888poker Gift Drop

[Flip_n_Flop]

Can anyone tell me about the new gift drop promo 888 is doing? Specifically, if there is a gift drop at your table how do you know? I got a freeroll ticket from (I assume) playing snap poker but I didn't notice anything popping up on-screen to notify me. Do you just have to check your freeroll tickets section? It would be nice if it notified you.

 

[WestRuthlessUFC]

I play 888 everyday, saw nothing..

 

[IanP304]

Same i appeared to have 3 gift drop freeroll tickets but never saw a notification whilst playing the games that I got them. Just they appeared in my account.

 

[Flip_n_Flop]

Ok, at least it's not just me then. I'm using windows 10 and the software doesn't work wonderfully on it so I thought it might be just me. Thanks guys.

 

[FastOne]

I got one a couple of days ago. Here's a screenshot of it:

 

[Suns of Beaches]

wow they are very generous with you. 10 cents...

 

[FastOne]

wow they are very generous with you. 10 cents...

And it only took over an hour of constant play to get it. arty:

Now, I actually got 2 of these, same prize, but only got the image from the screenshot one time. I did play over 2 hours in total (probably close to 3 hours) and only afterwards checked my tickets.

 

[FastOne]

I just finished playing at 888 for about 2.5 hours, didn't take any breaks and... No Gift Drop! According to the Promo is one gift drop at a table (cash, MTT, SnG, SNAP) every 10 seconds. And I got none in 2.5 hours.

I don't get it. How can there be so many people playing the Gift Drop freerolls if they are so hard to get?

 

[Flip_n_Flop]

Ok, so something does pop up (sometimes ). I was trying to extimate how often you would expect to win something by seeing if I could tell how many palyers were playing at a given time. pokerstars has this on their software but I couldn;t see if anywhere on 888. At the moment there are about 75,000 players on pokerstars, I assume 888 is similar but probably smaller so that would be about a 3% chance every hour if you assume everyone is on a 6 seat table. (75,000/6) = 12,500 tables at any given time. Gift drops per hour = 6 * 60 = 360. 360/12,500 = 0.0288.

 

[orsino12]

These are actually not too hard to hit if you play multiple games at once.

I started chasing gift drops a bit over a week ago with a strategy in mind. It appears you can get gift drops no matter how low the buy in (except freerolls, you can't get gift drops in those). When I get home from work I register in every $0.01 and $0.02 game I can find, pretty much step 1 and sub satellite games.

I don't try very hard in these games, my goal is just to stay in them as long as possible to maximize my chances at a GD and there are times I have 5 games going at once.
Of course I will play monsters hard to get chips and will re-buy if the blinds are relatively low and I still get a lot of $0.10 step 2 tickets as players play insane in those.

So far I seem to get about 3 GD's a day, sometimes 4 and 1 day I hit 6.

I've hit a lot of gift drop freeroll tickets and $1 BLAST tickets, but also 4x $5 BLAST tickets and 3x $5 cash.

So far tonight I've hit 2 GD's, a $1 BLAST and $5 cash. Weirdly they were in the same game, the BLAST came in the first few minutes and the cash came about 75 minutes later.

A few days ago I started saving up my tickets to use up all at once on the weekend since they are good for 7 days.