Running My first freeroll-Have a question

[greview]

I am running my first freeroll via Titan Poker and have a question.
The freeroll is for $100 and I am limiting the seats to 20 max. Top 15 gets paid. My question is, Should I require that you make a deposit at the site to recieve access to the freeroll or should I just allow players to enter without depositing?
My site is new so I worry that I wont get the minimum number of players, which is 15 if I require a deposit for access.
Any thoughts?

[scrawnybob]

hi

good luck btw with it -

not sure why your restricting it to a max of 20 ?

I do freerolls and some low buy-ins and its a mixed bag really

on the one hand you will pick a load of low value members for your forum with a freeroll with password but no posting restriction

if you put on a posting restriction your narrowing it down to existing members with enough posts and a few new ones who will post (but could be any kind of quality)

I wouldn't bank too much on getting new signups & depositing (complete virgins) they just wont signup because of a $100 freeroll IMHO (& limited experience)

I would use freerolls for building a bit of loyalty and you will need the existing members already signed up to titan to be sure your tournies will run esp buy-ins

I used to be really cheesed off about forum singups just to get into freerolls but this is par for the course - look at as an overal thing

your forum grows - looking more established - which attracts more members etc - which will attract depositing players / new players

I might be wrong but for me it seems a numbers game - you cant know who will deposit at places (half the time they dont understand how we earn money) so work on the tournies making the community and getting them to post more

making it too exclusive half the time means your just throwing tournies for members who signed up to the sites your promoting and hoping to earn from months ago - so in effect they wont earn you on those ones

hope thats a help - keep the true freeroll whores out but get as many others as possible

cheers scrawnybob

[greview]

Thanks for the info. Makes sense. I have been working on a forum, just havent made it public yet. This may be a good way to attract members.