Playing in a freeroll tournament is a great way to build a bankroll without risking too much. A freeroll tournament is a multi-table tournament without an entry fee but still awards cash prizes to the top finishers. If you are on a limited bankroll and still wish to play poker for cash prizes, these are for you. Most of the bigger sites offer daily freerolls that you can enter without ever depositing a dime.
Many people treat these freeroll tournaments with reckless abandon—they will shove their chips all in with just about any hand, creating havoc for the players that try to take these tournaments early. By simply waiting to play until later stages of the tournament, you will advance quite a bit further than these maniacs will. Only play monster hands, such as pocket Kings or Aces, early in the tournament. Once the dust settles and the vast majority of the maniacs are gone you can ease back into the tournament and play as you regularly would. Tournaments are all about survival; the longer you stay alive, the more money you will win.
Many people look at poker freeroll tourneys as a challenge. Wouldn’t it be cool to create a vast amount of wealth without fronting a single dollar? It has been done before, most notably by poker pro Chris Ferguson. He turned absolutely nothing into $10,000 in less than a year. This shows that freeroll tourneys can be quite lucrative to a budding poker professional looking to make it big with very little risk.
