they are really free, but you will not win money if you play for free, it will be just for leisure. if you want to win money you have to make wagers on the site.
Pokerstrategy gives you 50$ dollars ,if you are over 18, after passing a quiz (which is easy because they let you browse by their site when doing the test, theres a chart). They may later ask you to...
Full tilt poker has a nice play money games its totally free u can choose between Texas holdem, Omaha, stud, razz and horse and you can play tournaments, totally free plus the software is very nice...
Online gaming have become a popular trend. Free poker sites can entice gamers to assume that playing the online poker games would be free until they get invited to join an online tournament.
Durign the movie he was probably keeped somewhere so he could not swim away, and probably can't live in the wild anymore because now he is not used to it.