Freeroll Strategy

[eddo31]

i think that a freeroll is a significantly different situation than a real money tourney, and that you should adjust your play accordingly. from my experience in the prima freerolls, playing very tight early is key to making the money. as you said, half the field is gone in the first hour, and in that amount of time you have not lost a significant amount of money to blinds. if you play tight early, and then open up your game after the first hour you can place relatively easily.

this advice is aimed primarily at the huge (3000 entrants) freerolls that i used to play. these generally paid out a significant number of player (something like the final 6 tables), so you would obviously have to adjust your play if it was only the final 3 or 4 that got paid.