Getting Started

The most important thing when getting started in online poker is getting your accounts in the right places and through the right people. If you score big in a freeroll tournament using our advice, you’ll probably want to start playing for real money and try to turn that small win in to a big bankroll. Because of that goal, you need to get your accounts set up correctly now and save yourself a lot of hassle in the future.

The first thing to do is to sign up for real money accounts through a site where you can get part of your rake returned to you when you start playing for real money. It’s called rakeback and it’s like frequent flyer points for poker players, except it’s paid weekly in cash right in to your poker accounts. We recommend PokerWhip Rakeback as a good safe place to get your accounts. We even use them ourselves, and our problems with the fly-by-night rakeback programs that kept disappearing on us are now in the distant past.

For strategy advice, make sure you read all of the pages here on Full Tilt Freerolls and then head on over to The Grinder’s Bible. They have created an incredible repository of poker knowledge, and the multi-table tournament strategy section is packed full of great knowledge that will help increase your win rate in freeroll tournaments.

We also recommend a membership to a poker training site as soon as you can afford it. We took our first freeroll win and bought poker books, but that was back in the days before training sites where you could watch pros play and learn directly from them. We recommend PokerXFactor.com, they have the best tournament instructors in the world and have taught us a great deal.