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I hope your poker ability is higher than your messageboard retort ability but I'm guessing it probably isn't.
The 9pm TV games have to be quicker simply because they can't have a 5 hour tournament starting at 9 and finishing at 2am, that's too late for people to be playing poker when they could have work in the morning. The simple solution is bigger blind increases or quicker blind increases, this means players will be knocked out faster so the tournament is over by midnight for television purposes. If you don't like this, don't play the TV games, you don't need to.
If you want a longer structure, look no further than the deep stack, you don't get as many entrants but if you are a good player, you will have a much bigger chance of cashing or winning. There is the £500 gtd at 7.15, if you don't want to pay the £22, satellite in for £4.80 by playing the 5pm satellite or even play a £5.50 sit n' go, if you win, use the winning to enter the £500 deep stack.
I'm just winding down from 10 tabling on Blue Square with real players that respect themselves.
Try it some day, we're always looking for a few new fish to keep the water well stocked
Just got back from the show. Wasn't actually shown this message during the programme by the studio crew. I would guess that this was because (a) they were massively busy tonight with technical issues and all sorts of phone calls to Vegas etc and (b) they wouldn't have seen it anyway, as it wasn't posted in the thread for tonight's show.
So I certainly wasn't avoiding the question- I would have gladly read it out on air and answered it. And of course I will now.
To be honest, I personally prefer the Open to the Bounty Hunter to play in, but I also understand the concept of market forces. The Bounty Hunter constantly sells out. People seem to enjoy playing it. I think if people felt it wasn't providing good value for money they would stop playing it. As I say, it sells out every week.
I think there's something for everyone on the site now-(Omaha is coming)- we've got a great community and it's an enjoyable site to play on. I also think everyone knows what they're getting when they sign up for the 9pm tournament. 3 hours of fun playing with your mates, a chance to be on TV, and the possibility of winning a few grand. All this, usually for £11. The price of a round of drinks.
Sorry you feel on a bit of a downer about The Bounty Hunter, but obviously you're not forced to play it. It's just one of a million tournaments in the world of poker you can play. I would imagine this won't have done much to change your mind, but I hope it at least proves that the presenters are not necessarily just smiling faces who don't give a monkeys. I'm very proud of Sky Poker and have a lot of time for the players, of which, I am one.
Cheers
Rich
At least hes thoroughly tested the site before forming an opinion.
Maybe he has played on the cash tables, I don't know, as that isnt covered by sharkscope.
Rich Orford wrote......
I'm very proud of Sky Poker and have a lot of time for the players, of which, I am one.
I echo those sentiments, I too am a Sky Poker player, in my own time, with my own money, & I just enjoy the banter with the folks on here.
There are hundreds of poker sites to choose from, & we all have the right to choose. Nobody is forced to play here, but if they do, they get looked after, in a multitude of ways.
This is a young site, with a great Community, and it's getting better all the time. There's plenty to do yet, we all know that, but it's kinda nice to grow with it.
To be fair, though, I'm not entirely sure I'd call Richard "a player".
You've nailed it there - in Bounty Hunters you don't have to Cash to Cash, you can finish well out of the money & still make a profit. So, in effect, they reduce the Tournamnt Player's enemy - Variance.
Not everyone likes Bounty Hunters, but there are hundreds of non Bounty Hunter Tourneys every day, so there's something for everyone.
I hope you keep taking those Bounties.
wd rich for coming on and answering the post and yes i do believe that it would of been read out on air if you knew about it. how on earth can you slate the tournies that have 500-700 every night and most times are full. if you are wining on other sites why are you here moaning? and as other players have said to you dont play them ...sky havnt got a gun to ya head and say you must play these !!
Their flagship Tournaments (The Open, The Five-00 and The Bounty Hunter) are structured that way intentionally. It is not structured to make it bad value for money for players as that would be pretty senseless - if all their tournaments are bad value for money then how are they going to get more players on the tables? They are structured that way to make it possible to fit the Tournament into a suitable TV Schedule. In order for the Tournament to finish in time so that the FT can be televised for the end of the programme, it needs to be run in the way it currently is.
You must also understand that SkyPoker was created primarily to give new players to the game a fun platform on which to learn the basics of the game. I started playing on this site soon after it was created, and, quite frankly I was a bad player (mainly because I just started playing). What SkyPoker do with The Open is give new (or bad) players the opportunity to see their hand played out on the TV and learn from the analysts how they could have played their hand differently. This is the main appeal behind these tournaments, because you might get yourself on the TV, but if you don't you're certainly going to learn a lot.
There are many regular players on this site, and I consider myself as one of them. There are a lot of us that, like you, do not like the structure of those Tournaments but rather than moan about we find something else to play on the site. As has been mentioned, there are DeepStacks available, and I believe there is a 10-minute blind structured Tournament that starts on the hour every hour. You are very likely to find decent value in these games without the crapshoot nature of The Open or The Bounty Hunter.
Great post youngun and i agree 100%
i ACTUALY WON THE OPEN BUT GOT VERY VERY LUCKY, HAVE BEEN PLACED 17TH 11TH AND 7TH AND NEXT WAS TO MAKE FINAL TABLE BUT WENT ON TO WIN
JONONZIE
Also shorter structures are better for new players as they have less difficult decisions and level the playing field somewhat so everyeon is in with a more realistic chance of winning. Once the site gets bigger(which sky seem to be doing all they can to acheive) they will be able to cater for more experienced players without forgetting about the new players who are still learning the game.
As long as they're not there in place of other tournaments, but running alongside all the other formats, then I don't personally see a problem. Pick your game and play it. Don't like a particular game? Don't play it.
In some ways, I think you answered your own question with the first sentence of your post.
I have played on Ladbrokes and Superstars and live, in tournies up to £220 buyins.
The other two sites i mentioned have some pretty rubbish tourines as well, and given that this site has only been running for a couple of years and their original brief to give newer players a place to learn in a very different way from the big boys, then imo they are doing ok. The real test comes in the next couple of years as the players demand better structures and prizepools.
I could sum up my feelings to people like in one sentence, but cant get the swear words through, so i'll just say this to you and every other whinging knob, IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT BOGOF.
I like the varied tournements on Sky, but think that the Russian Roulette SnGs are just trying to sucker in the gambling addicts and make a quick profit from the buy ins. If you must continue with them at least withdraw the prime time adverts with Tikay trying to legitimise them. I have never suspected that there are ringers on the site, as Don intimates but it would be good to get someone from Sky to address this point. I will continue to play on Sky (unless they kick me off for not supporting everything they do!!) as I do so for the enjoyment and the faint hope that I occasionally break even. I enjoy playing the deep stack every now and then but don't always have the time to commit to seeing it through, whereas I do have time to enter the 5-00 and get knocked out after 20 minutes ha ha.
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