First you have to understand the fact that if you don't do well in freerolls it doesn't make you a bad poker player. Many of us started playing the free of the rooms, to get a kind of bank and jump into the game with real money, but the truth is that this task is not easy at all and such is the complexity of these tournaments, that one of the great professionals of this passionate game launched the challenge of reaching $ 0 to $ 100 unicamentate playing freeroll and although it is true that I achieved it, it was not at all in the time that I had estimated, if I remember correctly it took more than 6 months to achieve it .

The definitive recommendation is patience, work, a lot of effort and study to improve your game.

Each level is different from the other and this includes the same freeroll, it is very different to play a free to a real tournament of the lower levels.

Happy day and good luck at the tables

That's right.
Poker is fun, is passion, is hobby, is exciting, but is not easy at all, and sometimes let you down and you always comeback for more. Demands perseverance and dedication for learning, if you're willing to be at least a reasonable player.
As the legend Mike Sexton said, poker takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master. That's very true.

Apparently there are more and more players and also more places to learn to play well (if you are gifted of course), but it is true that it is not easy at all and I agree on the fact that you have to be really patient to get good results.
Good luck.

I think freerolls are chaos, for some the goal is to make a bankroll,for others to push the chips for free...

I think they are great training for those crazy aggressive players you can meet in card-rooms everywhere. And they also teach you discipline.

The appeal of a free bankroll is strong, and thus many will be attracted to freerolls. The end result of this is that they are heavily subscribed and even small payouts take a great deal of time to achieve. Most people have better options to fund a bankroll than with freerolls.

They are also of limited use for learning poker - the exception to this are cardschat platinum freerolls which are high quality games.

I think all poker players go through freerolls because this is where you go through all the stages of improving your game.

Frerolls is a good place for you to learn and enter a big tournament, when I played a Frerroll Pokerstar I won 1.90 with that balance playing 1 full day I had the final result of 100 dollars

I start my way with freerolls, I have money, but I chose this path consciously.

It is clear that you should not be upset about losing in the Freeroll! But on the other hand if you can't play the weakest tournaments then this is a reason to think and start working seriously on your game!

One can learn from playing....period. Playing in freerolls, the general attitude may be "What the hell?", so players are overly aggressive. But you still get experience and, as mentioned above, learn discipline. Can you make some money? Absolutely. I have turned a small freeroll win into over $150 three different times...each time, my wife was not too happy that I was playing so much, so every time I hit $150, I would "go for broke"...I would up the stakes and said I would stop when I was broke, or hit $1000...I am sure you can guess the result...all three times I went broke, but I had a blast doing it...I did find the caliber of poker better at the higher stakes, but freerolls provided the opportunity to get there.
I even won a ticket worth 1000 Euros into the October 11 Unibet Open tournament...I won it by playing freeroll step tourneys. In short, freerolls can be fun, frustrating and sometimes financially rewarding...keep playing.

Free $$$ playing a game you love to play,,,, Life is good.

Playing freerolls, we can see many loose players in the beginning of the tournament. As you progress thru the field, gameplay changes. At the latter part of the game, you can see either good players or very lucky players and not so many loose players
Freerolls can teach as to be observant of other people. We have to wait and see how they play and with what cards they play. To try to read them so we can beat them.
Freerolls teach us to be patient. To wait for the right cards at the right moment to make our move. Freerolls shows us that every two cards can beat Pocket Rockets. (I still wonder how anyone can be surprised about that fact?)
Freerolls teach us that we have to seat for a long time to reach our goal.
All those things to learn, playing for real money, would cost you dearly (and lot of people loose huge amount of money, playing poker learning those things...) and you get it for free in the freerolls.
So, freerolls are the playground where we can learn basics of the game and have fun without risking the real money. (And that's not bad thing at all )
Have fun

freerolls are a way to understand poker in the first place you don't have to play freerolls forever. it doesn't matter if you don't get a suitable result in freerolls at the end you don't lose any money and you have more experience. think of it as a school of poker and try your best to boost your skills nevertheless you will gonna go higher and play some real money in the future

Freerols are for fun and for learning. You can build a bankroll but you can't expect much from it. I am not disappointed, i love the freerolls for the raisons above.

Hello.
I believe that freerolls are an ideal option for beginners. With freerolls, you can easily improve your skills without risking your own money. In addition, it is obvious that freerolls allow everyone to build a bankroll and this in turn contributes to the further growth and development of the player.

Freerolls are awesome. You get a chance to sharpen your skills without breaking the bank.

any open freeroll can be absolute chaos, this is why the requirements for cardschat make this freeroll the best. not only for player base but for actual game play, still can be a bit iffy for the first 15 mins but is so good after

Originally Posted by Rob Hobson

That's right.
Poker is fun, it is passion, it is a hobby, it is exciting, but it is not at all easy, and sometimes it leaves you hanging and you always come back for more. It requires perseverance and dedication to learn, if you are willing to be at least a reasonable player.
As legend Mike Sexton said, poker takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master. That's true.

your answers are incredible.

I think it is a great way to start, start with ferroolls, create a minimum bankroll and start learning in practice

Originally Posted by terryk

$$$ free to play a game you love to play ... Life is good.

and we still question. we have to be grateful

Originally Posted by Sariane

your answers are incredible.

Thank you so much darling. I feel good for this

Hi.
Honestly, both in freerolls and other tournaments, I always follow the same strategy. My strategy is to be patient, disciplined and make good informed decisions based on my experience and skills. For me, a freeroll is just a good opportunity to increase my bankroll.
Good luck.

I use freerolls as a way to practice things I have learned from study in an environment where I can't lose anything as its free to play

Also there is the possibility you might win something and increase your bankroll but as bad as some of the freerolls are they are still better than play money

Good luck out there

freerolls should be easier to treat, even if you spend many hours on the tournament

Public freerolls, I think it should be noted, are an extremely different beast from private ones. Like, you will have a very different experience trying an on-demand freeroll in ACR than you will in the daily Cardschat event.

free is definitely the most satisfying in life so I will never get disappointed in freeroll

the best things in life are freee

the only problem with freerolls is well, they're free, so there's nothing to lose.. this creates extremely high variance because you have players much more willing to just ship it in no matter what hands they have

Poker is fun and think that is very good to have such opportunity to play freerolls.

Originally Posted by Qrise

I start my way with freerolls, I have money, but I chose this path consciously.

Always better to spend their money instead of our own

I never disagree with frerolls, it's a way to make a profit and it's free

My favourite thing about freerolls is that a min cash is an infinite return on investment, although it is true that it is probably not an efficient use of time for a competent player.

I only play freerolls that are interesting for me....


I mean I have a certain relative small poker bankroll to play poker at cash tables, SNG or MTT.

These kind of freerolls i play seriously
1. freerolls with a small player field
2. freerolls with nice prices

Freerolls wih cash prices but with a lot of players I go all in ASAP and if I win this I start play seriously

No, not at all, they are opportunities for all players, they are a good experience to start and then decide whether to load balance to play other tournaments

Originally Posted by rodo 2285

No, not at all, they are opportunities for all players, they are a good experience to start and then decide whether to load balance to play other tournaments

Freerolls are definitely a bit different than pay-in games. In freerolls, you see people smashing all in on the first hand because "why not?"

Typically in poker, aggression is a good thing, but when you're up against "calling stations," it can chip away at your stack early.

When online poker first started,all sites had tons of free rolls,and it was fairly easy to build a bank roll.People took them serious,and tried to learn the game of poker,and still make money.Most of the USA sites dont have many at all now,and if they do there just a game of allin,and people not trying to master the game of poker.

Guess the good old days from good freerolls and great no deposit bonusses are over and I assume that they will not come back soon.
The hype of poker is also declining as there were a lot of pokershows on TV 5 to 10 years ago and the online poker bussiness was booming.
A lot of new sites started and most of them did not last that long... closed again or were taken over by others.

If there's anything playing freerolls will teach you it's variance and playing with maniacal players. But definitely a great place to learn the basics of the game and maybe pick up a little bit of money if you aren't ready to play the real money micro stakes just yet.

Freerolls are good school.To win a freeroll is more difficult than to win many of the money tournaments.

That's because poker is a game of chance like any other game, where you win or lose.
When you win, happy in life, when you lose sad.

im honest,im happy that there exist freerolls.actually i try to build a roll with them.so keep fighting

The problem with freerolls is the large number of recreational players that you will find and that makes it a game of luck since you never know what they can get you with and it ends up boring you at a certain point, you know how many times I lost to AA against to an 83 off and things like that this disappointed me a lot

Playing freeroll can be fun, but it's not very convenient for building a bakrooll.
And when it comes to learning, I don't think you can learn much by playing them, if you consider the way these tournaments are played, or do you play for real money in the same way?
Ultimately most of the time the game comes down to betting on the limit with any card, and waiting for the hand of God ..... and this is usually VERY disappointing for the game.

Hello.
One of our fellow members posted information about playing multitabling micro success. I have long tried to build a bankroll from freerolls, but to no aval. I read more since multitabling is a good way to bui;d a bankroll....and must not leave out lose it too.

I decided to give a single-table micro, . 5 /10 cent micro for now.

I am not making a lot....yet. But, it seems as though it has a strong possibility for success. Playing tight works. There is no pot, just wager and the blinds never go up. By playing tight, you can aford to be patient and bet just the top 15%, if even that. You can come and go as you please!

The only freerolls that I have found that are worth my time and has value are the CardsChat freerolls. No reentry, no lengthy reg time, no add ons. That's the way I like it!

Dan'O

Originally Posted by zc13expert

First you have to understand the fact that if you don't do well in freerolls it doesn't make you a bad poker player. Many of us started playing the free of the rooms, to get a kind of bank and jump into the game with real money, but the truth is that this task is not easy at all and such is the complexity of these tournaments, that one of the great professionals of this passionate game launched the challenge of reaching $ 0 to $ 100 unicamentate playing freeroll and although it is true that I achieved it, it was not at all in the time that I had estimated, if I remember correctly it took more than 6 months to achieve it .

The definitive recommendation is patience, work, a lot of effort and study to improve your game.

Each level is different from the other and this includes the same freeroll, it is very different to play a free to a real tournament of the lower levels.

Happy day and good luck at the tables

lol not to brag but your not the first and your not the last. I hit my first 100 starting with 0 in freerols within a month. Its not a compition but i thought id put my two cents in. congrats though on getting there.

Why would you be upset about losing a freeroll tournament ? It did not cost you a cent to get into the game. You can have fun playing which I why I play in them. If you happen to win a few cents or even better a few bucks then that to me is a bonus. Now if i had put in a lot of my own money and then got put out of a tournament by somebody playing like an idiot then I would be upset.

I agree that playing freerolls is just a pain. The level of understanding of the game is unlimited.

i only made money playing freerolls, i have never made a deposit in a poker platform

You just have to keep in mind that the fact that you do not have to pay anything to play in the freeroll has also consequences :

Recreational players that know (almost) nothing from poker and can t be bluffed.
Players that hop to hit on the flop with anything

If you are involved in pots with several players it s almost a lottery.

The freerolls are awesome, but you have to e very careful, as some users will e reckless and go all-in with J6 and hit a set on the river.

Originally Posted by capujoss

The freerolls are awesome, but you have to e very careful, as some users will e reckless and go all-in with J6 and hit a set on the river.

If those players go all in with anything ... there s not much you can do then hope the flop,turn and river will follow the statistics.

If you play with AA vs J8 you are far ahead .... but if there comes a 9 10 and 7 on the flop ... you just have bad luck
Even if you have reraised preflop and he calld it ... you would not expect that he would have J8.

Once i ve lost AA vs AA (opponent hit a flush) .... that really s*cks but just remember that you played it correctly and go on.

I really like these freeroll tournaments, I think it's an easy, fun and risk-free way to start a bankroll in poker.