What to do with strong holdings in early stages of Freerolls ?

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Hi, i have a question whats the best way to play premium hands early in freerolls? I Have tried big raises ,but there is always someone that calls , should i only make little raises ? Dont wanna put my tourney life in danger every hand i play thats why i only raise amd dont put it in preflop ! Any suggestions ?:)
 
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I play most hands early in freerolls

I'm not doing good lately lost on aa 3 times today in one tur

I like too slow play with big hands
 
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Play your premiums for value. If the flop hits, make a big bet and get paid off. Slow playing in early MTT is not profitable. People will call a shove with bottom pair, they'll 3bet with garbage, and other fishy nonsense.

This is why bankroll management is crucial. Play your good hands strongly, of course there is a chance you get cooler'd, but that's gambling for yah. If you have 80-100 BIs then you can laugh it off and queue up the next tourney.


Don't be afraid to bust. Play your hand how you would even if you knew your opponent's cards.


EDIT: Just saw it's a freeroll. Shove your premiums.
 
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My advice for freerolls is remember freerolls are litle money, we need to win a lot of chips in the beggining so I aplly this strategy, when I have good cards like AK, AQ, AA, KK, QQ JJ, "easy all in" because one layer will call, and if we wins wi 95 forget about and let's play the next one... When we have a confortable stack, let's player tighter....Playing like this i final table the 100k 3 times, with one first palce, one third place, and one six place! But 100k its a bigger tournament with good money on fina table!
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Shove any premium,the earlier you double up the easier it will be for you.
 
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I think you should just stick with your big preflop raises , if the table is willing to call 4-6x with all kinds of junk then you are gaining a big edge by making the pot slightly bigger pre . Just remember postflop if you dont improve try and take a pot control line, and when you hit big continue to blast away . I dont think slowplaying big hands when you are 100bbs deep early in tournaments is a good plan .
 
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I'd always 4-6x it depending on how many callers were in or shove a premium hand. There's no point letting 6 people get in, that's pretty much the worse case. You do want to double up quick, and get value from those hands, so you have to go all out.

Only exception might be if you've seen a guy a bunch of times and know he plays tight, but many people play pretty loose and call a lot, so you want them all in preflop if you have a big pair.
 
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I wouldnt raise quickly, it's risky.. its terrible when u lose all your chips early..... lol
 
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Shove any premium,the earlier you double up the easier it will be for you.

Yeah, ok, but everybody goes all in before too soon.... ain´t that too risky???
 
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Play your premiums for value. If the flop hits, make a big bet and get paid off. Slow playing in early MTT is not profitable. People will call a shove with bottom pair, they'll 3bet with garbage, and other fishy nonsense.

This is why bankroll management is crucial. Play your good hands strongly, of course there is a chance you get cooler'd, but that's gambling for yah. If you have 80-100 BIs then you can laugh it off and queue up the next tourney.


Don't be afraid to bust. Play your hand how you would even if you knew your opponent's cards.


EDIT: Just saw it's a freeroll. Shove your premiums.
this is great advice

honestly early in freerolls you generally will get a lot of loose calls so bet enough to get called if is really loose table shoving works if not and kinda tight go close to pot or more and do a few bets if they think they have a hand will call you down
 
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I think the biggest thing is to isolate. So if I pick up Aces, depending on how many are left I'm going to raise. If it's UTG I'm probably going to bet 10x the BB which is most likely 10% - 25% of my stack. if it's late with limpers I'm going to raise prob 2x the pot. If it's on the button with only blinds I may just 3x the BB.

I feel if you shove, it's 30% or less people call. Maybe first hand I do it, but other than that. Still you will get action, but you really want to trigger that reshove.
 
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play it like it should be played. if you get bad beat, theres always another day.
the point of holding a strong hand is to play it correctly whether you get unlucky against an opponent who calls and hits better, the main objective is to try and win it, so its not that bad even if you lose because overall making the correct play is more stronger in development.
 
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position and the importance of early and late in the middle because you're going to listen carefully to these still fail these study
 
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I played very tight at the beginning and when approaching the bubble play more speculative hands
 
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