FREEROLLS

Poker sites want you to play at their site rather than someone else's site. One of the ways they try to do this is to give away free money in the form of freerolls. These are tournaments that are free to enter but have a real money prize.

Some will have no entry requirements, so anyone can play in them just by signing up for an account with the poker site. Others will only be for players who have made their first deposit recently or perhaps who have played a certain number of raked hands in the previous few days.

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VALUE

Some people dismiss freerolls as a waste of time, and frankly many of them are. Avoid playing in tournaments that have a large number of entrants with a small overall prize pool. The bigger the prize pool the better, the fewer entrants the better. This may seem obvious, but it's more than just about the prize you could win. In freerolls with very little 'value' you will often find that players will go crazy, particularly within the first few levels of the tournament. The mentality of a lot of players is that they'd rather gamble early on - if they win they've put themselves in a good position and if they lose they haven't wasted much time. If you do decide to play in tournaments like this try to find opportunities early on where you've got a high hand or pocket pair where you can go up against just one other player, who might be over betting their hand. If you're lucky enough to be faced with an early raiser whilst you hold a high pocket pair it's worth over betting and going all-in. They might fold but considering the context you've got a good chance of being called with an inferior hand.