Looking for free online tournaments that...

...lead to a potential prize. For instance, BravoTV has an "free" online tournament that could win you a seat in the Sept tourney that has a cash prize.

Trying to find other similar games. Figured a place like this would be the best place to ask ;-)

THanks,

Sergio

do a google search for "freeroll online poker" and go from there. There's too much out there to list.

Thanks tried it, but so far just find places that still require a deposit for their freeroll games.

Will keep looking but had to ask: Is that the term I am looking for? Freeroll? Does that mean a game that is free to play, but might win you a seat in a paying tournament?

Thanks again.

If your looking for a good website that offers good prizes and plenty of freerolls try Carbon poker, or nordica . . . same thing. They offer a ton of freerolls and VERY easy qualifiers for major tournaments. You just have to win 2 satelites (9 people each) and then win a tourny (200 max) and you could win a seat at a big event such as WSOP or aussie millions.

All sites require that you sign up as a real money player to play in the freerolls that have real money prizes, but you do not have to actually deposit any money. (The sites that ban U.S. players will not let you sign up as a real money player but some will still let you play play money.) I think PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker both have freerolls like the ones you described.

In the real money sign-up process, just bypass anything that asks for deposit type. You can go back and deposit later if you want.

Just be sure to read the "Terms and Conditions" verrrrry carefully before you deposit or before you sink hours into playing freerolls. It's true that most of the industry has moved away from requiring players to make a real money deposit prior to their winning of freeroll prizes before they're allowed to cash them out. But some still do. The major sites do NOT.

The problem is that very few, if any, of them have outright freerolls that pay anything except relatively small cash pools divided up among so many winners that it's hard to earn more than a couple of bucks. The "free" satellites to bigger tournaments (like WPT and WSOP) are usually bought into using player points, which can only be accrued by playing in real money ring games and tournaments.

The cheapest, and most difficult, path is the one getting a lot of publicity right now with Chris Ferguson on Full Tilt: starting out with a zero balance and growing a bankroll from nothing but freeroll winnings. A long haul, indeed. It took Ferguson nine months to compile just under $30 to even begin playing micro-limit ring games and $1 buy-in tourneys. On the plus side, two years later, he has over $9K.

Keep in mind as well that most poker site have a minimun withdrawal amount. So even if you take first place in a freeroll and win less than $50.00 you will have to win more before you can acutally cash out.

I am not saying to not play freerolls, I do all the time. Just do not expect to get rich in a hurry. As the poster pointed out about Chris' experiment building a bankroll from freerolls can be done.

No you do not have to be a pro to build a bankroll from freerolls. I played my first hand of NLHE in March of this year, with less than 20 hours of poker playing in my life befre then. I didn't even start playing in the freerolls until FT quit the WSOP round one freerolls. So in about 3 months of playing freerolls and out of a total of five months of poker playing I've managed to build a bankroll of over $30.00. I mention this not to brag but to show even you don't have to be a pro to do it. If a poker novice like me can anyone can!

IMO the multi-tourney freerolls like the Aussie Millions, the WSOP giveaways, Poker After Dark, and the like are almost worthless from a freeroll start. You have to win two tourneys to even have a shot at making anything.

Yes your average freeroll means long hours for a small prize. You are much better off, IMO, playing in as many private freerolls as you can. The prize pools are larger, the fields are smaller, and the payouts are flatter often paying out the top 10% or more.

Good luck and see you on the virtual felt,

D$D

I find it best to join as many forums as you can because they have the best freerolls, like this site

The thing that rarely gets talked about with the Chris Ferguson experiment is its intended purpose, because it's not glamorous...Bankroll Management. Chris isn't trying to prove that starting with nothing and ending up with $10,000 is possible. That really doesn't need any proving, because it happens all the time to one degree or another when reckless players get lucky and stay lucky for a while. Inevitably, however, they bust out when the cards grow cold and other factors determine their fate.

Chris stresses setting firm boundaries and limits for how much of your bankroll you choose to put at risk at any given time. (You can go to Full Tilt's website to see them in detail.) His guidelines are strict, and frankly there aren't many amateur online players who have the discipline to grind it out in freerolls for several months, then stay at the .02/.04 or .05/.10 ring games for months after that. Most of us will win $15 in a freeroll and immediately buy into a $5 or $10 MTT, or go to the .25/.50 tables and it's gone within hours, if not minutes. Which brings us right back to the heart of the matter...not IF you can build a big bankroll from nothing, but HOW.

Bankroll Management. To borrow a pet phrase from the 12-Step program, "it works if you work it".