THE EFFECT OF FREEROLLS

[nhan99]

I recently have come to the understanding that in freerolls or low limit tables you sometimes have to play a little loose and stupid just to see how the other half live. Because an unfortunate side effect of playing great poker, is that you are only on the losing end of badbeats, and the such. Usually it balances out but some weeks i have ridicouloulsy bad luck and have to wonder what the hell is really going on, it is at this point that i realize i have to loosen up for a while, maybe even lose a little money to remind myself that these donks, fish and luckboxes arent really winning but in fact just providing frustration on the way to going broke themselves.
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[Bliszie]

Dont adjust to them, make sure they adjust to you...

In the long run its not profitable, and i think alot of those players have an ROi of -3000  :wink:

[Josh_Fish]

I recently have come to the understanding that in freerolls or low limit tables you sometimes have to play a little loose and stupid just to see how the other half live. Because an unfortunate side effect of playing great poker, is that you are only on the losing end of badbeats, and the such. Usually it balances out but some weeks i have ridicouloulsy bad luck and have to wonder what the hell is really going on, it is at this point that i realize i have to loosen up for a while, maybe even lose a little money to remind myself that these donks, fish and luckboxes arent really winning but in fact just providing frustration on the way to going broke themselves.
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I was reading some article and it stated that free rolls are some of the worst games to play because they dont work out well. Number 1 lots of donks and nothing on the line so they do stupid stuff. Also, Chris Ferguson tried to get from 0 dollars to 10,000 and it took him 6 months to get to $6.5 and then another 9 months to 10,000. Point is, invest a little and you make a good investment if you're good at poker

[SystEmsuX]

I recently have come to the understanding that in freerolls or low limit tables you sometimes have to play a little loose and stupid just to see how the other half live. Because an unfortunate side effect of playing great poker, is that you are only on the losing end of badbeats, and the such. Usually it balances out but some weeks i have ridicouloulsy bad luck and have to wonder what the hell is really going on, it is at this point that i realize i have to loosen up for a while, maybe even lose a little money to remind myself that these donks, fish and luckboxes arent really winning but in fact just providing frustration on the way to going broke themselves.
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I was reading some article and it stated that free rolls are some of the worst games to play because they dont work out well. Number 1 lots of donks and nothing on the line so they do stupid stuff. Also, Chris Ferguson tried to get from 0 dollars to 10,000 and it took him 6 months to get to $6.5 and then another 9 months to 10,000. Point is, invest a little and you make a good investment if you're good at poker

Regarding OP, I never feel I have to lose money or play poorer to remind myself of something--although maybe it's good to drive the point home, I like to think I could do without that.  (But I will say it's fun to go into a freeroll and just start donking away, if only to annoy the other players lol.)

Ferguson's challenge was especially difficult because Full Tilt sux for freerolls, imo.