TRB1965's Freeroll Challenge

Freeroll Cashes This Week
• Sun 18:00 – private $25 freeroll – 23rd of 900 for $0.14.
• Sun 18:00 – private $100 freeroll – 36th of 900 for $0.34.

Starting Balances
Real Money: $170.42
Tournament Dollars: $0.00
Full Tilt Points: 00.00
Play Money: 473, 244

Ending Balances
Real Money: $170.90
Tournament Dollars: $0.00
Full Tilt Points: 00.00
Play Money: 513,244

Great week for you here, continue with the good work!

Good Luck TRB a great challenge.

Chris Fergusson took a long time to build his first $100 from freerolls, then shot up the bankroll when he started playing for real with his winnings using good BRM. His freeroll stage was actually quite poor, but he certainly showed class when he put it to good use.

I managed the first part better than Fergusson making $100 from freerolls in 3 months on full tilt but haven't managed to fulfill the next stage.

Hey, this is pretty cool. I've always wanted to do something like this and I'm hoping some of the cardschat freerolls will give me a chance to. How many hours/week do you spend playing freerolls though??

I'd say I average 20 to 25 hours a week playing freerolls.

Well, you've already surpassed my Full Tilt bankroll, and I started with a $100 deposit. Good work!

On the other hand, you probably played more hours in any two months than I've played at Tilt in total. Your wife is a patient woman.

And when you do start playing real money, don't be afraid to dabble in the cheap SnGs. The ROI that can be maintained is pretty high in spite of the rake and you can easily get a good running start.

WOW!!! Well done!!
Personally I used to get into 'freeroll mania' where I'd stay off buyin tables for a week or so (after a bad run) and would just play a zillion freerolls.
To play them for a solid full year though I think I would go 'mad'.

I don't quite understand why you wouldn't deviate from 'the plan'? My goals with poker are always changing... they evolve as my game evolves adn today I know I really have no clue what my wants or expectations will be even say 2mos. from now (ie. will I be a reg. in the big MTT's online?.. who knows??... next decent cash and I think so).

Your efforts here are obviously paying off for you and for sure I can't imagine anyone would even consider poor bankroll management after taking a full year to grind out a small bankroll on Fulltilt.

Hope the transition back to the real games goes well for you.

Nice, heres a thought for you.....
I have built my BR about the same way 129.00 CC freerolls + 3 buy ins oh p.s all on UB

Wow you have alot of patience. I could never not play with the cash. Keep it up dude your alot more patient than meLOL

I've "deviated" plenty in the past and it didn't work out very well for me. So this time around, I'm going to start with a solid bankroll and try to take it from there.

I will most certainly be sticking to Ferguson style bankroll mangement rules and not playing over my head (even if my bankroll management says I can play that level.)

One thing that has helped my stick with this is that this is only one site. I have minor bankrolls on Poker Stars and Walker Poker. I am actually trying to play those 2 sites a lot more in this last month to polish up my ring game and SNG games before I start playing ring and SNG on FT.

Hi Tony, found you here aswell..., lol, how did i miss this thread all the time???
Looking forward to see you at the $$ tourneys soon (27 days to go)
GL

aC

Congrats! Great challenge. That was a lot of work for $200 dollars. Have you figured your hourly rate?


I play a lot of free rolls on various sites, also. Some sites I just used free rolls to build a bankroll. So, I know how hard it is to build one from nothing.

Congrats TRB ...I have always said it's harder to cash in free rolls than small buy-ins

keep up the fine work. i admire your patience

I just started reading this thread and i think i'ts amazing how you have got your BR over $220. All in freeroll money, that is incredible and i wish you the best of luck when you start playing SNG's and other real money tourney's.

I cashed in a freeroll for $1, and i have built my BR to almost $25. I'm trying to get $100, then go on from there.

When i get 65 on this site, i'll start playing freerolls on FTP. I don't like playing at FTP w/ play money because I can't stand what ppl call w/ and go all in on the cheap tables.

I'm looking to see how well you start doing in July 19, keep us updated. Great challenge I admire you patience keep up the good work, GL.

I'm sure things will get a little less focused after July 18. I've really put a lot of effort into this and I might be due for a bit of a break instead of playing online poekr 7 days a week. I've been playing primarily (like 95%+) on Full Tilt during this year. I have minor bankrolls on Poker Stars, Walker Poker, and Waas Poker. I'll be working in playing on those as well as Full Tilt (though given the realtive levels of my bankrolls, I'll probably try to do half my play on Full Tilt and split up the rest on the other three.)Starting Agust 1, I'll definately make sure I earn 1 FTP each day to qualify for the one-a-day freeroll.

I'll be doing some cash, some SNG, some MTT, and some private tournies on Full Tilt.

On Walker Poker and Poker Stars I'll be mainly doing cash play.

On Waas Poker I only have $6.50 (won in an OFC a long time ago.) Not sure what I'll do with it. Probably stick to MTTs and try to pop something big. If the Waas bankroll goes away, I'll stop playing on there. I've enver deposited there. I only singed up to play the OFC.

Anyway, those are my vague plans for where I am going with my bankroll efforts next.

I'm going to write out a set of bankroll guidelines for this next phase and stick to it, but I haven't had time to really thoroughly think it through yet.

I hope it will not happen, but the way my bankroll on FT is declining at the moment..., as soon as i hit less than $0,10 i will put in a couple of months of pure freerolling too...
see ya, GL

aC

I was running so bad there for about a month that I think I could have found a way to loose with a Royal Flush!

But the worm has turned and over the past few weeks my cash percentage is well over 50%.

And my timing couldn't be better with the higher value freerolls (like the Full Tilt Fantasy freerolls) running now.

Heck, I even cashed both CC freerolls on Full Tilt this past week.

Really looking forward to July 19th!

How do you join freerolls on FTP, are they all from forums???

I ask this because all the freerolls i see, it say's restricted. I might be looking in the wrong places, maybe you can tell me if I have to deposit or do something to play in em.

On pokerstars, it's really simple to play in the freerolls. Why does FTP make it so complicated.

just read this... WOW a year of nothing but freerolls on FT.......incredible...good job building the the $200+ bankroll there....soon you'll be able to make more of it in other games.....freerolls are how I've started all my bankrolls on different sites only depositing(if necessary)when ready to cashout(which really hasn't been that often or big ......yet)for "BBQ supplies" (wink,wink)...good luck on the final days in your challenge ...I'll deffinatly check back to see where you end up $$$

Not all are restricted. Regardless of whether or not they are restricted or password protected, you just visit the sponsoring site, read the rules and decide whether or not you can meet the requirements.

The CC freerolls are restricted, but I can meet the requirements and I play them twice a week.

I'll check it out, where can I find the CC freerolls? Play money tournaments? I hope I can meet the requirements of most of these freerolls because on pokerstars none are restricted. I ask this because on "stars" I started a BR form $1 and got it over $35 in a week, maybe I can do the same on FTP.

The CC freerolls are under the private tab in the tournament lobby. The unrestricted Full Tilt freerolls fill up really fast. The NL Hold'em and PL Omaha fill within thirty seconds. The Razz and Horse fill slower.

Full Tilt has a $40 dollar tournament in the play money section. The buy-in for this tournament is $500,000 play money. This tournament does get a small crowd, especiallt, compared to the $100 freerolls.

Thank you Keaton, I'll go look for those freerolls and hopefully I quallify in most of em. I would have over 500k play money chips, but can't get there because all the people that shove w/ Q 3, 5 2, J 5 etc.... I was playing in the 2700 PPL $100 freeroll, I made top 150 but couldn't really hit any good hands. Is it just me or is it hard to get good hands on FTP, or when you have a good hand you just never hit the flop.