Can bluffing in online freeroll tournament dangerous?

In the early phase, its typically unlikely to work, since people are playing for free, and a min-cash is usually a very small amount of money, so its basically like play money. But if you are on the final table, and the next payjump is 5$, there is no reason, why you should avoid bluffing, just because its a freeroll.

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I confess I don’t like to bluff in any game. But unfortunately you can’t really get to the final table without a bluff. I think it's more important to have encounters than hands and end up showing better. A lot of bluffs don't pay off. Although that's just my opinion. Maybe someone might think differently.

when you bluff at poker. we always take a risk but to win a frerroll. you have to bluff certain spots at the right time. you should never abuse it and choose the profile of the player against whom you plan to bluff.

If you mean a freeroll whose password can be easily found, and thousands of players register for it, it initially abounds in bluffs from players who fall out in the early stages of the tournament. Anyone who wants to play the tournament more seriously will not have many opportunities for a good bluff until the "adventurers" are eliminated from the tournament. They often call irrationally, so bluffing is not a good choice, but possibly good cards can bring us plenty of chips, if we raise more than usual, and even catch their eventual bluffing reraise.

Bluffing at any poker table, any tournament, is part of the game and necessary for your chip stack. The danger is, getting caught and loosing chips or being knocked out.

I advice you for don't bluff until you can understand the game and what you need to bluff, there are some things to consider before bluff, you need to think that you are tell a history, and if your history are not good, your bluff will not be successful.

and what can be the danger if the tournament is free?you have nothing to lose

You need to bluff with good odds or a good card. Basically, at the table, players understand who it is better not to face. It happens that the chip leader at the table bluffs everything to him. To a large extent, all raises and bets on freerolls are checked at showdown.

There is no point in bluffing at the start of the freeroll. Until fish leave the game, you need to play carefully. This is a free tournament and anyone can call your bluff. The closer you get to the last table, the easier you can bluff, but only moderately and not overuse. That is, use a bluff as in a regular paid tournament.

Originally Posted by UM3SH

Can bluffing in online freeroll tournament dangerous?

Thank U 4 Posting

Bluffing is a very important part of being good at poker. The better we are at judging when to bluff the more money we will make. This requires practice-we need to make in-game bluffs that fail so we can learn what we did wrong.

There is no better time to bluff than in a freeroll as it does 0 damage to our bankroll. The key is to be able to do a hand review of the spot we bluffed and lost to know if even if it lost it was still the right play. Bluffs lose if you are a good player, you just want to win more often than lose.

Some key data points about bluffing -in games where our Villains calls more often (freerolls)

Which player or players on the table will fold? Some will never fold we should know that.

When will players fold? Few players fold to flop bets so we need to know if we are going to bluff how many streets must we bluff on. So flop and turn are must bets when we bluff in freerolls -we cannot stop the bluff after one street.

What boards are good to bluff on vs players who fold less? 962 is good to bluff but 892 is far worse. Why?

What turn cards help us continue the bluff?

What hands do we have on 962 that help us bluff turn?

Learn bluffing strategies and then apply them to freerolls and then review your thought process after the bluff. Was it a good bluff even though you were called?

It is much better to go slowly in freerolls and build the skills you need later than to min cash freerolls- build a small bankroll and lose it trying to learn to bluff then.

Hope this helps

Freerolls are the bluff places, mainly during the early stages. Many players enter in the freerolls just for bluff and all in in their first hands.

I consider bluffing in tournaments an important thing. It can be very helpful in the right situations. The situation is different in freerolls, where I don't think it's worth bluffing because of the unpredictable players!

Imho in the freeroll tournaments bluffing is more difficult as well as Frustrating.

Being called on your all in AK with 52 and losing to a full house seems to happen all too often in the free roll circuit.

Eventually the fish will give you back their chips.

Originally Posted by fundiver199

In the early phase, its typically unlikely to work, since people are playing for free, and a min-cash is usually a very small amount of money, so its basically like play money. But if you are on the final table, and the next payjump is 5$, there is no reason, why you should avoid bluffing, just because its a freeroll.

Exactly as this sir said

You can bluff in a freeroll. You just need to know with whom

At the beginning of the freeroll, I try not to bluff. Otherwise, you can immediately fly out of the game. Another thing is at the end of the game.

Few people will pay attention to your bluff. Call is always absolute.

It's definitely not worthy in the early stages of the tournament. People call with crazy hands and get super lucky.

I think it depends on how much you know your opponents at the table. And of many other variables. Many bluff in freerrolls at first, because they don't risk more than time, but in a TTM with a relatively high buy-in, or at the cash tables, with your money, you should think carefully before bluffing.

Originally Posted by UM3SH

Can bluffing in online freeroll tournament dangerous?

Certainly more dangerous than in tournaments for money ...

I really can't help but bluff so in free games there are many times I try

It's always dangerous to do it but it's the kind of thing you have to do if you want to win a tournament. In freerolls it is even more dangerous because they tend to pay more often since there was no money in the registration, I think it is better to do it in advanced stages of the tournament

I’m bluffing when get more chips and can afford to lose some chips ��

Hello.
It depends on your goal. If your goal is a bluff, you are in no danger. If your goal is to get your prize money, then obviously there is a certain danger.

At the beginning of a freeroll there is no chance to bluff as a lot of call them with Allins. I think a good moment to bluff is, e.g. just before the first payout ranges are reached. Many avoid then the risk to leave the tournament just before the first 0,0x dollars can be win. Later on in my experience bluffs only work, when there are not many calls in the round, your stack is high enough and the other one`s is not to low, to avoid a "shit happens, all in - answer".

I certainly don't recommend bluffing in the early stages of the tournament. You are only going to get picked off by loose callers.

If you do get into middle to late stages then you can you start expanding your hand ranges.

bluffing is all about timing and board dynamics. Simply raising because you want to be aggressive and try to push your opponents off of a made hand is going to be suicide most of the time if you dont understand what you are trying to accomplish

To make a good solid bluff in any game you have to understand what you are targeting, what hands you have in your range that would take your bluff line for value and consider whatever blockers you hay hold as well. A good bluff can be pulled off in any stakes whether it be a freeroll or a $109 sunday major.

In smaller stakes games because the player pool os generally worse - the rule of thumb for me is to bluff less and value bet more and larger.

Originally Posted by UM3SH

Can bluffing in online freeroll tournament dangerous?

it all depends on the situation bluffing on erly stage of any tournament is dangerous cause nobody knows your game and probably who calls you will have a good hand you must have a reputation on the table first at leats for the first half hour on the tourne (table) so people believe you later on other stages being deep bluffing becomes necesary to win chips and not staying behind waiting only for good hands

In any game, there is always a certain percentage of bluff, to do without it, you need luck in the form of regularly coming good cards, which is unlikely. And the concept of bluff is relative, because before the showdown, you often can not know exactly whether your opponent's hand is strong.

Congratulations to you! More victories and less negative emotions.

I try not to bluff much unless I have a decent read on the opposing player or I am playing a healthy stack. Bluffing is a fast way to go broke unnecessarily. Obviously table dynamic is a key factor. Free rolls have an abundance of lesser skilled players, and those that are fully aware that they need to gamble in order to have a chance at success. Also, these players know that they have risked nothing financially so they will call lightly or on a draw. I am often looking at location of villain before I make any bluff or big bet for that matter. Certain countries/ regions have no food buttons. 🤣

As I think, bluffing always pays off, the main thing is to know how and where it is profitable to use it, in freerolls, as they said above, many play without holding the table, and sometimes bluffing will be useless, ineffective, and sometimes losing, if you are called, it will not understanding what's what (which may happen in the early stages is not rare). However,
a good bluff will help to raise your stack so that you can reach the ITM without worrying, and then to the final table.

it not easy to do but it can be done but not in the early start of the game this is neary imposable to do bc
everyone calling

there is 2 ways i play this

1) i c bet to see were im at in the hand i make it 2.2 on the flop if he called im
hoping the board pair on the turn to fill up but if he rerasies big i now can make
a easy fold and save my chip stack but if he make it 2.2 u can easly call to flot to see the
river again if it hit u now can most likly get more chips by checking the river he will bet
and now can try and rerase him to get more form his made flush but if u miss and check and he bets it a easy
fold bc u know he has the flush but keep in mind u alrdyn think he has it here ur just hoping to fill up

2) i like to check this way u can try and contorl the pot size if he c bets u small again u can flot to try
and fill up on the turn ( if u miss he bets 1/2 pot or pot of all in )it a easy fold and you do the
samething on the river but if u hit the turn or river and now this giving u the full house and he beat the turn
i like to use a few sec of time bank to make it seem like it a hard spot and im in and im never rerasing the turn
here in both ways i explained im doing this hoping he beats the river if not im still beating the river to try
get value form my full house

If you're not lying, you're not trying.

Its only possible after the bouble explosion... sometimes just in the finals... but actually freeroll are bingo tournaments... cant bluff

Both bluffing and semi bluffing are profitable when applied in the right situations.

I believe that in tournaments, in the early stages, you need to be very careful with bluffing and try to bluff as little as possible !!! But it all depends on your opponents, if they allow you to bluff then such moments must be used !!!

Freeroll players are very loose in general so playing tight is usually better. People love making hero calls and especially at no cost!

Freerolls are different, if we are talking about such a freeroll as Cards Chat, then here people play adequately and these freerolls are practically no different from tournaments with a cash buy-in. Therefore, in such freerolls you can bluff if you know how to do it correctly. If we talk about a freeroll in which 5,000-10,000 people take part and the blinds grow every 3 minutes, then of course there is no point in bluffing, it is dangerous to do this here.

Of course yes) because there are a lot of bingo players in freerolls. Тhis also happens in cheap tournaments

Well, making a "Bluff" will always have its risks, no matter if it is in a Buy-in tournament or if it is a freeroll ... but it is clear that in freeroll tournaments we see players doing "Bluff" more often ... However, if we are looking to improve our game ... we must always consider some aspects before making a "Bluff".

Originally Posted by UM3SH

Can bluffing in online freeroll tournament dangerous?

it is dangerous, especially at the beginning of the tournament, and in the first 40 minutes when the bubble bursts, two moments of the tournament that bluffing is extremely dangerous.

You can’t bluff a bad player! They don’t know they should fold!

Originally Posted by UM3SH

Can bluffing in online freeroll tournament dangerous?

Yes I never bluff.

no matter what tournament you play in .. although in trunnies for real and Kurpyn sums, many players are afraid to bluff .. because you can't see your opponent's eyes, the same game as everywhere else ... in small tournaments sometimes bluffing rolls, and sometimes from my own experience I know ... in no way, as if you are playing with a tree ... so you always have to look at the situation ...

Of course you can bluff, but you are likely to be caught if someone has something (anything). Best time to bluff freerolls is when only two players are in the pot. Three or more players, and somebody has something.

You can often bluff when villains show weakness, but remember that they might stick around with even the slightest chance at a win. They might call with bottom pair or even a backdoor draw or over card.

Best boards to bluff at a freeroll is paired boards and single suit boards. These boards become worse bluffs as stakes increase.

I bluffed several times in freerolls i think in freeroll tournaments players are rly fishy so basiclly they are calling with low pair i rather choose to play safe cards

It's dangerous for sure. A lot of players will play just for play and nobody likes do fold. haha Maybe on the very late game you can try bluffing if you notice the players are really playing.