{"id":283,"date":"2010-01-19T00:10:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T04:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/?page_id=283"},"modified":"2010-01-21T01:45:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T05:45:13","slug":"poker-freerolls","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/poker-freerolls","title":{"rendered":"Poker Freerolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Poker  Freerolls<\/h3>\n<p>Poker  freerolls are an exciting way to get involved in poker tournament  play without having to spend a penny of your own money.  Usually  offered as promotions in online casinos, poker freerolls are  tournaments in which the entry fee has been waived but winners can  still take home real cash and prizes.<\/p>\n<p>While  you may find a poker freeroll tournament that is open to everyone  there are usually restrictions.  Some online poker websites offer  freeroll tournaments for new players when they sign up, as incentive  to get new players to join the site.  Other sites offer freerolls  only for players who make cash deposits or for loyal players or VIPs.<\/p>\n<p>When it  comes to freeroll tournament strategy, many players are more inclined  to go all-in at the beginning of the tournament and risk everything  in order to pull ahead.  Players figure that since they didn&#8217;t have  to pay an entry fee then it doesn&#8217;t matter if they lose or win, so  they play loose and take a lot of risks from the start.  The problem  when you do this is, however, that you also risk losing your entire  stack of tournament chips during the first hand.  For this reason, it  is best to play tight at the beginning of a freeroll and let all  those other players commit chip suicide.  As you make it into later  rounds you can start to take a few more risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poker Freerolls Poker freerolls are an exciting way to get involved in poker tournament play without having to spend a penny of your own money. Usually offered as promotions in online casinos, poker freerolls are tournaments in which the entry fee has been waived but winners can still take home real cash and prizes. While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}