1.10/45 Sats vs 1.10/45 Turbos

[pa3lsvt]

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Please explain how you turned 3000 play money chips into real $$$.

Does it involve selling them on ebay? Freerolls? Something else?

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There are sites that buy play money chips for real $$$ (google them, I forget which one I used). Going rate is about $10/1M; the sites sell them for ~$20/1M. You transfer play chips to some user sitting at a play money table, different user transfers you monies on Stars (or Paypal if you so desire). For the life of me I can't figure out why there is a market for play chips, but whatever.

[Ontario_Tory]

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So, what do you guys think? 1/45 reg vs 1/45 sat? I think the sat will be sweet. Altough ending first in the regular isn't that hard either (and +4$).

And I would love to see the $2.2 in 15 minute blinds. They might take too long but reduces the crapshoot near the bubble alot.

By the way, the 100k has a maximum of 15000 participants. But at the current rate and seeing that the sats are getting more popular too I guess the limit will be reached before sunday. What will happen to the sats? Will you just get straight T's or do they get canceled?

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1) Yes, finishing 1st pays $4 more, but the sat pays more for finishing 2nd - 4th. And the sat strategy is different, so if you understand that you have a good edge. Also, the rake is 50% that of the regular tourneys, which is significant from a % POV. (not from a pure $ pov, but 10% vs. 20% rake cuts into your edge significantly. & note I'm talking about the regular speed 45's, not the turbos)

2) 15 minute blinds would be nice, I guess, but simply the fact that they're not turbos is nice, IMHO.

3) I doubt that the tourney will hit 15,000 much before the tourney starts (if at all). Many of those playing the sats already have seats, or are cashing out the seats. Once it's full, I suspect they'll still run the sats but pay out T$.

[Brons]

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1) Yes, finishing 1st pays $4 more, but the sat pays more for finishing 2nd - 4th. And the sat strategy is different, so if you understand that you have a good edge. Also, the rake is 50% that of the regular tourneys, which is significant from a % POV. (not from a pure $ pov, but 10% vs. 20% rake cuts into your edge significantly. & note I'm talking about the regular speed 45's, not the turbos)

[/ QUOTE ]Oops, I didn't notice the rake was .10 vs .20. That makes them way better. I'm definitely going to try the 1+.10/45 sats and $2.20 sats. They must be the juiciest micro tournaments on stars atm.

[supair]

wow these $1 sats are kick ass, thanks so much for posting about em cos i had no idea they existed. Great for bankroll building. I find myself in some tough spots now and again cos ive never played sats before and Im not sure on the correct strategy all the time, but shall be reading up for sure. Only thing is theyll soon be the toughest micros going, filled to the brim with damn 2+2ers.

lol just an instant example...

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20 (9 handed) internettexasholdem.com

MP1 (t1770)
MP2 (t1480)
MP3 (t1350)
Hero (t1340)
Button (t1100)
SB (t1460)
BB (t1460)
UTG (t1480)
UTG+1 (t2060)

Preflop: Hero is CO with Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
UTG calls t20, <font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 raises to t60</font>, <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t220</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">BB raises to t420</font>, UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t1340</font>, BB calls t920.

Flop: (t2770) J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>

Turn: (t2770) 7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>

River: (t2770) 5[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>

Final Pot: t2770

Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
BB has 3d 3h (two pair, fives and threes).
Hero has Qd Qh (two pair, queens and fives).
Outcome: Hero wins t2770. </font>

Another ft here we come


Happy sat'ing one and all

[Ontario_Tory]

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wow these $1 sats are kick ass, thanks so much for posting about em cos i had no idea they existed. Great for bankroll building. I find myself in some tough spots now and again cos ive never played sats before and Im not sure on the correct strategy all the time, but shall be reading up for sure. Only thing is theyll soon be the toughest micros going, filled to the brim with damn 2+2ers.



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LOL - I think you're safe...

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Is there a way to get Stars to e-mail you a list of the sats you've played and if you won the seat? Because if so, a week long prop bet for most seats won to this tournament next week would be fun.

[Ontario_Tory]

You can email them and ask for results of your tournaments for a time-period. They send you an html file containing a table which has all the tourneys you've played in, and whether you've won or lost.

I'd be up for a bet like this - but not this week...

We wouldn't even need to contact stars - just post in the thread the tourney ID whenever you win one, and at the end of the week the person responsible can request the summaries to verifiy and pay the winnar...

I'm happy to organize it for next week. Whatcha thinking? $25 good?

OT

[bnp]

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Don't laugh, but I'm currently grinding $1.20 STTs. (OK, go ahead and laugh. Easily beatable even with the 20% rake, and I'm building a roll after turning 3000 play chips into $12. Bankroll management FTW.)

I throw in one of these $1.10s along with 2 $1.20 STTs per session now, but I'll never beat them if I don't stop BLUFFING GODDAMN CALLING STATIONS and running bad with big pairs. 0/3 so far, but the play is possibly worse than the play money games.

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Not play chips, but I used FPP to build a bankroll after I cashed everything out before Neteller pulled out. I got the itch to keep playing and I had about 200 FPP back in March.

I played several 10FPP tourneys where they added $ to it. I made small cashes until I got to $1. Then I sat down at .01/.02 and played super tight knowing that if I dipped below $1, I had to start over with more FPP. Then I moved up slowly. I'm now mainly multi-tabling $.5/.10 with some MTT mixed in. Hovering around $150 w/ a peak of $161. I'm better at cash and can build quicker than sitting at the small MTT.

I had heard Chris Ferguson took $1 and built it into $10,000 just to see if he could do it. I plan on taking $0 and getting to $10k. I'm sure it will take me a lot longer than it took him...unless I cash big in one of these MTT.

[mflip]

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You can email them and ask for results of your tournaments for a time-period. They send you an html file containing a table which has all the tourneys you've played in, and whether you've won or lost.

I'd be up for a bet like this - but not this week...

We wouldn't even need to contact stars - just post in the thread the tourney ID whenever you win one, and at the end of the week the person responsible can request the summaries to verifiy and pay the winnar...

I'm happy to organize it for next week. Whatcha thinking? $25 good?

OT

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Yeah, maybe start an official thread Sunday or so and have it run Monday-Saturday (all satellites that start before 0:01 server time Sunday). $25 sounds good. I'm sure it would get a fair amount of runners.

[FortunaMaximus]

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Yeah, and it shouldn't be hard to get 30 or 40 seats this week.

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At least. I plan to exceed this number by a bit.

Would be down with a prop bet next week.