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Do you remember when.........
...you first signed up to Sky Poker? Some of you have been here forever, others not so long.
In most cases, a "New Player Bonus" of some sort was paid.
Which version do you think is best, & most important of all, WHY?
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MTT tickets are fine, but what if you only want to play cash?
Free chips just for cash tables are fine but what if you only play mtt's or sng's?
As for freerolls, that is one of the main reasons sky isn't my main games, you get either freerolls open to everyone, freerolls open with silly top loaded (top 2 out of 300 players) freerolls.
Other sites have some slected freerolls with decent prizes that give more +EV for low stakes players like myself
As BL said, bonuses to be unlocked in tiny increments by putting in a TON of volume are no good because most recs will never see 95% of it.
I think the best way is some kind of free money so people can test out proper games risk-free and get a feel for it. I don't know if there's the facilty to give £10 but make it non-withdrawable (until maybe they've staked a total of £10/20/whatever) so people could play cash or MTTs, but like BL said, most new players and recs wanna play SnGs or MTTs anyway so the current system is probably perfect.
My sign up bonus was calved from stone using traditionional methods and delivered by hand. I remember it being quite heavy though and as I recall it woke me up when it was dropped through my letter box
Thankfully the internet moved on pretty quickly..........I was quite excited when I received my new 56kbps dial up modem - "wow how fast is this" life couldn't get any better surely?
Before I knew it my 56k dial up modem was a thing of the past, as was my sign up token, which had proved significantly more difficult to use. Thankfully electronic transfers & such make these things a whole lot easier to use nowadays, but on the other hand it makes them less significant & less memorable. One minute it's there, the next it's gone.
As the title says "Do you remember when...." well unfortunately with the easy come easy go bonuses of Today i'm afraid it won't be remembered by most if not all in years to come and whilst I do like the "Tournament Token" which can be used in a number of ways.....how about something we can remember too........
I still remember my Sky Poker stressball (Those were the days) mind you, it didn't stop me from getting any grey hairs, but I still remember it never the less.
Anyway, all i'm trying to say is, with the boom in gaming sites & sign up bonuses available to us nowadays, surely it's time for someone to start thinking outside of the box? We need to give players something to remember and a reason to keep coming back & depositing on the site.
Out of the choices though - I voted "Tournament Token"
Well "everyone happy" will never happen, that's for sure!
Giving the equivelant of "cash" tokens will (imo) always be problematic, because a minority of individuals try to exploit this by dubious means. In fact with ANY Promo, there are those who try to abuse it, it's just how things are, so, to a degree, that limits what can be offered.
The sample size of the poll makes it almost irrelevant, but no surprise that Tourney Tokens came out best.
My first one cant really remember why, it was still earlyish days - preboom. It was mainly I think because it was an offshoot of a casino site and I was advised they were good sites to go for as you come across a lot of drunken gamblers. I think there was some sort of rakeback promotion but I didn't really pay attention.
I then joined another site because it was associated with a poker channel (not this one the "other" one that came before it) and I wanted to join in with the televised tourneys/hand analysis.
When that channel folded I switched to sky for the same reason. Think I got points for freerolls - there was much more choice for freerolls then and none of this rebuy nonsense - and a rakeback bonus which doesn't really apply to a non-grinder like me.
Keep going with the Sky niche which is the tv link up and the community. Opportunities to appear on tv would be good too in this X factor generation and 10 mins of fame seekers.