Ouch, must admit I got down to the money on a pokerstars, even though given I was short stacked and probably got the better of it, it was still an invest of 2-3 hours, so you have my sympathy.

I think PKR need to sort out their servers, I would like to compete in springfest but I'm not going to sign up unless there is more evidence of stability. They really need to get some mf servers, from what they've said they are going to separate freerolls on to another server.*

However, having said that a lot of tournies on poketstars having 15 min levels and you probably get around 2-3x the no. of hands than on PKR.

* having said that I'm one of those suffering the Tiscali blues, whom approx. have another week to sort out or I'm off to another ISP, as no connection 7-11 is pretty f'ing useless.