How to play large freerolls?

Play aggressive with strong hands, don't be afraid to lose, and if you that the bank not going to be yours fold without any downs

I would prefer playing tight play , just find you opponent mistake and take advantage from it. In freerolls players doing a lot of mistakes.

I play slow. Opportunity to win without paying anything. So I'm calm and I play tight.

Back when USA could play on Pokerstars I used to love the huge qualifier freerols they offered. They'd start with 10,000 entries...and I think it was top 100 advanced...then in second trny I don't recall how many were entered...seems like a couple of thousand...played for top 10 and would receive a $1,000 entry into a trny. I managed to qualify for the 1K ticket top 10 twice.

To get to the end I would play very tight early...I'm talkin' folding aces preflop because the kamikazes were all going all in at the same time early. So that;s one way to play the huge freerolls. When things settle down, just play ur game.

As far as 1000 players or less freerolls I'd say just play conservative until u know the payers at ur table.

But that's just me.

If in the money, play big.

To play large freerolls, most of your strategy should be focusing on playing strong solid starting hands such AK, AQ, KQ and pocket pairs and so forth.

At the beginning of the freeroll you don't have a deep stack so it is critical to play smart poker not reckless because freerolls tend to take a long time to play if you are successful.

In tournaments I use almost always the same strategy and is: expect a good hand post-flop to be aggressive, and study possible projects of villains.

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Hello.I choose to play agre large freerolls because when players are more than 4k you got no hope at the middle of the tour....So you will loose soon or you will be at a good place from the beggining .

After playing freerolls for a really long time I've learned a thing or two about them and I'll gladly share here. The problem with them is that unlike cash games above 1c/2c, tournaments both freeroll and big buy in ones have a much larger level of variance. And this is infinitely more true for freerolls. A lot of people think, "hey it's free I can do this every day, why not just try to get as many chips as I can" and they'll do the craziest moves you've ever seen. Those types of players are completely and utterly unpredictable, they might be holding AA or 72 their playstyle is probably going to be the same aggressive shove/fold pre flop all in. Those kinds of players are the ones you need to watch out for.

And the problem is, in the early stages of freerolls the majority of players are like that. And I'm going to tell you that IT MIGHT NOT ACTUALLY BE BAD. Don't stone me to death for this, I'll elaborate I promise. Freerolls are a HUGE HUGE gamble and having a big stack is paramount for you to get to the late stages when they actually start paying anything half decent. You have to make those really risky coinflip all ins just to boost your stack so you have room to either wait out those unpredictable players or just to have more wiggle room to outplay your opponent post flop if he's not one of those maniacs.

Now, I am in no way advocating you going all in with completely silly hole cards, but just bear in mind that openning up your range a bit at the start of a freeroll might not be as bad as you think.