Mortis
The Saurus
Loyaler
Go back to that screen and wait til the register button pops up. There is a game about one every 4 or 5 minutes. You have to be quick on the button to register, because it fills up in about 4 seconds.
Go back to that screen and wait til the register button pops up. There is a game about one every 4 or 5 minutes. You have to be quick on the button to register, because it fills up in about 4 seconds.
kschuster
Enthusiast
Silver Level
Mortis
The Saurus
Loyaler
The 180 and 360 player .COM Poker After Dark Round 1 mini-tourneys are freerolls.
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teleboy1979
Enthusiast
Silver Level
I have wona bunch of these. They are rediculous in that they truly are the donkiest of donk fests. Sometimes I get trapped into being a donk right along with everyone else, however, you have to be careful to not pick up any bad habits...
USFDoh
Rock Star
Silver Level
I play these all the time as a diversion. Usually there are 6 or 7 all ins in the first hand so you can shove with just about anything and have 10K or bust. Not bad since a new one will be there in 3 minutes. I used to play in the round 2's, but now I just unregister and take the FTPs
fcumred
Visionary
Silver Level
I GOT A TICKET
I GOT A TICKET
I GOT A TICKET
Managed to finish in the top two on a 180 SNG, Was absolutely miles ahead by the final table so couldnt really be beaten. Just kept pinching blinds to screw them all up..
Dunno whether to use the 100 FTPs for the PAD tournie or build them up and use them for something bigger..
Any suggestions.
I GOT A TICKET
I GOT A TICKET
Managed to finish in the top two on a 180 SNG, Was absolutely miles ahead by the final table so couldnt really be beaten. Just kept pinching blinds to screw them all up..
Dunno whether to use the 100 FTPs for the PAD tournie or build them up and use them for something bigger..
Any suggestions.
fcumred
Visionary
Silver Level
I have found quite the opposite.
Play tight as hell for the first 5 minutes and the field then reduces down quickly.
Then start to play and pick up chips..
Mortis
The Saurus
Loyaler
I GOT A TICKET
I GOT A TICKET
I GOT A TICKET
Managed to finish in the top two on a 180 SNG, Was absolutely miles ahead by the final table so couldnt really be beaten. Just kept pinching blinds to screw them all up..
Dunno whether to use the 100 FTPs for the PAD tournie or build them up and use them for something bigger..
Any suggestions.
Round 2 isn't quite the donkfest that Round 1 is.. though, like most the tourneys, the first 30 minutes are a little donkfest. Just play like you normally would. Probably a good idea to fold your hand for the first 30 minutes, though.. unless you are dealt Pocket A's or Pocket K's.
Mortis
The Saurus
Loyaler
I played 2 or 3 of the 180sng... I won one and it took me atleast 4 hrs...started out with poeple falling fast but at the end it was another game. People dont want to waste 2 or 3 hrs to loose the game... i can wait 4 round 2..its going to be a challenge!!
4 hours for the 180 sng? Took about 1 1/2 hours when I won them.
fcumred
Visionary
Silver Level
I played 2 or 3 of the 180sng... I won one and it took me atleast 4 hrs...started out with poeple falling fast but at the end it was another game. People dont want to waste 2 or 3 hrs to loose the game... i can wait 4 round 2..its going to be a challenge!!
What on gods earth were you doing ?
They take no more than an hour, hour and a half tops...
Either you had all the really tight players turn up at once, or you all used your time banks..
In general there are only about 20 people after an hour and the blinds are rising that quick after four hours you would be on something like 200,000/400,000 blinds and there arent even that many chips in play
Mortis
The Saurus
Loyaler
By the time the 1 hour break rolls around, I've always been at the final table with about 7 or 8 of us left. Then the last of us usually take about 20-30 minutes to finish the game.
ryodejaneiro
Rock Star
Silver Level
Well I'm happy to say that after losing in 3rd place twice fairly recently, I finally got my 100FTP - I have absolutely no idea what I'll be using it for, but I'm sure I can find a tourney or two to enter.
What made it sweeter was that close to the final table, I got busted down to an extremely short stack when my 9-9 didn't hold up. I was left with 544 chips (blinds were 1000-2000) but I kept doubling and tripling up to about 64,000 before the game ended.
Anyways, the 4 hours seems highly unusual - this one took a little over an hour - I would say maybe 1 hr 15 min before it ended.
What made it sweeter was that close to the final table, I got busted down to an extremely short stack when my 9-9 didn't hold up. I was left with 544 chips (blinds were 1000-2000) but I kept doubling and tripling up to about 64,000 before the game ended.
Anyways, the 4 hours seems highly unusual - this one took a little over an hour - I would say maybe 1 hr 15 min before it ended.
GordonStr222
Rock Star
Silver Level
lol.lol.........lol......
thats funny i use to stay by full tilt with the mouse ready to click as soon as it came out...... that was the only way to get in...... because after 2sec. is full......... and yes donks....donks.......... I won a few tourneys and made my little 100 fpp into 6,000 fpps and when i step up to play for a higher stake i lost it all and realized i was playing like all the donks i had being playing with for the past month or so........lol.........
thats funny i use to stay by full tilt with the mouse ready to click as soon as it came out...... that was the only way to get in...... because after 2sec. is full......... and yes donks....donks.......... I won a few tourneys and made my little 100 fpp into 6,000 fpps and when i step up to play for a higher stake i lost it all and realized i was playing like all the donks i had being playing with for the past month or so........lol.........
Mortis
The Saurus
Loyaler
I won my 5th one. I actually played in Round 2 once. I was going to play in Round 2 tomorrow.. but Monday nights is when they have the free live tourneys at the bar here and you can win a nice little sum of money.. so, I won't be able to participate in it then. I will probably just save my 100 FTP points until Wednesday for Round 2 then.
Mortis
The Saurus
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The world may never know.
Mortis
The Saurus
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Every 5 minutes.
peach68
Rock Star
Platinum Level
Best way to get in quickly is to open up the tourney lobby and then just be ready to click onto 'register'.
These tourneys are just about the worst I've ever played online. As mentioned in one of the above posts, the donks survive and make it to the final table where they continue to be clueless.
I've played these while bored and tried to multi-table with 10 of them on my screen, just playing super tight and making snap decisions in them, often a shove or fold approach (cuz alot it is 'no foldem holdem').
The prize of 100ftps, I think it would be better to 'unregister' from Rd. 2 and just save the pts. for something else (like a fulltilt hat, lol). If you do happen to put together some pts., I think the 500ftp super satellite to the $750K is the best go,.. 1 in 5 win 2500ftp's which opens up more oppurtunity to play in other games (or to add to one's fulltilt wardrobe).
If you're fairly new to online poker and are playing in these Poker After Dark games, be advised,.. you may adopt some very poor habits as these games are not 'real' poker,.. luck becomes disproportionally high to skill in them.
PAD strategy,... play extremely tight. You could actually get away with playing only a few hands and still make it deep into the tourney. When blinds do begin to escalate, adopt a shove fold approach, while you've still got some fold equity (most players in them keep putting in preflop raises deep in tourney when they are on less than 5M and should just be shoving it allin if they're first to act). Make sure you're 'first' into the pot when doing this and try to do so in position (unless getting desperate and under 4M) and try to pick the opponents who you feel may have a fairly tight calling range.
GL!
These tourneys are just about the worst I've ever played online. As mentioned in one of the above posts, the donks survive and make it to the final table where they continue to be clueless.
I've played these while bored and tried to multi-table with 10 of them on my screen, just playing super tight and making snap decisions in them, often a shove or fold approach (cuz alot it is 'no foldem holdem').
The prize of 100ftps, I think it would be better to 'unregister' from Rd. 2 and just save the pts. for something else (like a fulltilt hat, lol). If you do happen to put together some pts., I think the 500ftp super satellite to the $750K is the best go,.. 1 in 5 win 2500ftp's which opens up more oppurtunity to play in other games (or to add to one's fulltilt wardrobe).
If you're fairly new to online poker and are playing in these Poker After Dark games, be advised,.. you may adopt some very poor habits as these games are not 'real' poker,.. luck becomes disproportionally high to skill in them.
PAD strategy,... play extremely tight. You could actually get away with playing only a few hands and still make it deep into the tourney. When blinds do begin to escalate, adopt a shove fold approach, while you've still got some fold equity (most players in them keep putting in preflop raises deep in tourney when they are on less than 5M and should just be shoving it allin if they're first to act). Make sure you're 'first' into the pot when doing this and try to do so in position (unless getting desperate and under 4M) and try to pick the opponents who you feel may have a fairly tight calling range.
GL!