PokerGrub is running a promotion on his site where if you sign up for Empire through his affiliate link and place in the top 20 in the Vegas Dreams freeroll, you get $1048. Now, I like Grubby as much as the next poker blogger, but there is no way in hell I would even qualify for this contest. You need to be a VIP member to play in the freeroll, and that requires collecting 5000 EPoints. In raked hands, that requires playing 25 million raked hands. The fastest way to collect EPoints would be to play as many expensive multi-table tournaments a day as possible. For every dollar you pay in fees, you get an EPoint. EPoints are also awarded by squaring the number of multi-table tournaments ($9 buy-in or more) you play in a day.

For example, if you play one multi-table tournament with a $20 fee, you get 21 EPoints. If you play two of these tournaments, you get 44 EPoints. For three, you get 69 Epoints, and for four, you get 96. Even at the rate of four of these a day, you’d have to play for 53 days to get to 5000. And that still doesn’t get you in the freeroll.

It’s just not worth it unless you know you stand a good chance of winning in those tournaments.