Joined: Apr '10
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wow,wow and wow! it has nothing in common with any rules of poker what is happenning in a partypoker bankroll builder freeroll! they will go all-inn from no positions at all with any lower pocket pairs or even any suited combinations,ex.2Q 4J etc.and they still make the call even when before them 3 players where raising,reraising or gone all-inn! only the variance can decide,it is absolutely the luck factor over any basic skills!
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Posted by shokaku: A freeroll is a freeroll is a freeroll. Players have nothing to lose and are trying to get lucky and build a big stack early in the tournament.
Yeah thats right but to play like this is a sham, if they really respected the game they wouldnt do it would they? I mean these type of player are they really in the game? ie do they have the love / respect for it? I think not . Going alll in in the early stages of a freeroll can be profitable play defo against idiots but it has its definate disadvantages with so many freerolling idiots that play crap. I dont play many freerolls for this reason alone, just cant stop hating the prat that turns over 45s to my AA / AK that type of thing. But the other way to look at it is if they keep going mad and you can stay in the tourny, you will have a great chance to take all there chips later on in the tourny.
when i play a silly freeroll i try to beat my record of how many times i can go all in and win, at the moment its 12 ,
when you have a good bankroll , playing a freerol lfor 5-8 hours is a waste of time for a $15 first prize , plus its not really poker you get no respect, like when you raise like a cash game or cash tourney ie $5 upwards, there ok just to practice and try out a few moves nothing more, so dont take them serious............. no one else does
Joined: Dec '09
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Posted by xxxbchxxx:
Posted by shokaku: A freeroll is a freeroll is a freeroll. Players have nothing to lose and are trying to get lucky and build a big stack early in the tournament.
I mean these type of player are they really in the game? ie do they have the love / respect for it? I think not .
But the other way to look at it is if they keep going mad and you can stay in the tourny, you will have a great chance to take all there chips later on in the tourny.
yea freerolls are pretty bad i hate them myself u get the odd one thats not so bad but that will stil be full of idiots lol or are. if u build a stack the later stages are not so bad, I won one on stars not so long ago and it was funny in the later stages none of them seemed to know how to play when the blinds were so big like 5,10,15k they kept raiseing then if someone went all in they would fold so they just gave half of there sack away i was sitting laughig and i also took major advantage of this. It was a turbo and people with less than 10 bb were raising with things like K10 in early position then fold when someone went all in. because they wanted to go deep it was easy to steal all the blinds and i built a nice stack without getting called that much. I think u are talking about he ones on party and like almost all freerolls i just fucking hate them dont see the poin in alot of them playing forever and if u win u get $15 i would rather deposit. all the same i have a monster freeroll in a few hours for $20k dont know what it will be like but it is a freeroll well worth playing, $4k for 1st hope i win
Edited by Flippedchips (10 April 2010 @ 08:37 GMT)
I thank god that fortunately not all freerolls are like that, some of them have good quality play and it's those kind of freerolls I target to play as 1) it's not a waste of time 2) help you to improve your game with losing anything and 3) they usually have a nice prize pool
Joined: Mar '10
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its always the same on party poker everyone all in i just sit back and watch them all go out haha within the first 10 2 20 mins 2 3rds of entrants are out ezii money lol it does pee me off the amount of donkeys hehe u just need to know how to play them
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Location: France
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Posted by debb313: its always the same on party poker everyone all in i just sit back and watch them all go out haha within the first 10 2 20 mins 2 3rds of entrants are out ezii money lol it does pee me off the amount of donkeys hehe u just need to know how to play them
u are totally right, after playing so many freerolls at partypoker I learnt how to play them.. alrdy got 1st place at bankroll builder (won 20$ and a ticket) and a 2nd place at 1$ tournament, made me like 48$ easily, just play tight
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Posted by Synthetikos: wow,wow and wow! it has nothing in common with any rules of poker what is happenning in a partypoker bankroll builder freeroll! they will go all-inn from no positions at all with any lower pocket pairs or even any suited combinations,ex.2Q 4J etc.and they still make the call even when before them 3 players where raising,reraising or gone all-inn! only the variance can decide,it is absolutely the luck factor over any basic skills!
