does anyone start to build a huge bankroll winning freerolls?

hi everyone
id like for you to share your histories about your sucess playin poker online....
does anyone start with zero on your poker account and built huge bankroll?

Talk to Chris "Jesus" Ferguson

There's someone on this site who actually started with nothing and is currently past the 10k . I forget the time frame they did it in, but it was'nt to long though

i think its difficult to built a huge bnakroll with freerolls, at least you have to made a deposit of 50 dollars

That someone is me: $10k from freeroll winnings (http://www.cardschat.com/f46/brag-10k-freeroll-winnings-143994/)

I could claim yes also, tho I have deposited, they were mainly so I could withdraw. If you get real technical, I don't pass muster. But my total deposits to date are $125, and my total withdrawals to date are in the $1500 range, and my br is useable at the 3 main sites.

It depends if you can get in on some of the good free rolls. If you play in the Cardschat or other good ones with fewer players then yes....if you just play the Full Tilt $100 freerolls where you have to beat 2400 people just to win 2 bucks then very difficult.

Thanks for the link to the Brag. That is truely AWESOME. I hope to pull something like that off sometime in the future.

When i first started playing poker at 14 i started with only freerolls, won 5 dollars on one of them and moved from there, later that year pokerstars found out that i was underage and i had to cash my money out, i had made a $500 dollar US cheque from a simple freeroll

well if you have a lot of time and patience it is possibe, a lot of luck is better.
i myself have made money on most sites i play, and have cashed on two of them (for about 1300$US). but it has been over many years and not been easy. i just finally got my FTP up over a few dollars ( now floats between 10 and 30$) which is good, i love the site and dont care about most other ones now
the smaller sites have smaller freerolls- less ppl less $$ easier to win, stars, FTP and such have 2000-10000 players and its a hell of a game to get donked after 5 hrs and still miss the money- or even to win that .13- takes awhile to get that bankroll.
deposit if ya can, will save you 10000hrs of play
otherwise goodluck- it can be done, im out to win a million this year hahahaha
you learn a different play in freerolls to than compared to sit and gos and MTT for buyin, and watch out for those ring games- and remember bankroll management too- nothing worse than finally winning the money just to lose it all in a day

Yes B, it is you (Lol), I seriously forgot the name (lol, but had the good intention, to BIG YOU UP )

ohhh
and a huge congrats to BelgoSuisse
very well done and an inspiration to all

I am trying to build a bankroll from freerolls but haven't had any big wins yet a couple dollars here and their it's really hard work abit frustrating but I will continue trying after 2months I only won a total of $45 and lost almost all of it back I have $12.25 left.Good Luck If you are trying this.

I suppose "huge bankroll" has different meanings to a lot of people. First off, you're not going to be able to do it quickly with no experience. You're going to have to play a LOT of poker to get to the point where you can turn $0 into $10,000.

I started playing poker online when I joined Cardschat last August/September. I haven't dedicated a lot of time to it, other than reading several books and spending time here in the forums - and of course the CardsChat freerolls. Read, Read, Read, Read, Apply what I learned, hope I don't lose my ass off.

That being said, I have managed to build my bankroll up from $0 (never deposited one dime), and have built myself up to just over $100 over two sites (although I'm back down to about $90 after playing badly in several SnGs in a row).

Yes, you can START a bankroll from freerolls, but the money comes from "investing" the freeroll winnings in cash games, SnGs, and the occasional MTT.

If you study poker and play a lot, then it isnt that hard to earn say $10-50 from freerolls over 3-6 months, but getting to $10k is a whole different story...

Most sites have entry to $1k-$25k freerolls for new depositors, so if you have some spare cash and can play a bit you're better off depositing (one big cash in a big freeroll can seriously help your bankroll- I blogged here about earning $900 in a titan affiliate freeroll, which doubled my bankroll overnight!)

If you cant earn some cash from freerolls, then you're unlikely to make money playing for cash, so shouldnt deposit! (keep practising/ reading/ studying hands etc)

Very easy to lose a bankroll built from freerolls when moving up to buyins, so important to keep learning and employ decent bankroll management as I have learnt!

Freerolls with thousands of players for $50 or $100 are there to practice and learn the game- you wont make much from them, but private freerolls and special freerolls are where the cash is from freerolls (but unlikely to get very far in them unless you have 'learnt' the game first!)

Good luck. I've made a whopping $21 in 5 months. I think I've made 1/2 cent per hour! Hard to build a bankroll playing quarters and dimes with 4000 players.

I have $35.88 built up from $0. Once I get some free time I'll start playing the 2.20 SnGs to beef it up.

In my first year playing online I made about $1,000 from freerolls without making any deposits, but at that time there were more sites offering more freeolls and more prize money.

i build up a br of 800 dollars with no dep. in about 4 months. lost some of it in cash games 100 dollar. but now i am just go to the tourn that are between the 20-50 dollar buyin and hope i will have some luck to win some big money. dont matter if i loose because its free money i am playing with!

I also have deposited with the intention of getting deposit bonuses,however I did win my way to $100 in freerolls before depositing and never actually had to use any of it for buy ins.My withdrawals are just shy of $26,000 playing small stakes tourneys and sngs over the last almost 6 years.

It is possible to build a huge bankroll from scratch, but not many people have done it. In fact, the only person I can think of that has done it is Chris Ferguson. The negatives of building a bankroll from scratch is that it could take forever. The positives are that you can gain great skill and experience from playing in so many freerolls. It takes true dedication, patience, and stamina to build a great bankroll from start, but you can do it!

There will be many people who did that!
Chris F. is probably the best example. He did that challenge at Full Tilt!
You just have to start playing the micro limits and end over 10.000 after a few time and a lot of poker....

annette_15 is also an example.this little girl gain huge money from zero.you can find her story on line.The reason that I play a lot of freeroll is that I want to spend time to practice.The money I earned is a sign of what I level is.After I feel that I am good at poker,I will deposit money to win more back.

not a recommended to get started imo, unless you really cannot make a deposit.

I had bankrolls from freerolls about 5-10 times but i keep losing it all eventually so i am still not ready to deposit damn donkey i am
last time i won 33$ from cardschat freeroll 2nd place had the br for over 2 weeks going ups and downs 5-40$ but eventually tilted and lost, but this days freerolls are pretty easy to me i win 35% of the freerolls i sit in seriously, but poker starts to be boring to me so i play less and less this days. good luck at your freeroll br chalange many people did this and if you practice enough and think good you can do it eventualy.

That is sooo encouraging. Thanx for the link to the thread cos one can easily get lost around here.

Out with Phil Hellmuth.....you are my new hero!

well Ferguson made it it 9 months he got the baby lol 10k I think..in my case it took me from 0 to 80$ 3 months playing freerolls on FullTilt, on Pokerstars I am doing better cause there are those SitnGos called Double or Nothing with only 10 players, 5 of them get in the money starting with 1,25$ buy in

I have around $300 on the two biggest sites, started with freerolls, did deposit $10 on PokerStars, just to get to play the first deposit freerolls.
I recommend everyone to start with freerolls, but thats just how I feel.

^I agree. They are fun and they could get you on track for some higher stakes. I places 13th out of 3800ish on bodog and won $4.75. I built that up to about $100 then lost it all on river cards. lol. Im hoping to rebuild soon.

I was trying to do this last summer. Got up to around $80 at one point before I lost it. At the time they didn't have the really low limit cash games. Would like to do it again, but don't think I have the patience for it.

i also have won between 5 to 50 on total freeroll money in a few months time on several different sites...like so many before me have said it is very hard to make more than a few cents in most freerolls offered now days...i'd like nothing more than to build up to 10,000 or more playing online but i'm not holding my breath lol

its really tough to get to the money in a freeroll because of the time required, 3 to 5 hours. finding the time and maintaining concentration is difficult. i have made a few final tables, but usually wind up investing a couple of hours and coming up empty, which is discouraging. my hats off to anyone who can accomplish much that way. easier to deposit a few bucks and try to build that way.

I have built my bankroll from $0 to $155 in 6 months from nothing but freerolls and some profits from cash games, never making a deposit, although many wouldn't consider that a huge bankroll im still very proud of it because those where a lot of freerolls i had to play so im trying to take care of it as much as i can and the most i have recently lost was $5, that was very painfull but i had to remind myself that it was free money.

I thought that was the point of the Fergusen challenge. To show people that it is possible to start with nothing a win big. It may take time but its completely worth it.