I have run up bankrolls on multiple sites solely via playing
freerolls on those sites.
I enjoy the challenge of trying to go from "Zero To Hero". It's definitely not easy!
Since I'm retired, I have all day to play poker. And believe me... using my method, you need all those long hours. And there is a lot of frustration along the way. Multiple times, I earned a few dollars and lost them, and had to go back to playing the freerolls before I could try again.
The beauty of using this method is, it costs nothing but an investment of your free time. Unfortunately, not all sites run freerolls (which I'll never understand but it's their site and their rules). But on the sites that do, I play all the time. On one site I've gone from zero dollars to over 700, that's my best. On another site I've gotten as high as 15 dollars and then fell back to around 7, and now I'm back to 12. It's a grind, but a fun one, and I highly recommend it!!
The main reason I play this way instead of depositing my own money is because:
(a) I'm from America and its practically considered criminal behavior here to try and transfer money from my bank onto a
poker site. So I don't even try.
(b) I don't do bitcoin because I don't believe in it, bitcoin has no tangible value except for some bits in a computer memory, I don't consider it to be "real" money.
The main drawback to my method is that I'll never be able to withdraw my funds after I run it up to over a million dollars (gotta have a dream!!!). LOL Besides the fact I don't use bitcoin to withdraw funds, the main problem is that
poker sites have specific rules for people withdrawing money who haven't ever deposited. The rule usually involved the poker site requiring you to earn a specific amount of rake before they will allow a withdrawl, and that rake requirement is usually very very high. But I'm fine with it, because I don't play poker to get rich (I know I'm weird), I play poker solely because I love to play poker. The only reason I want a big
bankroll is because I want to play the best poker players and become a good poker player too... gotta have the bankroll to be able to play against those guys and gals.
Good luck at the tables, whatever you decide!!!