How do you manage your bankroll with so many freerolls?

soy.KIRA · Apr 16, 2025

I've noticed that it's easy to participate in too many freerolls without focusing. Now I try to select the ones that really interest me and play with more concentration. Do they all play or just a few?

dreamer13 · Apr 16, 2025

Players who can balance financial caution with strategic aggression often come out on top, providing not only stable financial results but also increased gaming satisfaction.Misjudging a situation, underestimating opponents, or making emotional decisions are all factors that can impact a player's bankroll.

dzsire · Apr 16, 2025

But this is the basis for moving to the next level with the money you win in freerolls and being able to play in more MTTs at the same time. So it's not bad for practice, but you also need to know what your limit is and how many tables you can play at once, you also need to learn this.

Lena M · Apr 16, 2025

soy.KIRA said:
I've noticed that it's easy to participate in too many freerolls without focusing. Now I try to select the ones that really interest me and play with more concentration. Do they all play or just a few?

I play as many as I can. In my opinion, freerolls are basically tournaments that don't require much concentration. It's basically a game of bingo, and if you play with at least more or less strong hands, you may have a slightly better chance of making a profit.

babyrosejr · Apr 16, 2025

I've been playing freerolls for a long time and you have to understand that most people play there for fun or don't know how to play poker, so I don't really focus on that because most of the handouts are played on preflop.

PoorGypsy · Apr 16, 2025

I can not play more then one game at the same time.

monkeytilter · Apr 16, 2025

I think the question you are asking is "How do you manage your time with so many freerolls" not bankroll, as freerolls should have no impact on your bankroll as they are free, unless you are purchasing add-ons/rebuys - which you need to look at the value of carefully (they are rarely good value IMHO).

Play as many freerolls as you can simultaneously to maximise the use of your time but if you manage to get into tournaments where you have a chance at "decent" pay-outs drop all other freerolls while you are playing them, concentrate on the money makers.

Rmi · Apr 16, 2025

To play the free tournaments you don't need to have bankroll control

Flyer35 · Apr 16, 2025

Lena M said:
I play as many as I can. In my opinion, freerolls are basically tournaments that don't require much concentration. It's basically a game of bingo, and if you play with at least more or less strong hands, you may have a slightly better chance of making a profit.

Nice, but sad. You said the quiet part out loud.

dorsk · Apr 16, 2025

People can play what they want. Hell freezes over before I would waste any time playing freerolls. It's crapshoot bingo-bongo.

Flyer35 · Apr 16, 2025

monkeytilter said:
I think the question you are asking is "How do you manage your time with so many freerolls" not bankroll, as freerolls should have no impact on your bankroll as they are free, unless you are purchasing add-ons/rebuys - which you need to look at the value of carefully (they are rarely good value IMHO).

Only if you look at bankroll management as being synonymous with loss management. Freerolls can have a tremendous impact on your bankroll on the positive side. It then becomes a question of how well you manage/leverage the seed money that comes from freerolls.

fundiver199 · Apr 19, 2025

Flyer35 said:
Only if you look at bankroll management as being synonymous with loss management. Freerolls can have a tremendous impact on your bankroll on the positive side. It then becomes a question of how well you manage/leverage the seed money that comes from freerolls.

A bankroll is an amount of money set aside for poker, which will not be needed for other purposes. Bankroll management mean playing in a way, that will reduce variance to an acceptable level for long term winning players. The basic idea being, that if you have no or very little money left due to a period of negative variance AKA bad luck, then you have to stop playing or move down significantly.

Which is an undesirable situation for long term winning players, since it reduce the amount of money, they can win. Therefore the original question is in fact about time management and not bankroll management. Working at McDonalds can also have a tremendous impact on your bankroll, if you set aside your salary for poker. But that does not make a question about working at McDonalds a bankroll management question

Flyer35 · Apr 20, 2025

fundiver199 said:
A bankroll is an amount of money set aside for poker, which will not be needed for other purposes. Bankroll management mean playing in a way, that will reduce variance to an acceptable level for long term winning players. The basic idea being, that if you have no or very little money left due to a period of negative variance AKA bad luck, then you have to stop playing or move down significantly.

Which is an undesirable situation for long term winning players, since it reduce the amount of money, they can win. Therefore the original question is in fact about time management and not bankroll management. Working at McDonalds can also have a tremendous impact on your bankroll, if you set aside your salary for poker. But that does not make a question about working at McDonalds a bankroll management question

I'm not entirely sure what the actual meaning behind the question was. I think he just threw the word 'bankroll' in because it sounded cool, whihc kind of skewed the responses.

Nevertheless, I think looking at bankroll management purely from the negative perspective can be self-defeating. OBVIOUSLY we don't want to go broke, so we manage our bankroll accordingly to ensure that we don't get to that point. But we also want to make money, a lot of money, and we also manage our bankroll to achieve that end. It's a sliding scale.

Anyway, we don't need to discuss this here because a Google search will bring up a comprehensive description of all aspects of bankroll management, both negative and positive.

rachelle2291 · Apr 20, 2025

I am much more likely to do well in the first one I enter that day compared to the later ones.

MishkaZL · Apr 20, 2025

If I have a free evening, I play everything I can

4 or 5 tables is not a problem for me, especially if some of these tables are hyper freerolls that last an average of half an hour.

RALF_AK · Apr 20, 2025

soy.KIRA said:
I've noticed that it's easy to participate in too many freerolls without focusing. Now I try to select the ones that really interest me and play with more concentration. Do they all play or just a few?

...freerolls are used to build a bankroll at zero cost, after that and with a lot of study and practice, start playing MTTs with buy-in where you won't be compromising all the money available... increase the limits according to your development in the game...

fundiver199 · Apr 21, 2025

Flyer35 said:
I'm not entirely sure what the actual meaning behind the question was. I think he just threw the word 'bankroll' in because it sounded cool, whihc kind of skewed the responses.

Yes the term "bankroll" is used a lot by people, who dont actually understand, what it is. Fundamentally losing players can not have a bankroll but only a budget. For instance you can only have a budget for playing roulette in a casino, since the long term expected winrate is negative for everyone except the house. And its the same in poker, unless you are good enough to beat the other players AND the rake.

Flyer35 said:
Nevertheless, I think looking at bankroll management purely from the negative perspective can be self-defeating. OBVIOUSLY we don't want to go broke, so we manage our bankroll accordingly to ensure that we don't get to that point. But we also want to make money, a lot of money, and we also manage our bankroll to achieve that end. It's a sliding scale.

I agree, that bankroll management can also be to conservative. Some people dont even want to deposit a single dollar into poker sites, or maybe they make a minimum deposit of $10 to be allowed to participate in freerolls. Then they spend a ton of time grinding freerolls for pennies, which is a waste of time, if they have the talent to beat regular games. Other people deposit for instance $50 and start to play 2NL cash games, and then they dont want to move up to 5NL, until they have grown it to $500. Which is also waste of time.

rachelle2291 · Apr 21, 2025

I was surprised to find out yesterday that I could play on two computers at the same time with replay poker. This is not the way it is with other sites where I am sure you can only be logged on with one device at a time. It sure made it easier to play two tables when they could be full screen on two separate computers.

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