Freeroll

A comment on a recent post asked what a freeroll is.

A freeroll is a situation where, depending on the outcome of some future event, you might win some money but you have no money at risk.

A freeroll tournament is an event with no buyin requirements that pays cash prizes.

You might be freerolling on the turn if you and another player have the nut straight, but you also have a flush draw (if you don't make the flush you get your money back).

The freerolling reference I made in the previous post meant in a loose sort of sense. When some opponent is playing like an idiot you're freerolling in the sense that you're chances of a large win are much better than you'd thought they would be when you sat down. Using the strict definitino of the term it's not really freerolling.

I'm Leaving (in a huff)

I've been playing 1c/2c blind PLO on Ultimate Bet the last few days. I have some left over bonus bucks from long ago on the site (they're hard to work off, but never expire) and since I don't know how to make a deposit anymore it's just been sitting there. Then I won $2 in a freeroll so I can play some cash games and work off those bonus bucks.

I was playing for a few minutes this morning while I was having coffee and one player said to another "You act like you're playing a freeroll, I'm going to another table".

I always thought that if someone at the table was playing like they were in a freeroll that I was actually freerolling. But, what the hell do I know? I can't even figure out how to make a deposit.