My advise is that you ignore anything done or not done in bar league freerolls. Most players there talk a big game but don't play poker for money AT ALL. I've played in way to many bar freerolls to count and have seen all sorts of bad beats. I've had AK and had 2/7 off raise into me and bet to the river with nothing. I've seen AA limp, flop 2 more A's and just check call. When asked why the player didn't realize the strength of quads.

Just because a player is there all the time doesn't mean they know what they are doing. When I play in those games I use it as a chance to try to play a looser game and see how it works. I've found that the results are mixed at best. I've done good playing tight or loose and I've lost quick playing tight or loose. There is way too much variance in the game, based partly on the lack of a quality shuffle for the deck. Some players shuffle it 3 times, some do it 6, some wash the deck and shuffle 3 times. This allows the deck to start to get separated into sections and takes away some of the randomness of the deck and the odds.

The other use I've found for bar game freerolls is to practice your live reading skills. You can work to pick up tells and learn to apply them to a live game at your local casino.

Don't let the silly beats you take in those games discourage you from playing correct poker all the time.