Message Board | Multitable freerolls

It can be done, but you'll have to be VERY patient.  I once took 42 cents at Paradise Poker (Paradise wouldn't let you cash out anything but whole dollars) and turned it into a $3/$6 bankroll (which promptly got stuck in Neteller).  I got lucky at my very first sitting at the 2c/4c tables and then it was off to the races.

Strategy, play a lot of freerolls.  If you're really bankroll challanged it can be done.   Personally I get bored playing tournaments so I'd rather dig into my pocket to finance my game than sit in a tournament.

Last summer, UB was doing massive freerolls for tournament entry chips.  You had to place top 50 in one tournament (of ~2500) to qualify for another tournament where you had to place top 10 to get it.  At that point, you could split the TEC to 100 tournament dollars to enter tournaments.

Of those, I hit 2nd in a $10, and 3rd in a $5, for a total of about $1000.  Through a combination of not being as good as I thought I was, and poor bankroll management, most of that's gone, but I'm on the rebound.

But it's definitely possible.  Takes a bit of luck, though.  The other thing that I noticed was that the freeroll tourneys played much, much different than the small stakes money tournaments.  I haven't played a freeroll in a while, but if I recall, it was mostly a matter of not being able to logically connect their actions to their hands.  So, I stopped trying to read hands, stopped bluffing, and value bet the heck out of anything marginal, and that's basically how I won the freerolls.

At that point, I didn't really know if I was good enough to be investing my own money in learning poker.  At this point, I probably wouldn't try it again, but if you try, good luck!

weasel97 said:

… not being as good as I thought I was …

Congratulations, realization of this is the first step to becoming a winning player.  No one sits at a poker table thinking "I suck, sure hope I can give all of my money away", most do so it must be bad luck

cool post JJS

I put the dream stealer to google and the results were really amusing

But I'm sure Ed's gonna get banned for being dreammaker as well and some devil's soldier who's encouraging people to focus on learning poker

I don't know 'bout you, but I like smilies

What I found was a warning against 'that kind' of people, who tell you that 'it won't work', 'you can't just do like that' etc. exactly what you meant. It amused me as I can imagine other people say 'no, you can't just win anything playing poker. You can only loose there' and claim anyone saying that you can learn to play and win… you know what I mean.

I guess basic proper strategy for the beginning of a freeroll would be similar to a strategy for a rebuy phase of a buy-in tournament. Wait for god hands (in relation to what other's play) and pounce people out.

You're much better off taking advantage of one of the free money offers available than playing freerolls and cashing for a few bucks at a time. Just do a google search for "free poker money" and you'll find some sites that'll give you $50 or even $100 to play. You'll have to play so many raked hands to be able to keep the money, but you'll get a lot of playing experience in real games without having to deposit your own funds.