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Old 11-18-2007, 06:45 PM
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Default running freerolls and buy-ins at poker sites

hi

thanks for the feedback

as members - you dont have to worry or deal with the backroom issues and requirements of working with all the different poker rooms

as I've mentioned in other posts - poker sites dont like running freerolls for forums past a certain point - they expect all forum / sites to generate results for them which make providing / setting up / admin of freerolls worthwhile for them

new sites get a chance to build using freeroll but after a while they mostly insist on a combination of freerolls and buy-in

while I appreciate the freerolls are great for members who are already signed up at xyz poker room - we cannot just run freerolls for existing signups at sites - we have to generate new players for the poker rooms we work with

otherwise they will NOT agree to organise them - even when they're ones we are fully funding

therefore the player numbers in our buy-in tournaments are very important to the ongoing freeroll schedule

I will be setting up freerolls and buy-ins at pokerstars

and I also take on board that for US players it is a pain to find they cant play in some of the games

equally though I have European members who want to play at Euro focussed sites at better times for them

I would like to expand the number and the prize money in our tournaments - but again this comes down to the numbers we get in buy-in games - this keeps the sites happy and enables us to request more games

In the new year I will be focussing more on FullTilt, Poker.com & PokerStars as these are US friendly

cheers scrawnybob
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