Finally the Blast freerolls replaced by Millions superstorm promotion on 888.

[Garfield52]

AT least 888 Poker offers some sort of chance to play a freeroll to win a little cash. Poker Stars seems to have completely abandoned that idea. Poker SChool scratch and win has been gone for months. Have not seen any sort of freebies for a loooonnngggg time now. I believe Poker Stars is catering only to those who deposit money now.

 

[rj_montana]

I am sad to see the $3k blast freerolls go. I prefer two blast freerolls a day to what they've substituted it with. those were the best value around..

 

[Brandlad]

for me the only one 3k Blast freerolls happen at 1 am here in India.
So, it is very rare for me to play this freeroll.

Just got out from Casino freeroll getting 50 cents and won 50 cents in $500 freeroll as well.

 

[fundiver199]

I believe Poker Stars is catering only to those who deposit money now.

As a player I am happy for all those freerolls at 888 Poker, but I also cant help to wonder, if they are helping 888 to make a profit? Do people really play that much more, because there are freerolls on a site, or do they maybe sometimes even play the freeroll rather than a normal tournament?

 

[Brandlad]

As a player I am happy for all those freerolls at 888 Poker, but I also cant help to wonder, if they are helping 888 to make a profit? Do people really play that much more, because there are freerolls on a site, or do they maybe sometimes even play the freeroll rather than a normal tournament?

yah it is true that most of the players on 888 are there just to play the freerolls.
888 poker margins are declining since last two years.
888 gets its most business from Casino operation and 888 also has 888 lotto which does very well.
But 888 knows very well that it can not refrain from the freerolls absolutely as in such scenarios most of the players will move towards Pokerstars and that will be a huge implication on their business.

 

[fundiver199]

yah it is true that most of the players on 888 are there just to play the freerolls.
888 poker margins are declining since last two years.
888 gets its most business from Casino operation and 888 also has 888 lotto which does very well.
But 888 knows very well that it can not refrain from the freerolls absolutely as in such scenarios most of the players will move towards Pokerstars and that will be a huge implication on their business.

Sure somebody must be doing some math here, and if freeroll players often proceed to place sports bets or play casino games, then maybe it can make financial sense to have many freerolls like for instance the new 500$ variety, which runs several times a day

 

[Risto234]

888 also has 888 lotto which does very well

Yeah it does very well considering i've never seen it lol :bebored:

 

[balo]

I guess they do this to attract the casual players, who would play both the freerolls and play micro stakes. Anyway they are a money machine for the owners thanks to the casino games where everyone lose money.

 

[edenman1]

I havent won a ticket to the big one yet, but a bit in the freerolls, and one BLAST win.. Looks like a great promo!!

 

[Brandlad]

I am just wining few 20-40 cents everyday in this freeroll.
I could not play any Level games yesterday but I will play Level 100 and The elite tourney.
I have 2 tickets of Hand of the day tourney. I have not done good in any hand of the day tourney yet. Let me see what happens today.

 

[orsino12]

I'd like the change more if I was able to play these games more often.
When be had 2 of the $3k BLAST games 1 of them was at 5 am (PST) so I could play 1 of them every day before leaving for work if I got up a little early, now there is just 1 at 12:25 pm so I can only play on weekends. Same goes for the $3k Superstorm which replaced 1 of the BLAST games, it's at 10:25 am so I can only play it on weekends.

I've only played the new $3k 3 times so far for $0.30 and $2.70 and have only won 2 $5 tickets from the BLAST game since the switch, but I did convert 1 for $15.

 

[Brandlad]

Well $500 freeroll is doing very well for me.
The real concern is for me- I mostly play tourneys but to get a Grand Hand tourney ticket I played a lot of Cash games which took away my good Freeroll money.
Today I lost $25 in a hand and yesterday I lost $36 in a hand where my pairs J J and Q Q were outperformed by A Q and A k.

Meanwhile I have got a $33 Big Fish ticket which I will use in next 2 days.

 

[orsino12]

Well $500 freeroll is doing very well for me.
The real concern is for me- I mostly play tourneys but to get a Grand Hand tourney ticket I played a lot of Cash games which took away my good Freeroll money.
Today I lost $25 in a hand and yesterday I lost $36 in a hand where my pairs J J and Q Q were outperformed by A Q and A k.

Meanwhile I have got a $33 Big Fish ticket which I will use in next 2 days.

When I do the Grand Hand challenge I do the bare minimum, $0.02/$0.05 and I bring just $3 to the table. When I do win a big hand I leave and come back with $3 again. I find it lets me be more fearless playing the hand of the day since I usually just do the A-K, A-Q, K-K and J-J. I really avoid the A-J suited, 8-9 suited and 2-7, the suited hands are just so hard to get. This works for me since I only usually need 2 or 3 $2k tickets a week as I can mostly play the freerolls on weekends.

Good luck with that $33 ticket, those games are tough to cash in, especially if you are like me and refuse to rebuy.

 

[Brandlad]

When I do the Grand Hand challenge I do the bare minimum, $0.02/$0.05 and I bring just $3 to the table. When I do win a big hand I leave and come back with $3 again. I find it lets me be more fearless playing the hand of the day since I usually just do the A-K, A-Q, K-K and J-J. I really avoid the A-J suited, 8-9 suited and 2-7, the suited hands are just so hard to get. This works for me since I only usually need 2 or 3 $2k tickets a week as I can mostly play the freerolls on weekends.

Good luck with that $33 ticket, those games are tough to cash in, especially if you are like me and refuse to rebuy.

Actually It was my mistake to jump straight away in $0.25 - $0.50 cash games where the minimum buy-in was $20 and the risk was to loose all that money in a hand and I did lost it.

As I have won that $33 ticket in a spin. I would not going to use rebuy. I will play a Tight poker to see how much deeper I can move.

 

[theRaven68]

$500 freeroll (3 times a day) and $3,000 Superstorm Freeroll cash prizes and $1M Superstorm BLAST Freeroll with 600 tickets

 

[Brandlad]

This year the Spin is performing very well for me. I am getting very good rewards from it. I got $33 big fish ticket, I got free plays and several blast tickets. Today I hit the surprise present box which will give me cash bonus.
I think as I have started to play cash games i.e. generating rake for 888 so 888 is also rewarding me.

 

[Brandlad]

I did win $1.80 yesterday in $3000 freeroll yesterday.
I got again $5 Freeplay and $1 Blast ticket on the wheel.

 

[Brandlad]

I did win $5 Blast ticket yesterday and I played a $5 Blast game thinking to hit that illusive 1 million prize pool but went in vain.

 

[Sokolik]

I only got to 600 seats once and got a ticket worth 5 bucks. But then it turned into 25 bucks. It is very difficult to get to 600 places. But that's just for me.

 

[amniasti]

hi

hi yeah i see every day this freeroll $3,000 Superstorm Freeroll - running daily but i was played just one tournament one ticket and no more tickets

 

[balo]

I win small money always at 888 LOL .

 

[Brandlad]

888 has announced a $5000 freeroll on this Sunday for the compensation of technical issue faced on 11th Feb. I think it will be ST freeroll.

 

[balo]

Yes how many players will take part? 10000 players , good luck .

 

[FF2586]

It is a "blast" to play on 888 for players with very low bankrolls! everyday we have a new kind of free stuff!

Last news : 888 apologies for technical issues and welcomes you for the 5000$ freeroll on sunday, no ticket needed!

Enjoy!

 

[FF2586]

888 has announced a $5000 freeroll on this Sunday for the compensation of technical issue faced on 11th Feb. I think it will be ST freeroll.

Did not see your post! posted the same news about the 5k freeroll

I like your thread, 888 is great!

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