No deposit poker deals are one of the most popular poker promotions in the industry. Players like them because a no deposit offer allows them to skip some of the hoops and hassle involved in making a deposit at an online poker site. The sites like the deals because they allow sites to recruit new customers at a fairly low cost.
However, just like any trend, no deposit offers may be coming to an end. The market has now become saturated, and as that happens, poker rooms are forced to offer larger and larger amounts in order to attract players. That sort of competition obviously undermines the core advantage of online poker no deposit deals, namely the low price of player acquisition they originally offered rooms.
Does that mean all of the deals are going to disappear tomorrow? Probably not. We believe that online poker no deposit offers are most likely a permanent part of the online poker landscape, simply because the basic model is such a win-win for players and rooms. However, what will start to change is the quality of the offers. Rooms are now simply offering more than can really be sustainable, and that’s bound to change.
Eventually, these offers will come back to earth and you won’t be able to get a couple hundred in free money at a room. Instead, offers of the future will be much closer to, say, the current offer from Sky Poker of the $8 offer from 888 Poker. Those are still good deals – free money is still free money, and not having to deposit is always going to be appealing – but they’re not going to have the high-dollar-tags that some of the current offers feature.
So the moral of the story: Get the offers now while the getting’s good, because you might not have the same no deposit poker chances in the weeks and months ahead.