dragunovich
Rock Star
Silver Level
i think the fr are a great opportunity to practice long-term gaming strategies, also how to apply them against maniacs, callstation .. watching an interview with a professional player on YouTube a few years ago (i dont remember the name) he said entering sometimes to the freerolls of pokerstars to practice "things" then i understood why those fr in ps are so hard ..
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CallmeFloppy
Legend
Bronze Level
Freerolls are a good way to begin to learn the game and learn the importance of basic concepts like hand selection, position, patience. They are different from a true buy-in tournament like a freeze out plays differently than a rebuy tournament.
This Fish Chums
Visionary
Silver Level
Freerolls: From All-in Monkeys to Top-notch play
The thing with freerolls is that at the beginning, rounds 1-2 and then new players popping in, you've got to wait out (or take advantage of) the "All-in" monkeys. Play quality is fairly low early on. Now, late in the tourney, like final table late, you actually do get high quality play. If you can do well on freeroll final tables, I would suggest you equate that to doing well on real money sit-n-go's. You didn't have to weed through thousands of top quality players to get there, but once there you do get the opportunity to see what good play is all about. Kinda like starting a sit-n-go where everyone starts with different chips.
The thing with freerolls is that at the beginning, rounds 1-2 and then new players popping in, you've got to wait out (or take advantage of) the "All-in" monkeys. Play quality is fairly low early on. Now, late in the tourney, like final table late, you actually do get high quality play. If you can do well on freeroll final tables, I would suggest you equate that to doing well on real money sit-n-go's. You didn't have to weed through thousands of top quality players to get there, but once there you do get the opportunity to see what good play is all about. Kinda like starting a sit-n-go where everyone starts with different chips.
RAFAELO1
Enthusiast
Silver Level
I completely agree. Between the idiots that go all in every hand and those that choose to constantly run out the clock and upset the flow of the game, its enough to get tilted very easily. Most of the freeroll players do not take the game seriously. I find it very frustrating.
Peppinotom
Legend
Silver Level
It's getting more complicated the higher you get!!!I just won one of these MDS freebuys:elefant:, we were just 4 left and almost finished before the rebuy period (3 seats), but there entered a whale
( I suppose he was ACR)
He rebought like 25 times (1$each), he made it finally to the ticket. It took an hour, although we were almost there.
Don't think it's getting easier with higher levels Money meets skills!!!
( I suppose he was ACR)He rebought like 25 times (1$each), he made it finally to the ticket. It took an hour, although we were almost there.
Don't think it's getting easier with higher levels
Money meets skills!!!
Peppinotom
Legend
Silver Level
Not all of them, and UK, Poland, mexico, germany and the rest of the world has donks! It's just more of them, because they are poor countries and a cent makes worth a penny there, so they try for free. Take advantage of them, and welcome them to our world!I agree you can get experience, but only if 10,000 people will be 100. And all that takes place up to this point - it's a lottery. Ukrainians Russian Brazilians on any cards put Allin. Its not fun
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FreeDom1998
Rock Star
Silver Level
I agree with you, personally, in my experience I can say that I pulled my game through freerolls ... when I first started playing them, I flew out of the tournament and did not go far, but now I can go far (and began to reach final tables, which can not but rejoice)
KozakAlex
Visionary
Bronze Level
In general, in the bad of bad players, but in the initial stages of a serious tournament there can also be serious mistakes and stupid flights. Although it can be at any stage because of a bluff or moving flush, straight, full house or something else ...
In freerolls you can not only train, but also get starting capital for playing in other tournaments. This, too, do not forget.
In freerolls you can not only train, but also get starting capital for playing in other tournaments. This, too, do not forget.
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BART777
Legend
Bronze Level
he agrees, at the most initial level when you study game, structure, you get used to software of frirolla are very necessary. but if long to play only frirolla---it there will be wrong strategy and loss of time. and even, to play on microlimits, it will be necessary studies on new.
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lokinet
Rock Star
Silver Level
or more but you re right you learn to play against differnt type of people
darthdimsky
Legend
Silver Level
Agree. ABC poker really works here. Besides the AI monkeys you also have limpers with very high VPIP 40%+ trying to score huge pots. Tight Aggressive Poker does really well in the early stages. bluffing will rarely work, unless you've identified strong LAGs, and you will find players calling you down with mid or third pair even. Be aggressive with strong made hands vs calling stations. Exploit them without mercy.
In the mid stages player pool will have condensed to the more higher quality play that give you more room. Positional play becomes really important in these instances. There's a chance you'll also encounter a luckbox calling station whale that got extremely lucky in the early stages and racked a massive amount of chips with bad play. They will try and be table bullies with any two cards. These are the best players to double/quadruple up with and they will end up making even more dubious calls, tilting their chips away, when they start to lose chips to better players. Watch out for these gold mines.
Late stage play may involve quite a bit of push/fold play (15bbs or less) and it's really important to know you position, table image and play styles of those around you. Table observations of key players from mid stage play might come in handy here, unless you're abruptly unseated. If you're confident of making the final 2 tables then it's worth opening the few remaining (3-5 tables) to see how your opponents play to formulate a game plan to aim at the final table.
Whatever you hone and polish in the freerolls is extremely useful in the micros as well because it's near identical to how things play out at those stakes.
The only exception for freerolls I've seen are the cardschat freerolls. You will encounter much higher level poker from the get go because almost all of them are as good or better than you are (applies to me atleast). Good luck
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