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I was loyal to Sky and made priority nearly 50 months in a row. However, they scrapped 3+month bonus and offered new players guaranteed 30% rake back. So I decided to take my business elsewhere, decided to come back as r lass fancies a PS4 and another offer via email interested me.
I believe there is some live tournament package for priority members. That would have no appeal to me I wouldn't play in it if they offered it for free (not just saying that, I turned down GUKPT entry before).
Unfortunately it looks like people will keep having to jump sites to get a good deal like you have to with car insurance. I would rather just stick with the same site month in month out but if it pays to move about that's what I will have to do.
All players that accumulated over 10K points last month are excluded from this promotion. All others can participate. This was based exclusivively on the rewards scheme and when rakeback kicks in. Essentially any one on rake back last month cannot participate.
I have to say guys that there is no perfect way to run a leaderboard without annoying some players. The only criteria for this month's leaderboard, since we really haven't done a leaderboard in quite some time was to include as many players as possible without the leaderboard getting completely out of hand, which means we decided to take out priority players since they have their own separate budget. There is no way to predict which players will opt in to the promotion and inevitably will increase their play for the whole month.
Having said that, since this leaderboard has generally worked and has had mostly positive feedback we want to improve things so there are more prizes for various customer groups. Therefore in the coming months there will definitely be more tiered promotions/leaderboards.
Thanks to all again for your responses/feedback.
Justin
Priority players have their own promotions every single month so they have their own leaderboards, targets etc. The idea of the promotion was to engage with the entire database. If we had taken out past priority players then of course they wouldn't be happy as well so there is no perfect way of doing this. Of course we also want past priority players to comeback and play at the volumes they were playing at before.
We have PS4 Freerolls every Sunday for all recreational players to participate in, not to mention that all players get poker rewards bonuses at the beginning of every month so even if you don't end up with a PS4 this month you should still receive a nice cash bonus.
Players 11-50 on the leaderboard also get into a private freeroll where the final table will each receive a PS4.
As I have said in previous posts we will definitely create leaderboards in the future targetted to all different customer groups especially the recreational players. This leaderboard was the first one we have done for a while and it was also a nice test to see if this type of promotion works and if players like it. It appears to be working and players do like this format so now its just about improving and enhancing it for the coming months.
Thanks,
Justin
Glad you bring up other business practises because what generally happens is if you are a client who gives a lot of business to a company then they treat you more favourably and give you bigger discounts. If you leave them they often try and entice you back with better deals. THats all thats happening here.
The PS4's arent free, you gotta generate the rake. This isnt a freeroll. The comp is also open to everyone bar the highest rakers and yet still you are complainging the criteria for entry is still too wide because you dont fit into the top percentile.
You can only punt your way into the top 10 for so long before the money runs out.
Spose it proves you dnt have to be a 100nl player to be top 10 after 8 days.
cheers
"The winner of the Playstation 4 must remain as an active player with Sky Poker for a period of at least five years after receiving said prize."