Weekly Round 2 - Pokerstars

Anyone else playing in the Weekly Round 2 on pokerstars right now?

I've been up and down, but sitting at about 4500 at the first break, and the average pot is 2209. Hopefully I can start playing smart instead of kinda loose, although its gotten me to where i am.

I didn't realize you got to a pot limit format, which I am not used to playing at all.

Well, it was fun... made $0.70. Considering the 6 hours spent in the freeroll qualifier and and the 2+ hours in the weekly, I think I have a new .09 an hour job!

So this hand was my undoing.... comments appreciated. I am vanaus1

If this should now be in hand analysis I appologize.

PokerStars Game #10483489057: Tournament #52343085, Freeroll Hold'em
Limit - Level VIII (400/800) - 2007/06/17 - 16:03:21 (ET)
Table '52343085 48' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: Mahadma Andy (5350 in chips)
Seat 2: qweenknut (16570 in chips)
Seat 3: BriP#1 (2480 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 4: april34ddd (650 in chips)
Seat 5: vanaus1 (4986 in chips)
Seat 6: FSBiscuit (805 in chips)
Seat 7: royalcrown (9271 in chips)
Seat 8: BraveBoy2000 (20208 in chips)
Seat 9: ShooMunny (11908 in chips)
Mahadma Andy: posts small blind 200
qweenknut: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to vanaus1 [3h 4h]
BriP#1: folds
april34ddd: folds
vanaus1: calls 400
FSBiscuit: folds
royalcrown: raises 400 to 800
BraveBoy2000: folds
ShooMunny: calls 800
Mahadma Andy: folds
qweenknut: folds
vanaus1: calls 400
*** FLOP *** [4c 9d 3c]
vanaus1: bets 400
royalcrown: raises 400 to 800
ShooMunny: calls 800
vanaus1: raises 400 to 1200
royalcrown: calls 400
ShooMunny: calls 400
*** TURN *** [4c 9d 3c] 8♦
vanaus1: checks
royalcrown: bets 800
ShooMunny: folds
vanaus1: calls 800
*** RIVER *** [4c 9d 3c 8d] 8♠
vanaus1: checks
royalcrown: bets 800
vanaus1: calls 800
*** SHOW DOWN ***
royalcrown: shows [Qh Qs] (two pair, Queens and Eights)
vanaus1: mucks hand
royalcrown collected 9800 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 9800 | Rake 0
Board [4c 9d 3c 8d 8s]
Seat 1: Mahadma Andy (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: qweenknut (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: BriP#1 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: april34ddd folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: vanaus1 mucked [3h 4h]
Seat 6: FSBiscuit folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: royalcrown showed [Qh Qs] and won (9800) with two pair, Queens
and Eights
Seat 8: BraveBoy2000 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: ShooMunny (button) folded on the Turn

Pokerstars is the worst site in the world for freerolls.
Why spend 6 hours in a qualifier to gain entry to a $1,000 freeroll. When you can go to bodog or Ladbrokes and play $500 and $1,000 freerolls about 5 times a day without having to qualifier?

Edit: (about the hand)
First i would not of limped preflop with 43 for 400 with only about 5K.
Then i wouldnt of checked the turn and give a freecard. Other than that, unlucky you lost the hand.

i play those pokerstars freerolls as well. since i downloaded bodog, i have been playing their freerolls a lot more than poker stars. but for me, i use the pokerstars freerolls as an oppotunity to see how i fare in tournaments and see if i can get better each time. i agree that i'd rather play freerolls without qualifiers, but i use it as a practice tool. i treat all other freerolls the same. pokerstars has 10000 entrants in their freerolls, my best finish was 440th and i was pretty happy with that.

The only time I ever finished in the money on a PokerStars freeroll was when Fell asleep half-way through.
I checked post & fold, turned of the computer and found out the next morning that I had coasted to a $0.20 finish.

preflop call wasnt good

T-MaQ said:

i play those pokerstars freerolls as well. since i downloaded bodog, i have been playing their freerolls a lot more than poker stars. but for me, i use the pokerstars freerolls as an oppotunity to see how i fare in tournaments and see if i can get better each time. i agree that i'd rather play freerolls without qualifiers, but i use it as a practice tool. i treat all other freerolls the same. pokerstars has 10000 entrants in their freerolls, my best finish was 440th and i was pretty happy with that.

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Freerolls are not good practice for MTTs imo.

why not? i like mtts. what's a good training ground?

i came 3rd yesterday in one of pokerstars freerole qualifiers, i played Fixed limit Razz, one of my favourate card games!