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Rubbish freerolls on sky......
Really arnt worth bothering with now.........what else are you supposed to use your points on now???
Come on sky give something back to the punters!!
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Have you had a change of heart, then?
Last year, you wrote THIS
Or, to save you clicking that link....
"Qualified for the £20,000 UKOPS 4 coming this monday night..... from a 50pt freeroll.... it is a £110 but in tourney..... There was 442 runners and the top 3 qualified for this event... Absoloutly buzzing..."
The date you wrote that?
16th April.
Exactly 3 days later - 19th April, you wrote THIS
To save clicking the link......
"lost it on a horse.... gonna play my last tourney on this joke site on Monday night 20k ukop 4 ... won a buy in via freeroll... then thats my whack with this site.......... got to be the worst site going at the moment..."
I think, secretly, you must love Sky Poker, as you are still here. Long may it last.
Good luck at the tables.
For the record, the current weekday Daily Freeroll Menu on Sky Poker guarantees approx £2,680 per day, add in bits & bobs over the weekend, call it £20,000 per week.
That is £1,000,000 per year.
Tons of Promo Freerolls, too, in the Winter Giveaway in December, some £30,000 worth of Freerolls were offered.
If you just play the weekday UKPC FR & Rewards Freeroll, the value per player equals about £3. That's a pint of beer & 10 ciggies.
Relative to the size of the site, I doubt any Online Poker site gives away more pro-rata in Freerolls.
I spend more every day in Tesco that I do on Sky Poker, but Tesco never give me so much as a free sticky bun. It's an outrage really.
Whilst we are chatting about the (dubious?) merits of Freerolls on Sky Poker, congratulations to "ripperz".
He plays mainly Freerolls on Sky Poker, & modest buy-in MTT's. Last night he binked a £1,100 UKPC Main Event seat in the Daily Rewards Freeroll.
I don't know the chap (or young Lady) but I'd bet good money that was his biggest ever poker win.
How cool is that?
It's a fact of life though, they don't allow players to enter most of those Freerolls unless they attain a certain volume.
Imagine if there was no barrier to entry to all the Freerolls. Thousands - tens of thousands - of players who never deposit or play here would flood the site every night just to play them, & with no intention of ever depositing. What sense would that make? And how would the loyal regulars here, who spend money on reg fees & cash rake night after night feel if all that money went to freeloaders? And what business sense would it make?
For those who cant afford to play much, it's sad, but it's a game played for money, & not all of those can afford that money. They have no entitlement to free money from a Business though.
Let's refer back to Tesco again. If I never spent much or any money there, why would they give me freebies every day? Not one business in the world gives money away without good reason. Freerolls are stick & carrot. Spend money here, & Sky Poker give a bit back. It's how every Online Poker site on earth works.
The new Rewards System arrived on June 1st 2015, & part of it's logic was to reward players who played regularly with a Freeroll every weekday evening.
That Freeroll, which is still running, has a Guarantee of £1,000 Per weekday night, so that's £250,000 per year.
It actually averages £1,500 per weekday night, even though the splurge says "£1,000", so that is £375,000 per annum.
At present, & right through January, it is worth £2,100 per weekday night, so that annualises to £546,000 per annum.
Apart from the Rewards Freeroll, there are 5 x £20 Freerolls daily, & 1 x £480 UKPC Freeroll daily, so that annualises to another £150,000 per annum.
That is considerably in excess of the same time last year.