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Originally Posted by sdwhitt
There were 9 tables for Friday nights tourney. What Freerolls is doing now is you get in a tourney automatically with your $40 fee. Then you rebuy at whatever price. Cheaper during the week and yesterday it’s was $100 but you get 40k in chips, didn’t seem to phase too many people had multiple rebuys/ addons at my table.
Yeah, their texts were inconsistent with the way it actually worked, but the way it went down was:
You pay $40 at the door. That lets you play cash games until close for free, with no hourly or rake. They had 1 table of 1/3 NLHE from the time I got there at 5 to 7:30, when their tournament started.
Once their tournament started, a lot more people showed up. The tournament lets you begin with 12K chips for your $40 for free, with the option of rebuying up to 25K chips for $100 and adding on 40K chips for $100. Even if you peg your free starting stack to the rebuy value, that means $40 of your door entry gets your $30 of cEV in the tournament (but realistically even more, since people rebuy for $100 very consistently). The players in the tournament were universally terrible, even the "good" ones, just zero awareness of how to play 15-30BB stacks. Lots of limping/calling preflop raises for huge % of their stacks with Q9o, A4s, etc.
So in other words, less than $10 of your door charge lets you buy 8+ hours of play at their cash game tables, which kicked up considerably following the tourney. All things remaining equal, that makes this by far the best deal in town, even better than that Conroe game that shut down. Plus the Conroe game was run out of a ****ty warehouse - this place is very spacious with good amenities, clean bathrooms, etc. It's actually ludicrously and unsustainably cheap. Officially, their plan going forward is to offset how cheap the room is with advertising revenue (every seat has an Amazon Kindle installed into the felt), which seems like a pretty dumb strategy tbh and probably won't work, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.