Freeroll News 27th January
2008:
Thanks to all of you who took part in
last week's freeroll at Pitbull
Poker. Considering the prize fund wasn't exactly the best we
have ever offered, there was a very good turnout for the
tournament.
The winner was Layton (yes you might
recognize the name!)
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Mansion Poker are running a daily $100
instant prize draw. All you need to do is log on to your account
every day to check whether you are the winner for that day. The idea
of course is to get you to visit the site more often but you don't
need to do anything other than log in in order to claim the prize.
All prizes must be won so if nobody claims theirs it rolls over to
the next day!
Click here to check if you've won the Mansion
Lottery today or to sign up and win tomorrow!
Although it's the casino branch of
Mansion you need to log into, you can use your Mansion Poker ID to
see whether you have won. And while you are there, why not play some
of these very good freerolls on offer:
$500 Daily Freerolls
Twice
daily (Monday to Friday), at 12:00 and 18:00 GMT. 3,000 players
limit.
$1,000 Weekly
Freerolls
Saturday at 18:00 GMT.
$3,000 Monthly Freerolls
Take
place on the second Friday each month at 18:00 GMT.
(Note that you need a real money
account to qualify for these Mansion Poker freerolls. The $3000
monthly games are for first time depositors who have then earned 25
MANSION Poker Points).
$15,000 Freeroll
For
Silver level players or above.
In addition to the above freerolls,
Mansion has a great Lucky Dollar tournament on a Saturday
where you can win your share of the prize fund PLUS and added $2500
from Mansion. All for just ONE dollar entry. This is probably the
best value poker game on the internet in terms of potential return
for your cash layout and remember that if you do make a deposit and
enter the Lucky Dollar, you will be eligible for the
freerolls.
Click HERE for Mansion Poker
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Something new from Hollywood Poker!
Hollywood has a new game called their
New Mad Tilt ALL IN super turbo tourney which they have at a few
different buy-in levels.
The idea is that you start with only
100 chips and the blinds are 10/20, which means of course that you
need o pick your moment and throw all of your chips in. It's quick
and furious and relies more on luck than most other forms of poker.
On the other hand if you're not the world's best player it can be a
great leveller.
Click here to try out the action of the New
Mad Tilt ALL IN tournaments
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Poker4ever
are giving you the chance to win the 2008 World Series of Poker for
a stake of only 1 cent!
You can win a $10,000 seat as well as
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To play, Click here to go to the site,
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Then just look for WSOP satellites in
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Poker4ever
Freeroll News 20th January
2008:
LAST CHANCE FOR THE PRIVATE
FREEROLL!!
Click here
to go to the sign up page for the private tournament.
Sign in, or if you don't have
an account just create one - it's free. then start up the poker
client - make sure to click the REAL MONEY tab. Now click on
Tournaments > Private and look under Jan-20 for
Love-Texas-Holdem.
Double click on the tournament
and then the Register button, enter the password Reacher and
click on the small square beside Freeroll. Click the Submit
button then OK at the confirmation message.
That's all! Good
Luck with the game.
Freeroll News 13th January
2008:
Quite a slow uptake so far for
places in the first Love-Texas-Holdem private members-only freeroll of the year.
Usually that's the way it happens, there's a few sign up at the
start but most people leave it to nearer the time of the
game.
I would just say that even
although the prize is only $75, it is worth taking part for
three reasons. Firstly if there's a good turnout we will get
bigger and better freerolls the next time. Secondly other poker
rooms watch these events and if they see a good turnout they
will be keen to run one too.
Thirdly of course you could win
some money!
The tournament takes place next
Sunday 20th
January at 3:00pm EST.
Click
here to play in the tournament
Full details of how to sign up
and the password are below in 9th January news.
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If you're looking for a site with low competition and a good
chance of winning some money, you might want to give Cake
Poker a try. They have a freeroll system that on first
glance looks a little bit complicated but isn't really when you
get into it.
What happens is that the run five freeroll tournaments a day
which are qualifiers to the main game on Saturday. Each of these
qualifiers has seven tickets to the Saturday game as prizes.
That makes a total of only about 240 players in the Saturday
final, with a prize fund of $500.
Not too shabby odds there I would say.
If you are a real money player at Cake poker, you also get to
play in their $500 1st depositor freeroll, but even better than
that, there are some FANTASTIC low buy-in high prize money
tournaments going on there.
For example I played a game today with a $1500 guaranteed
prize pool with only 171 people registered! The prizes were a bit
special too, here's the breakdown:
1st place $405
2nd place $270
3rd place $180
4th place $130.50
5th place $90
6th place $78
7th place $66
8th place $52.50
..
..
30th place $26
So what was the buy-in to play in this tournament? $50? $20?
No, just $5+$0.50! $5.50 for a chance of $400+ and a minimum
prize of $26 if you get in the money is one of the best deals
I've found.
It's a rebuy game which if
you're not familiar with them means that if you get knocked out,
you can rebuy for the original entry fee, in this case $5. This
is a great thing if you're a half decent player. Let all
the "maniacs" knock each other out and rebuy - and
build up the prize fund for you.
I never rebuy at these
tournaments but always do quite well so there's absolutely no
need to throw your money around, let the others do that instead.
Click
here to see what Cake Poker is all about
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An update to last week's Poker
Stars piece that I wrote last week. I played a few more
tournaments just to see if my bad run of cards continued, and
quite amazingly it did. In four whole tournaments I didn't get
dealt a starting hand better than Ace 10. I'm finding it a huge
stretch to believe that this run could be completely random. I
know you can get bad runs of cards but for as many hands as
that? I don't think so.
My next strategy is to take all
but a few dollars out of my account and see if that makes any
difference. Then I might try making a deposit back in again. It
would be interesting if I suddenly started seeing a change in my
fortunes related to the amount of money I had in.
As always, if you've had a
similar experience at Poker
Stars or indeed anywhere else please let me know, you
can just reply to this message.
Freeroll News 9th January
2008:
Here's the news about the first
private members-only freeroll of the year I promised you.
The game is on Sunday 20th
January 2008 at 3:00pm EST and the prize is $75.
Here's how to register for the members-only private tournament.
1 Click here to go to the sign up page for the private tournament.
2 Sign in, or if you don't have an account just create one - it's free.
3 Start up the poker client and make sure to click the REAL MONEY tab.
4 Then click on Tournaments > Private and look under Jan-20 for Love-Texas-Holdem.
5 Double click on the tournament then click the Register button.
6 Enter the password Reacher and click on the small square beside Freeroll.
7 Click Submit then OK at the confirmation message.
Good Luck!
Freeroll News 6th January
2008:
Happy New Year to All of
You!
How did you do in the Poker
Host $500 freeroll on Friday - did you manage to beat my
21st place of last week? I can tell you this - I certainly
didn't! I crashed out at a miserable 390th or something around
that, I was too disgusted at the beat I got to check the exact
position but it sure wasn't anywhere near the money.
If you want to play in the next
weekly Poker Host freeroll, Click
Here for full details.
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OK here's something REALLY
weird that happened to me last night. I was playing my favorite
Sit'nGos at Poker
Stars and I had the most unbelievable run of bad
cards I've ever seen. I played three 45 player tournaments -
which I usually do quite well in, final table is normal and I
win a good percentage of them - over a period of about an hour
and a half.
That shows you how much I won -
exactly zero but I blame it on the truly awful run of bad cards.
In all that time I had two pairs of 4s, A10 and A8. That was my
best hands. I got a few Kings and Queens but never with better
than a 5 or 6.
Even the best players in the
world would have struggled to make anything out of these cards,
you just can't bluff your way all the way through a tournament -
it's impossible.
Now I'm a bit of a statistics
buff and I reckon it is extremely unlikely to play for as long
as that and get rags ALL of the time. Statistically I must have
been due at least a few good hands out of all the time I had
played.
Now here's the thing. I had
played the previous two nights and had won some money, including
a tournament win. I'm not saying there's anything untoward going
on but it does seem very strange to get a run of cards like
that.
I'm wondering have any of you
had a similar experience at Poker
Stars or any other poker room online for that matter?
I'd love to hear of any of your experiences and I'll put them up
here if you send them in.
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Question - What site is one of
the very biggest online and has a freeroll every hour on week
days? I love this site and the great news is that it is open to
US players too.
Click
here to see the site I'm talking about!
