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Here's an extreme example. You have the red aces (Ad Ah) in hold'em. Your opponent has black aces (Ac As). You can both say you are free-rolling because you both have the "nuts" and you both can outdraw the other by the definition. But you'd both be wrong.

Or you have Jd Td in hold'em again. Your opponent has Js Ts and the flop is 9d 8d 7s. The JT of diamonds is free-rolling the flush right? Not so fast, the JT of spades can still hit runner runner with his three-flush and throw you on tilt.

Free-rolling is when you can't lose and you have extra chances to win.

Like when you get an entry into a tournament with a prize pool at no cost. Or you have the same hand as someone else with the only flush draw in hold'em.

Actually, after you buy-in for the tournament... say a $50 entry... you've already lost that $50 everything after that is a pure free-roll. So every time you are in a tournament you are free-rolling!

Another example: A table is letting you bull the game, steal the blinds and the small pots. Theoretically you are free-rolling the times you are called with the chips you've already earned. This makes it seem like your play can't lose. And in an infinite time span you can't lose if you are free-rolling this way. In this way Doyle Brunson describes free-rolling which makes him appear lucky. But he is and he isn't.