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Message: [QUOTE="HoldemChamp, post: 336165, member: 2813"] I think for beginners freerolls can be a valuable tool to learn about poker without involving their own money. But, I am talking about beginners that are actually trying to learn. Not the ones that could careless and play pretty much any hand hoping to get lucky. Those players will probably never improve. And will probably never step up to real money except for the occasions where the win and then go play real money just to give it away playing the same poor poker that lucked them into a win. However, there is a point when playing in freerolls does begin to have a negative effect on a player that really can no longer be considered a beginner. You learn what you should play and not play. But, you keep seeing trash hand after trash hand win and may begin to question how correct the advice from the pros and the books you have read. That is a tough place to be. From there you may slide in your game play. Thinking that maybe if you play a bit more marginal hands it might improve your chances. In the short term you may hit some luck. But, over the long haul you are hurting yourself. As well. once you have moved passed being a beginniner you have tools now at your disposal that you really can't use effectively. What good is it for you to make a correct bet to push out draws if half the table calls that bet and someone ones ends up catching the draw. You have to fold and you just wasted correct bets that ended up hurting your stack. What good is a semibluff against people who don't understand odds and betting. Those are just a couple of the skills that you pick up when you pass being just a beginner that you really need to put into practice to get better at using them. You really can't do that in a freeroll. Or even in play and nanolimit money games. I guess the point I am trying to make here is that you need to learn when freerolls are no longer helping your game but hurting it. Then make the transition to real money. Of course you still have to keep money management in consideration. You might still need to clean up some leaks before you move up. [/QUOTE]

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