Poker Freerolls

Poker freerolls are fantastic! There's nothing quite like playing Texas Holdem freerolls, you get to play Texas Hold ‘Em poker with the chance of a cash prize – for free. Prizes range from hundreds of dollars down to a token few dollars for the lower places.

The beauty of online poker free rolls is that as soon as you sign up to become a member of the freerolls poker site you can play, usually even before you deposit any money.

The standard of competition varies a lot between the freerolls, some of the bigger ones have good players and are hard to win. At Poker Room for example (one of the best poker free rolls), there are 2400 players for every freeroll. The game fills up amazingly quickly after it is open for registration – often within five minutes. And there are loads of players locked out not able to get in the game, this gives you some idea of the remarkable popularity of online freerolls. But although the standard can be quite good, it is possible to do well. Online poker free rolls do not attract top players for the simple fact that the prize money does not make it worth their while to sit for three hours.

And there's loads of them to choose from. Most of the big poker sites online have daily poker free rolls so you can play several every day if you want. So check out the timetable, decide which ones suit you best and start playing Texas Holdem poker for free now.

Freerolls are considered to be the best of both worlds in online poker, they combine the chance of winning a cash prize, the fun and excitement of a real live poker tournament and – best of all – they are free to enter.

Generally freerolls are based on Texas Holdem, although some sites such as Absolute Poker have variations and play Omaha and 7 card stud as well. Texas Hold ‘Em is by far the most popular though with many thousands of people playing throughout the world every day on the major online poker sites.

Most of the major sites have a special “new player” freeroll running as well as their regular tournaments. This is to give new players an incentive to sign up at that site, they can play for free in exclusive freerolls which they have a chance of competing and doing well in, as many of the opponents will be inexperienced or even first time players.

Remember however that most poker sites don't actually give the cash away without getting a bit of a run for their money. If you do win a prize, you will need to have played in a certain amount of "raked hands" before you will be allowed to withdraw your prize money.

This means that you need to play on the site and risk real money in actual poker games in oreder to qualify. Every time you play for real money the site takes a small cut called their "rake". The poker sites are not concerned whether you win or lose - it makes absolutely no difference to them. Once you have paid your rake you play against the other players, not the site. You can think of the rake as being like an entry fee.