Joined: Jan '09
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After FTP announced their attempt to break the world record for number of participants in a tourney, PokerStars decided they would have none of that so they created another world record attempt of their own ON THE SAME DAY as the FTP tourney
so here are the tourney info for both sites:
FULL TILT POKER Date: Sunday July 19th 15:00 ET Buyin: $5 or 1000FTP Prize pool: $500,000
POKERSTARS Date: Sunday July 19th 14:10 ET Buyin: $1 or (freeroll your way in with freerolls running EVERY hour. Top 1000! go into the WR tourney) Prize pool: $100,000
Notice the Pokerstars tourney will begin 50 minutes before the FTP one, with just $1 or you can basically freeroll your way into a 100k gtn'd tourney. It's like Stars is telling FTP that they run the show
It'll be interesting to see if FTP will change the conditions of their tourney, maybe lower the buyin. Problem is, I don't see how FTP software can handle that much in a tourney but we'll see..
Joined: Oct '08
Location: Germany
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haha just seen as i logged in on pokerstars (due to everest having server problems all day long bah) with the lower buyin and the higher traffic PS is gonna make it i guess. now its interessting to play cos both start at same time...or almost same time.
Joined: May '09
Location: Denmark
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Pokerstars will win easy. dont know about full tilt, but there is alot of freerolls on pokerstars. and people cant unregister win they win a seat from a freeroll, so from the freerolls alone they should get over 18000 alone, + all the satelits.
pokerstars will pretty much get double as many as full tilt.
Posted by Ali_c: Pokerstars will win easy. dont know about full tilt, but there is alot of freerolls on pokerstars. and people cant unregister win they win a seat from a freeroll, so from the freerolls alone they should get over 18000 alone, + all the satelits.
pokerstars will pretty much get double as many as full tilt.
I think so, too.
But I cant wait to play at the FTP record challenge, its nice to be a part of it, the prizepool is great and the buy-in is very low. Only the amount of players is a bit too high, but no problem..
Joined: May '09
Location: India
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No doubt poker stars will have more players as they have more player base and low buyin even though they have added less to prize pool. was hoping to play fulltilt tourney but my software just won't update
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Posted by shokaku: Stars has double the player base than Full Tilt. If they want to keep the world record, they can easily do it. But $100.000 price pool? Come on.
Yeah with soooo many more players that is a cheep prize pool for sure... Come on PokerStars get it on
What a donks you are? You really think that the pokerstars tourneys is going 2 run well and it is going 2 be A donkeyparty with all that free entries. I tought that pokerstars could do better than come op with a cheap 1$ tourney with 100.000$ in pool And look how you all talking Pokerstars is running your game in my opinion.
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Posted by dianakyra: What a donks you are? You really think that the pokerstars tourneys is going 2 run well and it is going 2 be A donkeyparty with all that free entries. I tought that pokerstars could do better than come op with a cheap 1$ tourney with 100.000$ in pool And look how you all talking Pokerstars is running your game in my opinion.
Numbers count not quality and pokerstars already have more participants than full tilt
make A 1c tourney with prizepool Of 1million and let run freerolls 2 win 1 c tickets $ a month Than you will have the biggest but so you can go on and on pokerstars last 1 was 11$ alright full tilt opnes now has a value of 11$ 2 now that of ps now not
Joined: May '09
Location: Denmark
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the tournament havent even started and pokerstars have already won, they have over 50k player while ftp cant have more than 50k players in the torny. so yea pokerstars is the winner.
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FT look like small fish now, should have just let it go. Also was told the trial run in a special freeroll PS did went bad, 1 hand per level.(65k players)(5hrs to compleat and it was a turbo with ante s starting at level 8.) Yer and Im with you think FT will have some issues tonight. It will be real bad for them after the last week or so.
