Joined: May '10
Location: United States
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 59
Wow that's crazy. Ya placing that high with 2 k people really good. I too find that having a big stack for the portion of a long tourny really helps. You can relax and afford to bluff/ call what ever. You play much more composed and confident. Getting a big stack early really helps.
Joined: Dec '08
Location: Poland
Age: 39 (M)
Posts: 8
actually i forgot about the tourney. when i've opened ftp software the tourney popped out and i had 500 chips. after 20minutes i had 50k chips... then it was just normal tight play. i had some luck. tywice had quads (k,2), few times limped pocket AA and get some nice reward from raisers. it was very nice3 tourney but pity that not turbo so was long time to play. my best winnings on ftp were also 1st of 180 in turbo .net, or .com tourney(freeroll, old days i get 100 ftp points). i also was once second or 3rd on bankroll mob freeroll (11$), few times daily dollar(first hundred 11$ not so hard in my opinion), and biggest tourney which i participated was big 50k or some record number of ppl, when i made 95 from 5$.
now when i'm bankrupt(wife's fault ), i'm rebuilding my bankroll with freerolls. also very nice freeroll to daily dollar. i just unregister and have 1 buck
Sounds like it was a donkfest tourney at the first hour of the tournament...
And you survived that? LOL nice play, but you know... I am never satisfies with my own play even if I won the tournament... I mean nobody can play perfect from start to finish.
Joined: Jan '10
Location: Moldova, Republic of
Age: 50 (M)
Posts: 239
Posted by duck_1991: thats just lame ... 25$ prizepool :-?? why people play in those freerols ?
SOme players prefer rebuild their banckroll or just build it without deposit any money, from zero, thats why they play freerols. franciszek good job and from my experience you haved a lot of luck, becouse you need a lot of luck to win in freerols with a lot of players.
Joined: Jun '10
Location: United States
Age: 58 (M)
Posts: 9
Playing freerolls is a perfectly good way to build bankroll. The only downside is the amount of time invested to get a few bucks. Keep plugging away until you build bankroll for higher stakes!
Joined: Jan '10
Location: Germany
Age: 32 (M)
Posts: 1379
Posted by franciszek: i had 2nd place in over 2k ppl tourney. pity that wasnt some 1-5$ buy in but freeroll
as it occured if you are a big stack, or as i was a huge stack you have very good percentage to win the tourney
yeah, when i got me really deep, it are freerolls only.. in big tournaments i´m not even able to cash... (besides yesterdays freeroll on FT with 20.000 pol. Got me at least 80 bucks)
Joined: Apr '08
Location: Argentina
Age: 45 (M)
Posts: 748
haha, i was reading the subject and coming up with something witty like "the day you are finally satisfied with your play is your losing day" or something like that...but it doesn't apply so...f**k
I hate my play, even if its a winning play.. and you, well you should hate your life, no just kidding, if you play for fun it's good to win something, even if it's $1.. I just dont understand, there are tourneys running for 10cents and 25 cents and whatever CENTS on many pokersites, why not just play those? Maybe one day you can buy yourself something nice with all the small winnings combined+those tourneys dont last so looooooooooooooooooooooooooooong!
Joined: May '09
Location: India
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 4873
nice result but i think its quite time consuming playing those freerolls with so many people where first prize is 5$, i think it may be a better idea playing at a small site. gl rebuilding your bankroll and next time keep it away frm wifey
