Freeroll Freeloaders

Tuesday 25th January saw the monthly $500 Tetleyboy Freeroll take place on Betfred.

It’s an event that has been taking place for maybe 18 months now and proves very popular with the players.

Even though just over 100 players are actually eligible to play, there is generally a field of around 40 that actually take the time to register and play.

There is no minimum requirement for rake to allow players to become eligible for the event, only that they needed to have opened their Betfred account under our link.

However, this month we noticed a field of around 80 with about 2 hours to go before the start.

We asked Betfred to look into this and, sure enough, they found a number of entrants with ‘suspicious characteristics’ associated with their account.

Identical IP addresses or a sudden extra number of players from a certain country.

27 players were removed and, to our knowledge, only 1 of those maybe should not have been.

At least, only one bothered to contact us to query why he had been removed from the list.

It just goes to show that we need to be vigilant with these sorts of events.

There are sites dedicated to finding these freerolls and publishing them to members to participate.

We knew this sort of thing happened but had no idea that the lowly ’Tetleyboy Freeroll’ would attract so much attention.

In fact, just last month, when the event was posted on the Tournament schedule on Betfred and open for registration, we looked 3 days before the tournament and there were over 350 names on the list!!

iPoker had set no restrictions on the entry and it was basically open to anyone on Betfred to enter.

These names were removed in good time but it did show us that there are an awful lot of players out there looking for the absolute maximum value wherever they can get it.

Next month the Freeroll will be password protected and hopefully that will stop what happened here.

We like to make sure that the most value is gained by genuine Tetleyboy customers.