This strategy is one I use to great effect (profit!) in both cash and free texas holdem freerolls with up to 1000 players involved. I will keep it short, since there are too many long and boring free poker strategies that keep coming with the same info in another context.

The first hour

Freerolls are played by everyone, good players bad players, annoying people that just keep going all in and all in again.

The all in on every hand donk players are the ones to watch out for early on. Never take a risk in the beginning of even a free texas holdem tournament, because the players that don’t know the game or so will go all in with A 6 (not even suited) and it would be very sad if you have an As Ks and will be beaten by a A 6!

Just call when it’s low when you have AA, KK, QQ, JJ, AK (suited) KQ (suited) Note: You should not go all in with these cards at the pre-flop (bad beats are very frustrating)

And very important; DO NOT BLUFF during this period.

Following the first hour

This is the time that a lot of the bad players are gone, except for the lucky ones!

Here it is possible to play more aggressive and attempt to steal the blinds (essential because the blinds go up and ante has to be paid so what you can get by playing cards is too less to keep playing)

You can also introduce some new cards to you playable hands like:

• QJ
• AA (all in when in late position and not so many people in the pot)
• AQ
• 10 10
• KJ
• AK
• KQ
• QQ
• KK (same as AA)

When you are in the pot with a few players and they just check or make low bets/calls you can try to bluff.

Ensure that your stack is not less then the average stack, if it does go back to the “first hour strategy” and tighten up! (it is not a shame to pull back and change strategy a couple of times to create some confusion!)

Congratulations If everything went well you are now in the money, but you can’t tell me that you want to quit now and earn some crappy cents, that’s just waste of your time since the most freerolls will take up to 4-5 hours. So concentrate!

This is the part where the “n00bs” are gone and you play with some poker freaks so be cautious!

You can recognize the good players not at the amount of chips they have but at their check, bet, call, raise and fold actions!

They are going to try to get to see the flop with as less chips as possible and fold most of the time (most common way to spot the good ones).

In order to be in the top 3 (other places won’t pay that well) you need to be careful, but take some risks to! The hands you can play are the same as in the second part of the freeroll from the 77,88 and up.

When in late position try and steal the blinds, but not too often or you will be recognized as a bluffer!

So see you at the tables, good luck! To end off, if you are new to poker it is, without doubt best to start on free poker freerolls. As you get better you can move up in levels of risk and reward on some of the mainstream online poker sites.

Share This

Tags: free online poker, free poker, free texas hold em, free texas holdem, free texas holdem poker, gambling, poker

This entry was posted on Sunday, May 30th, 2010 at 10:36 pm and is filed under Trampolines. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.