Freerolls that start with a shorter stack

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Some freerolls, eg BOL, start with a shorter stack, only 1000. This means that you can get shortstacked pretty quickly if you don't boost the old stack pretty quickly. How do you all handle this without joining the allin fest?
 
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Best way to handle it is avoid registering [emoji12]

Those tournaments are jut really meant to inspire good play. You just do the best you can. Make high risk plays early to build a stack you can play with, but with so many entrants and few winners, freerolls are not really profitable by any measure.
 
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have a range of hands to play with this type of stak! of the sim to do a maintenance of chips! when you are with AA, KK, AKs you need to push everything without fear! Your advantage of folding your chips is great!
 
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This is where you need luck, and in the middle stage you already need your knowledge.
 
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Really you have to have no fear. Basically open up your range and just hope that you hit some flops.

Once you win a couple of hands ... you gotta keep the pressure on and hope you keep hitting hands.

Basically you just have to open up your range so you have more chances to win pots and keep moving on. Just remember that you aren't investing any money (just your time) and let it ride!
 
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I think the mere act of registering for these tournaments is knowing that you are going to practice your strategy for being short stacked. Sometimes I sign up for something I just want to practice or to keep myself from getting too comfortable in my usual rhythm.
 
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It´s normal to play free rools at the begining,when I started playing poker I regestered in almost every free rools that appears in front of me.Just wait for the right time to call with premiun hands.But gon4iypes when you start playing on tables with 9 players or 36 ,45 players you´ll enjoy them much more than free rools,just wait and keep playing and studying!
 
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Some freerolls, eg BOL, start with a shorter stack, only 1000. This means that you can get shortstacked pretty quickly if you don't boost the old stack pretty quickly. How do you all handle this without joining the allin fest?

There are no options to cope with this except to accept these rules of the game. Just play all-in every good hand and pray that you are lucky. :p
 
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All-in, Ordinary roulette. You can check your luck in free tournaments). For money, I do not see the point of playing in such tournaments.
 
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n know, but all the freeroll tournaments I played, I almost died of rage, lots of plays, and calls that I never see normally! = (can be the freeroll type, or are they all so!:?
 
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n know, but all the freeroll tournaments I played, I almost died of rage, lots of plays, and calls that I never see normally! = (can be the freeroll type, or are they all so!:?
They are all) Freerolls are an evil
 
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If you play on such freerolls, you do not need to be afraid to throw everything. Otherwise, your stack will eat the blades.
 
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Put all-in or quickly finish or after you can play more carefully with a good stack
 
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Good Practice; Little EV

Really you have to have no fear. Basically open up your range and just hope that you hit some flops.

Once you win a couple of hands ... you gotta keep the pressure on and hope you keep hitting hands.

Basically you just have to open up your range so you have more chances to win pots and keep moving on. Just remember that you aren't investing any money (just your time) and let it ride!

Playing any free roll is always a chance to hone your craft. It is true that grinding away with fish and donkeys for 3 hours for $.50 isn't worth it in terms of money, but it is worth it to get hands in and practice your reads.

I don't mind the 1000 starting stacks; I play tight-aggressive (an oxymoron, I know) in the first hour, then (hopefully) my standard game the remainder until the FT.

The single table SnG's with only 300 chips, though, are crazy! Whether 6- or 9-handed, you really have to play poker - you can't just play cards or your chip stack: you gotta really be good!
 
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Play tight-aggressive. There are still a lot compared to the 10/20 blinds you start with, so 50bbs for the first level.
 
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I welcome the all in fest. Get lucky early and start playing poker or bust and wait for the next freeroll.
 
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Well, I already played this style of table ... any A9s A10 k9 I already raise raise All In ... hehehe more always attentive to the flop more in the case ... wait a balanced hand and break up to the villains.
 
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Do what we have to play with the chips that we have, and as fast as possible to fold.
 
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Basically all u need is luck at the all-in fest, build some stack and play tight. And hope u dont run into hand with lucker who have J4, call your monster and flop quads 444.
 
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You need luck. To all-in-fest hard To make it in the first 1hr.
 
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Just adjust ur style to suit ur stack to blinds ratio and ur opponents and ur position at the table. That's all u can do in those tournaments and hope for the best
 
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Just play your stack size, the effective stack depth should govern your play.
 
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with a short stack u cant get out of line and make good decisions based off the math and dont get in a rush
 
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Survive

I guess if you can survive the first intial stages.. start folding like a nit and try and get good hands and play them aggressively then you have a good chance to push on.. I just hate it when people play 93o and get lucky against a hand that I have usually AKs AQs AA KK
 
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Some freerolls, eg BOL, start with a shorter stack, only 1000. This means that you can get shortstacked pretty quickly if you don't boost the old stack pretty quickly. How do you all handle this without joining the allin fest?
Hi gon4iypes.
In this type of tournament, you can leave your comfort zone and dare to put into practice the moves you need to add to your game, such as semi-bluff, bluff and be sure to be very aggressive and when you feel well with her played go to other tournaments and put everything into practice.
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