Freerolls – A victim of their own success?
These can be a very good way for someone to be able to experience the site software and to get used to the differences from other sites they may have used in the past. They are also a way for newer players to try to improve their skills before making their first real money deposit.
There are now freerolls on just about every site that you can find and they all offer something else which is usually considered ‘too good to be true’, which is free money.
This holds a great attraction for thousands of people and freerolls on certain sites regularly fill up to 10000+ entries of which in some cases only 1 person will actually win anything at all. This leads to what can only be described as crazy play where you have full tables all shoving in the entire chip stacks preflop regardless of their cards on the first hand and will continue to do so until they either win or bust with the latter happening eventually in almost all cases.
What this means in practice is that they are no longer a reasonable way for a newer player to improve their poker skills and also makes it more difficult for more experienced players to be able to get a feel for the software before making a deposit on the site.
What will this mean for the future? Well obviously only the poker sites themselves know this. There is obviously a good publicity factor that will encourage them to keep running them but as the market becomes saturated the value of continuing to run them must be dropping. Perhaps they will die out but for alot of players they died a long time ago….
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