PokerNordica Depositor's Freerolls Dropped!!

I joined PokerNordica today through the CardsChat link and made an initial minimum deposit in anticipation of our week of private freerolls there later in the month. I was disappointed to find out after the fact that the $500 First Deposit Daily Freerolls have been discontinued. Anyone registering a new account after yesterday, Sunday, August 12, 2007, will not be allowed to participate in these freerolls. They will come to an end altogether when everyone who signed up prior to the cut-off date has enjoyed their 14 days of freerolls.

Note that this information appears nowhere on their site as of 19:00 Eastern time here in the States. I have browsed their website, read the terms and conditions, read the FAQ's and the information regarding tournaments and freerolls. The First Depositors freeroll is still listed as an active event with no mention of its demise. I took this to be highly misinformative and intentionally misleading, and told the support team at PokerNordica as much when replying to the following response to my query as to why I couldn't get signed in:

"Hi Jim,

We are sorry to inform you that we no longer offer the $500 First Depositor
Freeroll to players that have signed up after the 12th of August. Normally
you also have to type a code to get it. We apologize for the inconvenience.
We hope you will enjoy the benefits of PokerNordica.com.

Have a nice day.

Med venlig hilsen / Best regards

Amalie
Support Agent
PokerNordica.com
E-mail: support@pokernordica.com"

Just another shady chapter in an already shady industry that grows more shady by the day. I'll stick around for the CC freerolls, but I'm cashing out after that. On a brighter note, I played two 10-seat $5 sng's this afternoon and had no problem finishing third in one and second in the other. The level of play was horrendous. Easy pickings may be had, based on a few hours of observation. Haven't tried the ring games yet, but that's where I'm headed now.

I would say thats a shame, but I had no intent of depositing there.

I do like the table, almost as nice as Full Tilts table. They have a nice blinded 5 draw game, I have been playing the $10 freerolls.

I too thought the players a bit on the soft side. My problem is that brought out the lion in me and I over did it.

Sorry, the freeroll eligibility period was SEVEN days, not fourteen as posted above. Nevertheless, a moot point now.

Well, now they're saying FOURTEEN days again in their "Promotions" section on the PokerNordica webpage. But they're also still saying it's an active promotion. Not cool.

There is a $10 freeroll? How many players?

When I let the folks at PokerNordica know that I had posted a negative comment about them (the same post I made here on CC) at CardPlayer.com, the most well-known name in poker publications here in the States, and provided them a link to it, the following reply appeared in that thread and in my home email box almost immediately:

"Hi Jim

We are sorry that our site was not updated properly due to a server error in the upload.

I have attached the $500 Initial Depositor Freeroll Coupon to your account.

Please remember that the tournament will be removed from our servers the 27th of August. This means that you can play this tournament until the 26th as the last day.

Kind Regards

Mads Vestergaard
PokerNordica.com Customer Relations Manager PokerNordica.com"

I can confirm that they've removed the First Depositors Freeroll from their list of promotional events on their website. I also have my coupon. All you can ask of a company is that when they make a mistake, it is corrected as soon as possible. To PokerNordica's credit, they did so in this instance, even if it was under the duress of some bad publicity in a well-read source. Not sure anything would have happened otherwise, but all's well that end well.