Hi guys

Here is a preview to our March Madness 2017 series. Its a series of tournaments that will run for almost 3 weeks. With a total of $100,000 in freerolls and guarantees, we hope there is something here for everyone. This is a prelude to our planned Globalpoker series that we are looking to roll out early summer. Please NOTE that there might be some changes to what Im posting here, so please check our website or pokerclient directly for final details. It will all be up in a day or two. We will remove one or two of our regular tournaments but other than that, this series is on top of our regular schedule.

Overview

March Madness 2017 Series
$100,000 in Guarantees and Freerolls!

It’s a $100k slam dunk! 21 days, 45 tournaments. March 12 - April 2.

In order to make the most out of the March Madness action, you just need to play cash games!*

Every time you see a flop, this will count towards multiple Freeroll entries and you’ll be a step closer to one of your tournament rewards. We have daily and weekly Freerolls, plus a Final $10,000 Total Madness Freeroll! You can easily track your progress of seen flops under the “Challenges” tab.


Madness Freerolls
A $2,500 Freeroll* to kick it off, $500 Daily Freerolls*, $5,000 Weekly Freerolls** and a whopping $10,000 Total Madness Freeroll** to top it all off. We’re giving away a total of $31,500 in Freerolls over the March Madness period!

Guaranteed Tournaments
From as low as $5+$0.5 you will get the chance to fight for a total prize pool of $68,500 in Guaranteed Prize Money during the promotion period.

Enjoy 3 weeks of completely mad tournament action!

*Only seen flops on $0.1-$0.2 and upwards qualify for Daily Madness Freerolls
** Only seen flops on $0.25-$0.50 and upwards qualify for Weekly Madness Freerolls and $10,000 Total Madness Freeroll

March Madness 2017 Series Schedule
TOURNAMENT
QUALIFICATION / BUY-IN
DATE(S)
QUALIFICATION PERIOD
$1,000 GTD Warm Up Madness
$5+$0.5 (1 rebuy + 1 add-on)
Sun March 12, 5:00pm EST
None
$2,500 Kick Off Madness Freeroll
500 Seen Flops Min limit $0.1-$0.2
Sun March 12, 6:00pm EST
72h
$2,500 GTD Kick Off Madness
$10+$1 (freezeout)
Sun March 12, 7:00pm EST
None
$500 Monsterstack Daily Madness Freeroll
200 Seen Flops Min limit $0.1-$0.2
Mon March 13, 9:00pm EST
24h
$1,000 GTD Turbo Daily Madness
$5+$0.5 (1 rebuy + 1 add-on)
Mon March 13, 9:30pm EST
None
$500 Hyper Turbo Daily Madness Freeroll
200 Seen Flops Min limit $0.1-$0.2
Tue March 14, 9:00pm EST
24h
$1,000 GTD Big Stack Daily Madness
$5+$0.5 (1 add-on)
Tue March 14, 9:30pm EST
None
$500 Turbo Daily Madness Freeroll
200 Seen Flops
Wed March 15, 9:00pm EST
24h
$1,000 GTD Hyper Turbo Daily Madness
$5+$0.5 (unlimited rebuys + 1 add-on)
Wed March 15, 9:30pm EST
None
$500 Daily Madness Freeroll
200 Seen Flops Min limit $0.1-$0.2
Thu March 16, 9:00pm EST
24h
$1,000 GTD Daily Madness
$5+$0.5 (1 rebuy + 1 add-on)
Thu March 16, 9:30pm EST
None
$500 Omaha Daily Madness Freeroll
200 Seen Flops Min limit $0.1-$0.2
Fri March 17, 9:00pm EST
24h
$1,000 GTD Omaha Daily Madness
$5+$0.5 (unlimited re-buys + 1 add-on)
Fri March 17, 9:30pm EST
None
$500 6-max Daily Madness Freeroll
200 Seen Flops Min limit $0.1-$0.2
Sat March 18, 7:00pm EST
24h
$1,000 GTD 6-max Daily Madness
$5+$0.5 (1 rebuy + 1 add-on)
Sat March 18, 7:30pm EST
None
$1,000 GTD Weekly Warm Up Madness
$5+$0.5 (Freezeout)
Sun March 19, 5:00pm EST
None
$5,000 Weekly Madness Freeroll
1000 Seen Flops Min limit $0.25-$0.5
Sun March 19, 6:00pm EST
7 days
$10,000 GTD Weekly Madness
$20+$2 (1 rebuy + 1 add-on)
Sun March 19, 7:00 EST
None
$500 Monsterstack Daily Madness Freeroll
200 Seen Flops Min limit $0.1-$0.2
Mon March 20, 9:00pm EST
24h
$1,000 GTD Turbo Daily Madness
$5+$0.5 (1 rebuy + 1 add-on)
Mon March 20, 9:30pm EST
None
$500 Hyper Turbo Daily Madness Freeroll
200 Seen Flops Min limit $0.1-$0.2
Tue March 21, 9:00pm EST
24h
$1,000 GTD Big Stack Daily Madness
$5+$0.5 (1 add-on)
Tue March 21, 9:30pm EST
None
$500 Turbo Daily Madness Freeroll
200 Seen Flops Min limit $0.1-$0.2
Wed March 22, 9:00pm EST
24h
$1,000 GTD Hyper Turbo Daily Madness
$5+$0.5 (Unlimited re-buys + 1 add-on)


Wed March 22, 9:30pm EST
None
$500 Daily Madness Freeroll
200 Seen Flops Min limit $0.1-$0.2
Thu March 23, 9:00pm EST
24h
$1,000 GTD Daily Madness
$5+$0.5 (1 rebuy + 1 add-on)
Thu March 23, 9:30pm EST
None
$500 Omaha Daily Madness Freeroll
200 Seen Flops Min limit $0.1-$0.2
Fri March 24, 9:00pm EST
24h
$1,000 GTD Omaha Daily Madness
$5+$0.5 (unlimited re-buys + 1 add-on)
Fri March 24, 9:30pm EST
None
$500 6-max Daily Madness Freeroll
200 Seen Flops Min limit $0.1-$0.2
Sat March 25, 7:00pm EST
24h
$1,000 GTD 6-max Daily Madness
$5+$0.5 (1 rebuy + 1 add-on)
Sat March 25, 7:30pm EST
None
$1,000 GTD Weekly Warm Up Madness
$5+$0.5 (Freezeout)
Sun March 26, 5:00pm EST
None
$5,000 Weekly Madness Freeroll
1000 Seen Flops Min limit $0.25-$0.5
Sun March 26, 6:00pm EST
7 days
$10,000 GTD Weekly Madness
$20+$2 (1 rebuy + 1 add-on)
Sun March 26, 7:00pm EST
None
$500 Monsterstack Daily Madness Freeroll
200 Seen Flops Min limit $0.1-$0.2
Mon March 27, 9:00pm EST
24h
$1,000 GTD Turbo Daily Madness
$5+$0.5 (1 rebuy + 1 add-on)


Mon March 27, 9:30pm EST
None
$500 Hyper Turbo Daily Madness Freeroll
200 Seen Flops Min limit $0.1-$0.2
Tue March 28, 9:00pm EST
24h
$1,000 GTD Big Stack Daily Madness
$5+$0.5 (1 add-on)
Tue March 28, 9:30pm EST
None
$500 Turbo Daily Madness Freeroll
200 Seen Flops Min limit $0.1-$0.2
Wed March 29, 9:00pm EST
24h
$1,000 GTD Hyper Turbo Daily Madness
$5+$0.5 (Unlimited re-buys + 1 add-on)
Wed March 29, 9:30pm EST
None
$500 Daily Madness Freeroll
200 Seen Flops Min limit $0.1-$0.2
Thu March 30, 9:00pm EST
24h
$1,000 GTD Daily Madness
$5+$0.5 (1 rebuy + 1 add-on)
Thu March 30, 9:30pm EST
None
$500 Omaha Daily Madness Freeroll
200 Seen Flops Min limit $0.1-$0.2
Fri March 31, 9:00pm EST
24h
$1,000 GTD Omaha Daily Madness
$5+$0.5 (Unlimited re-buys + 1 add-on)
Fri March 31, 9:30pm EST
None
$500 6-max Daily Madness Freeroll
200 Seen Flops Min limit $0.1-$0.2
Sat April 1, 7:00pm EST
24h
$1,000 GTD 6-max Daily Madness
$5+$0.5 (1 rebuy + 1 add-on)
Sat April 1, 7:30pm EST
None
$1,000 GTD Weekly Warm Up Madness
$5+$0.5 (Freezeout)
Sun April 2, 5:00pm EST
None
$10,000 Total Madness Freeroll
5000 Seen Flops Min limit $0.25-$0.50
Sun April 2, 6:00pm EST


24 days
$25,000 GTD Complete Madness
$50 + $5 (1 rebuy + 1 add-on)
Sun April 2, 7:00pm EST
None

Two thumbs up

I especially like the experimentation with some bigger buy ins, a freeze out, and some 1 rebuy/1 addon as opposed to the standard fare of unlimited rebuy games. This will be a nice addition to the regular schedule of games, I hope it meets with much success.

Agreed, two thumbs up here.

Freeze outs, 1+1 in the R/As, and bigger games are sure welcome. I get that networks need to allow long periods to register and re-entry/rebuy to insure the GTD is filled, but it is nice to have some of these to jump on now and then.

wow so excited! lets gooooooo amazing

When are achievements for hands seen going to be up, I like it.

I pray that, by then, you will have synchronized breaks and that your tournaments will start when they say they're going to start?

That will be the difference between a good and a great tourney series.

This is great will definitely get in on the action in this.

Few questions, will there be an update to your software to include some player suggested improvements such as synchronized breaks, a short late registration period and tournament lobby improvements before the series starts?

It's debatable if late reg is an "improvement", when it was first raised a lot of posters (myself included) said we like it this way with no LR. Although if they implemented a very short late reg like maybe 15 minutes that would be fine. As it stands one can prereg events all day long even late the night before so no LR isn't preventing anyone from playing. Their tourneys are still starting 3-4 minutes early across the board so maybe a 5 min LR to make up for it lol.

Sync breaks, on the other hand, would not only be an improvement it should be a priority imho. All mtt's break at :55 please. Our bladders thank you. lol

Edit: Would also like to see the payment system updated for cash outs to not incur the Paypal fee, which I know you're working on but would be nice to have that rolled out before the big series.

player to player transfers would be dope

Hello Jaybear, for sure there will be future updates in Global Poker, it may or may not include some of the suggestions of our players. But on the other hand, rest assured that we are taking note of every single ideas/request/proposals from our customers so that we can forward it to our poker team for reviewing.

I think late reg is going to have to come into play for GTDs. We want them to offer more games and I believe it will be too hard to meet these prize pools without a late reg. Now I am with you when it comes to making it a short Reg period. Somewhere between 30 min to an hour. I know this may lead to smaller fields and smaller GTDs but I rather have that then 3 to 4 hour late reg GTDs

Well can you at least get the tournaments to stop starting 4 minutes early?

But really, it doesn't. They have gtds now with no LR while they are still very much in their infancy in terms of player growth, and they are not scaling back, they are expanding. Something must be working.

1 hour late reg may not be ideal for rebuy tourneys. It allows people to enter right before the add on and only pay 1 extra buy in, the add on, and play from there. Many of those same players if forced to enter at the start will generate multiple rebuys. Having 1 hour LR will get you some additional field size but maybe not much more buy ins. For example I ripped through a lot of rebuys in omaha tonight (cause I suck) where as if I could LR right before the end of the first hour I would have done that and saved myself a lot of buy ins lol.

LR has gotten so carried away on other sites I really think not having it is a selling point for Global. Now I say that as someone who would benefit from a LR period... I often can't get home quite in time for the 8pm ET games so if I intend to play them I have to reg early and blind down for 10-30 minutes... so if a 30 min LR comes I won't be crying. But if I had a vote I would vote to keep it as is (and get the start times fixed so they are not 4 minutes early!)

Hi guys

The schedule is up. And the tournaments will be visible in the lobby later today.

Good luck everybody!!!

https://www.globalpoker.com/page/march-madness/

This.
If Global feels one is necessary please keep it short. First blind level or something similar I think would be a nice compromise.

Maybe a dumb question, but when will the counter go up for the 5000 hands/10K freeroll? I see the hand counter for this Sunday's 2500gtd kick off is already up...

good question i was thinking of this myself

I also love the no late registration

Maybe this isn't a dumb question. The promo says the qualification period for the 5000 hands is 24 days, which if I can count means hands should be counting right now.

Not a dumb question my friend. The challenge is up and running.

Hate late registration!!!!!

Will I have to worry about daylight savings time screwing up the registration times for this Sunday?

good question

Now I know this might be a stupid question LOL but will there be any true free rolls? During this march madness? For people that don't have much money left I only have two to three dollars left at the moment so I would not be able to play enough cash games to qualify to get in any of the free rolls I think so was just wondering if there will be any at all that will be a complete freeroll where you don't have to qualify to get in? Okkk ty for the info

Plus 5 hour late registration can go to winning poker please keep it no late reg ty.