What is the difference between
1) 1000player freeroll
2) 1000 player $3.3 buy-in MTT
3) 1000 player $109 buy-in MTT
?
All 3 types of tournaments are technically equal.
- From PokerStars servers point of view ALL 3 TYPES of tournaments will consume X kW of electricity and Y Mb of traffic. In general PC servers will consume $2-$10 if we convert both traffic and energy into money.
SO a freeroll and 100K grtd MTT with $109 buy-in both have the same value for poker sites PC servers.
- From PokerStars owners point of view obviously different buy-ins generate different types of profit.
- From PokerStars players point of view... If you're a so called "Poker Pro" the one who spends his life doing nothing useful... then you can calculate your daily/monthly/yearly investments, if you're playing 10 tourneys per day with average $109 buy-in, then it's $1090 per day and 370K per year. Which means that PokerStars rips you off for 30K+ per year with it's rake program. If you have a rakeback program and you have 30-50% rakeback then probably you will be 30-50% less sad about it. But since instead of 50% rakeback PokerStars is giving you WOW a treasure chest full of BS, then I guess you won't be as happy as you would be with 50% rakeback.
In general online poker pro is rake generating mule, and well mules can decide what's better - to eat the grass or to eat carrots.