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Mateo

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For those of you who do occasionally get some of these tickets, how do you use them?

I played in a 9x3.30 tickets guaranteed tourney yesterday (and managed to win a ticket :D), but it took about 4 and a half hours, and I couldn't imagine how bad it would be getting 10th and getting absolutely nothing for all that play time. Just made me wonder what tourneys are best to play with these tickets
 
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These tournaments are given so that you can make yourself a bankroll. Choose what you have to play best. So I, after I made the minimum bankroll, switched to SNG, and continue to increase the bankroll and play the distance.
 
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What tournaments in particular did you play with these tickets? Did you manage to win some money from the ticket you got from the tournament?
 
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These tickets are next to useless. Sometimes you get 1000 players in a tournament with 9 prizes of $3. Every other freeroll has a better payout expectation.
 
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it is convenient to use these tickets for satellites to big bangs and to 3.30. The rest does not make sense
 
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When I have school pass I use it at some interesting satelite such as SCOOP ,Place Holder, Or the big bang..
 
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I try to save for when they have big promotions. Must keep an eye on expiration date, I use them a few days before expire, I play any of the satellites that suite my playing schedule. I have won maybe 4 of those $3.30 tickets before.
 
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me have closed this promotion to my account
 
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The most useless ticket that is available at pokerstars) is to play in these tournaments a waste of time. it makes sense in them to play only full newcomers to poker just to get used to the tournament game
 
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I won everyone but a big bang ticket it does take too long though and they should make them turbo
 
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Yeah, rather useless. Makes no sense to spend time on returns that little and unlikely.
 
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I would have played the tournament for 3.30 and tried to enter the prizes. I won this ticket twice.
 
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Most of the time I use this tickets when I want to play a tournament, but doesn't know how long I have. So never won anything, but had a great time
 
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School pass tickets are probably not worth your time as long as you can afford to make a minimum deposit. But if the alternative is to not play at all then why not... although the odds of winning them are horrible they still represent an opportunity to create a tiny bankroll from scratch....

Keep an eye on those tourneys that run very late or early. Sometimes you can find a tournament with significantly fewer players than usual.
 
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That's quite interesting because I have some of these tickets and I asked myself if they are really useful! But now I have an idea how to use them! Thanks a lot :)
 
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I always have a lot of tickets from the poker school, I get them for watching video training but I think these tickets are useless !!
 
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In tournaments with tickets a lot of people, because of this, I spent a lot of time on the game. I play for tickets when there is a lot of time and parallel play other tournaments.
 
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Thanks for the feedback everyone! The general consensus seems like what I initially thought, its a free ticket so you might as well take a shot, but play for fun without the expectation of winning something from it.
 
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those tournaments are crazy at the beginning, once I happened to be in the 15th place, it was quite close for me, try to play the ticket in the tournament where you feel most comfortable
 
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I won a $3.30 once but with a single chip rebuy to max my stack and an addon.
That way I could play tighter, and I think that was the main reason I managed to win the prize.
All other times I tried to dry play the ticket (with no rebuy/addon), it was disastrous.
Actually cost me $0.20, and a lot of time.
I spend less time with the $0.02 hyper turbos and making a dollar occasionally.
 
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I always have school pass tickets, but I never use them,

I always have school pass tickets, but I never use them, I do not have the patience to play tournaments where many people take part and few prizes. I need an incentive for the fact that I would correctly play tournaments and not allow myself to do all-in on any card. In general, of course, thanks to PokerStars for making it possible to win tickets or prizes without risking money. But these tournaments are not for me. This is my personal opinion, perhaps someone is arguing differently)
 
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Hello.
I regularly get these tickets. Previously, I often played tournaments for these tickets, but now there are so many more interesting freerolls that I have no time to use these tickets.
 
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In my opinion the best tournaments are those that have 48 ticket winners 0.25 spin and go.

you have more chances of winning a ticket
 
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School Pass tickets I use to play Zoom or Spin-Go. To participate in satellites with these tickets can be if there is time.
 
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Play the SNG in the number of players that suits you best. I would do so.
 
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