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May 07,2008, 04:42 AM
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| Pokerstars Million Dollar WSOP Giveaway
In case you didn't already notice pokerstars is running freerolls every hour to win a ticket to their $1MILLION WSOP Giveaway tourney.
Here are the details: Our biggest ever WSOP* giveaway
PokerStars sends more players to the World Series than anyone else, and this year, everyone’s invited. Between April 13 and June 27, we are giving away $1 MILLION worth of World Series prize packages in our WSOP* Million Dollar Giveaway freerolls. That’s a total of 80 free seats in all!
See the video below to hear what playing in the World Series means to members of Team PokerStars Pro!
This is your chance to live the Las Vegas life and play for free in the biggest event of the year. All you need to enter is a PokerStars account. This is what you could win: - $10,000 buy-in to the World Series 2008 Main Event
- Hotel accommodation at the Palms in Las Vegas
- $2,500 for expenses
The Million Dollar Giveaway Round 1 freeroll tournaments run every hour (at 05 PAST each hour) and every day until June 27. Players can enter one (1) Round 1 tournament per week. Those finishing in the top 50 will win a ticket to the Million Dollar Giveaway Weekly Final. Weekly Final
The Weekly Final tournaments are held on Saturdays, from April 19 until June 28, at the following times... If you don't have a pokerstars account, create one now! | 
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May 07,2008, 07:33 AM
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I tried a couple of the qualifiers, but haven't been able to make top 50 yet. Has anyone made it to the weekly final yet?
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May 07,2008, 09:09 AM
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Originally Posted by MarcoGD  I tried a couple of the qualifiers, but haven't been able to make top 50 yet. Has anyone made it to the weekly final yet? | I tried a couple of the qualifiers and cracked the top 50 once. In the weekly final, there were around 900 players and I cracked the top 100. Had my pocket kings cracked by a three outer on the river to go bust....
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May 07,2008, 11:43 AM
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there's just something about playing for hours on end just to win a chance to win a chance to win a ticket that i find tedious and time consuming.
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May 07,2008, 12:06 PM
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#5 | | comma man
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Originally Posted by m_dolens there's just something about playing for hours on end just to win a chance to win a chance to win a ticket that i find tedious and time consuming. | Yeah, Stars freerolls tend to be the worst out there IMO.
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May 07,2008, 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by m_dolens there's just something about playing for hours on end just to win a chance to win a chance to win a ticket that i find tedious and time consuming. | I agree completely, I can hardly do it with a regular MTT when there are 1000's of people and a top heavy prize pool. But, I figure there are also lots of people out there that don't deposit online so this might be a good way for them to get there instead of playing play money chip tourneys.
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May 07,2008, 02:48 PM
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I played one and ended up 130 something. If you can get past the retards that play in the first hour and get bounced out, it turns into decent poker after.
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May 07,2008, 05:31 PM
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#8 | | Wannabe a Xuan Liu
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PokerStar$ Steps SNG Qualifiers are even worse. There is a rake/vigorish of 14-17% on each of the six Steps, which is ridiculously high for an online site. For every $10K seat they give out, it seems they take almost as much in total rake. For every WSOP package winner, there are up to 3,100 losers that got raped/raked.
Even if you are an above average satellite player, it is -$EV to pay for any satellite where there is not enough money being left in the prize pool. Even if you have a lot of FPPs, there are probably better ways to use them than a Steps satellite with 17% rake. None of the many seats that I have won to tournaments were through online satellites, so I don't know if the other online satellites are as bad as PokerStar$ Steps. Quote:
Originally Posted by GTA Poker Yeah, Stars freerolls tend to be the worst out there IMO. |
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Last edited by BlondeFish; May 07,2008 at 05:41 PM.
Reason: The forum's auto-linking setting messes up my link to http://www.pokerstars.com/wsop/qualify/steps
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Jun 11,2008, 11:49 AM
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I was able to sneak into the top 50 of one of these, have yet to play the weekly final. Saturdays are such a tough day to play.
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Jun 16,2008, 04:18 PM
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I'm down to 1 more shot at the Million Dollar WSOP Giveaway 
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Jun 17,2008, 08:44 PM
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#11 | | Wanna play with me?
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Soooo close!
Came in 79 of 3287 tonight.....moved to a new table and ran into the chip leaders AK vs my KJ
oh wellz...
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Jun 22,2008, 08:07 PM
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I played yesterday afternoon, I was in the top 30 with around 1100 left, first KK ran into AA and then with a little over 400 people left and somewhat short stacked AQ ran into KK. Oh well, theres still next years world series.
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Jun 23,2008, 12:27 PM
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well I suck more than Paris Hilton
I can't get to the weekly finals
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