Online Poker Freerolls - Friend or Foe?
March 6, 2009
When poker players join up to online poker rooms the majority of them head start to the game lobby and check out the line up of tournaments that they are going to try their hand in.
If asked which was more attractive, a tournament with a $100 buy in or a freeroll offering up to $10,000 prize pools, there is obviously one of the answers that is going to appear most…
Freeroll.
Looking at Online Poker Freerolls, many see these as an opportunity to face up against others, with the intent to reach the final table and ultimately take the 1st place without any investment.
What they think is correct, they are a great way to plump up the bankroll but what alot of players forget is that thats exactly what all the other players online are thinking, including the new players who regard ace/king in such a high regard that they are going to call your all in as the flop hits 5, J, 7.
Freerolls are a great way to invest only time into a poker game in the bid to win a fair stack to invest back into the online game.
These types of tournaments aren’t ‘all good’ due to their appeal to bad players, or in cases that we have seen good players playing badly. With all in’s on most starting tables before the flop with jack,10 off suit etc.
In most cases, winners of the freeroll tournaments are average players, people who can play but need that element of lady luck shining on them as they enter into their biggest pot of the tournament…
Don’t get us wrong, freerolls are a definate must for online poker rooms, as they try to compete to become the biggest and wealthiest within the gaming community.
thatsGambling staff have played a fair few freerolls, placing in some and others showing that sometimes worse players fail to be beaten.
Do you play freerolls? How often do you look for their registering? Any freeroll stories to tell us?
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Allen Taylor