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Guarantees - it's that time of year again.
Morning.
As has been noted elsewhere, some Tournament Guarantees have been reduced.
For now.....
PRIMO (Saturday), reduced from £10,000 to £8,000
Super Roller (Sunday) reduced from £20,000 to £15,000
Mega Roller (Sunday June 1st) reduced from £30,000 to £25,000
There may be other Guarantee reductions, too, it just depends on traffic levels.
Online Poker is extremely seasonal, & similar Guarantee reductions happen every single year at around this time. Come August or September, traffic picks up again, & the Guarantees go back up.
If we have a bad summer (weather-wise), then Guarantees might even go back up, a really hot summer, & further reductions are possible.
The World Cup is round the corner, too, that could affect traffic. Imagine all the celebrations & street-parties if England win the World Cup.......
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Realistically, they'll do well to not finish bottom of their group - it's a very tough draw. Just looked at the odds and the bookies are seriously under-estimating Costa Rica, they are a decent side.
You are not Scottish are you Peter?
1966 AND 2014
All the best
Rainman397
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The Italy game is the crucial game, I'm pretty sure Uruguay will beat both of us so our first game of the group could well be the decider. This is the first World Cup where I am not expecting much from England!
Quick question, & I know everyone has a view on this, but......
The Sunday Roller Guarantee was reduced from £20,000 to £15,000, after last weeks renewal suffered quite a heavy overlay, in line with seasonal trends.
Yesterday, with the reduced £15,000 Guarantee in place, it made 168 runners, & so covered nicely.
So the question is......
If the Guarantee had been held at £20,000, how many runners do you think it would have got last night?
I think it's pretty much "industry standard", for better or worse.
It's not difficult to see both sides of that question though.
Time for this again, I really don't mind me defending my actions here. Because I am doing nothing wrong or that is even against the community spirit.
Firstly Maxy, you haven't been 'shot down in flames' when bringing up this issue before, don't be so passive aggressive/faux victimised. We have debated, I respect your point of view and I hope you respect mine.
I want to build a bankroll for the festival. People say 'why don't you build it from your existing tournaments?' I do. I build it from every single tournament or cash game I see as a positive step. The UKPC sats are among them. However I am not swooping in to the final only, I am also supporting the route satellites from the quarter final stage up. For the last UKPC on some nights the Q/F sats would not have run if myself and a couple of others hadn't registered before the tournament started. Then when they got going there were plenty of late registrants. On several occasions small bankroll players who wouldn't never have had the sat unless the two or three of us registered got the seat into the next round. Some of those players, from that one shot, got all the way to the main event at DTD.
From last night myself and Matt were the two who got seats in the UKPC who already qualified from previous weeks. I won't speak for myself but very few people are as generous with their time, with answering questions at the table or on this forum/through social media than Matt when if comes to MTT strategy. We are not doing anything against he community atmosphere.
And now I will speak for myself. No on gave me my bankroll. It's not a trust fund or a pools win. I started here with £60. And a worked damn hard at my game. I am no where near one of the best players on the site but instead of worrying what other people were doing, I got on, got grinding and looked at myself. So I am going to continue to play the UKPC sats while they run. With no sense of shame or guilt.
For anyone who thinks that statement is wrong I have some good karmic news for you, I managed to bubble the UKPC sat which ran next door last night as well. There was only one seat and I blew a 10/1 chip lead HU. Either I suck or karma kicked me in the nethers. Probably both.
Good luck at the tables all.
I completely agree with you when it comes to sticking up for smaller bank rolled players. I have always said that the vast majority of promotions on a poker site should be geared for the smaller bankrolled and the recreational players. However I don't think it applies in this case.
FWIW I am not playing the freerolls in the Promo as these are protected seats and it's made clear they are protected for people who have not won seats. I am in the UKPC Challenge for the package money only and if I luckbox my way through it I will cease for the following weeks.
On the STT challenge point I see you're still in the one that started at 9pm yesterday. That's epic grinding Sir
After winning two consecutive Sit & Go's last night (How good am I!), I thought I would check out the weekly challenge leaderboard to see what sort of ROI I would need to qualify and was very surprised to see the name of TommyD in the top 6, not because I don't rate him, but because I thought he had a seat locked up and couldn't understand why he was restricting his play in Sit & Go's for a promotion that he couldn't win anyway.
I deduced TommyD was in it for the £500 package, which he's confirmed above, (damn) :-)
A question I have is, if TommyD (or anyone else who already has a seat) should 'win' a package in the Challenge Sit and Go promotion, what happens to the £1000 seat, does it go to the next player down in the final, or does TommyD 'win' £1000 for SKY?
If that's the case Tommy then in this scenario I reckon you are more black knight than white knight.
Same probably applies to the MTT Best leaderboard, if someone in the top 10 already has a seat, does the seat go to the 11th place finisher?
This is a loophole I think SKY should clarify / rectify.
Tommy I have absolutely no problem with what you are doing and think in your reasoning the positives far outweigh the negatives and anyway in the end you can never defeat Karma
As for the pro's and con's of players using satellites to boost their bankroll, both TommyD and Maxally make valid points.
Occasionally I will play satellites for the money, but personally I would like to see tournament tokens awarded that can only be used to play in Sky tournaments, as there are some players that simply play satellites for the money and have no intention of ever entering the tournaments, this is basically taking money out of the main tournament pool, a bit like football agents, these people are just taking the money out of the game, with little to no benefit to the game / tournament.
That's how I see things today anyway.
Just a question, what response would you get from players if you lowered the entry fee? / altered the start time.
Would you get 400 players at £55.00 or perhaps 800 at £27.50?
I for one love the super roller its structure and the chance to see myself on tv and perhaps win BIG.
However I am rubbish at satellites and have always had to buy in for the full amount and as such have stopped playing my favorite tournament in recent months.
I am a casual player, who, works long hours and am unable to dedicate myself to getting better at the game by reading up and watching videos as some of the guys have obviously done. would it be worth trying the lower buy in's and perhaps even an earlier start time by an hour to encourage more people to play?
Sorry if this is a rubbish idea but I would love to play and perhaps many people would too but are unwilling to commit the large entry fee / late finish time on a Sunday evening before work the next day.
Over to you
Nick
I feel by changing gtds and not allowing any overlay will not attract the overlay hunters. Which in turn will help to make the gtd.
I am sure changing gtds week by week say is actually going hurt sky as a brand. If you dont make the gtd ..... its not always down to it being a slow period. I play on alot of sites and dont see anybody else changing gtds.
I was going to buy in direct this week to the roller but decided against it purely down to the change in gtd. I started a thread about it and got some smart as* comment in reply.
In my opinion.... regardless of activity. Keep the gtds the same and the numbers will come. I am sure you will make it back in other avenues. The reputation was already dammaged when the servers dropped and now the gds fluctuate.
Of course all IMO!! But thats what I think.