Online Poker Forum - Freeroll strategy

2-7MakesMeRaise · High Card Joined: 17 Aug 2009 Posts: 6

Do you think there is a strategy to freerolls?
Is there that many players who dont care about the game that it makes it a bit of lottery to win?
Im just interested to hear other peoples opinion this.
Personaly I think they can be quite good games if you get down to the last few hundred. But getting there can be annoying when you get called with your pair of kings and lose to the guy with 56.
Any comments appreciated

Thanx Very Happy

bigpairde · Chipluder Joined: 26 Apr 2008 Posts: 8906

A good strategy is to not raise with 2-7

obv. freerolls are full of players who don't care, players who can't play and players where both applies.
try to play very basic poker and don't get fancy as noone pays attention to things like table image, position, pot odds, etc.
play strong hands strong.

Suilaid · High Card Joined: 20 Aug 2009 Posts: 11 Location: Canada

My strategy in freerolls is to sit back at the beginning as the all-iners implode, play tight, and play only the top hands, or play position. Assess the table. One issue is that you might just figure out your opponents and you are moved to balance tables. HTH

AllInDrawinDead · Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 2:31 am Post subject:

find a top tier hand, shove, pray.

that's it.

leonsio1 · High Card Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 3

Well, after hours of playing in freerolls i will tell you something good and bad. I won the 1st round and 2nd round. As everybody says : 1st play tight ( so others players ,"lucky gamblers", will not mess with you because you always, when you call, have strong hand) 2nd Play for the seat, do not try to reach the 1st position because you need to protect your stack against players which are bleeding chips because the blinds are going to cover their stack. I am sure you will always reach a seat!
I did, i went to the final, which cost 5000FTP between 115 players was one, only one, who was going all in all the time. He took blinds, doble up when he got called, lucky he had a hand, but he went to the final table. I finished 26th in a fiel of 115 winners.
Anyway, as i said, will always be a player who goes all in with nothing. Try to play the strong hands and build up ON THE TABLE your image of strong players.
And Good Luck, of course!
Leo

acustaw · Four of a Kind Joined: 07 Apr 2008 Posts: 311

The no limit freerolls are basicly shove and pray early on. In fact you will see a lot of players going all in on the very first hand with any 2 cards. Try the limit freerolls such as horse where you have more control over what happens after the flop if you don't hit.

bredstik · Pair Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 26

Freerolls can be great as long as you have the time available to invest in them. If it's a large player pool, it will definitely take a while to make it to the money, which is why there are so many donks that go all in early on. You can kind of see their point though - if you're going to invest 3 hours of time in a tourney, you want to make sure you can cash. If you're in for the long haul, just wait these losers out and then play your game. Could take about an hour though...

IroncladMerc · Pair Joined: 25 Aug 2009 Posts: 27

Yeah if I play tight on these, I usually make it halfway to the money, but by then my stack is getting low due to increasing blinds and I end up having to go all in with the first decent hand. So since it's free, I have started playing looser in the beginning, trying to find a good hand to double-up in a couple of times. Doesn't always work, but sometimes it does.

DforDissent · Royal Flush Joined: 30 Mar 2009 Posts: 669

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nemesis147 · High Card Joined: 13 Sep 2009 Posts: 11 Location: uk

sometimes , no matter what game your playing online, you feel like pullin most of em out of your monitor, and giving em a good slappin.
but hey, thats just me, i think.
one thing i cant stand though is those idiots who come out of the blue and start being hypocrits and also those who start acting like little babies when they type ahahah, i mean, its like get a life will ya.

nemesis147 · High Card Joined: 13 Sep 2009 Posts: 11 Location: uk

xxhksgxx · High Card Joined: 07 Aug 2009 Posts: 14

quite a simply strategy I think, start off very tight, but if you do get a strong hand then go for it, cos there is so much loose money backing marginal (or what they consider) to okayish hands. If you're patient enough to wait in the first hour or so, so can double up a couple of times relatively easy

re increasing blinds just keep an eye on the average pot, if you are around 30 x BB then just play your normal tight game, if this then decreases to around 10x BB then go into all-in mode

loosen up late tournament, particularly when you get close being in the money as others will tighten and stealing the blinds becomes relatively straight forward

you'll find a constrast of players on the final table that have gotten there for different reasons, ie tight players slowly increasing their stack and gotten lucky a few times when put all in, versus super aggressive gamblers that so just happen to have made it this far this time in a hundred, figure out which is which and adjust your play accordingly

cheers

stephen

HauntedCarolina · High Card Joined: 04 Nov 2009 Posts: 4

There is no sound strategy for freerolls.
You can try to sit out the donks and the lottery players but you run into the situation that when you decide to start p[laying your are short stacked to the donks.
You can sit and wait to play only premium hands but the donks have been rewarded by the system to the point where they no longer care what they have and will put you all in just because you are short stacked.
9 out of 10 times when that happens to you, you will be sucked out.
You cannot win a freeroll playing sound poker.
Shove and pray.
If you do not hit it just move on to the next one.

Just a word of advice....If you are playing sound poker and you have talent do not let the hundreds upon hundreds of bad beats you'll suffer in freerools deter you.
It's not you....It's the business end of the software that's beating you. Not the donks.

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