Free rolls provide aspiring amateurs and poker hopefuls a chance of going up the ladder to play in bigger tournaments with the bigger prizes on their way to becoming professionals. One classic example is Ken Kafieh. He was a programmer hailing from the city of Toronto. He got an entry to the  eighteen thousand five hundred dollars prize money Bellagio Main Event. It is on the list of events of the World Poker Tour. He got the place in it through a poker freeroll on the Net.

He was up against fifty-five contenders. Having had his hand in a few other like wins he was confident because he had played against a better competition and had won. The tournament became the most exciting when the play became three handed. Ken had the upper hand though with pocket aces in his hand. That was the only moment of real tension in the tournament. Apart from there was not much to worry about that he could expect from his opponent.

Though beginning a mere ten months before he has fared well. He puts in three hours for practice to get better everyday. He plans on making a living by it. He wants to be able to get closer to doing that in the World Poker Tournament Event in Vegas on the twelfth of December. The prize he won to get into it is a total of eighteen thousand and five hundred dollars for the buy in, stay and travelling expenses.

Having had a solid foothold in the game he must now make a strong move up the ladder towards becoming a full time poker playing professional. He is very well conscious that he is due to confront the most competition he has faced thus far and all put together they are leaps and bounds away from the competition he has ever faced. The best he can do, he admits, is stick to his game, put his game down and do the best he can. This is his key to become a real professional poker player.