Joined: Dec '09
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 39 (M)
Posts: 14
when you play free rolls my aim is to get up there as fast as i can. ak aq so on i go all in if i win people moan and call me. i know you get all in donkey ill only go all in if the odds are in my faver. poker is hard to under stand am i better of in cash games?
Joined: Feb '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 35 (M)
Posts: 1886
People who have no money in their account take freerolls seriously. Even though you often have to play for hours and beat a thousand players to win 2 dollars, I see people playing tight as though it were a ten dollar buy in. I don't need to play freerolls, they are probly a waste of my time but I often register if I'm playing other tourneys at the same time. a lot of players though register and go all in instantly. If you care that little about it why register and take the chance away from others. You don't need to double up quickly cos you'll find the pace is usually slow. If you get a stack of ten times the average stack as I did the other day you'll find yourself too big to care about the pots and be bored by the play.
Also if you're going all in with a full stack when there are only the blinds and one limper in the pot you will always piss people off on any level. You shouldn't go all in in any circumstances where the pot is less than a tenth of your stack. you should only get called by a monster hand and most players will be angry when they have to fold their middle hand and even more angry when some idiot calls you with a pair of 3s or something and gets doubled up by playing badly.
Joined: Jun '09
Location: France
Age: 43 (M)
Posts: 670
Hello! Freeroll could be a good way to discover new game or TYPE OF limit.
But You It's just for discover because you won't your good or not. One time on pokerstar I play a freerol Omaha hilo with 7K PLAYER. I go on final table. It was the first time I play omaha on tournament. lol I don"t think I'm good on omaha just other player were taking the tournament seriously and know basic strategy on omaha.
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Sweden
Age: 56 (M)
Posts: 582
Always go all in at the start.. If you get lucky you build a nice bank roll.. Once after the first hand i got 6000. But lose it a couple off hands later
Joined: Oct '08
Location: Estonia
Age: 48 (M)
Posts: 445
When i have nothing else to do or i play something else (cash,mtt, sng) same time, i play freerolls seriously. Or if its some special freeroll with good prices or small amount of players. But regular few dollar freeroll - i dont want to waste hour and then go all in with KK and double my 1/2 stack to play another hour. And drop out after 2 hours and no money. So yes, i go allinn more easyle.
The reason people get annoyed is because simply, you are just treating hte game as a joke, and show no poker skill or ability. And thats why you are stuck playing freerolls and not real money games.
If you ever want to get on in poker take every game seriously, even if its a freeroll. That way you learn the game, learn how to play it, and learn the many mistakes people make. One of which is going all in too much.
90% of the time people are stuck playing freerolls because they cant play poker. They only think they can..
Treat freerolls with respect, play the game properly, and you'll find you have a BR in no time at all.
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Posted by fejset: Always go all in at the start.. If you get lucky you build a nice bank roll.. Once after the first hand i got 6000. But lose it a couple off hands later
And you have a nice big bankroll right ?
Or are you still stuck playing freerolls and relying on handouts to play any form of serious poker.
People don't give value to their participation if it's free so ... it's a good chance to make money at first. After a while, people think that they spending a lot of time in tourney so they play more reasonable. I like people go all-in at first because participation decreases fastly and you also have a good chance to double up
Joined: Oct '09
Location: Lithuania
Age: 43 (M)
Posts: 2805
if u go all in and win after some calling u u are great poker player but in over hand if u play all in and u loose a lot off hands and go away from tour u are the really donkey so peoples who play clever poker never like donkeys thats for me i hate donkeys too so good luck all
Joined: Nov '09
Location: Poland
Age: 35 (M)
Posts: 1189
In the start of freerolls there are many players who don't really care of freerolls and go all-in until they loose. It's annyoing for players who want play serious. And some players play like 10 mtt and they open like 10-20 freerolls on diffrent Poker rooms go all-in on every and play only some which they double or triple up ^^. I do that sometimes when bored... look for every freeroll open it go all-in and if i double or triple up i think to play or not.
so peoples who play clever 
