Poker Freerolls Online

When someone is talking about poker freeroll it could mean two different things. One it could be a tournament which does not charge an entry fee thereby providing a sort of poker freeroll for the players. This means that the players would not be required to make a buy-in. Also, as there is prize money involved the winners will get money without spending anything initially.

One may wonder why casinos would bother to hold such tournaments and offer a poker freeroll. Such tournaments are mostly part of a promotional exercise and nothing else. They would decide on an amount as the prize money, for example $5000. In this case the eventual winner will take home $5000 without having made a buy-in. These tournaments are also a way of luring in players and to get their excitement going. The usual thing that could happen is that winners at such tournaments would end up spending prize money from freerolls on games with high buy-ins. This way the money stays with the casino and indirectly will get more than what they spent on the prize money.

In a game of poker, poker freeroll refers to a situation when there are two players in a game having the same hand against one another. This would demand that one of the two draws a stronger hand while the other player cannot. To explain this better let us go with an example. Player A and player B have hands of QJ spades and QJ diamonds respectively, consider the board to be AKT, ace and king of spades, ten of clubs. In this situation players A and B are said to have a straight with player A having to draw to a flush. This could lead to either the two tying for the pot or will end with player A winning. In such a scenario player A would be considered to have a poker freeroll.