If you are not aiming high here is a good strategy

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Hi guys,

I play mostly freerolls and this strategy helps me at least to get to the money well if there are decent number of players and you have a bit of luck of course.

So here is it:
Play your usual poker at the beginning. Keep an eye on the medium stack. If you have AA, KK or QQ go all-in. No raising, no other actions. Why? Because when you raise at a freeroll nobody will respect your raise or for example if you have QQ they will pay you with a KJ and you will lose your hand if there is a king on the board.

Next step. If the medium stack is 2 times higher than yours go all-in with 88 or higher pocket pair or AJ, AQ, AK. Most of the times you will be paid by a much bigger stacked player who has something like A10 or their "lucky"hand such as Q2o so you will get rewarded.

Next step, repeat the previous step until the medium stack is lower than 2 times your stack.

I just played a freeroll that way and I got eliminated at 237 place out of 8000 players. Well I didn't get any money because the prize pool was only 50 dollars but as you can see this is pretty far in the tournament. And I was eliminated on my most certain hand. I had QQ and my opponent had AA and he just limped before me but that's poker.

Also note that at one point I had only one BB left and I got back in the game using this strategy. Maybe it's luck but maybe it isn't.

I hope this to be useful for some cardschat members. :) Also please let me know your opinion on this or if you have any improvements of it.
 
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I play the freerolls. On ACr..no one gives you credit for squat..lol But I did finish 3rd in one today just luck tho
 
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There is no real strategy in freerolls. It's no foldem holdem. Sure you can wait for a monster and go all in but you are as likely to get 4 calls as you are to get none.

They are for fun, nothing more.
 
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There is no real strategy in freerolls. It's no foldem holdem. Sure you can wait for a monster and go all in but you are as likely to get 4 calls as you are to get none.

They are for fun, nothing more.

I can agree for some of them but there are freerolls where the players play decent poker such as cardschat freerolls. I played yesterday at casinoorg's freeroll and the players played even better than the guys at $0.55 tournament.
 
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having a strategy playing freerolls isnt a bad idea -i think it gives you a starting piont to corect anything you need to during the mtt-of course one of the bigest things you cant control is luck ,which you will need to win or make the money
 
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having a strategy playing freerolls isnt a bad idea -i think it gives you a starting piont to corect anything you need to during the mtt-of course one of the bigest things you cant control is luck ,which you will need to win or make the money

Unfortunately you will need luck no matter if it is a cash game, freeroll or sunday storm :)
 
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A quick update. I have a new personal record. The pokerschool open skill league - I ended up at third place out of 10000 people. Maybe I could make it to the first place but when we left 3 players only I was close to die of boredom. And yes I was lucky AF at some points. For example I have very short stacked and went all in against AQ, AK, QQ and 88 with 55. I got the A-5 straight. And two more times I hit the lucky river but still it looks like the strategy works for me :).
 
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There is no real strategy in freerolls. It's no foldem holdem. Sure you can wait for a monster and go all in but you are as likely to get 4 calls as you are to get none.

They are for fun, nothing more.

Bahaha Nofoldem Holdem. I gotta remember that:)
 
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One more update - I have invested those 0.72 into a real tourney, well actually it was 0.55. The prize pool was 2000 so I gave it a try. I got it to the money but then I had a bad beat and still I am going to the money most of the times so I guess I am getting better. The bad beat was hilarious since I had AK and my opponent had K9, guess who got the pair of nines at the turn :D?
 
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