[atlas007]

i played the $1.000.000 freeroll yesterday at paradise poker. playing 2 hours and half i finished 2383th out of 3990.
i was excinting and trembling during all the two hours...first time i played tourney with a big prize and important like that one......lol.
any one of you had same experience ? ( trembling and panic )

[nxtyear]

for two hours and the field didn't even get halved?
jeez, imagine how much time u'd waste if you get out on the bubble!
that's like. 6 hours wasted :S

anyways, keep trying someday you'll make it to that million

[atlas007]

the tourney is still runing .they played about 9 hours yesterday and now pause .
glade i am out (still 25 players )

[nxtyear]

a whole day of playing for about $ 100,000? oh well, i gues you can't say no to that

although i personally think that all the winnings are gonna be used to treat their health problems..
seriously, 9 hours through the night is farrrr too much

[Slayre]

they play for 12-14 hours at day, for 4-5 days, to make it to the final tables of the wsop and the wpt...

this aint tiddly-winks, as some would say.

I made it thru two qualifying rounds of 2500 entrants each, on pacific, to compete in their 100k freeroll.

Tourney paid top 250.... with the min prize being 5 grand.

I went out about 10 or so shy of the bubble...

A 6

[Hard2resist420]

Wow sounds like a daily thing for me . I often tend to fall short by a few spots. It is very frustrating when that happens. I wish you luck on your next tourney.

[atlas007]

thanks guys i agree with all what you say. my only probleme was that it was my first experience in tourney like that .as i said i was trembling and exciting,and i hope next time in tourney like that it will be more easy for me to play and control my self especially my legs

[Klopzi]

I've never played in any tournaments with prize pools that large (I've only been playing since May), but I do remember my first $5,000 freeroll.

I played that tournament in July. There were 383 people entered in the tournament, top 50 spots paid. I was pretty nervous, but my wife got me a beer so I wasn't in too bad a shape to play.

Anyway, I got really lucky and managed to sneak into the money with very few chips (I had about $3000 and the blinds were at $250/$500). I was now on my second beer and both a friend of mine and my wife were watching me play.

And that's when it happened: I started "table-skating" (or "table-surfing"). I don't know if the term exists, but I started getting moved from table to table, being placed in position that guaranteed me at least 7 or 8 hands before the blinds would hit me. This happened over and over and I managed to skate my way down to 24th spot. I was now guaranteed $50 (pretty good for a freeroll).

I then played my usual game and managed to hang on to hit 17th spot and a $100 payday. Considering my bankroll was only at $300 at the time, I was pretty happy.

I then went on to have a few more beers and won a multi-table SNG at Royal Vegas Poker for $16 more.

K.

[UofTNick]

I played in the $100,000 dollar freeroll at Royal Vegas Poker a month or two ago. You had to play in a qualifier tourney and finish in the top 10% to qualify, which i did.

Then there was the actual freeroll, with about 600 people. and the top 260 paid, with 1st getting $23,000 and 260th getting $50. Unfortunately I caught some real cold cards, got unlucky, and probably made some mistakes too, and didn't make the big bucks, but I was able to hang on and finish 236th, and net $50. I would have liked the 23k, but i will definitely take 50 bucks.

Also, I was just curious as to when these $1,000,000 freerolls at Paradise run. I don't have Paradise downloaded, and wasn't aware of this freeroll, so I have never played it before.

Thanks in advance

[GrimJack]

These sound like some good Free Rolls.

Klopzi, What was the site where you entered the Freeroll? How often do they have these?

The Million Dollar Freeroll sounded like such a joke to me that I didn't five it any serious attention. Its interesting to hear some feedback from somebody who actually played.

I was in Vegas for the WPT final this year and played with a few of the people (at side tables) with those who had ponied up the $20K to enter the thing. Surprisingly they weren't very strong players. But they all said the same thing, it was exhilerating and exhausting all at the same time.