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this one may be a moan but its most likely a moan based on the fact that nothing has come from trying to talk to sky like so many people have advised.
dohhhhhh hit the nail completely on the head....as an mtt grinder this is the wrong site to be on.
I think this is a very interesting DISCUSSION (as long as we keep it that way, with no name calling or berating etc)
It seemed almost too perfect not to mention something new that is coming up on Sky Poker in the coming weeks.
We will be running a promotion called 'Battle of the Mains' whereby two main events, with the exact same buy-in and guarantee, will be running alongside one another. However, the two mains will be completely different in structure (for example a Turbo Bounty Hunter and a Deepstack).
There will be the 'Regular' (the main that currently runs) versus 'The Contender' (the main that will be new and looking to displace the regular tournament from its throne). The notion is that whichever tournament generates the largest prizepool will then run on the same weekday the following week.
I feel as though this discussion could be used to suggest any tournaments that you might want to see as 'contenders' to the regular MTT's that run at the moment (remember all ideas will be considered, but of course, not all ideas will be implemented)
Remember, this promotion is not scheduled to run for quite some time, but this thread seemed a good place to mention that it is coming...!
Please keep suggestions well balanced and calm, as the last thing I want is for it to be closed down after getting out of hand.
Let me know what you think
Thanks a lot,
Joe
When the Primo was a £33 tournament it used to get over 500 runners every week without fail and carried a £15K guarantee. Since the buy-in has been increased to £55 the average field has more than halved, just a few over 200 is the norm now (it was 204 this Sunday). Obviously the guarantee has been chipped away accordingly and is now down to £10K. Those numbers tell you all you need to know. In my opinion the shift to £55 can only be considered a failure.
You guys calling for more big stakes tournies are just gonna have to accept you're in a minority here, albeit a vocal minority. The silent majority have no interest in those games.
For you guys who said this is the wrong site for MTT grinders, Thats cool youve said that, You guys probably know other sites better. I started on Sky just couple of years back and have never played on another site until very recently. The other site seems very good, but due to the big numbers, only problem i will have is getting time to play a lot of them. Hence why i play on sky and to be honest only place ave played so all ive ever knew, Like lots of people on here, Also fact i do ok, its case of if its not broke dont fix it.
Maybey im same as Rock bit bored of same players, same rebuy tournys, same bounty hunters. Maybey bit bored of poker?.
I will just do same as Rocks and Bearly and play selected tournys now. I think a similar Sky Roller tournament wud be great Joe, even a smaller buy in and smaller gtd pool , if you dont want to have overlay. Also less rebuys id hope for, although not a problem keeping an add on if needed to help make cash up. Cheers
Decided to just stop giving action to certain bore.com regs
playing somewhere else where players actually do play some pokerz
Very diffcult to improve playing cash on SKY !
MTT's are fun though )
Watch the lobby this afternoon. One of the many daytime £2.30 Bounty Hunters will start at 2-15pm, the only £2.20 deepstack that runs all day will start just 5 minutes later at 2-20pm. I predict the Bounty Hunter will still attract more runners.
I'm pretty much in a +1 with Div's post. (both of them)
Limited experience elsewhere, getting a bit bored of the routine on here, becoming more selective in what I play, SKY remains my first choice but I feel less inclined to play as much as I used to, when I look at the MTT lobby some nights SKY Poker is losing it's appeal, though this could be just me and other reasons / other interests.
I thought the Monte Carlo TSP event, rekindled alot of the good things SKY's all about, though I felt SKY shot themselves in the foot by stopping the qualifier 10 days or so before the event. Interest was building, people seemed keen to get involved, but SKY closed the door too early in my opinion, poker players seem to love 'the last chance saloon' and I think there was a trick missed there.
Of course there were other way's to qualify for the DTD Monte Carlo and a number of SKY reg's went that way, but of no benefit to SKY, perhaps there were legal reasons for SKY not running sats closer to the event?
I think similar events where team TSP get involved and regs have a chance to sat their way in would be great, maybe even a return of the TSP mtt, with an associated league and TSP live seats as the reward?
Similar shooting in foot by SKY over VLV, there must be good reason for the lack of VLV, but whilst SKY hold back or are held back, there are other options and avenues to qualify for a Vegas package, none of which benefit SKY.
IMO, VLV has been getting bigger and better each year, I thought this year would see the biggest SKY team yet and spread the wings further, with added packages, the opportunity to get SKY players into a few of the many 'side' events leading up to the WSOP.
Again there are opportunities out there but not through SKY, personally if I was going to Vegas during the WSOP my first choice would be to try and win my way onto team SKY with Tikay in Vegas, but it seems the Vegas dream will have to take a different path.
UKOPS is good, but for me Christmas and Easter are not ideal times for me to be focusing on poker, perhaps my profile doesn't fit that of a typical poker player?
The SuperRoller is also a good addition, but it's once a month, so there is no guarantee I can play it regularly so I don't play sat's until I know what I'm doing.
Now if SKY run the SuperRoller more regularly and ran satellites where you win a seat to 'a SuperRoller of your choice' I would fully be committed to the event.
I recently qualified for the £110BH, then found I couldn't play, de-registered and had to apply some pressure to customer care to get them to refund my buy-in and I'm not going through that again!
Back to the nightly MTT's, I will try anything once, so any attempts to freshen up the schedule will be supported by me, I will certainly get involved with 'The Battle of the mains'.
Too many BH's and rebuys for my liking at the moment, the Thursday SKYRoller was quality, why not run it every week again, but have sats where you win 'a SKYRoller seat of your choice', put an expiry date on it so you don't have 'credits' sitting in peoples accounts for months, this would also stop people playing these sats just for the prize money and not taking their seats in the event.
How about a 10 seater main being part of 'The Battle'?
I think If Sky Joe looks at this, Please listen to all the regulars saying the same thing. Time to take notice and do something.
I hope you all think that 'Battle of the Mains' is a good idea and that it might help to really highlight which tournaments are favoured most by the most important people of all....YOU the customers.
Keep the suggestions coming and be assured that we are taking notes and listening to each and every one of them....
Thanks
Jonathan
There doesn't seem to be much middle ground. We have plenty of very low stake tourneys and then there seems to be quite a jump.
The problem for me is the small prizepool in the low buy ins doesn't really convince me to commit a couple of hours or so to it. Then with the bigger buy ins, i would rather go and play live.
£10/£20 rebuys would create a decent prizepool and i would certainly play these regulary. They were pretty much all i played on a couple of other sites before i started on sky. I very rarely play any tournies on sky.
Agree with gixxer on structures as well. Urghh 2000 starting chips. Maybe 4000 is too much but increase of any kind in starting stack would appeal more to me.
Having said all that, Sky know what works for them and as Gary and Flashflush indicated there doesn't appear to be much demand for anything other than the bounty hunters.
Rebuy straight away in the £11 rebuys and you will have 4000 chips and 12 min blinds.
Ger
£3,000 Gtd Rebuy £11's
bring this forward to 7:30-8:00
more of these MTT's with £22 & £33 aswell
good playable structures, would make a good main or side
Why can't Sky keep the fast MTT's in the scheudle which run alongside the live TV show, which should attract numbers and still run a sideline MTT at the sametime with a more slower structure.
The numbers would suggest Sky client base love playing 8pm BH's, turbo's and rebuys.
Would they not also sign up to another MTT starting at the sametime.
The MTT scheudle is so staggered through the evening, If people are coming online to play 8pm main then why not put on a varied scheudle at that time so they play more.
We just want to make sure this thread stays on the topic in hand.
Thanks
Sky Poker