If you're playing freerolls exclusively to make money, and you are a winning player, and you can deposit, freerolls are a mistake. You can make money a *lot* faster by playing real money games instead.
absolutely agree with that.even nothing got,freeroll can save you a lot of tuition.so experience also means money.I think freerolls pay you off better with experience, not the money. So for beginners who want to learn the game, yes freerolls are worth it.
Freerolls are totally worth it if you get in the right kind. I prefer the freerolls at FTP which have been mentioned. CC ones would be worth it for me if I could boost my quota + get the schedule right. It kinda sucks that I'm probably the only member who could really use the freerolls but just can't get the quota + schedule right. It's okay though cuz I came for the articles anyway.
I go for a good effort to reward ratio so I avoid the sucker-freerolls like the plague. Believe it or not there are sucker freerolls. When 3k+ enter and only 3 get paid, it's a sucker freeroll. When the payout's set up so that even pushing to the final table hardly pays because of a whole bunch of people winning 10c they can't even use to buy-in with, it's a sucker freeroll. When it's set up to make me play my absolute worst to tie with 100-200 other players, imho it's a sucker freeroll. The only exception would be those Mike The Mouth freerolls about a month or two back, where you could win a copy of his book just by making it to the final table and win a signed copy by winning. That imho is pretty cool.
All in all freerolls are free tournament practice combined with virtual theater of the absurd with a wonderfully low $0 admission fee. Last one I entered I won so haven't played in them since as it's wiser at the moment to focus on collecting points in ring games than playing in even the funnest of freerolls or even cash tournaments. I'm just a few short minutes to minutes to my next $10 reward for patience and nothing more.
The great thing about the last freeroll was that it was the evening PLO at FTP. That thing's beyond awesome as are all the "alternative" games freerolls. Don't get me wrong I can final table in NLHE ones too, but these "alternative" FR's are beyond entertaining. I mean, where else are ya gonna find folks who read about 1/4 of a brief tutorial of the game 3 minutes before the tournament started, but insist on calling everyone else donkeys? It got even more funny when a guy who's destined to be a loser for the rest of his life nursed a short stack while whining and threatening people during the entire bubble period. He was all "Just as soon as I get my $2 I'm gonna really up my game and kick your asses" but alas, how was he gonna do it without any ammo? I mean really, $2? Hilarious.
Then you get the razz and h.o.r.s.e. freerolls. Those things are a hoot. People whining "But I had AK" in h. Oh and the "Even an idiot gets lucky" after they let you catch up in a stud game, but oh heaven forbid you should be keeping track of the cards. It just gets funnier and funnier. Don't get me started on o. "but I had A2 and they was suited", or "but I had KK" nevermind the 72os for kickers giving them a half good rainbow hand from hell that they shouldn't have called a raise and a reraise with ihn the first place...
The only bad thing is the occasional loss of focus from laughing so hard. Not for nothing but those things are really entertaining. I'd almost pay to enter one. But then it wouldn't be a freeroll now would it?