888poker is heating things up this week with their new multi-flight "The Dragon" Series, featuring the $109 buy-in, $100K GTD Dragon and $12 buy-in, $50K GTD Mini Dragon.
The two guaranteed tournaments have multiple Day 1's for each and sporting very affordable buy-ins to suit every pocket.
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hm,dont know what to say on this news!with 109 $ buy in,you make tournament with 100 K prize pool GTD and with only 12 $ buy in,they give 50 K gtd?where is logic here!?special when lot of people are at home and more of them can play it,but isnt fair to have such a prize pool with small buy in and not so big with 9 time bigger buy in!maybe they dont expect lot of players,so they cant make bigger GTD amount!
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I'm trying to get tickets to some galaxy free games and for now i only have one ticket for $ 10,000 Neptune freeroll. I will play some satellites for these games because are very good tournaments and nice opportunities to won. A $ 50k tournament is not like $500 and we must to try qualifications.
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Be careful to don´t decepcioned dule-vu! First time, you have to remember that the total prize garanted is the pool of prizes, you can see in the image that the first places with the minimum of players computed, are of $ 19350 and $ 11000. Then, to explain the low difference between the prizes, and the big difference of the buy-in; I think that the clue is in the number of players. In the image, you can see the minimum of each one, and the maximum may be much more!
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This Dragos Series seems a goof offer by 888poker , both for deep pockets and the ones that play lower buyins . The prizepools are very big and alluring for the players to give them a shot . The fact that for both of these tournaments , besides the everyday flight to get qualified , also satellites or sub-sateliites are scheduled to run with some tickets guaranteed , is very important for the players who cannot afford this money for BRM reasons , or for them who want to get very cheap in these Dragon Series Tournaments . Good luck everyone .
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Poker rooms will make very good calculations and enough satellites, so as not to lose money. I have encountered cases when tournaments were guaranteed and there were not many players. The fact is that there is no technique to know about players to cover the prizes.
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but what you want to tell me with this?how can be fair to have first prize with 10 K GTD on buy in of 12 $ and GTD first prize of 19350 $ with buy in of 109 $!?there is big difference and for me this is not fair!they dont know how many players will be on any of this tournaments,they dont know for sure,so this prizes can be bigger or just as they are now!for this kind of buy in we should have much bigger first prize!
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Good offer this Dragon Series , nice opportunoity to make some money , playing directly the flight tourneys or some satellites for them . Good luck to all players who will play them today .
I have also witnessed , calicull some pokerrooms having overlays , even in the satellites for the tickets to be won for the next phase , or the main target tournament of this satellite or all satellites and sub satellites . But they got the money back from the more expensive one tournaments , from the rake . So , imo , the more expensive paid the lower or micros , the bankroll of those plauers , the micro levels of the ecosystem . nowadays I don't see it , I have the feeling they got very strict witht the overlays , even in the micros , where $500 or $1k would be nothing for one of the greatest pokerromms . At least , I saw this on Partypoker/bwin
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I mean about weekly tournaments which worth a million dollars each of these tournaments. 100k and 50k is very good of course. There are not to many poker rooms that can support this thing. This makes you even more ambitious to play satellites for qualification and it should not be abandoned to this dream ( money ).
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Maybe I didn´t explain well dule-vu. You have to think that these images are of the "0" point, there are no one registered. So the prizes are only the total pool ($ 100K or $ 50K) split the number of paid positions at that time (70 or 45), but the total players that could be in the money is more than four times between them (you have a clue in the numbers of players based) and the proportion of prizes scale should be different (for eaxample: 0,1 or 0,01 of the pool prize to the last position in the money). Finally, the structure of the prizes are different...
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These tournaments are very interesting because you can earn money and the places paid are acceptable, because it has enough prizes and you can achieve something good here. You will not try to play differently, then you cannot achieve too much.
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Posted by maragatero: Maybe I didn't explain well dule-vu. You have to think that these images are of the "0" point, there are no one registered. So the prizes are only the total pool ($ 100K or $ 50K) split the number of paid positions at that time (70 or 45), but the total players that could be in the money is more than four times between them (you have a clue in the numbers of players based) and the proportion of prizes scale should be different (for eaxample: 0,1 or 0,01 of the pool prize to the last position in the money). Finally, the structure of the prizes are different...
and again its not right for anybody!I know that you want to say that now its different when you see number of payed places,but you cant know how many of them will be when torunament start!nobody say that they will have large number of players,maybe they will have less and what then?for me its just isnt fair that you give same promotion and two tournaments where buy is much bigger and first price so low!then they could give more to other players on this 12 $ buy in!
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888poker always brings sth new , a new promotion to participate or a new series of tourneys with good value to play and win a lot of money . Also they offer many satellites for these special tournaments , giving you the chance to win the entry for cheap , and then win big in the main events . Alos if you win cheaply the entry on an expensive event of a series like this , you can play more aggressively , and try not just be ITM , but also try to manege to be in top30-10 , or even in the Final Table !!!!
Nice promotion by 888poker , whoever won these tournaments on the 4th of this month , surely he must be very happy with the $$$ won
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Well, I think that is easy to understand why the propose is reasonable, and I tried to explain it with all my better intention and patient (despite my poor english). Ever you can wait to see the complete information when the day two start. Meanwhile, I will try to play some sub-satellite of $ 0,50 to have any hope to win something there. Good luck to all of players!
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I would like to play satellites but 888Poker has many problems and network errors have occurred. This has been going on for few days and some persons play and win chips and me even if i have good internet, i can't play because 888 keeps me sit out. Incredible.
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so how to attract more players to play on this 109 4 tournament when you offer prize like this for first place and such a big for 12 $?you cant know how many players will be on any of this tournaments,so its not fair to offer from start this kind of prizes!ofcourse for this lower,this is great for players and they will get much more for only 12 $!
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The same is happening to me CALICUL! 888poker start to makes his old bugs. It shut down, or suddenly it lost the connection with the server for hours, I write to support team twice, I erased the poker client and downloaded and installed again, but the support don´t answer and the bugs keep here. Is annoying, with my big schedule of nothing is very bad lost a freeroll!
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I hope these problems maragatero to have been solved by now and players not to experience any kind of technical difficulties this time . Also peronibar refered on another thread a $10.000 freeroll on Friday by 888poker , to make players feel better for the problems they faced these days . Go play it and may you have good luck
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It is better for 888poker to switch to the old software because it is much better than the one that exists at the moment. I don't think they will create another new one so quickly, especially since they spent money with this. People with brains need to make good updates and will be good.
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But at this time, all the poker´s room are under pressure because the isolating of millions of players that are trying to seat in one table (or in 24). GreySnow, that ever was a solid poker client, have now daily bugs and it steals my cents. Wxxxxxx chose to banned the freerolls, at least for no-european players. You are playing there CALICUL, in Wxxxxxx? Was a good place to play tournaments and sats...
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I only play in 3 poker rooms and one of them is 888poker. NetBet and Pokerstars are the others. I can't deal with more because of country restriction... Maybe in future. Now, i'm enjoying 888 promotion and i want to see what i can achieve.
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