My Freeroll Challenge

Hi Guys,

I have decided to see how much money i can make from just playing freerolls! This is the first day of my challenge and i have already won £0.37 = $0.75

Im starting at £0.00 and the reason im doing this is because ive lost tooooo many deposits on poker sites so i wanna see how much money i can make without risking a penny of my own!

Im going on holiday tomorrow for a few days but will return to my challenge when i get back and i will keep you guys informed of my progress.

I play on VC Poker and i hope to see some of you guys at the tables!!

I wish u the best of luck with that, hope u make some big money.

good luck! hope u make it to big money soon.

i'm be trying to build a bankroll on Bodog too...

Thanks guys ive just got back from my holiday so i will be starting my challenge!

Im not going into any detail here but so far i have made $1.54.

Its not much but hopefully it will all add up!!

My wife has committed herself to a similar challenge, ala Chris Ferguson.

My guess is that over the past year or two, we have put in about $200 into various sites. We can afford it and we like playing, but I don't think we ever took it too seriously, and it was't a big loss.

However, starting from 0 and entering freerolls to build up is AMAZINGLY HARD. Just check out Ferguson's timeline on his web page on Full Tilt.

Is it really worth it? Unless you are really strapped for cash, I don't think it is. My recommendation is to do 3 things:

1 Read as much as possible, maybe even taking time out from playing to do reading instead. There is a lot online for free, and plenty of books.
2 Watch higher end games being played. Open a tourney, pick a player, and follow him throughout.
3 Deposit $50, 100, or whatever you can afford, and then apply good cash management, using Ferguson's cash management as a good guide.

I just think spending time on freerolls would be a waste of time as a means to build up, especially with the terrible poker being played. It gets better when money is involved, progressively better as the entry fee goes up.

Now, having said all this, let's see if I can apply myself to it!

Pauko

I am also doing the Chris Ferguson challenge, however as soon as I make money in the freeroll, I graduate on to the 1 dollar buy in tournament "The Ferguson". I am only a week into this experiment. So far i have only cashed once, receiving 2 dollars in a 14th place finish out of 2700, only 27 places paid. Hopefully I will be able to get a good streak going and cash big

Freerolls are not a waste of time, unless you waste your time playing them. But freerolls vs depositing is a personal choice in building a bankroll. You can risk your time or money starting out.

1. Chris took on the challenge not only to prove that bankroll management is so important, but also to better understand the mentality of many of the amatures who satilite into larger tourneys.

2. The build up time, it took Chris 9 months to break $30, teaches you a lot about disipline, patience, and bankroll management. In the next nine months he went to over $10,000.00. Yes he is a pro, and once he had a real stake he could build it quicker than a novice, but the never go broke bankroll management works for players of any skill level.

3. There are donks, drunks, the overly tired, and people with more money than poker skills at all but the very highest levels of poker. You have to learn to spot and play them no matter what level you play at. Even at the micro and low levels you will find really bad play.

4. Most people playing on-line at less than three digit buy-ins are playing mostly for entertainment. Think about what it costs for a 2 hour movie. Compare that to how much poker you can afford for the same price. No matter how much you enjoy the movie, you are never going to have the chance to get paid to see it...... This is why you can not get away from bad players just by depositing. If you can afford the deposit and have the skills to beat good players, what do you have to fear from bad players?

5. IMO, building a bankroll from freerolls the bankroll tends to be more important to the player than the "entertainment deposit." No this isn't always true, but seems to be true much more often than not.


Just a "freeroll whore's" opinion. I've built a modest bankroll from freerolls. Less than 6 months ago my poker skills were ZERO. I thought long and hard about depositing to get away from the so called "donkfests." I understand the thought process of desposting to learn, I just don't agree with it.

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Im not sure if the freerolls at VC Poker are any good.
But, if your gonna only play freerolls, i suggest that you find the best out there. I belive Bodog, Wingows, Fulltilt and Poker.com have the best freerolls.
Also, you should play all the CC freerolls and other private freerolls, where the fields are much smaller, the play is alot better and the payout is nicer.
This week i have made over $100 from freerolls.

GL!

It's not THAT hard. I'm a rookie player at best and even I have build up over 1750$ from freerolls in something like 6 month (have hardly played over 10NL as well). So I guess someone with decent skills could do a lot better.

Anyway, pokerking, good luck with your challenge! If you read some books and play concentrated, you'll probably be able to beat 10NL pretty soon and work your way up from there.

good luck :P