W00t! I cashed in the first tournament I have played online in weeks:Congratulations!
You finished the tournament in 335th place.
A $0.70 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
And, it only took me one hour and 17 minutes to accomplish that feat. Pretty impressive, eh? At this rate I can
Alright, perhaps I am being a touch facetious - this wasn't about competing for any significant amount of money. I played in the Team PokerStars Freeroll early this evening, and like most multi-table freerolls it was quite a ride. The tournament was capped at 5000 entrants, players started with 1500 chips, and the blinds went up every five minutes. Yes, that is 12 blind increases every hour. Oy. After the first 10 minutes over 1000 players had been eliminated. After 50 minutes the 675 of us who remained were already in the money.
Though I wouldn't want to play this format in a 'real' tournament it was actually fairly ideal for a freeroll - quick and relatively painless. Granted no one is going to get rich playing these, but all in all it was fun. More than that though, it is nice when your poker sites give something back to the players, no matter now big or small the prize may be.
Once again, Poker Stars will be hosting these freerolls throughout each day between now and January 2nd, you can check out their website for more details.
1. I got busted a few seconds before you and took my $.70 and laughed all the way to the piggy bank. I was trying to make enough to cover the buy-in for Wil's game, but alas, I had to use my own money. See ya next time.
Posted at 11:08AM on Dec 27th 2006 by BrainMc