Freeroll Funding?

Where does the money when one places in Freerolls come from? Is it sponsors, or the extra part of a tournament buy in? Like the 1.00 +.20? Just curious.

Sponsors.. people being nice and sites want to encourage players to deposit so all sites usually have a sort of freeroll for newbies to try out poker.

The site itself puts up most of the $ for the freerolls. If you look at the rake at the higher stakes in 1 hand that will take care of every freeroll they host for that day not to mention the rakes from all the other tournys and sit n gos as well. There are sponsors also they donate $ to the site in efforts to promote them.

The sites use freerolls as a lure for players, people play them a lot if they dont wanna deposit, when they do eventually get some money its no where near enough to play with so they lose it quickly, they then deposit. Or they never cash, get frustrated, and deposit.

Freerolls, the life blood of new poker sites.

Wow, some real intelligent folks on the loose today.

But yeah, freerolls are basically the free samples at the supermarket, or the test drive at the car dealer...

This was referring to a now deleted post or two... just in case anyone was wondering. Don't want to rub anyone the wrong way. (Well, except for those who deserve it.)

Most people get HOOKED when they've played a bit of poker. The big sites make BILLIONS so putting up a few thousand is nothing for them to get out some 'addictive advertising'.

I wonder just how many real money players started out their career by playing in freerolls. Whilst learning the game i could be playing up to 4 or 5 freerolls simultaneously across different sites. It has to be said that if you want to try this make sure you have a dent spec PC like i did, the PC i have now could not cope with the strain. Eventually i progressed on to real money games and the rest is history. I have won a few freerolls in my time and cashed in a lot more but i know the sites have made that money back from me, tenfold by way of rake and tourney entry fees. It's a worthwhile exercise for them as there must be thousands of players who started out like this.

they rake players everyhand on cash tables mtts and sngs so whats it for them to make a 50$ freeroll lol its there cash and they know its more then likly not going to leave the site even if you take first place in the tourny .cause if you do win the freeroll you will go play a sng mtt or cash table game and give it right back to them lol

I agree. I always thought that this was where the larger poker sites get their freeroll money from. Other than that some private tourneys are either sponsored or use some of the money they get through rake when people sign up through their site on other poker sites.

You play SNG's with a $50 tourney fee? I think your entry fee goes into the winning player's account.

The also expect to get most of the money back.From ways mentioned above.

But yeah, freerolls are basically the free samples at the supermarket, or the test drive at the car dealer...

couldnt have said it better myself

Freerolls may only be like supermarket "free offers" but they also give us players who know better than to invest our own money a chance to build a bankroll to play with.

The funds are usually added by the pokersite, it's a promotional tool to try out the software, much like play money. Now you also have private freerolls which sites such as CC offer, which they are given from individual poker sites because they bring new players to the sites. It's a benefit of being an affiliate

???the rest is history????

The host site is the primary sponsor of the freerolls, however there are instances where the forum owner(s) are putting up the stake. It's more of an incentive for site affiliates bringing in more New Players.

That about sums up what I meant to say in a more coherent way =D

For some reason I read this whole thread.

My face fell off.