My suggestion is for the sake of improving the reach in the forum not in the general marketing. Those freeroll tournament that you mention is not known for most of members here unless they sign up on the casino first.
Exclusive bitcointalk freeroll is being use by many reputable casino before as marketing strategy to recruit forum members to try the casino by experiencing the exclusive freeroll first. It’s like letting them experience first how good the casino through exclusive offers than let them join for good.
This will attract forum users to specifically try the casino especially if the reward is good.
Let me remind you that there was recently created a thread of another poker app, whose representative decided to organize an exclusive freeroll with a prize pool of 100 USDT for bitcointalk users. As a result, this freeroll tournament with such a small prize pool attracted only 17 users. Just a little bit. Isn't it?
My point is that holding an exclusive freeroll doesn't mean that it can attract a lot of users who would like to try their hand at the poker room.
Actually I don’t get your point and it’s hard to argue with what you are thinking since it’s not aligned to the purpose of my suggestion. I’m promoting something that will benefit forum user and the casino in the long run partnership. This promotion only cost few bucks per week that is same cost for payment on 1 signature campaign participants. I don’t understand the big deal here.
Anyway, Coinpoker decided to run an exclusive tournament so maybe we all got our answer here. No need to reply to further lengthen our discussion.
I did manage all the tourneys on Betnomi which I'm more than willing to manage for Coinpoker if they choose to run a series for the Bitcointalk community. While it may not get 700 entrants, it is an exclusive series meant for only the members on bitcointalk(can be anyone long as they have an account here).
I highly recommend this. It’s not about quantity of players but quality of participants. Sure we might start in low number but having a consistent tournament will grow this number in due time now that poker is starting to regain it popularity in crypto casino.