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#1 User is offline   pio_magic 

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Posted 2026-June-30, 12:03

It seems as if BBO redefined "free tournament" as a tournament where you don't have to pay more than 50$ (the NABC tournaments are listed there as wel). The list of free tournaments is ten times as long it seems and you have to look closely for a $0 free tournament. In the german version we now have a daily free instant turnamoent that costs 0.10$

Hope this gets fixed at some point in time or is it a preview for really free tournaments to disappear?
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Posted 2026-June-30, 13:21

The 0.10 BB$ tourneys are included in the free tournament list, because they're very close to free.

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Posted 2026-June-30, 15:33

I thought "close" only counted in horseshoes.
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Posted 2026-June-30, 16:01

Close defies all logic
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
"You need to play a lot of stuff these days just to deal with the stuff your opponents are playing" DBurn
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Posted 2026-June-30, 16:22

View Postbarmar, on 2026-June-30, 13:21, said:

The 0.10 BB$ tourneys are included in the free tournament list, because they're very close to free.

And the $50 NABC tournaments are very close to free for players like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates.
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Posted 2026-June-30, 23:38

If something costs 0.10, it is not free, as a financial transaction is required to acquire it!
If it were free, then I could get 100 or 1000 of them for example and they would still be free!
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Posted 2026-July-01, 04:28

Workaround...use search at top right of "free" tournament window and enter the word free
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Posted 2026-July-02, 05:19

It's an American company.They're free to define 'free' any way they want to say it.
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Posted 2026-July-02, 09:20

 a_user, on 2026-July-02, 05:19, said:

It's an American company.They're free to define 'free' any way they want to say it.

The parent company is European.
In Europe, at least, they are not.
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Posted 2026-July-02, 09:58

Disable the ad blocker and the payabla tourneys will disappear.
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Posted 2026-July-02, 10:16

View PostLionHeart1, on 2026-July-02, 09:58, said:

Disable the ad blocker and the payabla tourneys will disappear.

Ah, yes, almost (just a few 0.10 ones remaining). Also the interface looks more "modern" (not more practicle IMHO). Interesting way to try to get me but I guess I won't. Probably should anyhow play more Sax than with the robots ....

Thx
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Posted 2026-July-02, 13:43

View Postpio_magic, on 2026-July-02, 10:16, said:

Ah, yes, almost (just a few 0.10 ones remaining).

As mentioned above, the 0.10 ones are intentional.

It's a marketing thing.

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Posted 2026-July-02, 15:11

View Postbarmar, on 2026-July-02, 13:43, said:

As mentioned above, the 0.10 ones are intentional.

It's a marketing thing.

Yes we gathered that :)

But under European law (at least) marketers cannot provide false information, omit material details, or present facts in a deceptive way that causes a consumer to make a transactional decision they would not have otherwise made.

Just as they cannot provide services that fail to function as advertised or do not meet conformity criteria (see hundreds of bug reports here about GIBBO, in particular recent ones without reply such as this ).
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Posted 2026-July-02, 15:33

Bravo, Pescetom!
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