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Aside from rakeback and deposit bonus, what kind of promotion do you want to see in a bitcoin poker site?

Rake race? number of hands freerolls? anything you have in mind, please share.

BTW, i don't own a bitcoin poker website. I just want to see and ask fellow poker player like me about what promo do they want.
hopefully, website owners can see this thread and follow 1 or 2 ideas we might have here.

Please share what you guys think...

TIA.

I want a leaderboard where i can see the #1 player who won the largest chips..

Reward your active players, keep them busy with gifts and bonuses for their activity in the game, so they will feel the need to come back.

As for getting new users, $ gifts / dividends  for signing up before XX-XX-XXXX date..


Thats not a promotion.

loyalty bonuses, freerolls for most hands played weekly, something like the krill on swc so ppl can earn better rakeback. those would be some of my ideas

well they can give rewards for being in the top 1 or top 1-10.

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nevermind. it can be abused lol  ;D

I second you ! This is what almost everyone ignore they don't pay enough attention to their active players and want more and more new players. Give some rewards to existed players along with new ones to have balance.

 ;D  I like freerolls, currently I am joining freerolls in luckyflop, I can earn many mbtc per day. Sometimes I go to SWC, betcoin to play freerolls.

Today I downloaded pokerstars and full tilt poker clients, ready to join their freerolls.

Even world champion Chris Ferguson likes freerolls too, unbelievable, right? But I see his poker tutorial, he said freerolls really help poker players to manage fund, enhance skill with different skills players.

I think everyone prefers promotions. One thing I liked recently, were promotions on sites like Nitrogen, and they are really good for getting new people to visit the site.

1.  Non-deposit bonus to try the site (if it is NEW)
2. If it is Old sites, they should give reward to their loyal player.
3. Jackpot for Nice Hand like 4 of a kind, straight flush, Royal Flush etc.
4. Free rolls is a must.

Most of these already exist on the site.
One thing I like and see only on one site is the use of Krills.
Just like pokerstars offers player classes, we need something like that for the BTC poker community as well.

It depends what you want to achieve. If you want to get more people to try the site the easiest thing is to make a giveaway. It can also have a required number of hands you have to play before you're allowed to withdraw, so people will actually play.

If you want to reward current users give them bonuses after certain number of games played. You could also reward biggest losers with bonuses or free games to help them get back into the game.
Truth is the winners will usually keep playing, so you need to take care of the losers.

a good deposit bonus, some free bits to test the site(you can open it in game & rounds) a signature campaign...

Why aside from deposit bonus ? I think thats actually one of the best bonuses a poker player can get as long as the rollover requirement aren't unachievable.
Even having 2-3 x rollover requirement would guarantee enough rake to the site to cover up those bonuses awarded.

Apart from the bonuses, one thing would be awarding freeroll tickets based on deposits/amount played

A bad beat jackpot would be nice to have. and all-in shout outs.

Automated withdraws with email confirms.

100%+ deposit bonus

Points Scale

Account incentives similar to Betcoin.ag (Bronze,Silver,ect)

I agree with promotions and free rolls but players must not be allowed to play free-rolls ONLY.

I see the poker sites where all the free-rolls table are full and the ring games section and other tournaments such as Sit-n-Go are empty. So a condition must be enforced for playing free-rolls one must deposit and play ring games also.

Anything that rewards volume is smart because it's a win-win situation.  WPN is pretty great with this as they have two weekly leaderboards, one for cash and one for SNG, that is pure volume-based.  They take a small % of the rake from the tables and add it to the prize pool so it grows over time.

"I see the poker sites where all the free-rolls table are full and the ring games section and other tournaments such as Sit-n-Go are empty."

Do you mean luckyflop? Luckyflop is a new site, need more time to attract more customers. If 200 players online there, I think SNG and Ring would be  full of players.

Freeroll is aim to attract new users. If it sets some thresholds, why people play there?

I see a good example is betcoin, it has 2 kind of freerolls. One is for everyone, the other one is only for deposit users, prize if also bigger.

totally agree with the concept of 2 different kinds of freerolls. players who already play on site and deposit need to have better rewards.

The problem is that micro freerolls don't attract the kind of people that a poker site needs to survive.  If a site has, say, a 1BTC/wk promotional budget and puts that budget into running 6 chips worth of freerolls a day, the only people that that is going to attract are people like you who just said that you aren't interested in depositing on a site.  Now that's obviously fine for you as an individual, but for the poker site that's bad because they are never making any money. 

If, instead, the site puts that budget into deposit bonus', guaranteed tournaments, or funding a rake race promotion of some sort, they are more likely to attract players who will actually deposit money and play regularly, allowing the site to rake pots and start recouping start up costs.  These types of people are also more likely to leave bonus money on their accounts and play more.

For attracting new player, just give them free chips promotion with less wager requirement to withdraw. If they enjoy playing in this casino, they will stay and ready to deposit money and gambling here.
For keeping loyal player to stay in casino, give them free chips if they achieve some kind of achievements or reach milestone.
How about give bonus to player that having best hand card in every week?

I think poker site owners are rich enough to give freerolls. They have earned enough from poker, and have enough fund to run the site.

Investing and running a poker site is not an easy thing, biggest poker sites like pokerstars, full tilt, 888 and so forth. Every year they pay over 10 millions of USD to sponsor competitions, players. Only experienced and rich owners can run poker sites well.

IMO, in the crypto community, the best way to run a poker site is freeroll. And it needs lots of time to be a big poker house, maybe half a year or longer.

Why?  As I said, if a poker site is only attracting freerollers, they will never make any money.  For a site to survive, let alone thrive, they need to attract real money players who are willing to deposit and spend time playing games that the site can rake.  If the site is, at best, raking their own money back they will shutter in months.  It's happened time after time after time. 

When a site is only catering to freerollers, what do you think happens when people who are willing to deposit come in and take a look around?  They see the bad software (which 95% of the users don't care about because they are playing for fun), they see nobody playing for anything other than freeroll stakes, and they leave.  There isn't even an incentive for them to stick around and try to game start because all of the marketing capital is spent running freerolls.

freerolls

thank you all for all your inputs.

i have nothing against freeloaders but, as a poker player i hate to see websites getting shut down just because there are no cash game players. we all need to take into consideration that the website needs to make some profit otherwise it will just shut down, sooner or later.

please keep the idea flowing, i know there are a bunch of bitcoin poker website here and i hope that they can adapt one or 2 ideas that will be brought out here.

Exactly my point, Freerolls can be really profitable for the players for they don't have anything to lose but if a Site has only players who are interested in playing Freerolls than sooner or later it will go bankrupt. Which is why I said that a site should only allow freerolls to players who are active and participate in ring games too.

And Poker sites especially don't have that much profit margin like dice or other gambling sites do because players are not playing against the site but with each other.


Yup, A poker site can't only survive on freeloaders, they need genuine players who are interested in playing poker and are not their just to get the freebies.

Freerolls and loyalty program
that's what players want  ;D ;D

not all poker players are freeloaders for freerolls, most might be a freeloader but not all, and also the freerolls can be considered as an advertising to try out a site, higher prize pool will attract a lot more players for the free rolls, this can actually be countered by making minimum wagering before entering a free rolls tournament

Hey guys!

Consider checking out BetVIPpoker.com - we have a 500mBTC freeroll starting in a few hours and would love for you to join! Use your winnings to take home the big prize in the 1BTC guaranteed tomorrow :D

Kind regards,
Jess

Freeroll definitely. With some exciting prizes.

There has been some good promotions at betVIP you got 10mbtc just for joining and then you they had quite a few 100mbtc freerolls , the playing field was small but getting bigger which is good :) The promotions i prefer are 100% deposit bonus and big freerolls that only a select few qualify for threw winning smaller freerolls or depositing a certain amount during a certain period of time..

i would like to see bonuses for loyal players on the poker site. Whether it be free chips, increased rake back. Also, the qualifying players could be entered in to a monthly freeroll or weekly drawing.

Is that promotion still going on? How much deposit one has to make to get that?
Do I have to download their client to play Poker or can it be played on web browser?
I am looking for a decent Poker room, will check betVIP out. Thanks


Yes, this is good, there must be something that differentiate freeloaders from real Poker lovers and this would help.

Hi all,

We have free rolls everyday! Come and check out our poker room at BetVIPpoker.com and look out for our daily 100 mBTC free rolls. We will also be launching loyalty specials for players who frequently play with us, for example free rolls only accessible to players who have played certain amounts of cash games.

What do you all think? We would love to hear some suggestions and make our site the best poker room around  :)

Regards
Jess
BetVIP

I would suggest you not spam threads multiple times over the course of a couple of days with the same message.  It comes off as very unprofessional.

Hi CryForMe,

This is not spamming a thread, a user inquired about what we have to offer and quoted our name. We then have every right to respond to these users and ask what they would like to see.

Regards
Jess
BetVIP

Bigger non-freeroll guaranteed tournaments. People are attracted to the overlay. This way you attract paying/depositing players and those who aren't interested in playing freerolls for peanuts. When there comes a point in time where there is no longer overlay, it's still good because there will be traffic/action. Win-Win for everybody.

I have to download the 'app' to play and that's a bit of a problem for me. I am sure there is nothing wrong with your Client but I don't like to download softwares and prefer playing in browser.

Agree with this mostly. Rewarding actual players makes more sense. Freerolls where you have to earn an entry and Guaranteed tournaments are the way to go. I do think that freerolls are important for a site too.

overlay kicks arse and if it costs you the same as a freeroll promotion its likely brought in better quality traffic as a result since they have at least paid some to enter the game.

number of hands open freerolls :)

We are bringing out our new HTML5 client at BetVIPpoker.com in the next few days, you'll be able to play in-browser :)

We currently also have a deposit bonus up to a maximum of 1 BTC and over your first 3 deposits. It releases in 10mBTC intervals based on earning Cash Game Points. We are also starting Cash Game Point entry tournaments with big prizes!

Kind regards,
Jess