Ads it's running based of your activity.
If you cache history related to a casino, you will get ads with casino related. In these cases, we got the worst ads (Stake Scam Website) pops up on official Stake Channel.
I just realized this too and it's so sad, I also saw similar ads from other brands which I think is the same advertiser. I have personally reported the ads.
By the way are you still following the daily tournaments? I followed it twice yesterday and managed to get a new record. Previously my best achievement was 9th position and yesterday I finished in 5th position so next is the first place
I also just noticed that the prize pool has been reduced to $500 yeah this is a sign that free mode will end soon and I wonder if Stake.com can make this Poker thing work long term because we know that many casinos fail to do this.
From all the free games? And are 150 places still being payed? Because that amount you won, seems similar to $1k pot prizes for 5th place if i recall correctly.
And i thought that the price pool would be relative to the amount of participants, like it would drop down if there's not enough participants and would get to 1000 only with near the max limit of players. It wouldn't make any sense for stake to give out $1000 every time, even with 100 participants. And i don't think it's ending, other poker sites have free rolls as well, so that's probably worth while to them.
And congratz for the win!