You’ve probably noticed the notices in the tournament lobby of the Weekly Round 2 events on PokerStars. It’s a freeroll tournament open to the final eleven tables of the daily astronomer freeroll tournaments on PokerStars.net. They gives you the opportunity to win real cash prizes whilst being free to enter.
Last weekend the Saturday and Sunday Weekly Round 2 events brought together starting fields in the thousands. On Saturday it was ‘noahsuncle’ from the United States taking first place and $287.60. Whilst back in 702nd ‘crsunguy’ didn’t go away empty handed, making a quick $0.80 for having fun at the tables.

Weekly Round 2 result (Saturday 19 April)

1. noahsuncle (United States) -- $287.60
2. diajlm2 (United States) -- $166.00
3. BabbléFish (United States) -- $100.00
4. ghost60b (United States) -- $80.00
5. SnowmanTony (Belgium) -- $62.00
6. Reichi (Germany) -- $50.00
7. timofck1 (Germany) -- $39.00
8. ricmp (Portugal) -- $30.00
9. SUPERFISH35 (Canada) -- $22.20

702nd crsunguy (Canada) -- $0.80

In keeping with the usual way of things the Sunday event found an event bigger field making for more places finishing in the money after a long stretch at the virtual baize. It was a mostly north American final table where ‘chiefofchips’ of the United States won through, collecting $305.00 for first place whilst 'Opa-Klaus' of Germany avoided the bubble, finishing in 800th place for a worthy $0.60.

Weekly Round 2 result (Sunday 20 April)

1. chiefofchips (United States) -- $305.00
2. TexasMud (United States) -- $180.00
3. birddog50 (United States) -- $103.80
4. rjjerseyguy (United States) --$86.00
5. Gr8Witchking (Canada) -- $72.00
6. bbcoach1 cam (Canada) -- $60.00
7. 1rowdy101 (United States) -- $48.00
8. Nogaplayer (Germany) -- $38.00
9. Cheeseman67 (United States) -- $17.60

800th Opa-Klaus (Germany) -- $0.60

Think you can do better? Simply play in one of the astronomer freerolls in the PokerStars.net lobby and take it from there. The freerolls run several times a day and you can enter as many times as you want. If you want any more information you can drop me a line at the email address at the top right of this page.