It's four in the morning

There's not a soul around

This dirty hotel room

Has really got me down

A modern day minstrel

They've got my name in lights

I wish these days of glamour

Didn't have these lonely nights

Win a Big Lay Down t-shirt by identifying the song these lyrics go to.

It's four in the morning

There's not a (real) soul around

This dirty old freeroll

Has really got me down

Registration is full

How do I get in

If I can't play then

I've got no chance to win

On the lonely road of fortune

And I've got the registration blues real bad

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OK poker pros. Set aside your real money chips and sit in on one of the many 5,000 player freeroll tourneys that are offered on PokerStars throughout the day. Make sure to register before the tourney gets filled up. This is at least 10 minutes before cards are dealt. Now, watch the registration screen. Occasionally it will drop to 4,999 players. Then it goes back up to 5,000. Then it drops to 4,999. Then it goes back to 5,000. And this repeats until the tourney finally starts.

At times I've logged in when the game was full and I've tried to be that one player that logged in to the final spot when the # of players is 4,999 and it brings about several questions.

Why is it virtually impossible since the final spot is taken within a fraction of a second after opening up?

Why did someone register and then drop out on a freeroll where they won't lose those all important free money money chips?

Why did the player that refilled the dropped position get so hot and heavy to go through the registration process to hover over the computer to beat me to it?

Why is it that it only drops to 4,999 and not 4,998 or some other number?

And why aren't there any pictures of hot Asian women while I'm waiting?

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Registration when you're AI directly connected to the server is instantaneous.At times, the reactions of players (its) is instantaneous. If you do manage to reg 10 minutes ahead of time and get in the game there will be a bad beat. They don't want a real human scoring a prize while the AI plays against itself.