Lately I haven't written much about what and where I play. Today I decided to share this, as I think it is worthwhile for everyone. I will primarily go through the micro buy-in and freeroll tourneys.
On ACR (no longer Americas Cardroom, but ACR, they also have a new website) the Online Super Series XL series has been running since September 2nd, it lasts for one more week. The total prize pool is $50,000,000.
You can check the schedule here or in the poker room client.
ACR - OSS XL Schedule
At first, I only filtered freerolls in the lobby. In addition to their usual $50 freerolls starting every 3 hours and private ones, they have 12-15 All-in or Fold freeroll satellites per day for various OSS tourneys.
Since a maximum of 250 people can register for most of them, and the prize pool for some of them is between $60-200 (only in tickets), it is worth trying our luck. Unfortunately, they fill up very quickly, usually within 1 minute. I usually miss them, but these are definitely worth playing. They are fast and the prizes are significant seeing the participant/total prize ratio in the freeroll category. (Time in UTC + 2 hours)
Today I try to participate in these:
The much more interesting micro buy-in tourneys. If you've read one of my previous posts, it's obvious that I like and look for overlays. Well, almost every tourney here has some degree of overlay. Usually 5-25%. Looking at the current micro tourney offer in the rooms that are available to me, this can be called very significant.
A good example is OSS 342L. The late reg ends in 15 minutes and 900 players have registered so far for the $1.10 buy-in $1,500 guaranteed total prize pool tourney.
Here you can see the micro tourneys played between Thursday and Saturday. Almost all of them are in overlay.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to create a filter for OSS events, so only the list of those that I plan to play today and tomorrow:
Worth to note, that finally the lobby shows the total players online. 10,182 at the moment.
I usually play daily 3-5, so it still doesn't give enough option to grind simply in this room. There is an OSS XL Leaderboard, too. However I don't play all the tourneys on given level, and without that impossible to finish in the paid places, as only the first 10 players will receive ticket prizes at the end of the series.
Here I am playing the 342L Early Special - $1.10 buy-in $1,500 GTD tourney. I don't like it too much, because it has a 5 hours + breaks late registration period, what is just way too long, but I can't resist the overlay... 😀
The late registration has ended. 1013 registered for it (includes rebuys). This means 26% overlay, counting in the fee. So, as the first tourney today, I tried my luck. Saying luck, because I entered in the last 5 minutes, when the starting stack worth 10 BB. Fortunately it has started well...
And it continued badly:
I finished in 157th place. The first 123 were paid places. It's okay, the next one is coming...
I already recorded some videos. (No FT so far in this series, the best result was a 12th place.) I should just take some time to edit them. So soon, I'll post some highlights in video format, again.
Good luck at the tables!
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