[scrawnybob]

hi

the simple answer would be that its sensible business IMHO

the US market and online poker players were the focus of all sites in the early days ... they neglected the rest of the world in preference to US ... much in fairness to the annoyance of the rest of us who had to stay up late / get up early to play games and get action

I remembers when I used to play alot I had a pratically midnight to 8 am UK time slot for playing poker

now the US market has had time to get established - they are rightly figuring that those US players who are going to deposit and play for real money have had the opportunity to get used to the site (via freerolls) and by now should have deposited ... those that havent are most likely (as an overal figure for them) not to deposit and are therefore of less importance

The European / Rest of the World market is however less mature and less developed so all sites (including the ones still open to US) will be putting their marketing efforts into those areas and less so the US

at the end of the day freerolls are a marketing cost to the sites - they cost the sites money and make them no money ... once they see their conversion from freeroller to real money player go below a certain level they will figure that adding more freerolls is not adding to their bottom line but just increasing costs

cheers scrawnybob