The $100,000 freeroll at Royal Vegas (Biggest tournament ever??)

[krille]

I have been planning on playing this event for a few weeks now, so today I emailed them to ask roughly how many players they expect to participate... the answer was quite shocking.... 40000-50000 players!!

This has got to be the biggest tournament in the history of poker?!!??

[krille]

And also... how on earth are their server going to be able to handle so much traffic??

[AceSquared]

I thought about playing...but this tournament very well could take more then a day possibly 2 days to complete...wow

[rdu $teve]

[ QUOTE ]
And also... how on earth are their server going to be able to handle so much traffic??

[/ QUOTE ]

screw their servers, when are you going to sleep? That could take days to get through

[SossMan]

it must have a very quick structure.

maybe something like:

starting stack: 1000
blinds 25-50 and double every 10 min.
That would make the tourney go much quicker...still very long, though.

[fnurt]

I hope they pay 1500 places, and go hand-for-hand once it's down to 2000.

[SossMan]

[ QUOTE ]
I hope they pay 1500 places, and go hand-for-hand once it's down to 2000.

[/ QUOTE ]

yeah...I might shoot myself if I bubbled out of that tourney.

[fnord_too]

[ QUOTE ]
I have been planning on playing this event for a few weeks now, so today I emailed them to ask roughly how many players they expect to participate... the answer was quite shocking.... 40000-50000 players!!

This has got to be the biggest tournament in the history of poker?!!??

[/ QUOTE ]

I play on royal vegas a lot, and I really doubt that many people will play. I would guess 5000 or less, though who knows. In fact, I find it difficult to believe that they have 40,000 - 50,000 players who play enough to qualify. I don't play in many ring hold'em games there, so I could be dead wrong.

As to the structure, I'm guessing it will be there normal structure, which is pretty fast. They only have 12 min rounds, and for free rolls I think they start you with 1k in chips. I don't think it will take as long as some. I think tourney time goes up as the log of chips in play for any given format (assuming the blinds go up exponentially, which they do in every format I have seen). I would guess the time will be 10 hours or less start to finish.

[Tosh]

[ QUOTE ]
yeah...I might shoot myself if I bubbled out of that tourney.

[/ QUOTE ]

Yeah it could cost you as much $2.

[SossMan]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]
yeah...I might shoot myself if I bubbled out of that tourney.

[/ QUOTE ]

Yeah it could cost you as much $2.

[/ QUOTE ]

I was talking about making it past 40,000 players and not "cashing".