Online Free Poker

Posted by icemonkey9 on Dec 15, 2009 in poker | 6 comments

If you are curious about how to win your share of $600,000 in real money by not paying anything and participating in free poker, read on.  You'll be reading about how I'm planning to win it all and pay nothing down.

There is a point to the whole post though and that has to do with the MiniFTOPS tournaments running at Full Tilt Poker right now.  See, I'm actually going to have a Sunday afternoon completely free for the first time ... well ... probably in all of 2009.  The good news for me is that this is the same day that the MiniFTOPS Main Event $50+$5 No Limit Texas Holdem tournament will take place.  It should attract well over 15,000 participants which would eclipse the guaranteed prize pool of $600,000.  I've never played in a Sunday major tournament which usually costs $215 to enter.  I don't fare well in tournaments and don't play particularly awesome in them either which is a pretty bad combination.

The good news is that thanks to me grinding it out at the tables this month, I'm actually going to buy in completely free.  Yes, you read that right, I'm going to play for my share of $600,000 completely free without having to pay a single nickel.  The catch is that I can buy in to the event for 11,000 Full Tilt Points which I have been saving since the dawn of time apparently.  Now, you can spend these points in the store for things like apparel or electronics.  For example for 10k-12k Full Tilt Points you can buy:

• V-Neck Windshirt
• Velour Bathrobe
• HP Thin USB Powered Speakers
• Wine accessory kit
• Professional Pool Cue
• Doormat
• Garmet Bag
• Checkpoint Friendly Compu-Brief

I have plenty of t-shirts, I can't imagine myself sporting a velour bathrobe (thank you Zapp Brannigan), I don't need speakers, I don't drink wine, I don't play billiards, I already have a doormat and I got a garmet bag.  The checkpoint friendly brief thing might be handy, one day.  But not today.

So, I've deemed it a-okay to spend these points to enter a tournament where I hope to play and run well, but expect to bust out slightly short of the money having wasted hours of poker on nothing.  Such is the poker life, but hey, you never know maybe it's finally time I made a great run in an online poker tournament after all these years.

By the way, the title might be a tad general but I'm testing something out with the title and tags and content.  I'll report back my findings to see if Online Free Poker did what I think it was going to do.