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Would it be possible that with the backlash to said changes a sudden change of heart by The Man could be possible?
Im confident in saying the number of posts do not represent the number of people who concur with them, perhaps a good old fashioned show of hands by way of a petition?
Failing this I will have to resort to tactics employed by my hippy parents and organise a protest!! ; )
for the most recent UKOPS no longer offering any headline prize was such an own goal. for skypoker to go to all that trouble to arrange UKOPS XIII too.
oh well.
Agree with plenty of what you say above. Wouldn't blame Sky in the slightest for discarding the team prizes, but feel the individual ones are worth keeping. It gives that added extra incentive each week, on top of the all important bragging rights
I think Sky obviously have good intentions by removing the rake, but I genuinely believe that should you ask the 100 or so people that play it week in week out if they preferred rake free DTD or the usual prizes, I'd wager nearly everyone would plump for the latter.
hi sam,
i might be wrong in talking about the existence of team prizes, i thought they were given. i agree that individual prizes could have continued. my point is solely to do with skypoker having little choice because of what happened.
What I can say is that if you run a Leaderboard as well & efficiently as you did last time, I can arrange a Leaderboard Prize or two, though it would be more modest than a £1,000 Seat. Maybe a trophy or two would be better? Main Event winners already get a solid something Bracelet thing.
i look at it from two viewpoints. as a player, i am not really that interested in a bracelet. in fact, i would be embarrassed to show any non-poker person. and would never wear one. i would enter more games if there was something a significant value to win over and above the normal payouts.
from skypoker's viewpoint, i would think that i had failed big time if i couldn't devise an incentive scheme that attracted more profit for the business than it cost. i would have failed big time if i didnt even employ an incentive scheme.
the home page on my browser has a banner for sky tv offering £1,200 if i introduce 6 friends. imagine, if they said, "let's not bother with such an incentive. people will sign up in great volumes without the campaign."
sky.com and skypoker.com must share the same thinking.
... and back to the point ...
well sorted skypoker.
well done michael and scouse_red.
Maybe SKY will relent and allow the community to continue given time.
DTD was damaged by 2 people, and 2 people only, and they are now both banned from the site.
But I think the Monday night community is more than strong enough to show that DTD can still prosper despite everything, and I hope Sky reconsider their prize stance in due course.
You can choose to think what you will if that keeps your conscience clear.
I think if someone colluded against you, then tried to implicate you in the affair, you'd be pretty peeved no? So no sympathy from me whatsoever. Indeed, and as you say, if he'd gone through the proper channels initially then the outcome might have been much different. But he didn't, choosing instead to try and lie himself out of the hole he had dug.
And for the record, I did mostly keep out of it. Plenty of times I could've joined in but abstained. The 'If....' thread was particularly hard to keep out of, with people incorrectly saying the allegations were ''baseless'' and ''unfounded''.
The only people responsible for 2 people being banned for collusion, are the 2 people involved in said collusion. I'm amazed you are trying to deflect blame from the culprits.
I hope Sky look at the prizes thing in due course, but myself and others will continue to support Michael's great competition weekly, and I thank the people involved who make it happen every Monday.
Please keep on topic