why do they even sign up for the freeroll

If you are gonna go all in every hand regardless of the two cards or position over and over and over again until you lose, why raise raise raise cap limit games pot bet with nothing in omaha.

the common answer it is a freeroll who cares. on some sights like full tilt you are lucky to get into a freeroll sometimes the flash of entries freezes the siteso obviously they care. so again why play if you are not gonna play. you are learning nothing. you might as well play rummy or go fish.

so if anyone here is one of those people who is all in johnny every hand plz tell me why . what motivates the action?

Going all-in with 39o, getting called by AA and flopping a boat is the perfect way to get off tilt. Even more so when you're not risking any money. Even more so when you know the guy who you just busted was taking the game seriously and you might have just crushed the dreams of an upstart young pro.

In addition: since it's literally not worth it at all to play in a freeroll unless you make the money, and there are usually very few paid places, people just unicorn (a term my friends invented for pushing every hand of a tournament) and bust out early or have a much better chance of getting cash by building a big stack.

In limit tournaments: sometimes people are unaware that they've registered for a limit tournament and want to get out as quickly as possible. Also, for people who've played mostly no limit there's something funny about capping every street with J high and still being alive in the tournament. It's absolutely hilarious when people fold as well.

In omaha: people don't know the rules of omaha/want to go AI for reasons stated above but can't since it's pot limit.

Basically for >80% of the people in a freeroll it's just a way to waste time/fight boredom so just embrace the fact that nobody is taking it as seriously as you are.

What he said. It's not worth playing them in the first place, so if I decide to play one for whatever reason (most likely misclick), I just try to build a stack or go busto in the first couple of hands.

freerolls are a huge waste of time and assuming you have a BR you actually loose money by playing them.

im not ashamed to say it but i love freerolls!!
i can see how some people hate dem,with the all in pushs coming every round early on.but once you cut away the idiots and get into the comp a bit it becomes really interesting!
im proud to say that ive positioned in the last 4 freerolls ive played............too bad i only raked in 2dollars!

still all in all........its free money!

I will accept that freerolls can be fun , however being good at a freeroll doesn't mean that you are a good poker player , just that you aren't as bad as all the others. Having done the freeroll circuit for two years it was getting boring rather than fun. I was looking at playing Horse, stud, PL Omaha freerolls just to get some fun back into it.
Then I found the beginners circle having googled poker videos and reading all the strategy stuff and the posts here I realised just how much I didn't know and how much there was to learn. I entered the freeroll on full tilt last night not for the money as only 3 were paid but to pit myself against other good players for free. It helped that it was a format that I was used to and knew to a certain extent what I was doing. But if it was a cash table I'm certain that most of the participants would probably have ended up with my money and I would be looking extremely foolish in the way that I finally lost my money.
addendum: If you really want to know how to beat the freeroll idiots ......miss the first 30 minutes, the all in idiots will have a big stack and don't know how to play. Wait for your premium hands and get it all in against them. The blinds are low so you'll have most of your stack left and the idiots will have taken each other out generally. pretty soon you'll be back in contention or had a bad beat and not wasted much time.Then you start applying proper poker play that you'll pick up here against the better players who are left. Then you will have a bankroll that you can play proper poker with.

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I could give you some coaching in freerolls Stacks

I totally agree with the premise that free-rolls are all-in fests. Most people don't care because they've got nothing invested but time. For me, I tried to use them for practice. Sure, you don't learn a lot if you go all-in first couple of hands and get knocked out, but it does get you to practice some patience. You learn not to get involved early on and to wait it out until most of the all-inners are gone. Once that first hour or so is over, if you're still around, you can start playing some poker - if only a little. You can not become a great player playing freerolls, but you can start to learn the game for nothing and build up a small bankroll as well. It's certainly the easiest way for a person in the US to get money into an account.

Originally Posted by oskar

What he said. It's not worth playing them in the first place, so if I decide to play one for whatever reason (most likely misclick), I just try to build a stack or go busto in the first couple of hands.

This basically my feeling towards freerolls. I hate to play forever and win 80 cents or whatever. Every once in a while, I'll forget how much I hate it and think "I'll play crazy and get top 5 or nothing", but somehow end up just cashing and being all annoyed again.

When European players play on US or Candadian sites the good freerolls often start very late. (1-2am) If they can double up 4-5 times early they might continue playing.