PS $2.5 mil Freeroll

[McBusto]

I made it to round 2.

Played TAG, and pushed small edges. Got lucky and doubled my stack a few times and hung around long enough to advance.

[0evg0]

I've tried 3-4 times in Rd 1, but by "try" I mean push any two facecards. I got up to 4500 the other day by hand 5 or so but lost 3k of it with AQs vs 99. Win that and I'm probably on to Rd 2 after 6 hands. Oh well, I'll keep [censored] around as I see them registering.

[zoobird]

Any sense of how many chips were needed to just fold into qualifying for the next round? It seems like they often start these at times when I've only got 2-3 hours to play and they last about 4 hours, so I'm trying to figure out what kind of stack I need to luckbox my way into to leave and still qualify.

[rockin]

I was pretty deep in the $5 rebuy and in one of these round 1's and got knocked out of the $5 rebuy, and since this round 1 was the only tournament I had left before going to bed, I started jamming every hand (and I was 19th out of 121 players). Now after a few other attempts, I really regret not playing it out. I just knew it would be at least another hour of playing nothing but a freeroll.

[dcviperboy]

I played another one last night and got to the last 1900 people when I ran my aces into K7 with about an average stack. He flops a 7 and (i guess) assumes I'm bluffing, get it all in on the turn, and he proceeds to river a King.

I agree with the fact of If you can get to about 6k early you will be alright. But this being the only way to qualify is extremely frustrating. I would rather put up 100 FPPs to get 50 seats from 1000 people, but damn. I guess I'll just keep trying.