I’ll start by sharing that I love to play a lot of online tourneys with play money because I’m not yet ready to lose with real money.

In one of the tourneys I was able to participate in, something happened. I remember we started with approximately 3000 players and the starting stack was 3000 chips. At the start, I was seriously tight.

At mid part of the game, about 1000 players were left. I remember that point, the average chip count of all players was always beyond my stack. So I’m curious, is there any sense at all to continue playing when you are just at your starting chip count and then blinds go to 400/800 and antes then kick in?

And another thing, do you think I played too tight at the start? How about going out early to have a good chip count, should I have done it?

Thanks and great site!

Regards,
Thorsten
Thorsten,

As long as you have chips, you are still capable of winning. Freeroll tournaments are tournaments that you need to either try and gamble a lot early to win chips, or you need to push your strong hands almost hyper aggressively.

In freerolls with large fields, I would try and pick up chips early as I can to have a shot to win. With me, I will usually push with any pair or any reasonable hand like A-K or A-Q. These are freerolls. If you bust out first, you lose the same as everyone else, and that’s nothing.