Proclaiming Success with the Pitbull Poker Freeroll
I sponsored a $300 freeroll at PitBull Poker on Sunday. I am going to have to proclaim the event a success. 18 people showed up for it, and the top three were paid a nice prize for their time and efforts. Yours truly finished 9th of 18, getting knocked out holding a pair of threes I had pushed first in with an M of about 3. I donated all my chips to the eventual winner, Allus, on that hand when he called holding a pair of eights.
Pitbull posted the freeroll as "BullsBetting Freeroll". As PitBull has many $50 freerolls daily, they draw a lot of freerollers. Posting the $300 freeroll with that title has drawn about 20 new members to the forum, most of whom were hoping to get the password to this event. I thought about it, as I have a soft spot. One of the new members unwittingly convinced me that I shouldn't let them in by something he wrote. He wrote something to the effect of "Your freeroll was intended to draw new members, and now it has, so you should let us play."
That reminded me that the intention was NOT primarily to draw new members, but to reward the veterans, whose patronage enables me to sponsor these type events. Drawing new members is nice, but it isn't why I set this freeroll up in the first place.
Now the question will be, "what is the criteria for the next freeroll event"? For this one membership was the only criteria. I may need to rethink that in the future as I am not too keen on feeding the freeroll army from the work of the BullsBetting army. I'll figure something out in that regard.
General consensus from the participants was that a good time was had by all. There have even been a few pleas for some additional events, just so we can all play together from time to time. I like that idea, and I will explore options with PitBull when my regular POC returns.
Other than that event, I played some $3/6 limit at Pacific and hit a nice run for a 10 BB session on Friday. I also played quite a bit at PitBull NL tables, up a few $, and then Taz organized a limit game right before the freeroll where I lost $2 or something. I also cleared $40 of a Party bonus playing $25 NL, and winning a massive $8 in the process. I was up about $18 with 1 hand left to play when I got clocked by a slow-played set for $10. That guy got me good, never saw it coming. he was way better than most of the players at party $25 NL.
I am undecided where to chase next, but I probably won't play again until Wednesday as I have quite a bit I would like to work on at the site. Happy Chasing!