Quote Originally Posted by jyms
You wont find anyone around here with enough posts to actually qualify that gives two shits whether there are 20 or 20,000 in the freeroll. It just doesn't matter. We tried solutions before to fix it, but it turns out we were just protecting the faux posters who stick around just enough to get the passwords vs the douchbag password stealers who don't. I really don't give a fuck about either while I am 8 tabling $100NL on a nightly basis, what are they ever going to do for FTR. Not one winner of a freeroll has ever comeback to thank us or posted a thing to give back to the community. Freerollers are a different breed, and they will always be just that, freerollers. As long as they show up at my tables with there $23.48 and buy in right after they win and lose it getting all in w/A9s shoving over my threebet I will be fine.
Unfortunately your contempt for the freerollers I think clouds the issue.I've bolded part of your post which I know for a fact is a lie to dramatise your statement.

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...ys-t80463.html
http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...ay-t81745.html


I can totally agree with your statement as far as todays freerolls are concerned. If the site wants to get referral income from the poker sites fine do the public freerolls, get the russian/brazillian signups and totally ignore it.My comments are towards the "qualified member" events . I fully appreciate the bankroll boost now as much as then when i won that full tilt one and I think that by being able to restrict it to active members it helps to build some community spirit at FTR. As shown by the Nathan Nowack picture effort. Nothing in it for those of us that took part except for helping out one of our own .

My win came right at the start of my cash game career and I think that the people who are missing out the most at the moment from the lack of those freerolls being comprised of good FTR regular poker players are the newcomers to FTR in the beginners circle.Once they have come and settled down and started to play cash and proved themselves longterm, playing in a tournament at that standard opens your eyes to how poker can be played on a completely different level to that they they normally experience on the cash tables or previously in freerolls.

I can remember in one of the last 'true' members tournaments that i took part in we had about 25 consecutive hands without seeing the flop and the password hunters were moaning in chat saying things like "when are you going to see a flop and play some poker". To me it was some of the most fascinating poker I'd ever played with 3 and 4 bets pre and never seeing a flop . This is something that the members of BC who joined in the last year have missed out on .