2010 WSOP Freeroll Tournament Guide
Most online poker rooms offer WSOP satellites 2010 freeroll tournaments for new players which are simply tournaments that are free to join and have cash prizes for the top finishers. Most freeroll tournaments have small prize pools, but you can’t complain because it doesn’t cost any money to play. Typically these free tournaments are also going to have a lot of players competing for the prize money so be prepared to play poker for hours on end when you join one of these tournaments.
Free Poker tournaments can be heartbreaking because you can play for hours near the leaderboard and then end up losing the tournament on one bad hand. This is why they are so hard to win money in, but they are still fun when you’re learning the game.
In the early stages of freeroll tournaments the action is going to be absolutely crazy and you should stay out of it as much you can unless you have a great hand. There will be plenty of all-ins early on because it’s a free tournament and most players want to get lots of chips or none at all. While players are going at each other you should sit tightly and wait for a good hand where you can double up. You should really only play hands where you have a chance at a big hand where you can go all-in on.
As the wsop tournaments progresses and your chip stacks become bigger you can begin playing more hands and trying to make some hands. You can start playing suited connectors and such hands in hopes of hitting a straight or flush. During the middle of the tournament you need to make a push for the top twenty positions so that you have a good shot at making the final table of the tournament.
The final table of the tournament is going to take hours to get to so you need to make sure that you are a patient poker player to get there. Once you get to the final table you need to start playing carefully and you shouldn’t be playing many hands. If you find that you’re playing a lot of hands early on at the final table then you need to slow down if you’re not hitting. Let the other players try and knock each other out so that you can make it down to the final three. Often the final three positions will win a bit of money, but sometimes only first place will win money. If you need to win first place then you should be trying to work on building your stack during the final table so you can compete once it’s down to only a few of you.
Freeroll tournaments on full tilt poker aren’t ideal for most poker players unless you’re new to the game because only the top few positions are paid and it takes hours to play. If you can pay for your own bankroll then it’s much better and you’ll be able to win more money, but if you can’t then one way to build a free bankroll is by playing in freeroll tournaments in the many online poker rooms.