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Freeroll meaning
A poker tournament with no entry fee. | A situation where a player is guaranteed a tie but can still win.
Example sentences (10)
If a player knows he has a freeroll, he can raise the pot with impunity, and often a less-skilled opponent with a good hand who does not realize that he is on the wrong end of the freeroll will continue to put in raises with no possible hope of gain.
Other incentives include bonuses and freeroll tournaments.
There will also be one freeroll everyday where the top three players get tickets to Friday night satellites for the $10,000 GTD Sunday Sundowner Tournaments.
Freeroll tournaments are not exclusive to poker.
Freeroll tournaments can be genuinely free, may require a payment of points (from a point system developed by the site), or on some occasions require a deposit of funds into the player's account.
In a freeroll (at least from the players' perspective) the prize pool is essentially a "donation" provided by the house.
Most if not all Internet poker sites have freeroll tournaments although in many cases require a payment of points to play.
Sometimes a particular cardroom or casino (either traditional or online) will offer a freeroll tournament to frequent players.
The Professional Poker Tour is one such 'freeroll', with entrants being required to qualify through their results in previous tournaments.
This format is typical of freeroll tournaments both on the Internet and in the 'brick and mortar' sites.