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Is this a joke?? Or just a slap in the face??
Hi
I'm really hoping that I'm reading this wrong - but is there really a freeroll game for new players to Sky which is paying out over £8000 in prizes?? To be eligible you have to be a new player to sky between 18th Jan and 24th?? Top 6 players will each receive a free seat to the £1100 UKPC event in DTD in Feb? In addition to the 6 seats there is also a £2000 prize pool?
Really sorry Sky - but I think this is a massive kick in the teeth to regular players on Sky. I've been busting a gut - alongside some others - trying to get to priority this month so as to be able to enter the game for 2 seats to Notts which is due to run in February - but in reality new players who joined in that week have 6 chances to get a UKPC seat?
Or am I the only person who is feeling a bit hacked off?
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But ja, it is important for Sky to find some kind of balance between rewarding new players, recreational players and regular players - whether they do this successfully or not, idk.
Quiz:
Anyone want to guess how many UKPC seats Sky Poker have awarded to EXISTING players in Freerolls & Promos?
Looking at the qualifying list and prize money, I felt a pangs of envy, jealousy , greed.
These feelings are still with me, ill need a few sleeps, I know me, ill get over it.
I clicked not bothered.
Jealous yes, bothered NO.
The question was "Freerolls & Promotions".
The correct answer is hard to calculate without going through reams of stuff, but it's around 60 x £1,100 UKPC Seats (value £66,000) to EXISTING players. I don't think it's correct to say that is "not many".
I can't think of any site which gives away a bigger % of gross margin via Freerolls & Promos than Sky Poker, & it tries very hard to look after everyone, including the "fun" players. Do you really think that thread title is fair? To me, £66,000 (approx.) is a lot of value in any language. There are also regular, free to enter Forum Competitions, at least one every week, & different Promos every month. This week alone is "double everything" & the MTT Main Event overlays have been enormous.
There are definitely plenty of things on Sky Poker that could do with improving - the software niggles are certainly amongst them, as is this Forum software, which is hardly state of the art. Looking after the regular players with Promos & Freerolls is not something that will get better than it is, though, it's as good as it reasonably can be.
The value to new sign-ups is definitely very good indeed - it needs to be - but personally, what someone else gets, relative to me, is none of my business.
By a curious trick of timing, I wrote a blog last week which mentioned the most frequent form of complaints in Online Poker.
That blog is HERE
Funny old game.
A quick word about the mentions of potential multi-accounting.
It IS a PITA, & it does happen, but lay the blame for that at the cheats who try it.
Right across SB&G, with so many various Promos, people try all sorts to gain unfair advantage. SB&G employ a team to try to combat this, but it's deffo a headache, though it's hardly fair to blame the site for it, we should blame those who do it.
Were it not for these people, trying to beat the system, more money could be invested in Promos, & better Promos, as there is a constraint on what can be offered due to the cheats.
If you suspect multi-accounting, please inform CC, or contact Sky Poker privately. Do not put it on the Forum, please, as many allegations are untrue, & we should not accuse players lightly.
As to a M-A trying to play the UKPC, all new accounts will be vetted, & photo ID, & other security precautions, are in place at DTD to combat this.
Interesting fact #23,120 An average Ostrich egg contains an Ostrich
I have no idea what the correct answer is though.
Is it possible to have double yolks? In which case it could be 1.001
As Ostrich eggs are farmed then I also assume you can get unfertilised eggs so the answer could be 0.1, 0.998 but it won't be 1
it was humour
ps, whether you take average to be the mean, median or mode, there are fewer farmed ostrich eggs
an average ostrich egg will contain exactly one ostrich, whereas an ostrich egg contans on average less than one ostrich