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Message: [QUOTE="Sil3ntness, post: 2659323, member: 123518"] Short answer: No I don't think "Freeroll culture" has hurt poker. [I][U]Here's my viewpoint on why:[/U][/I] [B](First I'm a big fan of depositing)[/B] There are some great benefits when you deposit as a new player. You get some good experience REAL QUICK. I started off playing 4 NL (There was no 2 NL where I played) I got owned so many times. I took a beating at 4 NL, but I learned quickly. Like Phil Galfond said: "You gotta pay the tuition" to get the knowledge to improve your poker skills. Freerolls IMO are terrible way of learning good poker play. Yes you learn the discipline of folding mediocre hands, but when it comes to learning proper preflop and postflop play you probably wont learn much from freerolls. They're called Donkaments for a reason. Even the final table of a freeroll is a joke. Nobody is really following ICM concepts at a donkament final table. So the advantages to depositing is you can quickly get thrown "into the fire" and play against people that actually care (because their money is on the line) and it makes it easier for you to move up in stakes when you can boost your bankroll with deposits. --- [B](Here I explain why freerolls are beneficial to the poker community)[/B] I got a lot of respect for someone that can play a 1000 freerolls and build up a roll from scratch. However, I swear that has to be one of the most mind numbing journeys one can accomplish. Especially bubbling to a drooler that chases a backdoor flush with 27s when you are deep stacked with a villain. Yes I have had that happen when I had AK and flopped TPTK and the guy chased to a backdoor 7 high flush on the river. (I didn't slowplay at any point). --- So in essence, there is no one way to play poker. If you want to grind the freerolls and the lowest of the micros to work your way up, fine. If you want to deposit and possibly quickly move up the stakes, you can do that too! I'm just happy to have ANY poker volume. The worst thing that could happen is a poker site stops doing freerolls and promotions and now all the site has left is a low volume of regs rotating their account balances back and forth to each other... and the occasional recreational players that deposit and either bust/break even or start building up a decent profit. [/QUOTE]

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