Joined: Dec '12
Location: Bulgaria
Age: 47 (M)
Posts: 1022
Hello Mobsters,
After playing 4 hours and 15 minutes at the $100K Privilege Freeroll today, finally I finished at 55 position of 18838 players! And I won the huge amount of $2.49!
Here are some interesting and ridiculous hands of that tournament:
Joined: Oct '11
Location: Sweden
Age: 32 (M)
Posts: 1410
Ouch, after the flop you had 13 outs, that's like 52% chance of getting a card that would help you. Oh well, you got your money in good so no need to think more of it, just move on and try to win the next one
Joined: Apr '11
Location: Romania
Age: 35 (M)
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I actually got an email from stars recently about this but since it passed some time since i played there i needed to deposit to get two tickets to these freerolls.
I thought they more exclusive but if you get 18k plus registrants i'm sure it was pretty much a bingo game. Anyways good result too bad the prize was not that consistent.
Joined: Feb '12
Location: Canada
Age: 64 (M)
Posts: 6036
That certainly IS a long time to play for a payout of THAT size... It almost doesn't seem worth it unless you consider it to only be a 'consolation' prize for your efforts,...because the MAIN goal is to make some seriously big money by getting to the final table, and particularly to at least the 5th or 6th position or higher...
...but if you play at least 3 of them per day for the month that they are available to you,...you can make a decent buck in the long run... Those are my bread and butter! I like the 100Ks! Just gotta get past the bingo queen idiots in the first 5 minutes or so...
Joined: Jun '08
Location: Germany
Age: 46 (M)
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lool ..why u play freerolls on pokerstars...? too much players and the pricestucture is awfull..did u think about your winnings/hour ? 2,49$ : 4,2h ??? oooh sounds hard...sure with 2$ u can create a very big bankroll in 13-14weeks.
the ipoker network has better Rolls, and if u deposit once weekly at mansion or dafapoker u get entry to a 250$ freeroll with max.70players..this wouldnt take so long..
dont missunderstand me, but the worldwideweb has so many pokerrooms, so i dont make sense to play freerolls at one of the biggest..maybe u feel better, when u win at bigger tourneys..but when a tourney has 10k players and blind levels of 4min, its only luck and hasnt much with poker.
Joined: Nov '11
Location: Estonia
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Posted by Joebottrop: lool ..why u play freerolls on pokerstars...? too much players and the pricestucture is awfull..did u think about your winnings/hour ? 2,49$ : 4,2h ??? oooh sounds hard...sure with 2$ u can create a very big bankroll in 13-14weeks.
the ipoker network has better Rolls, and if u deposit once weekly at mansion or dafapoker u get entry to a 250$ freeroll with max.70players..this wouldnt take so long..
dont missunderstand me, but the worldwideweb has so many pokerrooms, so i dont make sense to play freerolls at one of the biggest..maybe u feel better, when u win at bigger tourneys..but when a tourney has 10k players and blind levels of 4min, its only luck and hasnt much with poker.
ya freerolls at stars pretty much sucks but stars is best anyways if u want to deposit and play real cash games
Joined: Dec '12
Location: Bulgaria
Age: 47 (M)
Posts: 1022
erru9107, you are right. I waited for a for flush, but bad luck.
demodawggy, you got my idea! I play 3 Privilege Freerolls every day. The fourth one is too late. Untill now I won $4.84 only from $100K Privilege Freerolls. My strategy now is not to seat to any cash tables or Zoom tables, just to play Privilege Freerolls and let's see what will happen. How much can I win only from Privilege Freerolls. If it happens something special, I will make a thread about it.
Hi Joebottrop,
well I have now too much free time and I play freerolls. Unfortunately in Bulgaria right now, we don't have any choice for online poker rooms. Because our government created the "black list" with the forbidden online poker and casino sites. There are more than 70 poker/casino sites which are banned by our government and it is illegal to play there.
All the poker rooms of ipoker network like manion, dafapoker etc. are banned by our governemnt. 95% of the online poker rooms are out of Bulgaria, because if they want to operate here, they have to pay a licensee from our Gambling Commision. Untill now the only one who applied for a licensee is Rational Enterprices Limited (PokerStars & FullTilt Poker) which means that after a couple of months only PokerStars and FullTilt Poker will be legal to play from Bulgaria.
Now, the paradox in Bulgaria is that we have here a "black list" of poker sites, but we don't have a "white list" of allowed poker sites which means that you can't play right now at any poker site.
Now in Bulgaria we can play only at PokerStars and FullTilt Poker but only those of us, who have accounts created before 01th of June 2013. My PokerStars account is from 2009 so I can play there for real money. The new Bulgarian poker players can't create now new accounts at PokerStars and FullTilt Poker. They have to wait for the licensee to be approved and issued.
The old players have access to the PokerStars and FullTilt Poker software, but we don't have access to their sites. Because they are banned from the Gambling State Commission. That is pretty bad, because when there is a promotion, I can't read what exactly is the promotion and I have to write to their support to send me an email with the promotion. Or I read here at the BankrollMob the PokerStars news and promotions.
I hope now you understand me why I play PokerStars. Unfortunately, I just don't have any choice at the moment.
Hi nipitiri3,
I deposited few days ago $10 I won $32 at the cash games micro limits, after that I made a mistake to seat at the Zoom tables and I lost everything. So, now I play freerolls, trying to create a bankroll. Untill now I have almost $5 winnings from freerolls.
Joined: Aug '10
Location: Germany
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Gratz for you winnings! But over 4 hours for some bucks is a hard work...The 100k freerolls are ok, some extra bucks for a Minimum deposit or as a Chrome vip or higher is easy Money.
Joined: Oct '13
Location: Germany
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hi all ...iam new and i wanna say i like pokerstars too...not for the freerolls, but i love the payiing donks and the badbeats..
i played sunday big tourney for 11$ , dont know pricepool exact, but the day i register over 10k players played the tourney..i played 6hours (maybe more, 120min late register) to reach last 100players
sure after this long time the stacks and blinds were very big... everyone can get busted in one or two hands.. at the last 50 players it was the hell at at table, everybody steal blinds.. i get busted as n0 38 i get AA as big blind , and the guy with small blind raise with 24 allin and i called with rockets and loose. got 100$ ...for 7,5hours and fot an buyin of 5.5$ ...damm if i won the hand i could make top10..first place was over 6000 $
Joined: Feb '12
Location: Canada
Age: 64 (M)
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Ya thomas....VERY nice prize...!
Bear in mind though,...that just hooking up for the 100Ks isn't too terribly practical,...but if you're sitting there playing a few games at once,...you just might as well add in the 100Ks. Another revenue stream no matter how big or small isn't a BAD idea....!
Joined: Feb '11
Location: United Kingdom
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These tourneys are hard work but worth the effort at no cost or risk to you. You have to modify your game to adapt to the different fish and grinders on there but as usual patience pays off...they are free afterall! and someone has to win them.
for flush, but bad luck. 
