Yesterday I woke up with a ticket to a 1 million dollar freeroll qualifier. So I registered and there was 18 000 players and 15 000 tickets. So all I did is win some small pots and then sat out untill ITM and got the ticket.
So today I'm playing it and I see theres 76k players and 75k places paid... Very weird structure but hey I'm not gonna complain, being ITM after 10 mins is nice. lol
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Yes, i´ve tried this nice freeroll too and i have won 15,50$ right now, finished on 16.000. This freeroll have a nice payout structure with 75.000 places paid, so have a lot of players the chance to win something.
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Well, I went out just before demo did and also got $12.40. Didn't have a great deal of action other than a pair of jacks that got me up to 2000 chips early on and then everything I did just went to poop. So happy with my winnings for not having to do a great deal and minimal investment. Looking forward to the next one.
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well i actually missed this one, now reading that there were about 76k players and ONLY 75k got paid... well that made me kinda jealous that i didn't put in any effort to take pat in this epic freeroll. conngrats to any mobbit who made a dollar or two, probably some russian won it with 26 off?
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Well, just got out on 4000th+, for $24.20... 66 vs KJ, he got a K on flop and hold it. From 10k players i just survived, not getting anything to play. Got once 75o as BB, but someone raised, had 3 BB so i folded, on flop there was A 7 7...
Posted by pochui: well i actually missed this one, now reading that there were about 76k players and ONLY 75k got paid... well that made me kinda jealous that i didn't put in any effort to take pat in this epic freeroll. conngrats to any mobbit who made a dollar or two, probably some russian won it with 26 off?
The minimum you could win was 5$
I ended up with 15,50$. I had 13k chips with blinds at 800 and I clashed with a big stack donk in a limp pot.
I had K8 off on the small blind. 1 limper so I call too, BB checks. Flop 8 3 2. I bet out 1800 into 3000. Guy raises me to 6400... I insta shove and atfer 30 seconds he calls with Q2. Q on the turn... I would've been in the top 100
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Posted by TheMachineQC:
The minimum you could win was 5$
and how many hours do you have to play for 5$?
nope, i didnt even try the challenge to get a ticket. id rather do some overtime for €25 an hour than 6 hours of play for 2$. but with 75k players paid it looks like it didnt take that long?
Literally 5 to 10 minutes and we were in the money so yeah, I have never seen such a good promo/freeroll from pokerstars before this...
BUT, I have no idea why I got the qualifier ticket in the first place. I haven't been playing much at stars this year so it's kind of strange. No clue why I got it.
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Posted by TheMachineQC: Hey T3ddyKGB!
Literally 5 to 10 minutes and we were in the money so yeah, I have never seen such a good promo/freeroll from pokerstars before this...
BUT, I have no idea why I got the qualifier ticket in the first place. I haven't been playing much at stars this year so it's kind of strange. No clue why I got it.
5 to 10 minutes? well, you can call it a gift then
its not unusual. i assume they do that to all or alot players who havent played for a long time on PS. to get you back playing on their software again..
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I ended up with the minimum cash of $5 unfortunately I had a bad table draw I had a pair of aces be no good to trip 4s and then I flopped two pair to try and make a comeback in the tourney but no luck my opponent ended up with a better 2 pair on the river it was disappointing but I'm happy I at least got $5 usd out of it was fun I look forward to the next one in September was a good promo
I got the ticket same as you did. 
GL to those still in it 
