Play money can make some money

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On Fulltilt there is a play money tourney that pays out cash. It takes 500k to enter. So for those players with lots of play chips on Fulltilt this is a great way to start a bankroll. It has a lower Max entry than the freerolls and it is a good learning tool for anyone interested in MTT's. The tourney id for today is 57572061.

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I have played in a few of these and received $2 about 3 times. It is a good way to build a bankroll if you have lots of play money. OH!!, but it is so hard to let that play money go when you have worked so hard for it. Another nice thing is most of the players in that tourney are serious, but still have fun. Gl at the tables.
 
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Is this once a week, do you know? I'd heard about it but hadn't found one before.
 
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At fulltilt it is every day at 8:40pm. gl at the tables:D
 
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They should have a few more tourneys like this but for less chips. Still a great idea though.
 
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Good to know but I'm still far from that figure in play money. If I were to apply BRM to the play money account (which I do) I'd need $6 million or so to enter it and I'm only at 300K.
 
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Does anyone know if anything like this exists on pokerstars? It seems like a great way for the sites to get the good players money who can then generate rake!
 
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This tourney is really good way to get easy $2. There are usually like 40 players nowdays. Used to be less when I had my play chip emperium (like 16M in play chips and that was huge amount that time) I also finished couple times to money but playing with play money started to be annoying so atm I have 0 play chips. :) GL to all who r going to make money this way, its tight game but don't just wait for pkt rockets lol.
 
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you have to be a constant "play money" player,in order to register for one of this tournements..l'm not sure if it's worth it..
 
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I did it once before and placed 3rd.Yes it is a pain to get that many play chips but an easy cash in the tourny.
 
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its pretty easy to get 500k play money...just need some luck :)

played the tour a few days ago, finished twenty-something :(
 
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I'ts great but its still a long process for $5 or $3 in top prizes.
 
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That is a great tourney. And it is everyday.
One time i won this tourney.
To build a bankroll is very good.:D
 
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Back in the day, I had 5 million play chips but eventually lost em all, and this is before this tourny existed :(
 
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It really is a quick way to make $2 and there were only about 44 players last night.
The level of play is also quite enjoyable because of the 500k buy in.
The downside is that it is early in the morning in my time zone
 
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This was an excellent post. I have around 50,000 chips...did not mess with the chips once I found out about all the free rolls. Makes me want to get back into those 2,000 play chip 90per sit-n-gos.

I also found that if you play the Ferguson challenge to get the $1 coupon.
That tourney pays decent throughout the top 100. The Satellite is every night @ 11 for you night owls. Top 100 get the coupon which is easy enough. The tournament pays around $85 to first, and deep enough to take a bad beat late and get some form of payment.

Does any other sites provide play chip tourneys that can turn into cash?

I am going to try to get into one of these. Gl to everyone else out there.
 
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It strikes me that spending whatever amount of time to get 500k play chips and then having to cash in a tournament to get $2 isn't likely to work out to much in terms of per hour winnings.
 
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On Fulltilt there is a play money tourney that pays out cash. It takes 500k to enter. So for those players with lots of play chips on Fulltilt this is a great way to start a bankroll. It has a lower Max entry than the freerolls and it is a good learning tool for anyone interested in MTT's. The tourney id for today is 57572061.

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Hmm, interesting i never heard about that, this is intersting for a beginner.
Do you know another pokerroom who does this ?
 
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Do you know if pokerstars does anything like this? I have quite a bit of play money there, but haven't started using play money in full tilt....
 
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well there are website out there that are willing to give 10 dollars for 500k play money chips on star, but i dono about fulltilt, kinda a good price if u ask me, 20milworth can get u 200bucks easily, ill try to find the site and let u know.
 
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I've seen those 500k tournaments on Full Tilt, but man it's pretty difficult to get that many play chips. So much donkey play it's mainly luck. It's easier to play in the private freeroll tournaments.
 
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Do you know if pokerstars does anything like this? I have quite a bit of play money there, but haven't started using play money in full tilt....

go to starschips.com they pay 10$ per mil i did this about a year ago built a br up to about 70$ easy way to get a br started. i am trying for 5 mil now am at 2.9 mil little more to go:)
 
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True, I don't know if the time it takes to earn 20 million chips would be worth the 200 dollars.... plus the gameplay between play money and real money is so different that I sometimes have issues switching between the two, people have to be so much more aggressive in play money tourneys.
 
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