Freerolls are more stressfull than $1 to $5 tourneys

When you don't want to deposit on a site, but like their software and want to play there, playing freerolls is great. However, every time I get close to the money I start tightening up. Not my range, my nerves. I think there is more stress when it means you either have money to play with, even if it's just a little, than when you have another 100-200 buy-ins. Just a thought.

Well, I cashed. 1700 people later and 50 cents richer, I took 19th. Of course, 50 cents doesn't get me into any of their cash games. There is the 6 cent tourney or the $.30. Ugh. Trying to build from nothing sucks.

Six Hurdles said:

Well, I cashed. 1700 people later and 50 cents richer, I took 19th. Of course, 50 cents doesn't get me into any of their cash games. There is the 6 cent tourney or the $.30. Ugh. Trying to build from nothing sucks.

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Still better than nothing though. Congrats! Hope you win many more...

just deposit, if you are a winning player this stuff is hourly suicide

Playing freerolls to learn the game and win a few cents is fine

but I don't get why there should be more tension near the bubble

of a freeroll than in any real money game regardless how micro.

Also as said deposit if you're often (>25%) in the money in the freerolls.

The micro games are not much better regarding player fields.

I don't think it's possible to be in the money >25% in freerolls. At least at black chips. There's as many as 2000 peeps and they pay like 30. That's just insanely rough. I mean you've literally gotta be in the top 1.5% of the field. intertops and juicy stakes have ticket freerolls to get to a money tourney. Gotta be 8th or better out of a min 250 there to get a ticket. I have won 3 tickets in the last month or so between juicy stakes and intertops. I haven't had time to play the money tourney yet, but the ticket is good for 90 days if I remember right. I guess I'll have to break down and deposit if I don't cash in something with my $.50 or my tickets. I want to play Black Chips, since I signed up through rakeback a few days ago. Seems stupid to play elsewhere.

Assuming you have enough ability and work ethic to become a winning player at the low stakes levels - which isn't especially hard - it's kind of penny wise, pound foolish to play huge freerolls that only offer tiny prize pools that work out to pennies per entrant.

Look at the big picture via a very feasible hypothetical example. Let's say that after a few months to a year, you'll be good enough to reach an average win rate of $2 per hour. How much will it matter if you deposited and lost $10, $25, $50 or even $100 before you managed to become breakeven?

Many can not/will not be able to deposit and zero to hero is a long road.

It is doable, I am living proof, but again it is a long road. So if you are doing this for much more than entertainment, you will be disappointed often. But you know what? Along that long road you will have great (pokerwise) fun and a few outstanding experiences. I know I have. In the meantime, you will learn the game at least by osmosis, and if you apply yourself to learning, via books, our forum, and many many hands, you will improve. Rate of that improvement is dependent on your efforts.

Public freerolls used to be much more lucrative. Look into Steps, and private freerolls.

I do agree that freerolls do seem harder than when you play in a buy in tournament. When you play in a buy in tournament it just seems like it is easier to get through the fields.

many players are staying away from freerols because it's mostly donk fest, but if you play TA especially at beginning of the game, you can catch some chips while the some people playing mostly in freerols want to go/call all in with anything.
If you have good starting hand, you probably can do much better than most of them and catch their chips.
I usually tighten up right before ITM, do not want to be bubble boy.
made quiet a few final table and ITM on freerols.

I am playing mostly online games and didn't deposit in years on any of those site I play.
On some of them get few checks a year, when I cash out, and it's all good.
just love to play those freerols.

again, just my $.02 on this.

GL.

I hate freerolls these days. There used to be some good ones a few years ago, and they used to run quite often. Now the only reasonable choice in my opinion is play the steps sng's or find somewhere you can deposit. I chose the latter option, won some money and am cashing out my original deposit amount so that I am playing pressure free.

Freerolls vs real buyins play the same for me. What really burns my toast is the freerolls with a lot of dead stacks. Dead stacks always affect my play trying to get that dead money!

Good tip is to know how much value you are getting to playing these freerolls. $100 prize with 2000 players equals to a $0.05 buyin tournament if it wasn't a freeroll.

If you are trying to grind your way up from freerolls on a new site, then you are missing out on bonus deposits offers which offset rake. It would be a lot better to deposit the minimum and start grinding low limt cash or sng's while clearing their bonus. Of course you should be doing rakeback if possible too. Bonus clearing, RB and the value of fpps all combined and you often are paying next to nothing in rake to start off.

freerolls are not really poker ,esp in the beginning when u see everyone going all in nonstop with any two hands and this leads to you getting sucked out quite often. i avoid them and agree that yea,if your a winning player, just deposit.ull have much more fun.

I know what you mean by 50 cents richer after 1700 people. been there...
well if we are not depositing than it is a hard path.
good luck to us.

I would have deposited some if the govt. did not make it not legal to play online. oh...well....

sometimes i love it sometimes i would rather play in a 5 dollar tounrmanet than a freeroll.
just knowing this is the last of my bankroll makes me sad lol

I started again to play poker and freerolls are nice to try your skills without risk money, I even won the first 2 !

I think freerolls are more stressfull becuase you know you are up against fish,donks, idiots, morons and few honest people trying to start a BR and it sucks losing to these nobodys.

Six Hurdles said:

There is the 6 cent tourney

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That .06 re-buy is a peach.

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I love freerools.I only wish they had freerools with more payout,all the time it takes to get to the end if your not 1st or 2nd then its only a$1 or $2. On the other hand its free money.I love free money.

The quality of free rolls is getting worse. More and more donk players turning players like me off. It completely eliminates the component of bluffing from the game when ur up against people who will call with any 2 whole cards

The freerolls are the hardest because that is where a lot of your donkey callers and all in every hand players are. They want to play bingo every hand and I really want to reach through the computer and crack them in the head. I mean my BP goes up so much that I get headache's sometime from playing. Of course then I have some days when I make a hero call because they have pissed me off and then I end up flopping the nuts and I just string them along and then BAM-BAM I drop on them like a cat on a mouse.. I laugh and yell at my computer things like " ha told you I would get you" or "oops you thought you could but now you know you can" I need help I know but it is fun.

free rolls are harder

because... you wait for a nice hand and many a times you have to fold very decent hands because someone goes all in with any hand and you cannot take the chance.

hatem

unless there is a big prize