Winning big money online, just thru freerolls.

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I truly wonder how many poker players have been able to build up a huge bankroll , just by playing freerolls online . Ive heard the stories on TV/ internet about how some pros were able to join and not put money in their account, and play freerolls online and turn it into a ton of money, but I have to seriously question the validity of these claims. We know that the tv and internet is full of alot of bullcrap and thats a good way for online poker rooms to build traffic, is to make players think they can build a big bankroll, just thru freerolls alone. These major internet poker sites, may even pay a pro/ big name poker play some side cash, if that poker player makes a false claim they have won big money thru freerolls alone. Lets face it, theres alot of scams/unsavory actions involved with internet poker anyways .

I personally am a winning live player , and yet I have never been able to win decent money on any poker site, just thru playing freerolls , nor have I ever met a poker player in person, who has done it.
 
tons of money....I'm sure there are.
Here at CC we have members who win hundreds of dollars in the CC freerolls.
Takes some time ofcourse but it could be a nice way to start a roll and with proper BRM people could slowly make that roll grow.
 
Jason Sommerville won his first cash in a freeroll and then obv started to play cashgames and tourneys w/ buyins with that freerollmoney. Later in his career he sat on the a table with Daniel Negreanu who then became his mentor.
 
I only play CC freerolls/special games and I have documented last years results.
https://www.cardschat.com/forum/poker-goals-challenges-wins-46/freeringos-2015-cc-challenge-257925/

I won over $800 in 2014 and in 2015
my YTD total was $1347.88 and a t-shirt and a 2 hoodies and a mystery prize

So far this year I am in 1st place on money won in freerolls and 2nd place in money won in special events for a total of $284.51 also to be added is the $5 I won placing 3rd in the B league final and $30 and a t-shirt for 1st place freeroll us points and a hoodie for 1st place us freeroll money and $10 and a t-shirt for 3rd place in special event points

so you can see I am on pace to surpass $1000 again this year.

https://www.cardschat.com/leaderboard...d=current_year
 
YOU CAN WIN SOME MONEY FROM FREEROLLS there are players who win some serious money from free tournements... you can built your bankroll from that but its difficult thats for sure
 
if you are lucky you can win from freeroll.. like 1million dollar freeroll most player made some money and winner made $20k.. that was also a freeroll.
 
Today there is not big prize freerolls like before 5-6 years ago . On Bwin 2012/13 there was freeroll for 3000 players with pot of 1000$ . My best place was 3rd with prize of 50$+ and that freeroll was about 13:00 and 19:00 GTM. Now are freerolls with max 100$ prize and there are more than 5k players .
 
I mentioned some days before that I won around 150$ on a freeroll at Unibet some months ago. So I think it's still possible to make money on freerolls.
 
A freeroll is a very long time, playing two hours ended up on the 100 place and won 2 cents, it's worth it?
 
Once I got Euro100 ticket through freerolls for the tourny where I took 4th place and won about $1,000. It was old MPN network. Ancient history.
 
I have won money on freerolls on every site I have played on. Some sites OBV offer better freerolls vs. others. Recently ACR had their Freebuy Series for 10 days straight and during that time they offered 57 freerolls. The tourneys were at least $500-$6,000 & the main event was $20,000. I played in 52/57 events and cashed in 15 of them. I made around $100 & that is enough to have a decent starting bankroll on the mini-stakes. My friend also played the Series & I'm not sure how many times he cashed, but he did end up 3rd overall on the leaderboard & got an additional $325. Top prize was $500.

On another site I have played on I won ~$50 and run that into $600 before cash out.

The biggest thing is you MUST have patience & the pros that have run up a bankroll via freerolls don't play freerolls the whole time. Once they have established a proper bankroll to play cash games/tournaments they do that.

You say you are a winning player so there is NO doubt that you will be able to win $ through freerolls it will just take time to amass your fortune.
 
Sure it is not very difficult to win a few tons of cash freerolls, earn $ 5 in a freeroll, play a SnG 5 and win $ 15 and will play some MTTs and getting in the ITM and be happy.
 
Rumme1 said:
I truly wonder how many poker players have been able to build up a huge bankroll , just by playing freerolls online . Ive heard the stories on TV/ internet about how some pros were able to join and not put money in their account, and play freerolls online and turn it into a ton of money, but I have to seriously question the validity of these claims. We know that the tv and internet is full of alot of bullcrap and thats a good way for online poker rooms to build traffic, is to make players think they can build a big bankroll, just thru freerolls alone. These major internet poker sites, may even pay a pro/ big name poker play some side cash, if that poker player makes a false claim they have won big money thru freerolls alone. Lets face it, theres alot of scams/unsavory actions involved with internet poker anyways .

I personally am a winning live player , and yet I have never been able to win decent money on any poker site, just thru playing freerolls , nor have I ever met a poker player in person, who has done it.
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Watching that call a lot of money. Who wins and a thousand is a lot of money for him. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in poker earned not so many people.
 
freeringo said:
I only play CC freerolls/special games and I have documented last years results.
https://www.cardschat.com/forum/poker-goals-challenges-wins-46/freeringos-2015-cc-challenge-257925/

I won over $800 in 2014 and in 2015
my YTD total was $1347.88 and a t-shirt and a 2 hoodies and a mystery prize

So far this year I am in 1st place on money won in freerolls and 2nd place in money won in special events for a total of $284.51 also to be added is the $5 I won placing 3rd in the B league final and $30 and a t-shirt for 1st place freeroll us points and a hoodie for 1st place us freeroll money and $10 and a t-shirt for 3rd place in special event points

so you can see I am on pace to surpass $1000 again this year.

https://www.cardschat.com/leaderboard...d=current_year
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Very impressive. But lets break it down :

You say in the year of 2014, you won over $800 in freerolls..and that is certainly respectable , but lets do the math.

We will round it up to $1000 to make it simple.

You won $1000 in freeroll money in 12 months time. This is 52 weeks which averages out to be less then $20 per week poker income. I would imagine that you have to at least log in 10 hours a week in these freerolls { and possibly much more time then that } . So if we break it down per hour, you are averaging $2 per hour .

What im talking about is someone that has used nothing but freerolls, to win 10s of thousands or more, in a 12 month period. Some pros claim they have done this , but IMHO , this is largely a exxageration and it would not benefit poker sites to allow such scenarios to take place. Ive been a winning live player my whole life , and yet Ive never won any big money online by directly using freerolls only. Ive tried to grind it out for 12 months or more, and it just seems as though the software on the poker sites, does not wish to reward patient and proper play in freerolls , over the long haul, for me personally.

Now dont get me wrong, Id like to be able to regularly win $1000 per year in online freerolls, but even that isnt a very strong income when you break down all the hours one must log into those freerolls, week after week.
 
To build up a huge bankroll , just by playing freerolls online is very rare, that is why there are not many famous players that have achieve this goal .
On the other hand is true that the internet is full of claims regarding this rare lucky winners, to make players think they can build a big bankroll, just thru freerolls alone.
You should balance this two versions and try to get, if not a a huge bankroll at least, a decent one that allows you to keep playing without investing from your own pocket. :deal:
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build my bank roll

Rumme1 said:
I truly wonder how many poker players have been able to build up a huge bankroll , just by playing freerolls online . Ive heard the stories on TV/ internet about how some pros were able to join and not put money in their account, and play freerolls online and turn it into a ton of money, but I have to seriously question the validity of these claims. We know that the tv and internet is full of alot of bullcrap and thats a good way for online poker rooms to build traffic, is to make players think they can build a big bankroll, just thru freerolls alone. These major internet poker sites, may even pay a pro/ big name poker play some side cash, if that poker player makes a false claim they have won big money thru freerolls alone. Lets face it, theres alot of scams/unsavory actions involved with internet poker anyways .

I personally am a winning live player , and yet I have never been able to win decent money on any poker site, just thru playing freerolls , nor have I ever met a poker player in person, who has done it.
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I have never met a person that built a huge bank rolls from free rolls. I also have not won a lot of money from free rolls the most I have won was about dollar fifty is the most that I won. and I would use that to get into a cash game. And most of the time I did not win any money in those games.
 
Rumme1 said:
I truly wonder how many poker players have been able to build up a huge bankroll , just by playing freerolls online . Ive heard the stories on TV/ internet about how some pros were able to join and not put money in their account, and play freerolls online and turn it into a ton of money, but I have to seriously question the validity of these claims.
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I think you misunderstand. Your comment says you truly wonder how many poker players have been able to build a huge bankroll only playing freerolls.
Then your second sentence says some pros state they play freerolls online, then turn that money into big money(I would assume by entering bigger tournaments that cost real money). Not too hard to imagine. Isn't that what Moneymaker did!
 
Ive won a little bit on freerolls and turned it into something on tourneys and ring games. Really the best place to win a lot of cash via freerool was pokerstars but the tourney took for ever and the field was ridiculous. And nowadays people don't play right on freerolls. Its just all in all the time. I blame those turbo games but who knows.
 
eberetta1 said:
I think you misunderstand. Your comment says you truly wonder how many poker players have been able to build a huge bankroll only playing freerolls.
Then your second sentence says some pros state they play freerolls online, then turn that money into big money(I would assume by entering bigger tournaments that cost real money). Not too hard to imagine. Isn't that what Moneymaker did!
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As far as Moneymaker, we really do not know how much info we can trust from our tv . I thought they said moneymaker entered a satellite to win his wsop entry...and not a freeroll...either way, you must be leary of what we are told because the entities that control the tv, media and alot of casinos , often tell us lies in a attempt to get us to spend our cash and make us think we could be the next big millionaire just by playing a poker tourney in vegas.
 
It is possible, I have built a $500 bankroll by only playing free rolls and not depositing a penny
 
I'm using freebuy selected,and won $ 900.An unforgettable experience
 
Rumme1 said:
What im talking about is someone that has used nothing but freerolls, to win 10s of thousands or more, in a 12 month period. Some pros claim they have done this
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I think you misunderstood something. No one would play just freerolls once they have a decent bankroll.

There may have been people who started with a freeroll and never made a deposit, but there DEFINITELY is no one who made that kind of money playing ONLY freerolls.
 
Rumme1 said:
I truly wonder how many poker players have been able to build up a huge bankroll , just by playing freerolls online . Ive heard the stories on TV/ internet about how some pros were able to join and not put money in their account, and play freerolls online and turn it into a ton of money, but I have to seriously question the validity of these claims. We know that the tv and internet is full of alot of bullcrap and thats a good way for online poker rooms to build traffic, is to make players think they can build a big bankroll, just thru freerolls alone. These major internet poker sites, may even pay a pro/ big name poker play some side cash, if that poker player makes a false claim they have won big money thru freerolls alone. Lets face it, theres alot of scams/unsavory actions involved with internet poker anyways .

I personally am a winning live player , and yet I have never been able to win decent money on any poker site, just thru playing free rolls , nor have I ever met a poker player in person, who has done it.
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I just joined AC in late Feb 2016 and have already won over $400 playing free rolls. That's not a giant bankroll yet but I have used the money to play cash tourneys and have been cashing regularly so it's building all the time.😀
 
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