Poker Perambulation

Not sure what drink that advertised.  This one is the Fifth anniversary of Full Tilt they are touting that provided the 5 FPP buyin tournaments that I've been playing.  They reminded me a lot of all the $3000 tournaments and then $1000 that PokerRoom gave to their players each day. They were deep and top prizes are similar.  You really needed to final table in all of them to get a reasonable payday.  But, the skill level or maybe reasoning was more solid than the freerolls you see today.  Those are zoos.

 I'll give you a quick insert of my 'success' yesterday.  First one, I'd mentioned I'd probably die quick and it happened before blind change.  My Aces got cracked in a 3-way all-in with me making it happen.  Had two raiser before it got to me and the pot was nice enough to just steal with my aces.  Both called, 99 and 22 with a 9 on the flop.   The second was again the 3 hours where you reach the gamble more point in blinds.  I had a nice stack right up to the next to last hand that was often double the average.

OK, back to FullTilt.   This is their FIVE promotion that celebrates their 5 years of being a site. Without that their offering to players is pretty limited and lacks any real cost to their bottom line.   Here's their two-face blather in their own words:

What's the rub here?  Yup, you're right.  They didn't add a dime.  The 'added' money they brag about in the form of a guarantee.  With the limited sites available, seeing a tournament with overlay is likely part of a dream sequence.  All the sites tout their adding potential overlay like it is some great gift to the players and all it does  in fact is grow their rake.

This 5FPP tournaments have only reminded me of what used to happen every day. The sites promoted their play with them.  You could get in a freeroll where there was almost a reasonable prize that beat the hourly rate for working in a fast foods joint.  That, along with frequent bonus offers and other rakeback payouts to their more active players abounded.

The UIGEA was a gold mine to the remaining sites.

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