Freerolls (Sharing Knowledge and Thoughts How to Win Them)

[PoorGypsy]

I'm a new player. For now I play only freerolls at 888poker and poker stars and I find them very dificult to win.
Sometimes I play good freerolls like cardschat's freerolls for example and I find them more easy too win then regular freerolls.
The structure of regular freerolls is so difficult (timing, blinds etc). They seem to me impossible to win. I would like always play freerolls like made by CardsChat, but they happend to rare.

I create this thread to find people who can share their knowledge about how is their tactics at freerolls with starting stack around 20-25 bigs and even 12,5 bigs like on pokerstars. I would like to know:

1. How often do you win this type of freerolls?
2. Do you know some videos or other info about strategy at this kind of tournaments? Maybe some streamers who play only freerolls.
3. What is your strategy?

and any other adwises would be very helpfull.

 

[Andyreas]

The freerolls at 888Poker are rather bingo than actual poker due to the blind structure and stack sizes.

Also if you manage to survive a field of 1000s of players, often your win is only going to be a few cents or maybe $1-$2.

So regarding your questions, I'm not able to answer your questions but I can offer an alternative:
If you want to improve your game, I can highly recommend our free CardsChat course and once you think you have the basics, you can try making a small deposit and start playing some small micro SnGs/small MTTs.

Pokerstars has some $0.25 45-man SnGs if I'm not mistaken. So with a deposit of $20-$25, you should be able to see if you can increase this bankroll by playing those or not. If it works, you can slowly go up in stakes in case you feel comfortable.

Hope that helps. 👍🏻

 

[Cooking]

I don't play PS freerolls, for me it's just don't worth my time (prize too small for so many players). 888poker freerolls are good, but you will need a lot of luck to win them because the level of blinds increase very fast. To be honest, I never won any of the daily 888 freerolls, I made a few FT. My strategy usually is play more tight in the beginning and wait for good hands, in the middle-late stages you really don't have other option than play aggressively.

 

[monkeytilter]

1. Play tight solid poker despite the general madness.
2. Don't spew off your stack trying big bluffs, most freeroll players just won't get it or just won't care.
3. Go for max value on you hands (flipside of 2.)
4. Play lots of them, preferably simultaneously (across sites if need be) to maximise your potential and make best use of time.
5, Stay positive, they can be infuriating and some very difficult to get a result in due to crap shoot structures.

 

[besttest11]

I have won many freeroll tournaments. In my experience, always be cautious because most players tend to go all-in frequently since it's a free tournament. Wait for good cards before going all-in. Once you reach the in money, start playing a bit more aggressively

 

[Highfish]

Invest a hundred bucks if you can and play real poker.

 

[micahchippedup]

There are plenty of free rolls across many sites some like those requiring passwords limit the amount of players so you are more likely to make the money, I like jackpoker they have many different free rolls not requiring deposits and like stated above by monkeytilter so you are able to play multiple games to increase your odds. In the big picture however poker is poker free rolls or not granted when it costs a player nothing to play you'll find alot of instant all ins which can go any which way. In the end poker is poker and skills pay the bills so how do you win? Well it's the same as finding your way to Carnegie Hall, how to you get there? PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE!

 

[Igor G]

I'm a new player. For now I play only freerolls at 888poker and poker stars and I find them very dificult to win.
Sometimes I play good freerolls like cardschat's freerolls for example and I find them more easy too win then regular freerolls.
The structure of regular freerolls is so difficult (timing, blinds etc). They seem to me impossible to win. I would like always play freerolls like made by CardsChat, but they happend to rare.

I create this thread to find people who can share their knowledge about how is their tactics at freerolls with starting stack around 20-25 bigs and even 12,5 bigs like on pokerstars. I would like to know:

1. How often do you win this type of freerolls?
2. Do you know some videos or other info about strategy at this kind of tournaments? Maybe some streamers who play only freerolls.
3. What is your strategy?

and any other adwises would be very helpfull.

When it comes to freerolls, I follow quite simple principles.
1. My main goal is to get to the ITM, so I'm ready to use a time bank if it's relevant
2. I play quite patiently and usually don't take risks with junk if my stack is bigger than at least 10 blinds.
3. Hyper freerolls are more about bingo than poker, so my goal is just to take part in them and try to get my share of the prize money