Freeroll Strategy

I have learned while playing freerolls u must be patient to get good hands and must be aggressive with them. Thats the easiest way to place in a freeroll for me because i have tried being loose but it doesn't help a lot because you lose your chips faster. So if u wanna try to win some money or something try being very patient and aggressive when u get a good hand.

You are very right. Also, many 9 seat SNGs you can almost check and fold into the money. Try it in one of the $5 SNGs.

I am in no way saying that I have taken notes and analyzed the results but everyone knows that the number of aces that flop in an on-line game is highly disproportional than a real card game. Try to push your Ace-high card combos as often as possible.

Also if you get between 22,000 and 35,000 chips before the second hour be ultra-selective of your cards that you decide to play. Only go for quality hands at this point because a good flop will definitely put you closer to the money but a poor choice of pocket cards can thwart your chances of making the top 20. I have seen it happen time after time where a player has an enormous amount of chips and fritters them away by playing hands that he/she shouldn't play. Stick to quality hands!

ive cashed in the last 3 freerolls ive played using that strategy, it definatly works

I know what you guys are talking about. I have gotten in th emoney on many occasions in freerolls. Patience for one is always a must, mainly because some freerolls can be very long and strenuous(Spelling?) and patience after atleast two breaks is big due too blinds going up many freak out an dthink they have to double up right away....just wait.....lol

You honestly believe this?

Definitely the soundest strategy is to be ultra-tight in a free-roll, wait for the right opportunities and you will make the money, and once you make the money you can play for FT. Works for me.

But look at this alternative strategy I used yesterday on Ultimate Bet. Basically what happened is that I registered for a free-roll that in the end I couldn't play as I had to do something else. So, I let it run and then: 1) returned after half an hour, saw it still running, picked up a 10 7 of diamonds and pushed it all-in pre-flop. Didn't even wait to see the result. 2). Return another 20 mins later and see I doubled up, apparently I hit 2 pair. Pick up a K8 diamonds (cos I love a sooted). Pushed it, left it. 3). Return another 20 mins later. I tripled up. Don't know what I won with because I've been moved tables, and hello, whats this? AA? on the button? with my reputation? push, nice triple again. Shame about the guy with KK 4) I'm now sitting on 38,000 midway through the 2nd period. In the end I could have played off this and easy made the money. But like I said I was busy so I let it blind out.

I used this once on the Bodog free-roll as well. Made the money by probably playing less than 15 hands, took it from there and got to FT. Saves a lot of f-ing about and is funny to donk out the 'serious' free-roll players.

I'm your worst nightmare!

sounds like just plain luck there...no strategy

Go all in for the first 3 hands... then sit on your chips... not quite by the book... but it's a good way to stack chips and set the tone of the table you are at.... Once you are top 20 in chip count... wait on your cards... and yes play them strongly... once you do get them
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Strangely i've had better luck with pocket kings. Aces have hurt me more times than i can count.

I've played in freerolls and play chip tourneys on full tilt. It seems everybody goes all in preflop on the first hand. What is your strategies on this? Join the fray maybe get lucky and win with your 5-2? Sit back and watch the carnage even if you have to fold bullets? But then you still have a starting chipstack while somebody else is sitting on 12000.

Of course, it is. But consider that on Ultimate Bet they run their free-rolls every hour on the hour. Along with FTP free-rolls they are the biggest donkaments to be found on the net. after the first 10 mins you won't see a flop for less than 10xBB. TAG has to go out of the window. Unlike in other free-rolls if you haven't got 10K by the first break and 50K by the second you can forget about placing in these.

In my opinion the reason that FTP and Ultimate have the biggest donkaments is because their payout structures are so tight, T18 on Ubet and T27 on FTP, this in fields of 3K+ on Ubet and 2400 evrytime on FTP. As a result its either get a big stack or get out. TAG has little to no chance. Even if u play TAG you're going to have to stick your chips in on numerous occasions and the downfall of it is that you won't have the stack to survive a donking (probably by me! ).

And it is a strategy, it is as follows: Try and double up 3-4 times before the first break, if you do then tighten up from there but be prepared to throw your chips in when leading, if you make it to 3rd break then play blinds and TAG. If you don't get the double ups, then start again an hour later.

Good Advice. Check the starting hand table here
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They obviously have not played enough

The key strategy for freerolls is definitely being ultra-tight. Maybe a month ago i had a week when I played 2-3 private freerolls (~200 field on average) every day. I finished 4 times 1st, maybe some 5 times 2nd/3rd and at least 70% was ITM. Tight is right for freerolls. You can fold for 90 minutes and then get 2 callers when you push your aces.