Goodbye to UKOPS XI

Tikay10

What an amazing UKOPS that was!

41 Events, Guaranteed Prize Pools of £250,000, & the Total Prize Pools ended up at £355,191.
 
I'm not 100% sure, but I think 40 of the 41 Events beat their Guarantee, & the eventual total beat the Guarantees by about 42%.

Entry Fees ranged from £2.20 to £530, & the range of cashees went from regular "small-ball" players right up to the likes of Chris Moorman & Neil Channing. 

MattBates never won any of the UKOPS Events, but TommyD did.
 

Tikay10

We ran a little "Free to Enter" Daily Competition on the Community, too, & it was arguably the most popular one we've ever ran - 632 Entries over the 8 nights, & so a good few freebies were won, including one "Jackpot" which resulted in a £110 Main Event prize.
 
Big thanks to Red-Scouse & MAXALLY for their assistance with this.

Tikay10

The TV Show put on 2 extra Shows, too, on Friday & Saturday, & so they covered 6 of the 8 nights.
 
All 8 would have been nice, yes yes, but 6 from 8 is not so bad, & no other Poker Site runs a 24/7 Poker Channel, so its pretty good really.

They also ran Free To Enter comps every night in the form of Last Longers, & big thanks to FCHD for his help in collating the numbers.  

Tikay10

These Free to Enter competitions, the TV Channel, & this Forum, are all, essentially, Freerolls.

It's amazing how many people complain about Freerolls, but I doubt many sites offer as many, in so many different ways, as Sky Poker.
 
Here's to more of the same.

 

jimb0d1

Really enjoyed this UKOPS. I played a lot of sats and managed to play in a few main events...playing against TommyD, Mattbates and Andrew1947. No joy in the big main event last night but made a decent profit overall.

The Chris Moorman show was a definate highlight and craigc going HU in the high roller was incredible.

Slykllist

I've been on the site for a few years now and seen all of the UKOPS, for me this one was the best so far, I really enjoyed it despite not winning a single penny

jordz16

Was great to see a well run UKOPS where everything ran smoothley and hardly any complaints! really impressed with the calibre of players it attracted and hopefully this will lead to increased traffic and bigger tournaments on the site for the rest of the year. Well done sky

Laura_C

Just to say I loved every minute of UKOPS XI and had a great time playing as well as presenting 2 shows last week. Thanks everyone for being so nice in the chat box and spurring me on whilst I was playing... and not berating my play (which is probably what you should have been doing!)

Looking forward to the next one

MP33

Thought the lower buy in events were a gr8 idea - It just meant everyone could get involved (and it looks like they did) unlike past UKOPS where it mainly catered just for the higher stakes players. Looking forward to the next one

GELDY

Nice to let jac cash in the ME

saves all the moaning we'd suffer otherwise. 

But seriously when good forum regs like jac can cash in multiple events it does add to the zing

ShaunyT

Great event/festival.

Just out of curiosity (I know GaryQQQ's thread includes UKOPS) but has sky kept a track of players cashes for a player of the festival? I'm assuming moormans ridiculous ROI would earn him it, but he only played 3 events. Whereas some grinders may have racked up more smaller cashes.

unknown_username

In Response to Re: Goodbye to UKOPS XI:

These Free to Enter competitions, the TV Channel, & this Forum, are all, essentially, Freerolls. It's amazing how many people complain about Freerolls, but I doubt many sites offer as many, in so many different ways, as Sky Poker .   Here's to more of the same.  
Posted by Tikay10

Some people are never satisfied,what a fantastic event the UKOPS was this is why imho sky poker is the best in the business
how the community gets involved in itself is amazing,great bunch of folks here.