chips can't be good for your overall performance.
 
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Hey man I know it might be a lot of trouble to deposit but really, spare yourself the trouble of a month's sweat and put together 30$. That way you can win both time and money and manage a healthy BRM earlier on...
 
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The thing I wonder about with playing with play chips is how it affects your game. No matter what limits you play with play money it's not gonna be like real money so how much do you guys think it affects your real money game? Surely grinding out millions of play chips can't be good for your overall performance.

Very, VERY untrue for the high stakes playmoney.

If you believe playmoney is a joke, then try the 200K playmoney tournaments where the top 3 gets paid out, 1st being around 700K I believe.

Go ahead and make a few mil per hour, thats about $20-$30/hour --- trust me I've tried it and it isn't that easy.

There are several reasons people buy/sell playmoney.

--Fast way to cash out, websites will instantly buy your chips and hand you over the money.

--You can create as many accounts as you want, no verification ID, deposit, ect. to play on playmoney tables.

--No age limit for playmoney.

Gluck.
 
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Pokerstars does not support $ for play chip transfers.
Some people have side businesses that do thing, but from other posts I've read the market has dropped out. Those people just aren't buying play chips anymore (I guess they're harder to resell).

If you think that playing hours of freerolls for what comes to a few pennies per hour is too much work, then bite the bullet and buy a gift card (that works).

You cannot withdraw money unless you have made a deposit, so you might as well make things easier for yourself and deposit now. Once you have money it's much MUCH easier to make money.

PokerStars-I'm not sure about the withdrawal sentence above. Things may have changed, but last year I made a withdrawal and had not deposited anything.
 
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ok, i have a few million playchips, where do i sell them? seriously!
 
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You do realise selling play chips is illegal? Whether done over pokerstars or through a third party?
 
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Just a bunch of broke morons wanting something for nothing. If you can't afford to make a deposit then you shouldn't be playing in the first place.
 
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You cannot withdraw money unless you have made a deposit, so you might as well make things easier for yourself and deposit now. Once you have money it's much MUCH easier to make money.

As has been stated, unless this policy has changed recently, it is not true. However, as SP states, if you can already make money, it's so much easier to start out through depositing. Also, once you cash out, you lose eligibility for the initial deposit bonus which is VERY relevant if you are a winning player.

You do realise selling play chips is illegal? Whether done over pokerstars or through a third party?

Source? Soliciting the buying or selling of play chips is not allowed in chat but I've never heard of the practice itself being illegal.

Just a bunch of broke morons wanting something for nothing. If you can't afford to make a deposit then you shouldn't be playing in the first place.

Why shouldn't one be playing if they can't afford to deposit? Many people build rolls from nothing and this is just an alternative to playing freerolls. Also, many people have motivations other than being broke such as difficulty depositing, or not wanting to actually "spend" money on poker.
 
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Why shouldn't one be playing if they can't afford to deposit? Many people build rolls from nothing and this is just an alternative to playing freerolls. Also, many people have motivations other than being broke such as difficulty depositing, or not wanting to actually "spend" money on poker.


If you have difficulty depositing, you are either lazy or a moron. It's not hard to deposit. I always laugh when I see people say that.

If you are on financial hard times and can't deposit, then poker is probably one of the last things you should be doing. As I've said a million times on this site. Poker is not a get rich quick scheme. Playing freerolls to build a roll will make using BRM impossible and it's just a matter of time until you eventually lose what you make in freerolls due to the fact you can't use BRM.

Also the mentality of most the folks that try to play poker for free aren't able to show the discipline poker actually requires to be profitable over the long haul. Would you like me to go on?
 
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Be warned, this is not as easy as it sounds.

Also be warned, this is not very fun. Jus deposit $50 and go play some 0.02/0.05NLHE. The fish on those levels will pay u off playin ABC poker. Which is alot faster than grinding freerolls + play chips.
 
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lmao, which makes it illegal, as in, not allowed?

A rule: You should not murder

making murder illegal?

Illegal means it is against the law (generally of whatever jurisdiction you belong to)... Also, source saying that it's illegal or against the rules, or however you want to put it?

If you have difficulty depositing, you are either lazy or a moron. It's not hard to deposit. I always laugh when I see people say that.

Many people have trouble depositing especially if they don't have the ability to get the All Access visa or whatever works on Stars. Other forms of depositing require disclosing personal information that some may not want to disclose.

If you are on financial hard times and can't deposit, then poker is probably one of the last things you should be doing. As I've said a million times on this site. Poker is not a get rich quick scheme. Playing freerolls to build a roll will make using BRM impossible and it's just a matter of time until you eventually lose what you make in freerolls due to the fact you can't use BRM.

Poker can be a get rich quick scheme if you have the right skill set. More likely for most people is that it turns into a decent source of steady income. Why is BRM impossible when you play freerolls? There are ways to systematically manage your bankroll while supplementing it with freerolls that allow you to efficiently increase your roll while managing risk.

Also the mentality of most the folks that try to play poker for free aren't able to show the discipline poker actually requires to be profitable of the long haul. Would you like me to go on?

Yeah except some people do it. If I recall correctly, Belgo and Janovsky have built pretty big rolls without depositing and I had a pretty big roll from nothing before I deposited for the first time on Stars.

Sure, feel free to go on as nothing you've said is remotely convincing as to why everyone that wants to play poker should deposit. Your "my way is the only way" kind of mentality is tilting to say the least not to mention that you come off very condescending.
 
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