GripHoldOn
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 Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 11:08 am Post subject: |
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| The freerolls contain mostly bad players who are trying to win, but at the same time don't mind losing and going broke. Very few players will fold medium strength hands, especially early on, no matter how obvious it is that they are beat. No one wants to get bluffed in a freeroll, and so they call with marginal holdings. The way to take advantage of this is to make sure that whenever all of your money is at risk, you are a very big favorite. It's exceedingly difficult to get all the money in as a big favorite preflop. For this reason, I reccomend that you try NOT to get all the money in preflop, unless you have AA or KK of course. This means that if you hold QQ or JJ, I reccomend that you solely call raises instead of re-raising with these hands. In many tournaments this would be incorrect, but if you re-raise and he plays with you, it's likely that you are in a race situation. This is not what you want in a freeroll because the fields are so massive. If you can take cheap flops, and catch some decent hands, you will be all-in as a big favorite multiple times. If those hands hold up, you will accumulate chips in a hurry. In the first few rounds, I limp in with EVERY hand because I know I can win all of someone's chips if they flop top pair and I flop a bigger hand. After I've built up my stack and the field is down to 200-300 or so, you have to tighten up somewhat. The blinds are increasing so you can't limp with every hand, but I still am a proponent of taking flops against these bad players. If you can get the money in with a set or a flush instead of AK vs AQ, you'll find pretty decent success. |
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