How do you like to win your $215 Stars Seat?

[Toddy2]

Just wondering what way people thought was the easiest way to win your seat?

FPP
$27+2 single table
$13+1 2 table
$36+3 Freeze
$2 Rebuy
$11 Rebuy

Im sure there are more ways. Just want to get peoples input.

[bode]

I just started playing these this week, and havent won yet.
The $11 double shootout on Stars are exceptionally fishy. I am a fairly low stakes player, but have the BR to play these.
I have played 4 of them, making the final table 3 times (which pays 2 entries to the $215 tourney, and the rest of the table gets $35). I have yet to win a seat, but a 50%+ ROI seems good to me. I realize this is an incredibly small sample, but to win the first table 3/4, and the 1 i didnt make, i busted out 2nd to last on the table, 9/64 overall.

Has anyone else had any luck with these?

[TanO]

Double shootouts, $3 rebuys & 400FPP's

[Rondavu]

The $11 rebuy turbo is the easiest way IMO. They have them all the time, and a couple times I literally spent $11 and won a seat. These usually seat between 20-40 at the main event. That's good eating.

[mcatdog]

My ROI in the $3 rebuys is like 300%, but they take over 4 hours and the payout is only $215 so I'm not sure they're worth the trouble. The $11 rebuys are by far the most painless way to do it.

I think the double shootouts are the worst due to the way that bad players get filtered out at the starting tables. More often than not you end up at a final table where several of your opponents have a clue how to play poker.

[Toddy2]

I just started playing these this week, and havent won yet.
The $11 double shootout on Stars are exceptionally fishy. I am a fairly low stakes player, but have the BR to play these.
I have played 4 of them, making the final table 3 times (which pays 2 entries to the $215 tourney, and the rest of the table gets $35). I have yet to win a seat, but a 50%+ ROI seems good to me. I realize this is an incredibly small sample, but to win the first table 3/4, and the 1 i didnt make, i busted out 2nd to last on the table, 9/64 overall.

Has anyone else had any luck with these?

I forgot all about these. I have won a couple seats to these and actually won a $530 seat once. I probably played in 15 of these before I made the FT it was so frustrating. I kept getting HU and losing. The first time I made the FT I was 2 tabling and made the FT on both and came in 3rd on both! UGH!

[jmontis]

winning seats into bigger tourneys is prob one of the better ways a low stake player can get into some real money for a starting bankroll, even if it's just a cash barely ITM in these.

Cashing in the $530 is pretty massive, all it takes is a few good cards in the right spots and you're there.

[midas06]

If you have a small br, the better way to go about it would be to accumulate as many tickets as you can and sell them

[zenbitz]

If you have a small br, the better way to go about it would be to accumulate as many tickets as you can and sell them

If you have a small bankroll, you should probably get a job.

[mcatdog]

winning seats into bigger tourneys is prob one of the better ways a low stake player can get into some real money for a starting bankroll, even if it's just a cash barely ITM in these.

Cashing in the $530 is pretty massive, all it takes is a few good cards in the right spots and you're there.

Don't take this the wrong way, but this is awful advice in my opinion. A low-stakes player could very easily blow through thousands of dollars before even cashing in one of these events. Let's say you're a winning player and the expected amount you'll spend in satellites to win a $530 seat is $400 (a great player could do better than that, but we're talking about an average winning player at low stakes). Well, only 10% of the field cashes in the $530, and out of the money streaks of 20 or more are not unheard of. If your bankroll can't handle that, you're very likely to go bust. The only surefire way to build a bankroll is to grind it out at low stakes SNG's and cash games.