Joined: Jun '13
Location: Canada
Age: 80 (M)
Posts: 3700
I had won two tickets in the KO poker SNG on Poker Stars for a 10K all-in shootout.
I played one yesterday and the first hand i had no opponent so won this in the second one i lost it and won nothing.
Today the firs hand come and this time i had someone we receive the cards i got J 2 and the other got J 7 and he won the hand whit his 7 kicker and that was it for me.
Joined: Mar '09
Location: Greece
Age: 47 (F)
Posts: 14136
In these tournaments you actually see of you are lucky or not. You need to win every single game to win first place.. There might be a split somewhere in the way, but it is rare. In other words i never hoped getting anything from these. Microgaming sites used to run often in daily basis, and every day was the same result
Don't expect to much in these all in lotto freerolls. I played today a $1 6 player knockout for a shoot out ticket and finished in first place with all 6 bounties as for the Allin tournaments I only managed to pass the first round once no cashes in 6 attempts.
Joined: Jun '13
Location: Canada
Age: 80 (M)
Posts: 3700
Posted by vic75: Don't expect to much in these all in lotto freerolls. I played today a $1 6 player knockout for a shoot out ticket and finished in first place with all 6 bounties as for the Allin tournaments I only managed to pass the first round once no cashes in 6 attempts.
Are you telling me that you received a ticket for a 6 man KO SNG And in which tab you played it.
Joined: Aug '10
Location: Germany
Age: 52 (M)
Posts: 2219
I don´t like this shootout promos and tourneys at poker stars, because i´ve won and get so many tickets in the past and won nothing, not only one cent ever...The same with this giveaway shootouts, the payout structure was not so good and there are a lot of players.
Be not upset. It is a lottery and good luck on your party it will be obligatory. I once thought that it isn't real, but it has developed so that from 16 thousand participants in Giveaway: All-ln Shootout has taken the 1st place. So everything is good in its season. Good luck.
Joined: May '09
Location: Croatia
Age: 39 (M)
Posts: 20405
I know when poker stars had all in shout out freerolls every day,for few months!every hours you had one tournament and you could won as I remember 1 $ and some tickets I think!just once or twice I won and that was beacuse I play in 3 or 4 in the morning,when are small number of players!trough day when there was 25000 players,you cant win 10,15 hands in row!
All-in shootouts are a total joke. I don't even know why this pokerstars giveaway promotion exists to be honest, there's so many players competing for so little prizes... It makes absolutely no sense.
People will keep being loyal to pokerstars because they offer good services. But to me the rake increase they made this year makes it a lot harder to be ev+. Every 1% of rake they take is part of the profit you don't make... so playing high volume makes even less sense now.
Joined: Jan '10
Location: Switzerland
Age: 36 (M)
Posts: 131
stars is an absoulute joke by now. everything for the good of recreationals? well, where are all theses freerolls and good promotions? i cant see them?
Joined: May '09
Location: Croatia
Age: 39 (M)
Posts: 20405
I use free tickets,2 free ticket which you can get every month when you put stars code!4 tournaments are every day and all have 500 $ prize pool!so thats all that I play at stars for months!
