Does playing freerolls make you a bad player?

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Some of the hands I use in freerolls, I use in pay games and I usually get bit in the butt when I try. How do you get rid of the playing junk habit?
 
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Yes, I believe one is susceptible to developing bad habits in free rolls. That said, free rolls will give player a ton of experience. But learn the fundamentals. Use the free rolls to learn and practice sound principles.
 
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Never play a poker game with a real money buy in the same as a freeroll. Since in a freeroll you don't have anything to lose but only to win a small amount of money with probably a huge field then your play will be loose aggressive with a wide wide range. And we don't want this kind of play in a real money game.
 
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The freerolls are a source of knowledge for any player beginner, improving their tactical game.
 
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Not necessarily but they will give you bad habits like expecting 3 people to pay you off when you have a monster on the river.
 
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You need to change the game in freerolls, and the most effective is to watch the video broadcast of the game in the cache from the professionals and analyze your game!
 
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Hello fellow, in my opinion if you become a freeroll winner you will be a great poker player and will be able to face any poker player, do not have the misconception that all freerool players are bad players, that thought is bad, if you can not beat freerool's you will never be able to win a great tournament.
 
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I play many freerolls and can remember when that was all I had to play, so not long after I joined CC and started playing these freerolls, I made myself to take even a $10 freeroll seriously. I mean, why am I using my time on a freeroll, if I'm not planning to win damn thing. But I'm sure if you play junk in freerolls and hit some one outers on the river, or flop a str8 or two and some eye popping flushes, and the list goes on, you will be tempted to play the same at your real money games. One fact here. mostly in MTTs we all run into that one player that's shoving with any two like 10 hands str8 and just can't miss, so he then has 40,000 chips when the rest of the table has 3000 or less. At that point that nut has almost set it up to get into the money, BUT that player does not understand that bull shit will turn around and the real players will pick him clean if he keeps bucking the odds and the best odds will always be on top in the end. Maybe he is moved and you wonder how he was doing, well about 9/10 times, you look in the list, and like them all, he's at the rail in wonder. So the point still is to play poker for real .
 
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My opinion is that freeroll games never make you a passive (bad) player, but on the contrary, it helps you raise your banckroll without any investment.

 
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no it makes you a beytter player cause when donks push all in early u fold bad hands you should not be calling with anyway
 
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Yep, freerolls can teach you bad habits. Sort of like the ACR freerolls that have 2 winners and 800 players, You play a different style to make it ITM in freerolls and games that only offer 2 winners vs. the regular buy in games that pay 15 to 20 percent off the entrants.
 
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It may learn bad habits, but it will give you good fundamentals of the game and tactics of the game.
 
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No I don't think they make you a bad player. I think different tourneys require slightly different strategies, just remember to be happy as long as you get it in good and not be results orientated, so don't change your poker because people are shoving all over the place in a freeroll. Just play your best, don't back down when you think you have the best hand and try and pick your spots well. Part of poker is adjusting to the players at your table so if the players in a freeroll act a certain way try something that takes advantage of that play.
 
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I think yes. when you play freerolls you do not develop, because you play with weak opponents
 
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I think playing free rolls is good, as long as you don’t play the same all the time, the maniac players in free rolls exist in non free rolls as well, and playing them in free rolls gives you experience playing against them without the risk, so I think as long as you use it as a learning experience, it would be good
 
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Yes I call all in in freerolls wih hands that i never would in big buy in tourneys 100d ect good luck
 
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they are great practice, particularly if you go to final table, play becomes very realistic!
 
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Playing freerolls definitely does not make you a bad player. If anything it's a great place to hone your game and figure out how to play. Yes its free but the better players will consistently make it out and move up. Don't allow bad plays you see in the freerolls influence your play. Yes it might work this time but that doesn't mean its what you should be doing all the time. Good players will exploit your bad play and send you to the felt.
 
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It is necessary to learn from the mistakes to disassemble the session after the game and when you will be in the same situation you will remember the previous mistakes.
 
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Freerolls are great places to test out your game, even with the suckout kings being there. I find I play an even tighter game than normal in a freeroll especially in the first 10 mins or so.

Poker is a marathon and not a sprint. Get your money in the pot when you have the best hand, if some donk call with air and hits a flush / straight / 2pair hand, so what! Your AA could have been against a K10s who hit the flush / straight / 2pair and that player had the correct equity to call.
 
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Freetall it's not a poker , it's pic game , where you play according with programm which in computer , if you had 2 7 , but huge stake , you would win against AA
 
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Freerolls for me is the best place for all sorts of esperement games with an aggressively reasonable style.
 
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Freerolls typically have a lot more bad loose players compared to regular tournaments with buy-ins, I still get a good laugh seeing people on ACR moving all-in with K3o. Freerolls are good to practice with due to no fees to pay. Freerolls was where I got a good grasp of the M-ratio, and how to adjust my strategy in accordance to the M-ratio. And besides, you will find players who simply do not care, so try to adjust your play to knock them into the canvas since you will encounter players in other games who may feel the same way or similar.
 
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Honestly, i think freerolls are a terrible way to learn solid play. At least in the early stages, when it is just a mad dash to collect chips, even with premium hands, you are still going to bust out to some AWFUL hands a large amount of the time if you get all in preflop. Ive seen insane players repeatedly jam over and over with total rags and stack better hands to the point where their statistical advantage is so great, that it doesnt really matter what you have because at some point they will stack you. Its not fun. The blind structures are designed to accomidate the often thousands of players, by being very fast, and giving you very little to start with, meaning its typically a messy shove fest and unless you are lucky, success is very hard to achieve by skill alone. That said, sometimes you get seated with people who actually love the game and you can learn alot, but its rare imho.

Good luck!
 
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