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Early Freeroll Strategy

April 25, 2009

The first most important rule in early freeroll strategy is to play tight. With typically no money invested, most people tend to start playing loose, as they feel this will help them double up quickly. And needlessly to say, most of these players are going to get knocked off because of adopting a loose strategy. The trick is to enter the pot with strong and solid hands for large raises. Although many feel that is a ‘too safe’, conservative strategy, it is likely to reduce your chances of leaving the table early, by profiting with the best hand. Your edge in early freeroll strategy also comes from being more skilled than your opponent. However, as more and more people join the game, and enter the pot, this edge reduces considerably. Even if you are better than all individual opponents, collectively, they can pose to be a formidable group and can outplay or even outflop you. Using pre flop and flop bets and raises when you have strong hands, will discourage people from joining the pot. It is better to keep your hands strong by playing Ace-King, Ace-Queen, King-Queen etc or any other pocket pair. With these, you can hit either of your cards and at the same time be confident with the kicker. Also, at this stage in the game, the blinds are very low in comparison to your stack size, which leads you to believe that you can play almost any hand and still keep your bank. However, this can be a big mistake, as it will turn out to be quite expensive, due to pairing up and being beaten by a higher kicker or someone hitting an over card. It is important to remember that the game is only just beginning, and any player can virtually have anything. Also, if there are inexperienced poker players, they will be taken advantage of by the stronger ones playing any kind of hand to keep the ball rolling. Another important aspect of early freeroll strategy is to maintain your patience. Avoid calling all-ins without the nuts or a solid hand, for example two pair or better, unless you are absolutely certain that your opponent has been beaten. Avoid being too presumptuous and overbearing, as in the early stages, no has invested to much money and the standard of play is very poor. So if you try to be tricky, you might end up being the loser. Your will get called more often then if you try to bluff too much. The best advice in early freeroll strategy is to let your cards guide you to a winning position.

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