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I liked Don's swipe at the poor standard of play on Sky Poker.
I don't think any site in the world - WORLD - can match the Sky Poker players strike rate in Vegas.
A young site, on our first Vegas trip, we took 4 players last year. One was the 2nd highest Brit to Cash, in 118th of about 6,800.
We took two players to the $1,500 this year. One was the highest placed Brit by FAR, in 41st out of 2,800+.
We're doing fine, & when I say, on TV, "the standard of play on Sky Poker has improved enormously", I mean it. I don't do porkies, even for Sky Poker.
Better than that though is the player loyalty here. I've had 7 e-Mails & 5 texts this morning, here in Vegas, from regular Sky Poker players back home, asking me to wish Good Luck to Will. And all our Vegas players out here are Railing our players here, all day long.
Each to their own, & if Don is not happy here - & I have a hunch he's not - well, thems the breaks, & I wish him well wherever he decides to play his poker.
Next case.
col
For what it's worth i agree in the main with what 'The-Don' has to say (not all but most) about Bounty Hunter being on at 9 00 as the main event, what i don't understand is WHY NOT play a POT Limit event ??? After all this is an event that's played at the WSOP and i don't see any Bounty Hunter being played there !!
Also, for these 9 00 main features why not have 'sit and go' entries constantly running to win a seat ? Why are the satellite's always in the MTT ? .. Also on Saturday's there is one satellite at 12.15 and then nothing till 4 00 ? It appears geared to allow about 30 - 40 to satellite in and the rest have to buy direct ?
I appreciate the 9 00 tournament has to have a 3 hour window for the TV show but how hard can it be to put on more satellites in the 'Sit an Go' section and whats wrong with POT limit Hold em ??
bennydip2
I think the original poster has a point, but he's not going to win any awards for diplomacy! The showcase tournaments really are a crapshoot - they're virtually akin to buying a bingo card and crossing off the numbers.
I've played about 2000 MTTs on this site, of which maybe 20 have been the Open, Five 00 or 9pm BH. The blinds rise so quickly that if you don't hit a hand early and get it paid off, you're in all-in mode after about 20 minutes. At this point, it's not really poker at all (though if you're lucky, it can be profitable. I came 2nd in one and won £800). On the other side of the coin, I've played slow-structure tourneys on other sites and got busted out after 7 hours, winning £40. That's not even fun.
Solution: have TWO tournaments of 250 rather than one of 500. Run them simultaneously but merge them when there are, say, 9 players left in each. The blinds could increase at maybe half the current rate and it would still finish at the same time.
Anyway, I disagree about there not being any skill involved in the tourney. Sure there's a lot of luck but there's a reason players like me often get into the top 20 after half an hour and that's because I'm good at post flop play, and know when to put my chips in. Unfortunately I suck at the latter stages because I'm too impatient and aggresive and end up bleeding away my chips but c'est la vie.
Don does have some points about the standard of play. The regs are worse on this site in general compared to a site like full tilt but that's to be expected. It's hard for the analysists to go into detail about plays, and often I don't agree with what they say when they're analysing the higher level cash games but that's probably because they have no idea of the history between players, so it's kind of hard to analyse the hands well.
Anyway whilst the regs in general may not be as good sky does however have less donkey players because of the help that is available. There are a lot of players that know the basics and can have good shots in the tourneys on offer.
Also like someone else said the tourney being 3 hours long is perfect timing IMO. I signed up to full tilt at the start of this year and entered 2 tourneys with decent prize pools in the first week. I did extremely well in them for a first attempt and final tabled one and got late into the cash on another one. However it took AGES in the tourney I final tabled and was way too tired by the end :P I entered some more tourneys later on and began to realise how stupid it was to play for 3 hours and either go away with nothing or win only the buyin x 2 back.
Also I'd like to challenge Don @ HU. He seems to think he's superior to everyone on this site, so lets bring it. 2.5/5, whenever you want
you are a one trick pony with your one line answers arnt u kirstii? everytime someone has a concern about this site you defend it to the hilt,your a sad pathetic loner who cares to much for this awfully shi te site, and to the suits, de post,ban me do what u want,i have used up all my points and taken my cash elsewhere due to your amateurish pathetic,idiot filled (ace barry,kirstii) site,
not an advert for poker,too interested in the tv channel and ripping off its customers,the tourneys are a joke and the rkake here is criminal,they should call this site Bingo Poker or Sky Lottery...actually just get rid of this site and put it under Sky Bingo,problem solved
im awaiting your witty retort kirstii...... dont worry i'll wait for you to pull your head out of your sh it hole first!!!!
do you mean just people playing for fun?
or poker bots etc?
so really i think there is something for most people on here,although i would like to see the open played 6 nights a week along with the five oo on a thurs,as i dont like th bh but they can still run the bh alongside....
dave
(90's maybe)...............xx dave
The tournaments espically that are 600 strong end up being one by someones whos lucks in on the day, and not to the most skillfull poker player.
the structure of the open and bounty hunter tournaments is not great because the blinds do rise quickly and therefore the luck element is bigger (good for me cos i run like god). sky have done a lot to improve what they offer and if u want a longer structure play the 1k bounty hunter at 9.30 instead which is a fantastic alternative. i think the open should stay as it is because as has been mentioned before it gets the most players and is suited perfectly for the tv stuff. i would love to see the a few other £10+ buy ins available during peak hours tho as the player base expands.
for those people moaning about the luck factor i have 2 suggestions
1) dont play it if you dont like it - sounds obvious but im sure the open can survive without u
2) bankroll management - if you have the correct bankroll to play the tournament then you wont be so upset when the (inevitable) bad beats happen. i think most of the players complaining cant afford to be playing this tournament on a daily basis
the open should remain as it is - yes there is a big luck element but that is only natural with that number of players regardless of the blind structure. the only change i would make is having more similar sized buy in tournaments available during the peak hours especially with more and more players joining the site.