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[QUOTE="BelgoSuisse, post: 1064803, member: 30299"]
Another issue is the economy behind this.

For the poker site, there are costs associated to running freerolls, whether they offer cash prizes or not. The money required to pay those costs comes from the rake paid by players in the real money games. FWIW, i paid about $5k in rake last year, should pay at least $15k this year, imo. Obviously the operating cost of running the tables i played on is much lower than that amount, so most of that money goes somewhere else.

There are many ways the poker site can spend the operating profit from my rake. It can keep it as profits, which is good for its owners. It can give me some back in the form of rakeback or other vip promotions, and that's good too because it helps keep me as their customer. It can run ads on tv and sponsor pros at media-covered tournaments, and that's good because it brings in new players that will bring profits to both me and the poker site. And it can finance the operating cost of your poker clan, and that bring profits neither for them nor for me. Both the poker site and I need losing players to play in real money games, or else the whole poker economy collapses.
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