Freerolls
During my first month at poker.com I decided to come in some free tournaments (freerolls). First of all I could do that as I had entering coupon from pokerroom. They were giving those coupons as another bonus for the money deposited. Another reason for my decision was the possibility to win a huge amount of money compared with the winnings at my limits during just a couple of hours. And by the way I knew the guy who had won some of such freerolls so I was sure in possibility to do this. That was just the reasons that could motivate me to start.
That time poker.com was organizing different kind of freerolls. They were $100, $200, $500 and $3000 tourneys. The amount stated in the name of the tourney shows the full amount of prize money in the particular freeroll. The winner could usually get 20% or 25% of that amount. The exact number depended on the number of the participants. The more participants the tourney gathered the less part of the amount was kept for the winner. To win at least anything you had to stay in last 80 in the tourney (the number also depended on the number of participants). Everybody could take part in $100 and $200 freerolls. The only difference between them was the frequency of their start. $100 frerolls were organized every 3 hours and $200 were organized every 6 hours. Anyway both those kind of freerolls were not interesting for me. I considered the opportunity cost of spending 3, 4 or even 5 hours to win a tourney with the reward (usually $20 for $100 freeroll and $40 for $200 freeroll) and decided not to waste my time. Some say that taking part in such contests I could get the necessary experience in no-limit poker to win better tournaments. But I’d prefer not only getting experience but to have the chance to win the Money. Anyway everybody decides.
$500 freerolls were more interesting. $100 the winner could get was the amount worthy to participate. But that was more difficult. In order to take part in those tourneys you had to play at least 80 raked hands. The raked hand is a hand you have entered in and pokerroom has taken a small amount of the pot. According to the rules of poker.com you had to be in the flop to consider the hand raked for you. The pokerroom didn’t take any rake from hands finished on preflop. I could make up the that amount of raked hands every three or even four days. So I participated in that kind of freerolls from time to time though they were organized once a day.
The last but the most interesting freeroll was $3000 or just 3k. 3k started 18pm EST every day and could bring $750 to the winner. Sounds good, don’t you think so? The coupon to enter it was granted every 250 raked hands. And it was very rare to me. But every time I got the coupon I participated for sure. Next time I try to describe the most interesting episodes of my freeroll career.
TBC