888 winner spinner freerolls

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I have played a number of these and will often get ITM and this will often be about 8 cents. Today finally got a good result getting 6th place out of approx 6,000 and making 5.20.

However I have just realized they do not actually pay you this, you only then get this if you wager at least $156 on sports bets. What a con and a waste of time playing these! I wish this had been more apparent.

I think poker to be a skilled game and a game of decision. So they award you a seat to a tournament that supposedly has $200 in prize money but it does not as it is only being used as a rake back on sports betting should you win in the initial tournament.

What a con. And I also try and keep a profit/loss sheet which I still add these tiny wins on which I will need to go through and delete.

Did you realize their freerolls worked like this? What is your feeling on this system?
 
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pjokay said:
I have played a number of these and will often get ITM and this will often be about 8 cents. Today finally got a good result getting 6th place out of approx 6,000 and making 5.20.

However I have just realized they do not actually pay you this, you only then get this if you wager at least $156 on sports bets.
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This sounds like you played that one game which gives out money to use in sports betting (and there is also another one giving out smth to casino aswell) ...
 
Most 888 freerolls do actually pay cash. However the 2 "winner spinner" freerolls payout in casino bonus and sports bets. Literally the only 2 freerolls that do. The majority of the 888 freerolls do actually pay cash that can be withdraw or used for poker straight away.
 
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Risto234 said:
This sounds like you played that one game which gives out money to use in sports betting (and there is also another one giving out smth to casino aswell) ...
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All prizes were listed as regular cash prizes. The tournament I entered was the $200 Winner Spinner Celebration Freeroll. There is nothing in the lobby to indicate sports betting ticket. This is there regular freeroll at the moment from the spin as you enter the poker lobby. I would add a picture but it keeps saying I have gone over the character count.
 
pjokay said:
All prizes were listed as regular cash prizes. The tournament I entered was the $200 Winner Spinner Celebration Freeroll. There is nothing in the lobby to indicate sports betting ticket. This is there regular freeroll at the moment from the spin as you enter the poker lobby. I would add a picture but it keeps saying I have gone over the character count.
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Incorrect if you click on the info for the tournament, the winner spinner celebration freerolls of which there are too the payouts are in casino bonus or sports bets.
 
IanP304 said:
Most 888 freerolls do actually pay cash. However the 2 "winner spinner" freerolls payout in casino bonus and sports bets. Literally the only 2 freerolls that do. The majority of the 888 freerolls do actually pay cash that can be withdraw or used for poker straight away.
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Jeez, thanks for the update. Wish they would state this, complete waste of all the ones I have entered. What's the point then? I do not like things that try and link poker games to general casino gambling and betting. They may as well just give that to everybody then from what they are going to make of the bets! But they really should list that in the prize pool and state subject to wagering.
 
I have already played a few freerolls at 888 poker and all of them received the cash prize.
 
That's so odd, I am not seeing that pop up at all, I just see a regular lobby when I open it up.
 
IanP304 said:
Incorrect if you click on the info for the tournament, the winner spinner celebration freerolls of which there are too the payouts are in casino bonus or sports bets.
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Thank you for taking the time to show your screen prints. It does look quite clear and obvious from yours. However in mine after going through it, it is only in small detail below the main tournament section in small writing and nowhere near as obvious. I do not know why I do not see the same pop up you do, assume it is a different client version or region. The prize pool is displayed as regular going to the payout section.

However at least they do display it somewhere even if not as obvious as on yours but it is no where near as clear and would have like to see it in the same format they have done on yours as I would not have missed it and would have liked to see it that way as such a change from normal.

Thanks again for you reply.
 
Long ago I used to play there. Wish I still can. Always loved playing the freerolls. Hopefully someday soon. 🙂
 
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Long ago I used to play there. Wish I still can. Always loved playing the freerolls. Hopefully someday soon. 🙂
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Hope to see if you if you can 🙂
 
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Its hardly a "scam", that you did not take the time to read the information in the tournament lobby before playing. If you are not interested in winning casino bonusses, or whatever its called, then dont play these freerolls! Pretty much as simple as that. Its also quite a bit over the top to talk about a "scam", when you paid nothing to play in the first place 😉
 
agree, how can freeroll a scam when you didn't pay anything
 
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I think 888poker is a very good room for beginners. There are a lot of freerolls and you can build a starting bankroll from 0.
 
fundiver199 said:
Its hardly a "scam", that you did not take the time to read the information in the tournament lobby before playing. If you are not interested in winning casino bonusses, or whatever its called, then dont play these freerolls! Pretty much as simple as that. Its also quite a bit over the top to talk about a "scam", when you paid nothing to play in the first place 😉
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Yeah, I was looking to change the title but don't think I can now but rather than a scam a complete waste of time! It looks like though from what has ben said it is applying only to these celebration freerolls as opposed to all of them which is better. Scam is perhaps the wrong word, but it is obviously designed to get you to donk your money away on sports bets and I am not sure why you would bother to bet $156 to release a $5.20 token you have won in a poker game but I am not interested in bets.

As stated for some reason the lobby area on the UK client I have in the clear way it is on Ian's which is really easy to spot and quite clear which I then would not have wasted my time. But when I posted this, I thought all their freerolls had changed but it i obviously only these.

I certainly will be avoiding these particular ones. I wish I had made the title more accurate to other reflect these specific tourneys "celebration freerolls" and maybe used a word better than a scam but for these particular ones still think con is fitting but now I actually know it is easy enough to avoid.

Still I wonder how many of the other 6,000 players realize they work this way as this is a similar amount to the normal cash ones and I cannot imagine a large number of poker players wanting to punt the amount you need to on betting to release such a tiny amount.
 
I had no idea that it would work like this and I played some of those tournaments but I only won pennies, I imagine that those tickets that they give you at roulette must be the same system. because they gave me $ 5 dollars to play black jack and I won $ 3 but they did not go to my account is in bonus, and he tells me to win $ 90 to claim the money, but obviously that is mission impossible, this guy is a shame system, which instead of helping you is trying to squeeze your pockets.😡😡
 
pjokay said:
Yeah, I was looking to change the title but don't think I can now but rather than a scam a complete waste of time! It looks like though from what has ben said it is applying only to these celebration freerolls as opposed to all of them which is better. Scam is perhaps the wrong word, but it is obviously designed to get you to donk your money away on sports bets and I am not sure why you would bother to bet $156 to release a $5.20 token you have won in a poker game but I am not interested in bets.

As stated for some reason the lobby area on the UK client I have in the clear way it is on Ian's which is really easy to spot and quite clear which I then would not have wasted my time. But when I posted this, I thought all their freerolls had changed but it i obviously only these.

I certainly will be avoiding these particular ones. I wish I had made the title more accurate to other reflect these specific tourneys "celebration freerolls" and maybe used a word better than a scam but for these particular ones still think con is fitting but now I actually know it is easy enough to avoid.

Still I wonder how many of the other 6,000 players realize they work this way as this is a similar amount to the normal cash ones and I cannot imagine a large number of poker players wanting to punt the amount you need to on betting to release such a tiny amount.
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No you cant change the title of a post, after its made. For the first 30 minutes or so you can delete or edit, but after that its locked. As for these particular freerolls I would certainly not bother playing them either.

But that being said there is no reason to be upset, that online gambling sites are trying to get people to spend money on sportsbetting or casino games or whatever. They are after all not charitys, so they are not making freerolls for fun or to give their money away. They are making them, because they want to draw people to games or sections, where they earn money.

Back in 2019 888 Poker had an almost endless promotion, where they gave away 6.000$ in 5$ tournament tickets every day by running two daily freerolls. These were labeled "BLAST" freerolls, and you got tickets for playing them by spinning the daily wheel. The 5$ tickets could actually be used in any 5$ tournament, but a lot of people did not know this, so they played the BLAST Spin n Gos.

Which is of course exactly, what 888 Poker intended. A 5$ BLAST is over in 5 minutes at most, which is almost like some kind of foreplay, it you were looking forward to sit down and play some poker. So its very tempting for people to click "play another", especially if they failed to cash.

But again nobody force people to do this, and they got the ticket for free. So there is nothing really to complain about, and I would certainly not call it a "scam". And as for your casino bonuses, just let them expire. They cost you nothing other than your time, which you are now wise enough to spend on something better 😉
 
Never knew that you could mask a clear lack of reading comprehension skills by calling it a scam.

I see this complaint in another country-specific forum on Facebook a lot. Nobody takes three seconds to look at details, the tickets they win expire (in a lot of cases, players stockpile them for weeks before realizing that they’re gone) and the griping continues.

The OP lost me in a fit of laughter when he said he’d have to go back and edit his notes regarding the “scam”. Just another guy that proves to me that this place is a freeroll forum. The threads that get the most action BY FAR are the freeroll postings.
 
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IanP304 said:
Most 888 freerolls do actually pay cash. However the 2 "winner spinner" freerolls payout in casino bonus and sports bets. Literally the only 2 freerolls that do. The majority of the 888 freerolls do actually pay cash that can be withdraw or used for poker straight away.
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I think he meant exactly the winner spinner freerolls. It's kind of useless playing those if you dont't bet on sports or play casino.
 
The 888 freerolls used to be a lot better in the past, but now as of the last few months they have become very low quality games. I used to routinely pick up several $ a day just from their freerolls alone. Now the only ones worth playing are the LVL 80+, the Sunday 10k, and maybe the LVL 30+. Everything else is a massive time sink with blinds that rise way too quickly and a jam-fest, all just to get a few cents.

Even non-freeroll microstakes 888 MTTs are not that good anymore. I have honestly yet to find any good value sub-$5 MTTs on there that don't have ridiculously long late registration. MAYBE the PKO style games may be okay, but otherwise the only decent place to play microstakes anymore is on the cash tables.
 
cdntyler87 said:
With 888 poker does the mobile app allow you to play real money or just play??
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You can play both on mobile.
 
wpilson70 said:
Never knew that you could mask a clear lack of reading comprehension skills by calling it a scam.

I see this complaint in another country-specific forum on Facebook a lot. Nobody takes three seconds to look at details, the tickets they win expire (in a lot of cases, players stockpile them for weeks before realizing that they’re gone) and the griping continues.

The OP lost me in a fit of laughter when he said he’d have to go back and edit his notes regarding the “scam”. Just another guy that proves to me that this place is a freeroll forum. The threads that get the most action BY FAR are the freeroll postings.
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Can say a lack of reading comprehension but it also could have displayed a lot clearer. As I mentioned it was not displayed clearly like on Ian's that was completely obvious with a large pop up display type. When these ones have never been paid out this way and it states the amounts in cash in the payout section I was not expecting the payout to be a sports wager that has to be redeemed.

I have stated the above the word scam is the wrong word but nevertheless see it as pointless and a con in my view.

However I now know how this one works so will avoid it in future and m glad they are not doing it across all of these.

Quite happy to discuss non-freerolls, the vast majority I play are non-freerolls.
 
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