Poker tournaments usually require an entry fee to allow poker players participate in the poker tournament. But thanks to the latest trend of playing poker known as freerolls poker, poker players can now have the leeway to join in a poker tournament without having to pay for an entry fee.

The usual poker tournaments are subsidized by collecting entry fees from the poker tournament participants to cover overhead expenses for the poker event. With freerolls poker tournaments however, no entry fees are required from the event's participants. The prize pool offered in freerolls poker tournaments and the expenses for the event is taken from house donation, admission charges from the spectators, the fees taken from broadcasting rights and fees from interested sponsors.

Freerolls poker is the term used for such tournaments where the participants are free from charges to participate on freerolls poker tournaments. The participants are entitled to win big prizes for a free entry. Freerolls poker should not be confused however to its close counterpart, the play money poker because the latter has no real money value when played. Not any form of payment is done by a player in order to participate in the freerolls poker game. With play money poker on the other hand, a player is required of payment in the form of play money.

The winner from a freerolls poker can win major prizes of real money value while playing in a play money poker game, the winner also gets play money in return which they can use to play another round of play money poker games. Playing a freerolls poker game is genuinely free with real monetary prizes in contrast with play money poker games where the player can play throughout the game without having to spend real money but without any real money to get in return when they win.

Most freerolls poker may be totally free but some casinos offer a free entry fee to play poker in exchange of a player's play rating converted to points. The points are based from the system implemented by the casino that records the player's games and point equivalent to their games in the casino. Occasionally casinos also offer freerolls poker with a minimum requirement of depositing a fund to their player's account.

The prizes awarded to winners of the freerolls poker may range from monetary prizes, points to a player's rating which entitles them to avail more bonuses from the casino, free merchandise and free tickets to other poker tournaments. Casinos offer freerolls poker but sometimes in exchange of the points from their players who also spend real money for their games to qualify to freerolls pokers.

The bottom line, freerolls poker may still not totally free after all since players need to meet particular points to qualify and in order to achieve this, they need to spend for other casino games in order to gain the points needed to participate in the freerolls poker game.