Freeroll and rake back are the most important things when it comes to choosing a site.

Since the advent of freeroll and rake-back, players are continuously searching for poker sites that have a huge tournament schedule and more importantly freeroll. Players can choose from cash winning freeroll to a satellite to a WPT, EPT or a WSOP buy in. Some sites like Poker Stars, PartyPoker and other sites have a huge freeroll schedule and often use these freeroll to lure players to their site.

Freeroll are increasingly popular with new players and if they do well playing a freeroll and win cash they usually move up and become a real money player and that is when the site makes a profit, and actually its a win win situation for both the freeroll player and the site carrying the freeroll.

Rake back is also a new way to lure in players. In the beginning players paid a rake and were not aware that they produced so much money in rake. Now rake back some players are getting back hundreds of dollars a week from rake back and smaller sites offer rake back to get players on their sites. Big sites like PartyPoker and pokerStars do not offer rake back because of their huge market share but smaller sites give rake back to players. Their philosophy is simple: rather make a little cash from poker player than no cash at all.

Both the freeroll and rake back concepts are keeping the online poker market competitive to a certain degree. Look at sites and their freeroll schedule to see if there is something you might be interested in. Freeroll is a great way to learn and more importantly, they are free! with rake back you probably have to email support to a site to ask if they offer it, they would rather not give it but if they did, they will give it to someone who inquires about it.