Imagine you're playing Pot-Limit Omaha freeroll. On the first hand you get some okay cards, with some decent draws. In your four hole cards, there's a suited connector, a couple of unsuited one-gappers and all of them are above 9.
But here's the problem. There's a player that's raising the maximum amount at every opportunity. He's in early position and raises the max when it comes to him, and the[...] Read more » Wolf-Sheep and Sheep Wolves Story time
Joined: Mar '11
Location: United Kingdom
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The trouble with playing these freerolls is that you are always going to get a few players who just go all in with drawing hands and they dont care about winning or losing. PLO freerolls are always very difficult because of this
Joined: Apr '11
Location: Romania
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Playing freerolls affects how you should play poker by the book, it's good on pot limit freerolls at least that donks do not have straight the all in button.
What was exactly the hand that you had in your hand?
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Portugal
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These metafors are very well applied to the concept of poker, and turns things easier to express the others the way one should see himself at a table and the opponents. But freerolls will always have this kind of problem, that player that only registered because he didn't have enough money to register at that time or the one that really wanted some action, not even if it was just for a few minutes, and freerolls are perfect for that, althgouh ruining the game of those who are trying to play it serious and the others who try to learn something through that experience...
