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iceberg4262
Joined: 19.12.2023

My background:
Hi guys, I play poker for quite some time and I was recently playing NL10/NL25 staked for a poker team and doing really well so far. But then my account was suddenly blocked because I already had an account on that website some time before and I didn't remember that when I created a new one.

So they thought that I was using two accounts at the same time and decided do block both of them and also ban me from the site and now I can't play for the team again since they only work with that poker site. A suddem kick on my balls by life variance :f_mad:

Since I was not expecting to lose my account, I already used the remaining money I had as bankroll from another poker sites accounts, so now I am 100% broke. The good thing is that nowadays there is plenty of great freerolls to play with decent prizes, I was giving a search and I found 3 great poker sites for that (maybe I can add more sites later):

Partypoker: The best so far, they always have a new freeroll to play each hour with decent prizes ($20, $50, $100 and $400 as prize pools)

888 Poker: They also have good freerolls with decent prizes, but a lot less tournaments than partypoker

Americas Cardroom: Plenty of freerools with decent prizes like party poker, the good part is that there is some private freerolls with huge prizes where you can get the password just by watching the twitch streaming and seeing the chat.

My Goal:

Short term: Play as much freerolls as possible in this sites until I make at least $10, after that I will take a 5 buy-in shot at NL2 and try to build my roll from there while still playing freerolls for extra cash. If my shot goes wrong there's no big deal, I can always play more freerolls and raise another 10 bucks to try again.

Mid-term: If my shot goes right and I start playing with a decent bankroll, I will only play on that site until I reach $50-60 Br, then I will withdraw the money to my bank account and deposit on another poker site (actually a poker app) where I know that the field is immensly softer than on this sites that I'm playing now (+50 vpip whales everywhere), even on NL25 or NL50 the field is quite soft.

So if I want to improve my chances of start playing poker for a living before the second semester of 2024 (which I believe I can do by beating NL25 with at least 5bb/100) then I should play on poker sites where I know I have the greatest edge vs the field while having the best rakeback deal possible since the rake is the greatest obstacle to beat microstakes in my opinion.

My resources so far:

Partypoker: $2.89. 1 MTT $0.55 ticket
ACR: $0.16
888 poker: $0


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imgoingtomirage
Joined: 03.07.2010

GL :f_thumbsup:


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VorpalF2F
Joined: 02.09.2010

Hi iceberg4262,
Welcome to PokerStrategy.com :welcome:

Best of luck on your quest!
Does party have freerolls that pay cash?

Check out the bankroll challenge: https://forums.pokerstrategy.com/forum/thread.php?postid=3255945#post3255945 — you've got the blog already, so why not? There might be a minimum starting bankroll, but that shouldn't take to long to get.

I play at least two 888 freerolls daily, and more if I happen to notice one of their twitch, discord or youtube channel specials.
They're very fast, and you can usually cash by avoiding the multi-way all-in hands (well, unless you're desperate, or have AA etc)

All the best,
VS


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iceberg4262
Joined: 19.12.2023

Originally posted by imgoingtomirage
GL :f_thumbsup:

Thanks :f_drink:

Originally posted by VorpalF2F
Hi iceberg4262,
Welcome to PokerStrategy.com :welcome:

Best of luck on your quest!
Does party have freerolls that pay cash?

Check out the bankroll challenge: https://forums.pokerstrategy.com/forum/thread.php?postid=3255945#post3255945 — you've got the blog already, so why not? There might be a minimum starting bankroll, but that shouldn't take to long to get.

I play at least two 888 freerolls daily, and more if I happen to notice one of their twitch, discord or youtube channel specials.
They're very fast, and you can usually cash by avoiding the multi-way all-in hands (well, unless you're desperate, or have AA etc)

All the best,
VS

Thanks man, as far as I know the freerolls from PP pay money for the top winners and MTT tickets for the rest of the guys in the money.

I will definetely join the challenge, I took a look on the thread and I saw some guys starting by $5, that might be the minimum ammount to join, maybe I can make that before the weekend and join the challenge if variance give me some help, thanks for letting me know btw.

888 have great freerolls but most of them are only for depositors and I am using a brand new account, so I think I will delete this one and try to re activate my old one where I already did a deposit some time ago, I hope it works bc they have some huge prizes compared to PP and ACR.


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VorpalF2F
Joined: 02.09.2010

Originally posted by iceberg4262
888 have great freerolls but most of them are only for depositors and I am using a brand new account, so I think I will delete this one and try to re activate my old one where I already did a deposit some time ago, I hope it works bc they have some huge prizes compared to PP and ACR.

I had forgotten about the depositor thing.
Before you go messing about with your accounts, engage 888 support.
Be patient with them, but make sure that you get them to help you do it correctly, and multi-accounting is a very firm banning offence.
If you're up frond about it, they might be able to delete the new one and resurrect the old one.


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iceberg4262
Joined: 19.12.2023

Originally posted by VorpalF2F

Originally posted by iceberg4262
888 have great freerolls but most of them are only for depositors and I am using a brand new account, so I think I will delete this one and try to re activate my old one where I already did a deposit some time ago, I hope it works bc they have some huge prizes compared to PP and ACR.

I had forgotten about the depositor thing.
Before you go messing about with your accounts, engage 888 support.
Be patient with them, but make sure that you get them to help you do it correctly, and multi-accounting is a very firm banning offence.
If you're up frond about it, they might be able to delete the new one and resurrect the old one.

yeah, I think it might be safer to get in touch with support before. I will try that out later, thanks :f_thumbsup:

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Today after a day playing freerolls on partypoker and winning some tickets here and there I decided to try my luck on a bounty hunter mtt that had only cash as payouts, and thank god things went really well and I ended up finishing at #2.

Now I have $5.47 as balance and I can the start bankroll challenge :f_cool:


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nsavov
Joined: 24.09.2010

I want to test something.

ACR
America's Cardroom
Party Poker

BTW try GGPoker. They used to give out 25 cents tickets every day and had all kinds of bankroll builders 5-40 cents. IDK if they do anymore but it's totally worth checking ot ;)

GL!


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VorpalF2F
Joined: 02.09.2010

Originally posted by nsavov
BTW try GGPoker. They used to give out 25 cents tickets every day and had all kinds of bankroll builders 5-40 cents. IDK if they do anymore but it's totally worth checking ot ;)
GGPoker still has a daily freebie. They're doing it slightly differently from now to New Years or so, but they do have the daily freebie.


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iceberg4262
Joined: 19.12.2023

Thanks guys, I will create an account there later and take a look for sure.

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Yesterday I was taking a look at my mtt tickets (I don't understand much about mtts to be fair) that I got from partypoker and it seems that most of them only have as prizes another ticket for another mtt that have as prize another fu**ing ticket and so on.

So i'm a bit frustated with partypoker freerolls for now, even though you can get real money by getting into top 5, it's very little money and you are playing against 300-500 other guys so it doesn't see much worth it to focus on that.

But on the other hand they have some great bounty-hunter mtts that are quite easy to get ITM. You will play vs less players, you don't risk a lot, the lowest buy-in is $0.11 and the lowest payment I can get is at least 3 times the buy-in I invested, not to mention that sometimes I will run well and finish on a good position like it happened yesterday and get $3.50 while investing only $0.22. So I think I will build my roll a lot faster from now if I focus on this micros mtts instead of pursuing mtts tickets that will not give me a single dime even if I finish at #1.

I have $6.09 so far(I finished 3rd at a sit n go today), as soon as I get to $10 I'll try my fisrt shot at NL2 reg tables and see what happens.


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iceberg4262
Joined: 19.12.2023

Today luck smiled upon me, I played on one of those Christmas GGpoker freerolls that you can try once a day and I won $8.20.

This combined with the money I also won yesterday on the same freeroll ($2.19) and now I have $10.39, which is enough to try my first shot at NL2 and start builiding a proper BR.

I think I'll try that today at night (when there's lots of recreationals) or maybe sunday at night (ppl say that christmas eve is one of the best times to play, so it might be worth to wait a bit).

I will certainly table select the best I can and just play one table per time, the more I increase my chances of making this shot work the better.

Anyways, wish me luck :f_drink:


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VorpalF2F
Joined: 02.09.2010

I didn't know that you could actually play them somewhere.
I thought that they were forced all-in shovaments


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iceberg4262
Joined: 19.12.2023

There is a mtt of 30 players maximum that become forced all in after passing some levels, but the prize pool is not great, I think it's $10 or something, while the christmas freerolls is $20k prize pool if I'm not wrong, you can get both tickets just by logging in everyday.


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iceberg4262
Joined: 19.12.2023

I had a nice christmas gift from ggpoker today, this prize along with the money I already had and now I have $17.19 as bankroll.

I will start taking my shots at NL2 tomorrow at morning and I will also play another christmas freeroll and see if I get another prize to help me build my roll.

Anyways, merry christmas to everyone :f_drink:


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nsavov
Joined: 24.09.2010

Hey bro, this video may interest you :transpire:


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iceberg4262
Joined: 19.12.2023

Originally posted by nsavov
Hey bro, this video may interest you :transpire:

yeah man, I heard about that. And I also believe that if they found one guy doing that, then probably there's more guys doing the same, which is terrible. I think I will grind a bit more until I have a decent bankroll, and then after that, I will withdraw the money and put it on PPPoker or Suprema since these sites are more trustworthy while the field is a lot softer than GG. 

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Regarding my results, I have been running really well on GG so far. Most of the players are passive regs or whales, not much different from NL2 on Ps. I currently have $42.62 as BR, I think I will play here just until I reach $100 or a bit more.

Wish me luck guys.


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SvenBe
Joined: 19.04.2006

Congrats to such a nice start into your challenge - now how did it go after that?


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