Is PokerStars "The League - Elementary $10 Added" Freeroll a joke?

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Do you think this tournament is a joke?

They supposed to pay 990 players, as shown in the graph bellow. (Usually around this number, sometimes more, sometimes less)

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When this happens they are supposed to pay place 990 about: 0.023% of the prizepool. Resulting on a value they can't even calculate. It would be $0,0023

As result of this ridiculous values, they end up paying just 90 places.

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Place 90 is the first one that in reality should get 1,14 cents. But pokerstars just round this at 1 cent.

What happens with the remainder 0,14 cents? Well, they go adding to the first place prices. And it ends up looking something like this.

First place should get about $1,52, but as first place gets all the remainders of the prizes that PS can't pay, they end up winning $5,15 (So 51,5% of the prizepool)

I just don't understand what's the point of this tournament. I know (or at least I think) nobody forces Pokerstars to run this freerolls. But $10 as a prizepool on a tournament where about 7000 player entry to play it... To me sounds like a joke. It would be better for them to cancel this ridiculous tournament, or increase the prizepool, or do something different, don't know what. But to me, looks like a joke.

What do you think?
 
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to answer one of your question, i think it's a bug or something. they always pay 90 players, but for some reason it shows it pays more players when the tournament is in registration mode and haven't started yet.
the point of the tournament is not to make you win money and also not to make pokerstars lose to much money, is to give a prize for the players who do not play real money and for the players who want to win some pennies
 
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I just don't understand what's the point of this tournament.
In this tournament, the size of the prize pool is of secondary importance.
It's like qualifying in sports - you need to score points and go up to the next level
 
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Point of this tournament is to score points, not to make money. There is leaderbord, and first 800 go to next level where are biger praises and less people
 
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on 888 I enter the 200$, when it switches the pay out from ... to 3085 players, and 1099 are paid, although there are 993 players left. Where does all that money go? Higher financial calculations they do on professional sites to print money? I guess! But the league is only to reemplace daniel in 5 years, don't you worry.
 
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Honestly pokerstars has a long way to catch up with 888 Poker when it comes to freerolls. Pokerstars is very stingy on freerolls and 888 poker is very generous when it comes to freerolls.
 
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The school League has 4 levels. And in each you can win money on the results of your games for the month and directly in the game.
 
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Well, you see that in the lobby there are more freerolls from the school you have to fill the points that would pass to the next level HIGH SCHOOL
 
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This tournament is part of the monthly league where you earn points and at the end of the month top 500 players get prizes.
 
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Yes, payout structure in all levels of PS leagues is close to joke, especially in the Elementary. But what else you can expect from a freeroll format league 😉
 
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This cash prize is very small for such a tournament, but this ELEMENTARY LEAGUE tournament is very good to collect points and qualify in the league above and get good prizes at the end of the month!
 
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If You think it is a joke then simply don't play them...
But 7000 people do play so why should PS stop them ?
Could it be the 7000 people have a good reason to play?

Well... why do You think it is called "The League" ???

This tournament is not intended to reward You with a high price...
But the first 15% in these tourneys get points for the League Leaderboard.

This leaderboard pays out prizes at the end of the month.

You might also have noticed that there are othe "The League" tourneys
like "High School" or "Masters"...
Each of these tourney series has its own leaderboard and the prizes You
can win get bigger on each level. The best players from the "Elementary" leaderboard qualify for a hiugher level in the next month. So You can move up the levels and win big prizes if You make it to the Masters Level.

The purpose of "The League" is not to win tons of cash fast by getting lucky in one freeroll but rather to give people a chance to increase heir tournament skills and win some cool prizes for solid, consistent play...
 
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I do not think it is a joke because if you are able to win a tournament of 10.000 players you are able to win any tournament agree?
 
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Personally I like playing them , it relaxes me , especially when I am tilted , it's fun and it's free :) And the top 9get the money , especially the first , fine by me , once I was 2nd , lost to a tight at hu Chinese player , with A2 that I shoved preflop :D
 
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I think , if is for practice is a good tournament, because if you win this tournament with amount of subscribers can feel they Guy, ready to win a big money
 
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Its score based not money. When you get to a certain place you earn a certain amount of points. At the end of the month if you are im the top i dont know how many players, you advance to a higher tournaments. And also its good for true begginers to practice.
 
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I personally love it. It kinda gives me some experience at a real money tournament without having to actually add money to your account.
 
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Point of this tournament is to score points, not to make money. There is leaderbord, and first 800 go to next level where are biger praises and less people

Ahhh thanks you. I was missing that.


Thanks going there now.

If You think it is a joke then simply don't play them...
But 7000 people do play so why should PS stop them ?
Could it be the 7000 people have a good reason to play?

Well... why do You think it is called "The League" ???

This tournament is not intended to reward You with a high price...
But the first 15% in these tourneys get points for the League Leaderboard.

This leaderboard pays out prizes at the end of the month.

You might also have noticed that there are othe "The League" tourneys
like "High School" or "Masters"...
Each of these tourney series has its own leaderboard and the prizes You
can win get bigger on each level. The best players from the "Elementary" leaderboard qualify for a hiugher level in the next month. So You can move up the levels and win big prizes if You make it to the Masters Level.

The purpose of "The League" is not to win tons of cash fast by getting lucky in one freeroll but rather to give people a chance to increase heir tournament skills and win some cool prizes for solid, consistent play...

Didn't know. Thanks for the info.

Thanks everyone that replied and clarified what this tournament was all about. I'm surprised that Support didn't explain any of this when I contacted them :p
 
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It's a joke even as it played for over two hours and was 18 and won only 0.2 cents. I agree with you they should award 10% of the total field
 
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I am playing on University level. I play every evening and think it is fun.
 
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this is a league. you need scores, not money
 
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I hope you to it explained already what is leagues on PokerStars school)
 
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If You think it is a joke then simply don't play them...
But 7000 people do play so why should PS stop them ?
Could it be the 7000 people have a good reason to play?

Well... why do You think it is called "The League" ???

This tournament is not intended to reward You with a high price...
But the first 15% in these tourneys get points for the League Leaderboard.

This leaderboard pays out prizes at the end of the month.

You might also have noticed that there are othe "The League" tourneys
like "High School" or "Masters"...
Each of these tourney series has its own leaderboard and the prizes You
can win get bigger on each level. The best players from the "Elementary" leaderboard qualify for a hiugher level in the next month. So You can move up the levels and win big prizes if You make it to the Masters Level.

The purpose of "The League" is not to win tons of cash fast by getting lucky in one freeroll but rather to give people a chance to increase heir tournament skills and win some cool prizes for solid, consistent play...
Smartly said!
 
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By the way, does someone know about such format of freeroll games as League at the other poker rooms?
 
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