1st thing to learn for new players

If you want to do well in the freeroll tournament you have to have patience. If you are playing 10J and you think thats a good hand, stop and fold it because thee are alot of hand that beat it. Having the patience to wiat for the good hands is good because there are always poele going out. I went into a 6000 person freeroll in pokerstars and buy the 1sy hour it was down to 3000. So if u wait people will be gone. dont get scared because someone have 50,000 and you have 2,000 because if u play your hands right, you will double up anddouble up and double up to get to that 50,000 or more.

I was at around 15,000 and it was near the end of that 6000 person tourney and i had to wait and wait and wait through the blinds, but then pocket jacks, all in, double up... im at 30,000.. next hand pocket kings, doubel up to 60,000, now im back in it i waited and other 10 mintues got pocket 6's raied the pot got called, 6 on flop , all in now up to 120,00 and so on. I got up to 400,000+ untill i had to leave, but i still came in 13th place. So if u have the patience to wait througt those unplayable hand you will become a great poker player. I works playign at home or online.

If there is anything I would say to anybody about playing tourneys with large numbers it would be have patience. Patience is hard. Patience is frustrating sometimes. But it will keep you in the game. Remember the guide for starting hands and know that most others you are playing with don't. I don't have a wealth of knowledge but do know this.

j14147

If you play 10j your starting with 2nd or 3rd best hand and will finish that way unless you hit, which is a huge underdog. starting with the best hand doesn't always win but it wins most of the time. keep in mind that the way you win at this game is the mistakes other people make and it all begins with the cards you decide to play.

while patience is the most/one of the most important things in poker and excpecially online poker since you cant read peoples body language like you could live, you can have too much patience and wait too long for cards to come when you need to make a move with maybe something worse then a high pocket pair or AK,excpecially when really short stacked.also, seeing a few flops with statistically worse hands is sometimes a good idea too. otherwise your play becomes very predictable.if playing against decent/good opponents if you only play very good hands after a couple of times they will start to notice and their play will adjust to counter your tightness.

Yea steve you can wait too long, liek if the blinds are taking ur stack way down then you have to play, but if u have a sufficient amount of chips, then youneed ur patience.

what about the 1st hand

like, a lot of times, in big big tournaments, you see 2-3 people going all in early (possibly 1st hand)
what would you advice doing for that? like you mentioned, in 1st hour, 3000 ppl knocked out....

so if 1st hand, i get dealt pocket jacks, 2 ppl do mega-raise (or all-in), should i call? i mean, pocket jacks are a GREAT hand, but if 2 other ppl are in, odds are at least one of them has an a-k-q, which if hits, pocket jacks are done....

how should i play it?

patience is a must in any tourney you have to feel out the other players and also get rid of the all inners . who will re raise any be with 5 3 because they think there the bluff masters but in turn are very dumb and dont usually last very long

Vicious Machine...if you go all-in with pocket jacks then you might as well go all-in with pocket two's because your win ratio will probably be the same...any one calling you with unpaired hands is going to have 2 overcards to you....if they don't hit...then you win, just as you would with pocket 2's and if they hit you will lose, just as you would with pocket 2's....the chances of them hitting their unpaired cards is small and your chances of getting a set is very very small....your thinking as to whether you should go all-in with your pocket J's or your pocket 2's should not depend as much on the cards as much as the question....can my bank survive a loss. However your best chance of winning with those cards is an all-in where it gets down to one opponent because with a full table you only have a prayer of a chance.

That is a very good answer not to say in all likley hood that with 9 players at least 1 other player is going to have a pocket pair also, maybe even a third will have a pocket pair ie q, k or rockets......... tough to fold but somtimes you got to lay down and keep looking plus your still in the game when they r gone.