An old man once told me, look around the table-and if you do not see any fish-then he’s sitting in your seat:).
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One small piece of advice:
In these types of freerolls, you have to avoid betting or raising needlessly with “marginal hands” to someone who probably will call you. There are a lot of inexperienced, “calling stations” who will call you almost every time with anything. Don’t waste your chips away trying to get them to fold. On the flop, they will probably bet with anything, and if you missed the flop and have crap, now what do you do? You just threw away a bunch of chips for nothing.
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@VPPappy I agree, this is great advice and more or less the strategy I used. I just folded pre a lot as my table was too loose. Then when I did raise preflop, I just went with the hand and trusted my range advantage.
One time I almost made a tight preflop fold when my 3bet got reraise-shoved for all my chips. I called with AQo despite some anxiety. The other guy had AJo.
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@planopete and @Hapzap both cashed at WSOP events and both would tell you they learned plenty playing at replay that they used during their runs.
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Yes, @southwestmba Replay has definitely improved my game with Omaha Hi/Lo… I will enter this year’s WSOP in Las Vegas, and hope to win it this time… just sayin’… Good luck to all!!!
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Per ReplayPoker: “Practice or success does not imply future success at real money gambling.” Good luck!
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@rick-SWFLA the lawyers made them say that! 
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That’s both partially both true and false. If a player is a butlucky bingo that sucks out 75% of time, and wins a lot in the short to semi mid term, over a smaller sample size against weaker players, etc, then that player will probably not be successful at real money poker over the long term.
If a Average to above average semi rag, semi recreational player, semi fish, etc, wins against a lot of fish at lower stakes at replay over the long term, at replay, play chips, then that player will probably not do well, or as well at real money poker.
If a good player to semi shark, semi pro plays at micro stakes fish, and does well against fish, donks at micro stakes play chips, that player will probably not do well or as well at real money poker.
A shark, semi pro who does extremely well, awesome over the long term against other good players, regs, recs, semi fish at the higher, highest stakes, at a serious site, against serious players, at a serious play chip site like Replay, will probably do well, good at real money poker.
The “Practice or Success does not imply future success at real money poker” moniker, saying does not apply to all, is not a one size fits all thing.
That moniker, saying, is for, because of lawyers, legal mumbo jumbo, in case a BINGO gets extremely lucky at Replay, play chips, and then does horrible at real money, and then tries to sue play chip sites, blame play chip sites like Replay, like Younguru said.
I have been successful at real money poker. I have been successful at the higher stakes, against some pretty good poker players that I practice, play against to help keep me sharp. The Practice or success moniker, saying does not apply to players like me.
I have been successful at real money poker, and I will be successful at real money poker again, once I move out of WA state to Arizona, because real money online poker is a class C felony in WA state.
LOL! Whole bunch of “ifs”.
No I don’t think replay poker is rigged. I do think it resembles a low stakes game where lots of people take crazy chances and keep trying to buy the pot and others get tilted and go all in with any two cards…
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Two things: no face to face and way too many “4 of a kind”.you feel setup… its correct’ you can’t learning anything… remember playing marbles for funzies…same thing here…GLOVEMAN SPEAKS;
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It does help though
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If your good here, you should be good at small stakes REAL poker—I am average and win at both-so i am sure good players can win at both.
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I agree with @bill8888, there are actually some live $1/2 games that are softer than the toughest games on Replay
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Games are easy I don’t know what you’re talking about?
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UPDATE: Have not cashed another tournament yet. I have played 5 more. Reached the bubble stage in 3/5. Once busted in the first 5 minutes (lost a flip), once busted after about 30 minutes (check-raised the PFR with an overpair, got called by top pair, he made trips).
The fields are just as soft as I initially thought—maybe even softer. There are just a lot of truly terrible players. People are limping and calling raises with junk. People are bluffing rivers with no removal to the nuts after taking a passive line where it doesn’t make sense for them to suddenly “have it.”
Yesterday I was unlucky enough to get seated directly to the right of the massive (250bb when average stack was 30bb) tournament chipleader. He LITERALLY went all-in pre every hand. I doubled through him twice, but the last time he got lucky and beat my AQo with K8o.
Amazing action! I feel quite confident I will win some money on this site.
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Its poker!!~
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I 100000% agree with you.
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There are awwww some bad players on cash sites—maybe they are high, drunk or both as MANY are easy to read and play bingo and chase with rags etc…Here, playing 6 player sit-n-go 100k the players are so MUCH better than many small cash players…
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Yep, JUST played one…
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