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Cheap Buyin tournaments.
Why is there a lack of cheap cash tournaments on Skypoker? I play a site with a 60 seat 2c (1.6p) buy in, they are great fun and you can win as much as 50c (33p) YES 33P LOL.
Its just too expensive to play for fun on Sky an this is probably the reason most Skypoker players on Sharkscope seem to be £1000-£3000 in poop. The site I use just opens a 60 seat tournanment and when its full it starts and another one opens, so on so forth.
You could have 5p buyin, 10p buyin, 20p/50p etc and say pay the top 7 and prizes would be pretty decent for the recreational poker player. I can't really play on Sky as unless I'm missing something there are no multi table tournaments 30/40/50 plus constantly running for cheap.
I don't want to pay £1.60 for 1 game when that gets me 16 games else where. The prize money is not important its the playing of poker for a small stake I enjoy. I've been on Skypoker for maybe a month and I'm already £18 in the red and probably won't deposit anymore I'll just use my poker points on freerolls.
It's not hard for you trial a few 50 seat cheap buyins and see how it goes, or don't you have enough players? Or maybe they are on here I've just missed them?
Its just too expensive to play for fun on Sky an this is probably the reason most Skypoker players on Sharkscope seem to be £1000-£3000 in poop. The site I use just opens a 60 seat tournanment and when its full it starts and another one opens, so on so forth.
You could have 5p buyin, 10p buyin, 20p/50p etc and say pay the top 7 and prizes would be pretty decent for the recreational poker player. I can't really play on Sky as unless I'm missing something there are no multi table tournaments 30/40/50 plus constantly running for cheap.
I don't want to pay £1.60 for 1 game when that gets me 16 games else where. The prize money is not important its the playing of poker for a small stake I enjoy. I've been on Skypoker for maybe a month and I'm already £18 in the red and probably won't deposit anymore I'll just use my poker points on freerolls.
It's not hard for you trial a few 50 seat cheap buyins and see how it goes, or don't you have enough players? Or maybe they are on here I've just missed them?
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Sky is a good brand but currently Skypoker is not good for the brand, Add some small stacks tourneys, and sit an goes. It does appear Sky want to keep their current user base at all costs, and checking Sharkscope tells you why. Its full of users happy to lose £2000 a year. Try to get the small stakes players in. The site numbers will double/tripple when word gets out Sky has 5p 10p 20p games.
A lot of online players don't like Skys "close" community and the same names winning time after time. Go on 888 theres thousand and thousands of players fromt the UK, Mention Sky to them and see what they have to say. Sky is meant to be good for its communtiy advice? I'v seen users who have lost thousands giving advice to players struggling. The advice is BET BIGGER ON THAT TURN...Yea and lose bigger. Lets get some nice small easy to play 20p 50 seat sit and goes.
Set up some low stakes tourneys lol, I see on Sharkscope THEROCK573 has won around £26'000 from this site, but some of use want to play for 26p lol.
I quite like Skypoker and would happily spend my $20/£13 a month here but it would be used up to quick as I'm crud lol
all it takes is for you to stop calling suited hands raggy aces and start folding AA sometimes.
basically you just need to be really tight aggressive
as for cheap tournaments the freerolls are totally free already.
But in poker the play small to win/lose small should not be forgotten surely? I play "around $20 a month on 888 it can last me a while for instance last year I played all year for $80 and ended with a $12 profit and I'm happy with that( although sometimes I only manage around 5 hours in the whole month playing), small risk small reward. It is not easy to do that on Skypoker. I sometimes work 70/80 hours a week out of town so I'm never going to be a great player but I enjoy the small stakes.
The clinic isn't intended for pro's to come on and tell you exactly what you should have done. It's there to help players, at all levels if they're interested, to flesh out their own ideas and build on their own understanding. If something is posted that isn't quite right, it's always challenged and that is for the good of all posters. I'd encourage any player that wants to improve to post their own thoughts on every hand in the clinic.
As has been said, the 60 seat format describes a sit and go. SNG traffic on sky is so low that it can take hours for a 6-max table to fill. 60 seaters would never fill.
I don't know what the business reasoning might be for having a 10p MTT on Sky. It might be worth their while, it might not. If you want a response from a Sky employee, I'd suggest bumping this thread on Monday morning.
No small multi table games on Sky as the site is too small. Back to 888, good luck folks. I do have some poker points left to play so you may fish me out soon if you're lucky.
as for penny tournies unless they r super hyper turbos they just really aint worth the rake to sky... pennies maybe for over an hours server time, bandwidth + possible tech support issues etc etc.... its a business at the end of the day designed to collect rake and tourney fees.
So in a lower priced tournaments me and my fellow donk's can play happliy without the good players skinning us and without the wanna be players constantly whinging at us lol. Its not easy entering a £5 tourney knowing you have no chance. An I don't want to learn variance, set mining, 3 bets,C-Bets,etc, I want to play for 20p.
But from comments made so far Skypoker not a approprate place for penny tourneys and the "comunty" don't want them, plus they can be played else where.
variance says that u can win a £5 tourney
the best thing i can suggest is play the freerolls or buy in short @ 4nl.
or if u really dont care about the money just find somewhere that offers play money.
Also if people do well at these low Buy ins then they will put money in at a higher level so eventually it will go up the ladder.
Still had to fight the urge to "all in" with 9-6 suiited lol, or taking a pair of 3's down the street, reraising all the way lol.