Online Freerolls

FreeRoll Tournaments:
The BenefitsThe popularity of Texas Holdem poker, and in particular, online Texas Holdem is due in large part to the wide variety of games available. Online poker tournaments are available 24 hours a day, and come in a wide variety. TexasHoldem players can get a lot of good experience, have a lot of fun, andpossibly win quite a bit of money through online poker tournaments. Freeroll tournaments are another great way to play Texas Holdem. You can getinto freeroll Texas Holdem tournaments in a couple of ways. Online pokerrooms will often allow you to play in freerolls just for making your firstdeposit, and sometimes for making additional deposits. In addition, onlinepoker rooms will set up regular free-roll tournaments that you can play insimply for putting in time in regular ring games, usually measured by"points." It's quite simple: accrue enough points by playing in regulargames, and you can qualify for free-roll tournaments. The best part about playing Texas Holdem freeroll tournaments is that youare playing with OPM: other people's money. If you are new to Texas Holdemtournaments, this is a great way to get a feel for the aspects of tournamentplay. Use this opportunity to evaluate different styles of play, and payattention to other people. See what works, and what doesn't, and then youmay be able to pick up some ideas for yourself, or find some things "not" todo. Another great advantage of playing in a freeroll Texas Holdem tournament isthat you are able to try out new strategies. Without worrying about riskingyour buy - in, you can try a method of playing that you haven't triedbefore. If you are an extra aggressive player, try tightening up for theentire tournament and see if that style works for you. Conversely, if whileplaying in regular Texas Holdem tournaments, you find that you keep losingbecause the blinds raise so fast, this may be a good time to practice beinga little bit more aggressive. Free-roll tournaments are a great way to finetune your game. There are some other strategies you may want to try out. You may want tojust concentrate on playing your button. The button position is the mostadvantageous position in all of Texas Holdem poker, and playing it correctlyis a key to successful poker. Try playing your button extra aggressively,and see how that affects your success. On hands that you would normally makea marginal raise, go ahead and make a substantial raise, or even raiseall-in pre-flop. Go ahead and take a chance with that 10-J and see how manytimes you simply steal the blinds by making a little larger than averageraise. In addition, try making a large bet when you would normally check. Checking,especially in late position, is usually a mistake. There is a reason why"tight-aggressive" play is so well revered, but unfortunately, few peopleactually understand it. Notice how often you will win a hand by making alarge bet, versus simply calling or checking and losing. Free-roll tournaments are also a good time to experiment with differentstrategies for playing the blinds. The small blind is often the mostproblematic for many players. Since they are already in for half of the bigblind, they often call with marginal hands. This is not always a mistake, asit makes it difficult for other players to put them on a hand. But, if youfind that you are consistently losing your small blind hands, try theopposite of your normal style of play, and see if it works better for you.If it does, adopt in to your regular style of play. Don't ignore your bigblind play as well: if you normally just "check" your big blind, try andmake some substantial raises, even with marginal hands. You may be surprisedat how often many people who called the original blind will now fold, and ifyou win the hand, that's essentially free money - you didn't have to beatthei In short, think of free-rolls as a way to fine-tune your game. A good TexasHoldem player never stops learning new ways and better ways playing game:tinkering with their aggressiveness, of how they play the blinds, and whento make larger raises or get away from hands completely. Be sure to usethese opportunities to improve your game, and don't be afraid to incorporatethem into your regular Texas Holdem game.
> Sorry no time for a post today. So I downloaded this article instead. Good Luck at the tables. Tony