How To Play On Poker Freerolls

If you think, that after reading this article you will only win at poker freerolls - you are wrong! Because when you lose another freeroll, I bet you never thought about mistakes you did or any improvements you should make in your playing strategy. In most cases, you will blame bad luck or bad cards. Basically, the target of this article, is to provide you with useful information about freeroll strategy and point players to the biggest mistakes they make during their game. Ready?

Most of the freerolls I played at are divided in 3 stages (even if some are not, the strategy is very similar, you might just feel the stages described below)

First stage of the freeroll

Or the so called losers filtering stage. A lot of people go All-In before Flop or play high bets with bad cards. Exactly this is the right moment of the game when you should need to become a leader of your table or even tournament. While bets are 20, 30 and 50 - you play all cards. This includes:

• all cards that are higher than 9
• A/K + any same suite card (for example 6 K)
• connectors, or following cards (6 7)
• all pairs, including 2’s

Your target for the first stage is to to get your chip count higher than $5000. $10000 is a great achievement.

Second stage of the freeroll

Most losers are gone, but there are still some left. Careful players are dominating, so we have to change the style of our game a little bit. Always remember, placing bet in an early position, you might get an All-In on flop, this way you will just lose your bet. so we have to increase our card requirements a little bit. Now we play only with:

• all pairs
• high cards, like A + Q, K +Q, A+K
• any card + A or K (same suits)

Your target for second stage is to get your stack higher than $40,000. Stack $60,000-$80,000 counts as a perfect achievement.

Third stage of the freeroll

Now we set very high card requirements, as most careful players are out there. This is also a stage where bluff comes in. You should bluff too, but if you are feeling someone is stronger than you, it is not worth it, just drop the cards. Now we play only with:

• high cards (A K Q J) with the same suit
• all pairs higher than 9

Last thing to say, don’t go All-In with only one pair, do not try to get flush or straight for big money. Don’t trust your game to the dealer.

Good luck winning your first freeroll - the tournament where all poker players started.