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Free Poker Tournaments (and How to Win Them)

    If you are looking to play free poker, there are plenty of online poker sites offering free poker tournaments. However, finding a freeroll is a lot easier than winning them. In this article, are many tips and techniques to help you increase your chances of winning a free poker tournament.

    The best freerolls I have found in the last few months are on two of the internets most popular online poker sites, Full Tilt poker and Poker Stars. Full Tilt offers several $100 free poker tournaments throughout the day that pay cash to the winners. These tournaments allow a maximum of 2700 players and pay the top 27. First place is $15, while 27th receives $2. Not a great amount, however it could be the start of your bankroll.

    Poker Stars offers plenty of free poker tournaments as well. The best free tournament pokerstars offers is the Daily Eighty Grand (DEG) freeroll satellite at 13:35 EST. Registration is limited to 10,000 entrants and begins at 13:05 EST. If you want to play in this one, you must register quickly, as it fills up within one minute after registration opens.

    Finishing in the top 5 spots of the DEG, will give you a $55 ticket to the Daily Eighty Grand, with a prize pool in excess of $80,000. Finishing 6th to 27th will put $5.50 in your account. If you choose not to play in the DEG, you can unregister from the event and have $55 in tournament dollars in your account to play any tournament on Poker Stars.

    In addition, Pokerstars offers several satellite freerolls throughout the day for a chance in their weekly $2000 freeroll. The top 99 winners in their daily freerolls will be entered into the weekly $2,000 Freeroll held on Saturday or Sunday. The $2K freerolls offer cash prizes to the top 20% ranging from less than a dollar for last place, up to $200 for 1st.

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    The basic strategy you need to employ in a free poker tournament is to stay tight in the early stages. Take no chances as you will soon find people are willing to risk all their chips on a draw, on any Ace rag or face card, just to hurry up and get a chip lead. However, more than half the field will be gone by the first hour, so If you can hang on for a quality hand, you will find it very easy to double and sometimes triple up. Do not try to 'create' your own luck! Let the chasers and donkeys knock themselves out and wait for a premium hand to take down a big pot.

    Once the field is narrowed after the first hour, you will find it easier to make a move as less people will call. Since they have invested an hour in the tournament, the play begins to become more like 'real poker', especially since the majority of the worst players are gone.

    Remember, you can not win the tournament in the first hour, no matter how many chips you accumulate. The key to the game is patience and making the right move at the appropriate time.

    If you are new to the Poker game arena, I recommend this eBook to help you understand the strategies used by professional poker players. Reading this book can help you improve your game and let you see that poker is not a game of luck as much as it is a game of skill. The book is 101 Winning Moves in Tournament Poker and the cost is a mere $9.95. A great bargain for gaining the knowledge and experience of professionals who spend years learning the game!
Sign up for poker stars today and try your hand at a free poker tournament! Good Luck and hope to see you at the final table.