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Saturday nights on Sky Poker
Hi Everyone,
We are making a change to our Saturday night schedule. The Primo is taking a rest for the summer. Don't worry it will be back later in the year, but for now it is over to you to select the Saturday night main.
A lot of you have had some good ideas on the Saturday night main event so let us know by voting below what you would like to see. There are three options to choose from this week and the winning tournament will take place at 8pm on Saturday night.
We are going to repeat this vote in future weeks with some different options in there so if your choice does not win this week it doesn't mean it won't in future weeks. Equally if you have ideas for a tournament that you would like to see in the voting please feel free to leave them below.
But for week one your 3 choices are below, all options are a £33 buy in with an £8000 guaranteed prize pool
Option 1 - Turbo Freezeout (6 max). 3000 starting stack, 7 minute blinds. This is similar to the Tuesday night format but with more levels.
Option 2 - Deepstack Freezeout (6 max) - 6000 starting stack, 12 minute blinds
Option 3 - Full ring freezeout (9 max) - 3000 starting stack, 12 minute blinds
Voting will close Friday morning at 8am.
Get voting!
Comments
I've voted Turbo for selfish reasons.
Saturday night is my only chance of the week to play in a Main Event. Even then it's not easy because I've been up since 12-15am and feel very tired come the evening. Therefore something that finishes early would suit me best.
I hope the Deepstack doesn't win. Deepstacks (like Omaha tournaments) are one of those things that often get asked for on the forum, but when Sky put them on not many turn up. It would probably end up in the same vicious circle as the Saturday Primo; ie decreasing fields create overlay, overlay forces Sky to drop the guarantee, the lower guarantee means the field gets even smaller, etc, etc.
Funnily enough I can't play this week whatever wins, I'm going to a barbebcue!
As above, anything but a deepstack. But that will win easily on this forum.
Think Sky should make the decision themselves, just look at how deepstacks have performed in the past. You must have records. Shouldn't even be on the list.
People keep asking for deepstack MTTs but then they don't get the numbers. It would be great if it met the guarantee but I cant see that happening.
There's been overlay every week in the Primo every week for at least a couple of months, despite a 20% reduction in the guarantee during that time. More hidden overlay in many of the the all-in sats too.
There were only 133 runners last Saturday, a new all-time low for a tournament that used to get over 500 every week when it ran on Sundays, and that was before all-in sats and late-reg were available on Sky.
There's a reason BHs are so popular on Sky, and that trend isn't the same across all sites - Bounties promote action, therefore creating the excitement for a lot of recreational players that is missing from regular freezeouts because of no antes.
Same logic applies to Turbo Tuesday - being a Turbo forces action and makes the games exciting where other tournaments fail to do so because of less action created because of no antes.
- EvilPingu."
1) more rake for Sky
All other sites have full ring tournaments, I still prefer this site as a 6max exclusive. Saturdays are a funny night and a nightmare to maintain a well structured tourney with a decent prizepool on a UK centric site, just so many sports events headline a Saturday afternoon/evening and pubs are fun. Turbo would work out of the options.
As for the Primo, if I was master of the rolls here I would move that back to Sunday 8pm, move the Roller forward an hour to a 7pm start, return it to a 10k GTD and push that as much as the Roller.
I voted for the deepstack but regret doing that now. As much as I like a deepstack, we have the Super Roller on Sunday and that's fine enough by me. 9 max initially sounded interesting but it just cannot work without antes. I also prefer sky being 6 max. Turbo's are kind of fun and I never usually get to play Tuesday night's so I think another Turbo would be good. Don't know about the BI... I think £22 or £33 would be best.
The micro ones do ok, anything above £5 buy in doesn't.
All 3 options in the opening post have a £33 buy in so using the success of £2 and £5 deep/megastacks isn't really relevant.
The performances of the £22 deepstack, the £55 primo and the old £33 'doublestack main' are much more significant when making this decision.
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It's really obvious how this thread will go unless Sky use some initiative and make a decision themselves.
1) The deepstack will win the vote comfortably.
2) The 'new' deepstack will go on to be a huge fail and taken off the schedule within a month.
Option B is basically the primo as it is now, with 3,000 extra chips.
Turbo would be a good fun idea for the summer.
If the buy in was lowered, it would get a good number of players particpating. Like 400 plus i would say.
How many players on here are regs when it comes to playing mains AND will BI direct (obv we aint counting some high stakes cash players that could easy afford it but don't play MTTs) to these games? How many dya think regularly BI every time to these £55+ events? 50 people maybe, 100 at a real push, across the entire site?