[madmax155]

u need to build youre stack early by capitalizing off of others mistakes like catching then in bluffs and play hands correctly then you will get paid off.

[Arjonius]

Perhaps you'd be willing to offer some enlightenment beyond this one-liner, which seems fine as far as making sense, but gives no clue as to how to implement what you stated. For instance, how about some tips as to how to recognize when players may be bluffing? It's obviously good to catch bluffs, but how do you go about doing so?

[TheSupremacy]

best advice which really isnt advice but really try to dodge bullets, and dont slow play unless u have the nuts. people stay in with bad cards in freerolls.

[revenoff]

Over the past 2 weeks I've been in freeroll frenzy mode and I found a strategy that works.

Fold! Fold! Fold!

When you get AA, AK suit, or KK, go all-in preflop.

Anything else that you might want to play(like KJ) just check/call the blind, no betting unless you hit something great on the flop, in which case you should go All-In.

Once you get to about 10k chips most of the loose people that have been going all-in on junk cards are gone and you can resume your normal play strategy.


I find this strategy usefull because it's easy to coordinate 3+ freerolls at once when you're folding 90% of your hands.

[iceberg]

I agree that a good strategy is to play passive / aggressive. There are so many All-inners willing to push in the first couple of rounds. Just wait for a premium hand then push. Call with a drawing hand, then push when you hit. You will get paid most of the time. AND some of the time you will get beat, but that's poker. No cost except time.

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Originally Posted by madmax155

u need to build youre stack early by capitalizing off of others mistakes like catching then in bluffs and play hands correctly then you will get paid off.

Could not of said it better myself.

[hcow33]

Its an all-in/race fest for the first 20 minutes of Freerolls. Sometimes I will play the allin game, sometimes I will fold almost any hand.

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Originally Posted by hcow33

Its an all-in/race fest for the first 20 minutes of Freerolls. Sometimes I will play the allin game, sometimes I will fold almost any hand.

No, its not. Not even close maybe vs a bunch of idiots in the first ten minutes, but no private forum freeroll is like this for 20 minutes. Granted the partypoker/bet365 freerolls may be like this, but why would you play those?

[Arjonius]

Fwiw, the large majority of pros whose opinions I've heard or read feel that it's not worth risking your tournament life early because doubling up only minutely increases your chance to win whereas losing means you have no chance. For example, Gavin Smith, one of the most loose aggressive players around, was asked if he'd call an all-in on the fist hand of the WSOP main event if he had AK and the all-in player accidentally showed his cards to be QJ. Smith said no.

[nessy]

Originally Posted by Arjonius

Fwiw, the large majority of pros whose opinions I've heard or read feel that it's not worth risking your tournament life early because doubling up only minutely increases your chance to win whereas losing means you have no chance. For example, Gavin Smith, one of the most loose aggressive players around, was asked if he'd call an all-in on the fist hand of the WSOP main event if he had AK and the all-in player accidentally showed his cards to be QJ. Smith said no.

I strongly agree. If you go all in and out you have no chance of winning anything and even if you double up you can lose your stack as quick as you gained it.