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Hopefully the turbo and standard HU games will also have their structures changed back to include the 10/20 level. Removing this level from the turbos is a particular problem as it takes the starting stack from 50BB to just 33BB, much closer to the hypers' starting stack of 25BB. Reducing the play, stepping on the hypers' toes and making them less distinct from one another.
I'm not sure anyone is fussed that the 6-max starting stack is now 50BB and not 75BB but in heads-up it will make a considerable difference, so perhaps the regular speed HU blind levels should be changed back too.
This whole restructuring has happened because SNG's on Sky have been virtually dead, with games hardly ever running. The most important thing is not to offer lots of variety but to actually offer games that get started. Up until now there have been occasions when you could be left waiting half an hour or longer for a game to fill, if it fills at all.
Removing certain buy-in levels, certain types of game and certain blind speeds, as well as altering the blind structure, is intended (I expect) to enable Sky to compete with Stars and others. If you can go to a competitor and be playing inside two minutes but on Sky it takes thirty, you're going to go and play with that competitor. The key thing about SNG's is that they start quickly and if they don't do that on Sky, they have no future.
Regarding the idea that this entire change came about after a single thread; Well I can promise you that it didn't. I have started and contributed to at least three threads on this subject in the last few months, each of which stretched to some considerable length. If you don't like what the voices on those threads were saying, then I'm sorry. However these threads were open to everybody and only those who wrote on them could be heard. You can hardly justify a complaint that Sky Poker doesn't listen to it's customers, if those customers you would like them to listen to aren't talking. Many of us were.
I'm sure that Sky_Dave will be along at some point to either explain why the HU blinds have been altered or tell us that they will be returned to their previous structure.
just noticed 12 seat and 18 seat timed sit and go's.
really??????
Yet more games with 2min blind that I will never play.
It seems as though Sky Poker need a lesson in this themselves as there seems to be a serious lack of genuine long-term planning in their thinking. It seems one day they decided to clean things up to get more games running, to boost the liquidity and hopefully increase the player pool by reducing the bewildering variety of alternatives. Good idea, you might think. Games starting fairly quickly is clearly what sit and go's are all about.
The next day someone comes in with a "great idea" and seemingly without any thought of a cohesive business plan, they just knock up another crazy variant, which will never run but will manage to dilute liquidity. Honestly, this is ridiculous.
Even if timed sit and go's were a good idea, which they are not, this is not the site to implement them. There are currently roughly 1000 players logged onto the site. How on Earth can anyone expect more than 1% of them to want to play a silly, gimicky, ten minute sit and go?
What's the point of having them anyway, when there are timed MTT's going off every half an hour. You'll be waiting longer than that to get one of these timed SNG's started. Does nobody think about these things?
What was the purpose of yesterday's changes, if not to try to increase the number of games starting?
I really am befuddled by the lack of thought that goes on behind the scenes.
Let's all just lol and play cash and MTT's.
The 18 man timed has gone(at my level don't know about the rest) and the 12 has changed to 5min blinds.But that still does not address the problem of removing popular games to increase liquidity just to split it again!
Claiming Sky Poker do not communicate with their players is firmly in the latter category. Try going to Pokerstars and see how much they listen to your opinion.