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A poker version of Super6?
Hi everyone
We're sure many of you are familiar with Super6, the free to play game where you can win £250,000 (up to £1m some weeks!) by predicting scores in the football. In fact a few weeks ago, someone won £250,000 by winning this, all for nothing!
So, heres a thought - if there was a poker version of Super6 how would you design it? What would be the format and what would you need to do to win it?
It would obviously have to be quite tough to win without being impossible. Think like the Sky Poker Jackpot but a bit tougher (with it being free).
Let's assume its free to play and top prize is £100,000.
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Then all 7 of them HAVE to FT one of the MEs that week. Do-able but still very very hard.
Name the 3 cards to appear on the first flop on your table in a given tournament.
You'd have about a 1/130,000 chance of predicting them all correctly and if that's too much value then getting them all in the right order would approach 1/800,000
I imagine a lot less people would enter a poker super 6 rather than a football super 6 so having the odds slightly reduced shouldnt matter too much. This is why I like this suggestion best at the moment.
And by then you'd already have eliminated a load of players.
Not sure I could see that ever working.
with super 6 we can a lot of the time get 1 result right as their we just picking a number between 7-0 for each team the biggest difficulty is getting all 6 correct
in each of the main events what about predicting the highest and lowest card to come on the board in the very last hand of them events
largest card & lowest card Monday
largest card & lowest card Tuesday
largest card & lowest card Wednesday
largest card & lowest card Thursday
largest card & lowest card Friday
largest card & lowest card Saturday
largest card & lowest card sunday
all can be from the last hand of the main events and the prize is for getting all them corrct
People would have to enter by a certain date/time one or two days before the tournament takes place.
List of entrants then posted on the forum and people would have to select the six players who Final Table before the tournie starts.
The tie break could be how many hands played in the tournie.
Gives two lots of interest, the people who want to play in it and the people who want to guess the result.
Not a poker expert so dont know if it would work but thought it worth putting forward.
Maybe you could make the £100,000 into a poker-style prize pool rather than just the top prize. This way, you could allow players to pick as many names as they want for final tabling (maybe with a minimum of two players).
For example; Player A does the minimum and predicts Lambert180 & scotty77 to reach a final table - he is right with both. Player B predicts Lambert180, scotty77, lolufold and peter27 (woo!) to reach a final table - he is right with all four. These two players are the only ones to predict correctly and therefore the moeny is proportionally split between them based on how many they got right (in a simmilar way to a timed MTT). The thing is that you need to have 100% of your selections correct, so you'd need to balance risk and reward. If you guess two players only, you have a good chance - and if you guess six, you have a smaller chance - but if it comes off, you win a lot more.
This would require that Sky give away £100,000 every weekend though, so maybe the minimum could be higher than just two correct guesses - was just an example aha!
I'm very curious to know if this idea would be open to everyone or only people who have played on SkyPoker?
Everyone on the site plays a huge f.a cup style knockout/heads up game, on 1 night, and the winner gets £100,000 lol
Or on a serious note, how about make a selection of 4/5 players on sunday, and from that week, if all 4/5 players final table any main that coming week (mon-sat) you win the jackpot.
Gl all at the tables
a) the fields are not known until very late
b) you wouldn't know 90% of the field anyway
c) doesn't appeal to new sky poker players (because they've no idea who 100% of the field are)
d) everyone would pick mattbates lol
e) sky might even be tempted to pay someone off in the last ME should someone's picks be about to come up lol. i.e. 6 of someone's 7 picks have came in Mon-Sat and their last pick is playing the primo on Sunday.
f) odds are probably astronomical as well.
Assuming this was actually something sky poker are considering it's main aim has be to attract new players to the site therefore the fundamental thing it must have is that new people to the site have to be able to have a go at it. Picking 5 random names from fields of 300 surely wouldn't appeal to newbies.
There are 1,326 possible combinations from 52 cards for the winner, with two cards removed that leaves 1,225 possible holdings for the runner-up.
So you have a 1/1,624,350 chance of guessing correctly in theory (1/1,225 x 1/1,326). I'd expect it to be guessed a bit more often than that because guesses and correct answers would both be weighted towards stronger hands.
Number the seats 1-6.
Then predict which player knocks which player out in the exact order.
Example.
Player 5 knocks out player 2
Player 5 knocks out player 4
Player 3 knocks out player 1
Player 5 knocks out player 6
Player 3 knocks out player 5
Player 3 wins.
If I was any good at calculating odds id be able to tell you what the liklihood of predicting this right would be.
I thiiiink its something like 1/10,000
If you get them all right then you get a guarenteed prize 1k-5k. To get the jackpot... predict the end time.
Edit - Assuming most answers for the end time are going to be in the same hour period then the odds of doing all this correctly is around 1/600,000. I dunno. Im rubbish at maths but it seems correct.
Doing it on player names, as stated previously, won't work due to late reg and fields being unknown until they have already started. Doing something like this allows people to enter well before the event occurs.
Do it for the Primo each week. Itd also encourage people to rail the primo FT (or choose another ME if this is too late) as people check to see if they are on course for the win (much like following football scores at the weekend).