I am wondering if someone made money out of freerolls without depositing?
Several times on many different sites, In fact I have only had to give my Bank details to a site when I decide to take my money and run. There has been some sites that stopped playing Poker and concentrated on Sports Betting. Mainly because they make money faster from Gamblers than they do from the rake in
poker games.
Or they stop offering Freerolls, which I can understand, as I made quite a bit from them. Freerolls are an Incentive to get players hooked on Poker, and It makes you believe that if your can make money from them, then depositing your own Money will make you even more Money, When the opposite is true in many cases.
Freerolls and Buy-in Tournaments are both very different, and when you add in the fact that everyone is playing with their own money, then the Game gets very serious. In a Freeroll nobody takes it too seriously as it is a bit of Fun, and they lose nothing if they get busted out. But in a Buy-in game you are always aware that you could lose your own money and it can get very serious fast!
I am not tempted to make a deposit, on any site because I can win money from Freerolls, then use that money for buy-ins, I believe that in my opinion PKR.com was one of the hardest to make money from, because their Freerolls were called 10 Cent giveaways, You only had 10 players in every game and only the top two players got a pay-out, You had to be very quick to register in them and they ran one every hour.
Most of the time, most of the players went all-in on the first hand, and of course busted out, however I wanted to play the game and in some cases I would sit out on the first hand just to get 2nd place, The rule was, You could play these games until you amassed $2 Dollars in winnings, Then after that you were on your own. No more Give away games and every game you played after that, had a buy-in, But with their Lowest buy-in was a 10 Cent Ring Table, I built up winnings from that $2 Dollars into a Bankroll of over $150 Dollars before the site went bust and went into Liquidation.
Thanks to
pokerstars, they bought the Player Database and honoured everyone's account if they joined their site, and as I was already a registered player I got my money back through PokerStars.
So the answer to this question is YES! You can make money and build a Bankroll for FREE! From Freerolls!
The real question should be Can you make a living from them? and in my World with the prices being so High! I would say "Not a Chance!"