$Freeroll NLHE MTT: Unlucky against fishy players?

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First hand, strange all-in and strange call.
Second hand, both players go all-in again.
I decide to call, since this freeroll wasn't that important to me if i lost, but if I won, I had a nice stack to go deep.
Wrong way of thinking or just unlucky?

Hand #1
poker stars Freeroll No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 6 players

MP: t1110 22.20 BBs
CO: t800 16 BBs
BTN: t1280 25.60 BBs
SB: t1000 20 BBs
BB: t1970 39.40 BBs
Hero (UTG): t760 15.20 BBs

Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is UTG with :4c4: :7d4:
2 folds, CO raises to t800 all in, 2 folds, BB calls t750

Flop: (t1625) :5h4: :3h4: :5d4: (2 players - 1 is all in)

Turn: (t1625) :5h4: :3h4: :5d4: :2d4: (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: (t1625) :5h4: :3h4: :5d4: :2d4: :10h4: (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: t1625
CO shows :9d4: :qh4: (a pair of Fives - Queen kicker)
BB shows :6c4: :js4: (a pair of Fives)
CO wins t1625


Hand #2
Poker Stars Freeroll No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t25/t50 Blinds - 6 players

UTG: t1110 22.20 BBs
MP: t1625 32.50 BBs
CO: t1280 25.60 BBs
BTN: t975 19.50 BBs
SB: t1170 23.40 BBs
Hero (BB): t760 15.20 BBs

Pre Flop: (t75) Hero is BB with :ac4: :10d4:
1 fold, MP raises to t1625 all in, 2 folds, SB calls t1145 all in, Hero calls t710 all in

Flop: (t3100) :js4: :4s4: :10s4: (3 players - 3 are all in)

Turn: (t3100) :js4: :4s4: :10s4: :qs4: (3 players - 3 are all in)

River: (t3100) :js4: :4s4: :10s4: :qs4: :jd4: (3 players - 3 are all in)

Final Pot: t3100
MP shows :3c4: :3d4: (two pair, Jacks and Threes)
SB shows :3s4: :5c4: (a flush, Queen high)
Hero shows :ac4: :10d4: (two pair, Jacks and Tens)
SB wins t820
SB wins t2280
 
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Like you said, it's a freeroll...
 
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As seen in the first hand, these players are going to be spaz shoving with a very wide range, so AT is a snap call.
 
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It depends on how much this tourney mean to you and I think you've already answered it. If the tourney doesn't mean that much it's definitely a call there
 
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Easy call, correct way of thinking.
 
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You said that the freeroll wasn't important to you. So you have all the right in the world to play with this hand. However against two all ins this hand isn't so good, because the chance to took your chips is pretty big.

Most of the players are using the freerolls to train their discipline. You could always be beaten by weaker cards even with monsters, but the idea is to play it right.
 
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Raise raise and dont call to many raise. lolll is a freeroll and everybody call with everything. If you dont the leader of the board dont try to muvh bluff in early time in tournement. GL
 
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Raise raise and dont call to many raise. lolll is a freeroll and everybody call with everything. If you dont the leader of the board dont try to muvh bluff in early time in tournement. GL
Thanks for the tip, although I already experienced for myself that player are very loose early in the tournament.
Of course raising is better than calling, giving you fold equity. In this case though it wasn't very early in the to and I'm only on 15 blinds...
 
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I think all freerolls are played like that by the majority of players.I play a lot on pokerstars i even won some freerolls.In my opinion freerolls is fishing a lot the real game its on real buy in.
 
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It depends on how much this tourney mean to you and I think you've already answered it. If the tourney doesn't mean that much it's definitely a call there

That ain't a good answer. You're looking to play good in the tourneys you play. He posted it to analyse. Doesn't mean you have to call loose because the tourney doesn't mean anything to you. You shouldn't reg it in the first place then unless you just want to gamble, but don't think he'd come to this thread to analyse then :p.

But yeah, AT is strong enough in these freerolls as people will be playing very loose. Unlucky, good call tho imo.
 
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That ain't a good answer. You're looking to play good in the tourneys you play. He posted it to analyse. Doesn't mean you have to call loose because the tourney doesn't mean anything to you. You shouldn't reg it in the first place then unless you just want to gamble, but don't think he'd come to this thread to analyse then :p.

But yeah, AT is strong enough in these freerolls as people will be playing very loose. Unlucky, good call tho imo.

I guess you're right, very bad answer indeed..:p

What I mean is that if this was a 100$ buy-in tourney it wouldn't been a good idea to call all-in with AT. But this was a freeroll and you don't lose any money for buy-in, therefore people tend to go all-in with a very wide range. Which makes this call pretty easy, even though it's not the best all-in cards especially not when there are 3 players all-in. Of course you would like to play to win every tournament but all-in with 3 players with AT is not the best odds. But I think because it's a freeroll it's a good call, even though you could pick better spots with better odds. Thats why I mean you could take this chance and call, because it doesn't mean the world if you bust. Hope this is better, Sry for the bad way to formulate my answer ;)
 
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I guess you're right, very bad answer indeed..:p

What I mean is that if this was a 100$ buy-in tourney it wouldn't been a good idea to call all-in with AT. But this was a freeroll and you don't lose any money for buy-in, therefore people tend to go all-in with a very wide range. Which makes this call pretty easy, even though it's not the best all-in cards especially not when there are 3 players all-in. Of course you would like to play to win every tournament but all-in with 3 players with AT is not the best odds. But I think because it's a freeroll it's a good call, even though you could pick better spots with better odds. Thats why I mean you could take this chance and call, because it doesn't mean the world if you bust. Hope this is better, Sry for the bad way to formulate my answer ;)

Yeah that makes sense :p
 
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Ofc correct your call in this with donks :)
 
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It's a Freeroll, baby! You have to be careful early in the game
 
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