Do you have lots of play-chips?

Latvian Queen · Aug 28, 2008

Maybe everyone already knows this, but I just discovered this last night by accident. I have not played play money for a long time and never thought there was a way to win real money using play-chips.
Well....there is...at least on Full Tilt. I found a $40 freeroll with a buy-in of 500,000 play-chips, with a minimum of 18 players. Hey, that's some great odds. Of course, I have just about 15k in my account and long ways to go, but now I have found a reason to join play money tourneys when my bank roll is "dead".
Hope this info is useful to someone

POKERYALL · Aug 29, 2008

Really, didn't know that, will have to look into that one. Could you lose about 10k' of those to me...........lol

Jazzmaker · Aug 29, 2008

do you know if there are any other play money-to-real money tournaments? and how often? thanks ^^

djg6678 · Aug 29, 2008

It is a decent freeroll, The play isn't to bad. I have played in it several times. Normally the field is around 40-55 with 18 paying.

S93 · Aug 29, 2008

I have 55K playmoney but thats just because ajrobin gave me them

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Never play playmoney just thought it whould be fun having 5digits in my BR instead of 3

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ythelongface · Aug 29, 2008

i had seen this mentioned somewhere else as well. i havent given much thought to play chips other than carbon, or merge sites where you can do the fun step tourneys. if i find myself with no dough, i will give it a try. ty for sharing the info.

Inscore77 · Aug 29, 2008

Not worth the time trying to get 500k just to play a $40 freeroll imo. Just accumulate on Stars and sell to this guy POKER CHIPS PLAY CHIPS BUY AND SELL PLAY MONEY POKER BONUSES

bulletsaa123 · Aug 30, 2008

ha im gonna try to get to 500k to do that lol sounds like a fun lil' challenge

Winter75 · Aug 30, 2008

Inscore not sure if you knew but the guys that sell/buy play chips are not buying currently and from the looks of it anytime soon. They are having a dispute with some of the poker sites they were buying/selling from.

DannyG · Aug 30, 2008

I've never played in this tournament myself, but I know people who have and they say the play is at a pretty good level. I just find play money to be rather minotinous, too many fish. I suppose it's something to do when bankroll is low though.

Nek · Aug 30, 2008

Latvian Queen said:
Maybe everyone already knows this, but I just discovered this last night by accident. I have not played play money for a long time and never thought there was a way to win real money using play-chips.
Well....there is...at least on Full Tilt. I found a $40 freeroll with a buy-in of 500,000 play-chips, with a minimum of 18 players. Hey, that's some great odds. Of course, I have just about 15k in my account and long ways to go, but now I have found a reason to join play money tourneys when my bank roll is "dead".
Hope this info is useful to someone

Inscore77 said:
Not worth the time trying to get 500k just to play a $40 freeroll imo. Just accumulate on Stars and sell to this guy POKER CHIPS PLAY CHIPS BUY AND SELL PLAY MONEY POKER BONUSES

Tes you could try and reach the almost mythical sum of 500k and then try to sell them online.There are many sites on this field.Just google it!!!!

Chehade · Aug 30, 2008

i didnt know any of this, i've had a decent amount of playchips before, i end up blowing them for a bunch of laughs like a donkey haha.. i'll keep it in mind for next time.. cheers

Woodyspoker · Aug 30, 2008

I think on poker stars if you get like a million or something they give you like $10 or something i'm not sure tho.

blabber · Aug 31, 2008

It would really suck to bubble in this tournament, this is the only tournament i know of on full tilt that does convert to real money. How do people accumulate play chips in the millions? Is there any tournament out there that goes the other away around from real money to play money?

TRB1965 · Sep 1, 2008

I've played the 500K play chip tourney 3 times and cashed twice.

I am currently working on building my play chips on Full Tilt up to a level where I can play this more regularly.

The 100K SNGs are "decent" play. I'm not saying that it's the same as the play at a $100 SNG. Far from it. But they aren't a total donkfest and you can generally play "by the book poker" and build your play chip balance fairly quickly that way.

Since I've decided to play nothing but free rolls for 1 year on Full Tilt, this 500K tournament will play a major role in building my bankroll over the next 10 1/2 months.

Latvian Queen · Sep 3, 2008

Since I created this thread, I have gone from 15k to 105k...and you know what...it has been fun. I have been playing 90 people SNG and yes, at the beginning there were lots of all-ins, but as the game progressed, it was actually quite good and competative.
I agree with TRB1965, this is definatelly a way to build the bankroll up...
gl all!

dexter smith · Sep 3, 2008

Thats Great INFO. I did not know that. And that really does sound like good odds. suppose i shoud play some play money tourny's while waiting on others...lol

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