Well it depends on how the site would deal with the money earned from the freeroll. It would have to be available to play on other games right away, but it could have withdrawal restrictions. Like before they make some rake, or play a determined number of hands etc, they would slowly release that freeroll money. They should also be allowed to withdraw any winnings above the freeroll money (lets say I win 50 chips with the freeroll, and after I play a while my balance is now 150 chips, I should be allowed to withdraw 100 chips, or more if I had already released some of those 50 freeroll chips to my normal balance). This would keep some players at the tables, and would help to create a player base.
I must say that is horrible idea as they would be only poker site ever having restrictions on freeroll winnings.
It is not that horrible as long as the restriction is reasonable, it is only to avoid freerollers who only want to make profit from freeroll without playing real games. If you are a poker site owner then I believe that you do not want to giving away some money for those type of players. It is OK to have no restrictions freeroll for promotion purpose only but for regular promo then it will not be good for the site.
Well if i were poker site owner only limitation to freerools would be points. Example: you cannot enter freeroll if you dont have enough points / rake / hands played etc...... to give out bonus money as freeroll winnings is ridiculous.
Regarding that point swc and nitrogen set good example. If you want to participate in higher freerolls than 1 chip on nitrogen you need to have certain ammount of hands played on swc you need to have enough points and i think something like that could be easy implanted here.
I agree that there is no sense in giving out free chips to anyone couse there will be multiple registrations issues, vpn use etc....just to harvest free money like they did on btckings
For once (and once only) I agree with kid_dik!
Freerolls, are a great promotional tool for poker brands. In fact they do more good for a brand than for a player. Theres actually no need to ask or a bonus requirement to release your funds, instead make a minimum withdrawal that is higher x5 by the maximum given to 1st place in a tournament. That means that the player winning lets say 0.5 or 1 mbtc will need atleast 5mbtc to withdraw, making him either play cash games, enter real tournaments or continue to play freerolls all day and all night until he reaches the minimum withdrawal.
Why is this good?
Your creating a room that drives action! Users winning alittle bit of money will sit on cash games and wait for other players to join.
Your filling your poker room with players
Your causing "some" freerolls to eventually deposit
like kid_dik mentioned, if you wanna give out higher freerolls, you can do so to players that have deposited or raked enough points.
But don't use the dirty trick many unregulated fiat casinos use, by making you wager like 50 x the bonus! I don't think any player will take that seriously.
by you promoting 5 freerolls a day with 1 mbtc, the max your giving out daily is 5mbtc, whether someone is abusing this or not, that is the maximum you are releasing in freerolls.
consider it.
that's the only way to run a poker room.
(in my opinion)
anyway, lots of luck