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Sure, tournaments satellite are very good and if you qualify for the main tournaments, you have a chance to win an amount of money but our mobster friend Maragatero has another style of play. Each gambler plays as he likes and if he wants to understand some indications is ok.
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I hear and respect your advise CALICUL, and all of well-meaning tips from the Mobers friend. But, as you know, the matter is how we could take advantage for an efficient use of the knowledge, the money and the time for play. I have a little amount of each one, so freerolls are better for me! But I don´t forget the satellites...
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Just advise another analyze . Try to count, play satellites or micro buy in MTT ? How many seat provide at satellite and how much prize ? for example 3 seat worth $2. Compare with play at s n g or micro buy in MTT, which is position get $2 prize? wich one easier ? other reason prize money more flexible to use than ticket.
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I noticed that 888poker last year ( in 2017 ) blocked me at wheel of fortune when i paused for a month or more and did not want to give any dayli prizes. I started playing again because i had something in my account and wheel of fortune has re-started to offer awards again. Do not forget to play some real money games to receive awards.
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I understand Serpang but, there is always one.. In where I play, 888poker, almost all the satellites (Big Fish series for example) allow you to get a prize with a ticket for a tournament (second step) that will start in one or two hours, and you couln´t change it or keep the ticket for another tourney. And then, if you win the next step, all will repeat for another two hours. You need to win 3 tourney for play for real money...big money but great cost in time!
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If you have time to lose it's ok, but if you can not then you do not play. I like to win when i have time tickets of 5.50 dollars with only 17-19 cents or sometimes when i have unluck 67-69 cents until $ 1.67- $1.69. The problem is when you play real money. I have the impression that these tournaments are made to lose. Is too hard and often i want to play in pokerstars which i hate the most. Are strange tournaments and i am confused.
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I think so CALICUL my friend, some times, almost always in holidays or week end, I like to inmerse in poker´s playing and keep there 7 or 9 hour with little breaks. But in the working´s days this is impossible. Even when you have many time you have to have desires of seat down all these hours in front of the screen---
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I know, it's not right this thing, but you spend less money. There is the option to make deposit and to play directly with 5.50 dollars, not with ticket of $ 5.50, but i'm sure, we do not want that because you play freerolls or sit and go and me i'm not too confident to make a good deposit.
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Well, there we are...less confident that we need to be for become in a serious player, that pretend to make poker your way of live. But think in it my friend CALICUL, all the days of your life playing poker in your PC by 8 or 9 hours. Sit down in front of the screen day by day...if this is the objetive, I don´t like it!!
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since that crazy technology, we became addicted to the Internet or TV without realizing it. I do not want to lose much time with poker of course, but i'm not a man to do jogging in every day, and i do not even like to waste time in bars, clubs or anything else. Then play poker and watch a movie or one-two episodes from a serial. I gain time and that's the situation. I want to play online poker maybe this room will be more generous with me. I'm at level 60 now and up to level 70-80 it must be several months to increase my levels fast, because i play only tournaments now and rarely snap. It is true that we are wasting much time with internet and it's not good.
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More or less my friend, I don´t accept that some things are universal good and another are universal bad, all the time for all the people. I think that we can have some stages in our world´s relations. Now I´m being in the same wave that you. My free time is ocuppy with tv and internet, but not always was the same, and I don´t project this way for ever
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Sometimes i'm thinking of selling my house and to move to the country in the rural area, where there is no internet, and so it remains with the option on the phone without tv, but as long as i live in town, i have to do something to gain time and i prefer to play poker or betting sports and to watch series. I do not think the time lost through bars helps with something. As long as i have a chance to earn some extra money, i try. I have to pay the internet monthly and i use it mostly for something useful. But i want something more and for moment i try my chances. I must to play because i do not want to go in other country to work. I hate many countries because their policy and favoring others nations who come from outside of Europe and with that i ended the comment. Life goes on.
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I understood very well CALICUL. I know these feeling and I have some of these thoughts. In my case, my work are interest for me and some of his particularity always get news that I want to know and study. So, for a few years I maked some courses online and there I meeted new people. In other moment, with my daughter influence, I spend my time looking for some music or videos
hmmm ... Internet payment is a problem? .... I'm wondering .... of course in every city different tariffs .... Here I was lucky ... I connected the Internet 10 years ago and did not change the provider ... and so u me now the tariff - 300 rubles per month ... 300 rubles = 4.5 dollars
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To me the internet is more expensive because in my country those who lead is only thieves. Normal taxes for the internet are 8-10 dollars to most providers. If it costs twice as much as in Russia, then i have to use it for my satisfaction ( poker, music, movies, serials and sometimes news, BRM and Facebook ). It is a shame to pay the Internet and not to use it. Yesterday i played in $ 10 k royal crown freeroll and i won 10 dollars ( 177 places from 10.550 players ). Exactly one month of the internet Today i will play for the first time level 60 freeroll and maybe i won something good with all freerolls for this day or with my tickets.
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Ohh my friends,,I´m so envious! In my country, in the particular city where I live, the ADSL conection of 3Mb of velocity have an average cost of 25 dollars!!! Is too slow and too expensive!!! Always that you start a tournament you pray that the connection don´t fail, and if my daughter have a party with her friends (all have smart phones that steal my wi fi) that is sure!!
Posted by maragatero: Ohh my friends,,I'm so envious! In my country, in the particular city where I live, the ADSL conection of 3Mb of velocity have an average cost of 25 dollars!!! Is too slow and too expensive!!! Always that you start a tournament you pray that the connection don't fail, and if my daughter have a party with her friends (all have smart phones that steal my wi fi) that is sure!!
probably in your city there are very few internet providers .... therefore, the prices are increased .... I live in St. Petersburg and it's a pretty big city .... so here everything is in order with competition ..... so providers are struggling for the client and the tariffs are small ... but I generally have an archive tariff which is no longer there ... and I have it
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Yes, in my country the invisible hand of the market was changed by the visible hand of thief goverment... So, some capitalism is good for some thing, don´t you think? But you need some funcionall democracy that try to make social justice...As you know, I´m really annoing with my national goverment...sorry for my continue claim
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I understand your anger, Maragatero my friend, and we live in a world of many, many thiefs. Corporations are the greatest thieves in duet with politicians. They are dealing with how to make as much money as possible and they do not care about people. We live in a world of bad people.
I have an acquaintance girl ... and she lives beyond the Arctic Circle .... and there are certainly difficult living conditions ... and also there is a very limited service industry .... and so when she told me that she pays for the Internet in 5 times more than I, I was shocked ....
In where I play, 888poker, almost all the satellites (Big Fish series for example) allow you to get a prize with a ticket for a tournament (second step) that will start in one or two hours, and you couln´t change it or keep the ticket for another tourney. And then, if you win the next step, all will repeat for another two hours. You need to win 3 tourney for play for real money...big money but great cost in time! 
