4. Use your table position.

If you are first or second in betting, a King 10 isn't a very good hand. There are nine players to follow you and if any of them have a pair or an Ace or a King with Queen or Jack then you are struggling. However if you are at end of betting and you can "limp in" with a call or check, then your KT becomes an altogether better prospect. Nobody has raised yet so your King might be good and it is certainly worth seeing flop.

5. Vary your play.

Although you need to be patient and wait for a good hand, don't become too predictable. If you only play big hands and always raise then your opponents will simply back down and let you take blinds. The trouble with this is you won't be winning enough in blinds to keep your head above water as you are playing too few hands. You need to vary your style of play and become hard to read.

6. Avoid bluffing.

Bluffing should be avoided, except on very rare occasions. As there are always ten people at table there is a very high chance that someone will have a good hand each time and will want to go against you, even if you go all in. All in on a bluff is almost suicidal at online poker freerolls, there's nearly always somebody prepared to call you and you have little chance of surviving.

Economic climate.

The economy in general has taken a bit of a downturn since most of Party Poker manuals were written and most people now feel that dollar in their pocket is worth slightly less than it was. This means of course that they are more careful about searching out less expensive options to play while they are learning.

Bonuses.

Party Poker being industry leader attracts many new sign-ups daily and in order to try and compete other sites need to offer better sign-up bonuses. You need to deposit your own money to get bonus released so a lot of new players are just staying and playing at site until their bonus is released.

As an aside, Party Poker site’s graphics leave a bit to be desired - they are clunky and old fashioned and none of players are smiling! Also it’s not all that user-friendly for new players and information provided in lobby is fairly sparse.