Well... Steve just donated the bounty to a guy who was randomly shoving K 9 and other crap like that. 

I got myself

fair play though.  "loveme"

all the best guys, ill watch on for a little bit!

Also, all feedback will be taken into consideration for sure.

Let's do this again next Wedensday

Steve

Thanks for organizing this Steve but there will have to be massive changes for me to even consider subjecting myself to this kind of torture again. This was by far worst poker experience in my life. Even the fact that I was doing OK before donating all my chips just now, didn't give me any sort of gratification since all my gains were trough simple chip bullying or going all in from the beginning when somebody else initiated it.

You guys remain my favorite bitcoin betting site but poker needs a lot of improvements.  

Ah, but you are mistaken. I am not complaining about a freeroll I am complaining about a bitcointalk freeroll. The difference is that this one was supposed to be for our community here and I was hoping to play against familiar faces and not against brand new accounts which registered only to try to get some free money. I couldn't care less about the rewards, I wanted the experience and got slapped in the face. There are other freeroll tournaments on sportsbet and I never enter into them because I know what to expect. For this one I had high hopes and that is why I ended disappointed. It is not easy for me with wife and small baby to organize my day in a way to leave enough free time for poker tournament so I have to choose carefully.

We already have a good poker rivalry going here on the forum and I thought this was sort of Sportsbet way to try to get whole bunch of us to start using their platform instead. Well it failed as far as I am concerned and I would really like to hear if any of the "oldtimers" have something good to say about this tournament. I really have high opinion about Sportsbet and the work they are doing in promoting Bitcoin plus standards they are setting in the gambling field. They listened to their customers in the past so I hope they will listen again. 

All this means is that the poker was popular so many people joined. 
Its tough to stop cheating and more hard to get upset for a "free roll".
Steve said are feedback is considered so maybe they will try something next week to stop the cheating.

Well that's the tournament folks. I took second. GG all.
Had a massive chip lead going heads up and they managed to get 3 sets of Pocket pairs to take it down.

Not going to lie that felt good. The previous 2 times I went up against you with a flush draw on the table you either flopped it or turned it lol.

Overall I really enjoyed the gameplay later on, it definitely ran a lot longer than I expected but it's good we got so many involved. MAybe a faster blind structure in the future... I ran into supper and bedtime lol.

Thanks again Steve and sportsbet for hosting this freeroll. I'll do a writeup with suggestions for improvement.

I am curious who the mystery bounty wound up being.

Placed two bets on the eNba games and was surprised on the results of each game. Not quite the same as the real thing but still enjoyable.
Didnt see any eNhl offered at the time I placed my bets about 3 hours ago or would be placed a bet on those too.
Both my bets lost by one game out of the two on each ticket but still fun.

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the support last night! nearly 100 players registered! awesome stuff.  

I had to send an individual email to each password request over the last few days, so I know some people don't like a 'password' being on the advert, but it may have to be in the future.

Congratulations to the winners!    

Also, Loveme knocked me out so has been given 10mbtc cold hard cash.  
Steve's secret bounty was on EFIALTIS and he was knocked out by Ricrdo who receives 5mbtc.  

Let's do it again next Wednesday and good luck this weekend with all the E-Offerings!

thanks guys, here from you soon.

regards,

Steve,
Sportsbet.io

I second this, I lasted 20 minutes on a table with 70% inactive players before going all in myself and losing which I actually preferred because I was more interested in watching a TV show than to continue playing.

It was a horrible experience, don't get me wrong - I do not blame Sportsbet for 1% of it and I thank them for this opportunity. However, freerolls are basically 2 hours of torture before the real game starts so I think I won't be doing this to myself any time soon.

If we're expressing opinions, I'd rather have a fixed buy-in with some additional reward on top.

Once again - thanks to Sportsbet and nothing I said goes against them. Freeroll is just a format that really does not suit me.