Building a bankroll from freerolls

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Has anyone ever built a bankroll off of freerolls ?
If so , How ? How long did it take ? Please give full detail . Thanks in advance.
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I'm currently in the process of building from freerolls.

There are a few ways to do this.

Qualify for CC games.

This is fairly obvious, CC provides great freerolls for members and you just have to make 65 quality posts. Once you qualify you get to play twice a week on fulltilt. Then you just have to play enough to make a deep run.

Other Private Freerolls

Keep an eye out for any private freerolls with a descent payout. If you can easily qualify, then there is no reason not to give them a try. There's only one other private freeroll I'll play besides CC games.

FT- Sit and Learn Freeroll is great... 5000 dollar prize pool. 1500 entrants and the top 540 get paid. This just happened yesterday, I finished in the top 180 for 7.50. Runs once a month, quailfy by completing a FT academy Sit and learn.

Build your play chips
Grind your way to a few million play chips, and then play the daily 500k 40$ freeroll. Fairly easy to cash, 60-90 play, 18 get paid.

Best way for me to build play chips was through the step tournaments. Work your way to step 7 and then just keep repeating the process inorder to gain a reasonable amount of play chips.

Public Freerolls.......Maybe

Worth a shot, but their a crapshoot. My best finish was 5th or 6th out of 7500, it took 6-7 hours and I got 6 dollars. I got lucky, and whoever else cashes in these also get lucky. That's all public freerolls are, luck.


I've been doing this for a year or so. I play all of the freerolls listed above, besides public, I gave up on them. Right now I'm sitting at a BR of $20.40. Made most of that over the last few days grinding 2nl. It's possible to get aBR started, but there will be many days when your BR sits at 0.00. All you need is one break through, run good run from a FR cash and your set. Hopefully I run good for awhile to build a reasonable BR from my freeroll winnings.
 
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matt0216 posted some great advice and thats basically all the things that u can do to build from a freeroll

One thing though that i do when i was playing with play money is to play till step 6 and then enter into the 100k HU sng. Its Extremely easy to win and a great way to build play money chips to enter the $40 freeroll for 500k
 
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Yeah matt0216 pretty much told you everything you need to know. My advice is stay on here and qualify for the CC freeroll club. Im just now becoming a member but I have looked at the tourney info on there freerolls and they are good deals.

I would also recommend on pokerstars to play in the Sit and Go freeroll tourneys. You have to win your 6 person table, when you do that you have to win the final table of the Sit and Go tourney which is also 6 people. When you do that you get a ticket for a NAPL Rooke Freeroll. Its a little better than a public freeroll, not a lot but a little. You can also do funsteps on Sportsbook/Carbon Poker. You have to finish in the top 3 in Funstep 1 and you get a Funstep 2 coupon. Then in Funstep 2 you have to finish in the top 2 to get a Funstep 3 coupon. Then if you win Funstep 3 you win a dollar. I have finished 2nd in Funstep 3 twice, one time it was as gay as it gets.
 
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I started my bankroll placing in a freeroll and now im up over $400. I wouldnt suggest playing more than you need to. To get a roll started you only need 50cents. play many freerolls,, preferably the private ones until you cash in one. use this tiny roll at the .01 .02 tables and see what happens. There is no point in having a tiny bit of cash in your account if you arent going to use it. If you run out then play some more freerolls. but there is no point in playing in the nearly impossible to beat freerolls unless you need to.
 
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I built my BR entirely from freeroll and at the moment I have almost 2.5k. I fooled around with practically almost every site that offered good freerolls. I once came third in the Cake freeroll and won 80 bucks, then blew that in a week. That's before I learnt Bankroll Management.

Since then I played in only Full Tilt and Pokerstars freeroll. I won two bucks off a UK freeroll. I then grinded 1 buck SNG for a bit. (Not really recommended since the rake is so high, I'd rather take thunder1276's advice and put those winnings at .01/.02 tables) and got lucky by coming seventh in the 10c tourney, netting me 53 bucks.

It took me almost a year and a half since I won that first two bucks before I reach the current BR. In fact my BR really took off during the last seven months. Back in March my BR languished from 90 to 120. Then I started doing well in tourneys, and the money started to come in. I also learnt how to play cash, which in itself is a much more steady source of income. I'm still a breakeven cash player, but I'm trying to get better and better.

My advice to you would be to grind freerolls until you have about 20 buy-ins for 2.25 STT. Sit and Go is generally the easiest form of poker to learn. Or alternatively you could take your little freerolls winning and play cash games. That's how I did it on Pokerstars. (But my roll there is miniscule, like 40 something bucks, so I rarely play there)

Good luck grinding the freerolls. The hardest part is always to get that first hundred. Once you get past that, you'll have a lot more choices in your game selection.
 
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I have built a $300 bankroll starting with freerolls to each the first $100
Since then I have set a daily goal of one dollar and used various vehicles, SNGs, razz ring and heads up NLH but also avoiding going up the limits, each time I have my bankroll has suffered.

My main game at the moment is heads up holdem $1.10 buy-in, I have won eight straight, this may or may not be my game.

I will try 100 of these as 8 wins proves nothing yet at this limit.
There's some great heads-up information available, if you are interested search around for it, most of it is free.

The CC freerolls have very skillful players and building a bank using them may be very difficult, the good outcome is that great play is rewarded, unlike the public freerolls where suck outs rule.

I agree bankroll management is the key to building, and also staying grounded. A small winning run means zero, as it can easily be overwhelmed by an ongoing losing run.

Remember it is a grind, it has taken me 14 months to reach $300.
 
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Freerolls

Hi all,

I've starting playing on Full Tilt with playmoney and freerolls since september. The playmoney is fairly easy so I try'd freerolls which are far more difficult ( and you encounter some realy crazy players ) Anyhow I've succeed in collecting 8 dollar. At first I got lucky at the 0.01/.02 and could grow to 18 dollar in 2 weeks. Until that day I 'tilted' and blew the full 18 dollar.

So I believe you can build a BR via freerolls, but you need to continuously improve ( and read or discuss ) so you understand the signals when you got a downswing or a tilt or ...

I hope to join the CC freerolls when I've fullfilled the necessary inputs .

See you all at the tables at FT (freerolls for the moment because BR = 0 )
 
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It's just not worth it to navigate through a field of 3000 at least to get paltry money. On Carbon, only the top handful get cash, then it's just satellite entry for the rest down to 24th. That means less than 1% of entrants get anything. That's a lot of time spent for likely nothing. I've tried a few of these and people are going all in with Ace rags all the time, but if they hit that ace, your KK, QQ are no good. Even with AA, you might get 4 callers. All it takes is for you to get unlucky one time.

KK is only about 7:3 vs. Ax.

With the smaller MTTs, i.e in the hundreds, I've done ok. I've won about $90 in the Carbon MTTs that were either freeroll rewards for initial deposit or VIP points. But if the field is in the thousands like the open freerolls, I rather just deposit a few bucks to start me off.
 
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Not from freerolls. From $8 or so I grinded $0.25. Never interested me doing it from freerolls as there aren't enough to play so you would be at it for months and months ! I admire anyway who does/can.
 
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When online poker first came out I put a few hundred into the game and built it up. I wound up coming in 12th in some $200 buyin game that I won a few qualifiers to get to, and the payoff was $23k+
I wound up pulling all of my money out (via a debit card) and stopped playing for a few years (online anyway). Taking money out of your account changed quite a bit so I was worried about some of the regulations hitting the pike. Now that there's some wiggle room... I'm making my comeback :D
 
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Has anyone ever built a bankroll off of freerolls ?
If so , How ? How long did it take ? Please give full detail . Thanks in advance.
:)


It depends what your talking about as a bankroll.

I placed for a dollar in a FR.
2nl
Take 2
5nl
rakeback
10nl
iron man
25nl
coaching
present day
 
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Tryin the impossible dream myself at the moment and finding myself between $0 - $30

had a few good results in freerolls but mostly private ones but it can be done i hope lol

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almost a full year.

It took me almost a full year to win about a thousand bucs. Mostly on freerolls but it wasn't untill I started playing some smaller private freerolls. And and small buyins and a shot at some bigger games going slightley over my br mgt once in awhile.
 
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I'm currently in the process of building from freerolls.

There are a few ways to do this.

Qualify for CC games.

This is fairly obvious, CC provides great freerolls for members and you just have to make 65 quality posts. Once you qualify you get to play twice a week on fulltilt. Then you just have to play enough to make a deep run.

Other Private Freerolls

Keep an eye out for any private freerolls with a descent payout. If you can easily qualify, then there is no reason not to give them a try. There's only one other private freeroll I'll play besides CC games.

FT- Sit and Learn Freeroll is great... 5000 dollar prize pool. 1500 entrants and the top 540 get paid. This just happened yesterday, I finished in the top 180 for 7.50. Runs once a month, quailfy by completing a FT academy Sit and learn.

Build your play chips
Grind your way to a few million play chips, and then play the daily 500k 40$ freeroll. Fairly easy to cash, 60-90 play, 18 get paid.

Best way for me to build play chips was through the step tournaments. Work your way to step 7 and then just keep repeating the process inorder to gain a reasonable amount of play chips.

Public Freerolls.......Maybe

Worth a shot, but their a crapshoot. My best finish was 5th or 6th out of 7500, it took 6-7 hours and I got 6 dollars. I got lucky, and whoever else cashes in these also get lucky. That's all public freerolls are, luck.


I've been doing this for a year or so. I play all of the freerolls listed above, besides public, I gave up on them. Right now I'm sitting at a BR of $20.40. Made most of that over the last few days grinding 2nl. It's possible to get aBR started, but there will be many days when your BR sits at 0.00. All you need is one break through, run good run from a FR cash and your set. Hopefully I run good for awhile to build a reasonable BR from my freeroll winnings.

This is how I built my roll. Well only the playchip steps weren't available yet. IMO stick with the playchip SNGs and learn all you can about SNGs. Winning SNG strategy will not change from playchips to cash ofc playchips will be easier to beat. Oh and I wouldn't play the 500k tourney until I had atleast 5 million playchips. Its all about proper BRM and if you can do it with playchips nm playing for cash. :santaclau
 
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Okay this might be a stupid question, but I just won a Tournament Dollar in tonight's 'Satellite To The Ferguson' on Full Tilt. It's my first ever freeroll win. Trouble is; I don't want to play in the Ferguson. Can the tournament dollar be used for other purposes?

Ideally I would use it for the $0.70+0.10 BLT SNG. Can this be done?
 
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yea go to the ferguson. you should be registered and just unregister and u get $1 tounrey doller. gl
 
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i built a BR of $4k on carbon from $1 made in a FR. a good portion was made playing backgammon. i dont remember how long it took exactly....i think about 2 months.
 
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In relation to the question a few posts up, I also got a tournament dollar ticket from the satellite to the ferguson. But when I registered and unregistered, I still only had a tournament dollar ticket. Is this is good as a tournament dollar? Can I convert these into actual cash and play cash games?
 
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well, my $35 bankroll is mostly from freerolls, Ive built it up in just 4 days, Ill try to do some nice bankroll managment to have some profit. It was not difficult to build it up, there are some really nice freerolls in full tilt which I play almost every day... freerollchamp for example, in which I took second yesterday and 3rd two days ago.
 
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use the link oz posted...and everybody that wants this question answered in the future should be directed there
 
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It can be done!!! If you give yourself 2 solid months of devoted play to free rolls then you will be surprised what the outcome will be. You cannot spend it until the end of the second month. I made $14 and waited. This will teach you to watch out for those landmines...
 
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It´s possible to build a bankroll from freerolls only.
In my own little Fergie challenge i made since 21st of august:
$163.28 in 354 freerolls on Full Tilt.

:D :D :D


 
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well, i didn't make it via a freeroll, but pokerstars gave me 5$ for free, took those to 2nl 1 year ago, never looked back.

so if you get a few dollars i suggest taking them to 2nl. also you might want to google and find about some sites that offer free money. last week i got 75$ for free on ipoker, small sites trying to get some action going. does not work if you are from usa, it's good only for europe.
 
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