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£11 Head Hunter MTT - 7pm nightly.
As a trial, an £11 Head Hunter MTT has been added to the schedule in the currently vacant 7pm slot.
Various formats have been tried in this slot, & none have been greatly successful, but as many players have noted, there does need to be something in that 7pm slot.
Whether it remains in the schedule will depend on take up, if it's popular, it will stay, if not, it won't.
It starts tonight, & the Lobby is HERE
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May I suggest if this one doesn't work out that we try some real poker for the 7pm slot and have an £50k GTD PLO8
[QUOTE]Nice 1! Quick work Tikay... May I suggest if this one doesn't work out that we try some real poker for the 7pm slot and have an £50k GTD PLO8
Posted by markycash
We can thank James, in the Office, for that.
Really disappointing introducing a game that will receive very low numbers with no guarantee in a crucial time slot.
At this time on most other sites there are numerous MTTs to chose from, Sky is defo missing a trick here.
Anyway, if it does not get runners, it'll be cancelled, & they will find something else for the 7pm slot.
It's a bad time of year, too, so there are no easy solutions.
How exactly would a Guarantee work in a Head Hunter?
Anyway, no matter, as I said, if it's not popular, it'll be scrapped.
Please bear in mind there was a decent Freezeout at 7pm, but it could not hit it's Guarantee.
So, after several suggestions to make it a Rebuy, a Rebuy was introduced in its place. Rinse repeat, it did not hit it's Guarantee.
Today, someone suggested a Head Hunter Main (which is impractical), so one was slotted into that vacant 7pm slot as an experiment.
As always, Sky Poker will welcome any constructive proposals. It's not quite as easy as you may think, though, as this time slot has repeatedly shown recently.
Solid feedback to help SP, which has received 0 response from Sky.
There has been a lot of negative decisions made by Sky in relation to MTTs eg making the 7:45 a speed event.
Even if the 7pm was a loss leader, it keeps traffic on the site, as it was under the previous 1 addon, or rebuy structure.
If it bombs, it bombs, & they withdraw it, & put something else in it's place.
Maybe next up they will try your suggestion of a £5/£11 BH Rebuy. And I can personally Guarantee someone will come on the thread & say "Sky Poker has too many BH's"....
There's nothing wrong with trying & failing. This is not something that is cast in stone, as I have tried to emphasise.
I might add you made that post at 3 minutes to midnight last night, I was working last night until Midnight, got to bed at 2am, & have been doing a variety of other bits & bobs today.
All reasonable posts get some sort of feedback, as you know, & I send them all Upstairs. I think we have to be reasonable, though. Note nobody else weighed in with support for that Post - where possible, I like to let these threads "breathe" a little before sending then Upstairs.
I will send it up to the Office in due course.
By "a lot of negative decisions", I assume you mean negative in your opinion?
Buy in? No.
Number of players per table? No.
Format? No
Hi guys. I can assure you that this is not going to be the main tournament at 7pm in the future. It is merely a trial to see how a head hunter does at an earlier time. You CANNOT have a guarantee on a head hunter so it is unlikely to attract a big field.
We are currently working on revamping the entire MTT schedule so this slot will be filled. It might be a nightly rebuy or a freezeout etc but if a tournament continues to overlay by a considerable amount of money every day I'm sure you can understand we will make changes/remove it from the schedule. Please continue to make suggestions on the forum as we read them all. Thanks
The problem for the 'troubled 7pm MTT slot' is not people only play bounty hunters, it's not the lack of a guarantee and it's not even a lack of antes (although I am in favour of their introduction, but that's a well worn path to be trod on another day). It's the same problem much of the MTT schedule has. Awareness.
Something which needed to be done even while the 24 hour TV channel was running but is absolutely critical now is a way to tell each and every person on logging in what they might be interested in. Some suggestions:
1) Some sort of splash page on logging into the client. A pop up to tell you the latest promotions, an actual home page in the client where you begin with all the latest news. Even better would be a 'My News' or 'My Favourites' page where the recent activity of the user would directly influence the suggested games they might wish to play. Everyone's history and activity is right there, all you have to do is utilize it. Someone logs in who generally only plays 4 or so MTTs in a night, the template for them pops up with suggested tournaments, news and changes which might interest them. A cash player logs in, there's a page with the latest cash promos. All can have panels which are universal for whatever SkyPoker wishes to push at that moment.
2) The lobby is very cluttered, the filters are blocky and not 100% reliable and at times the yellow highlight has so many in it that all you can see are those and whatever is in late reg. People are, in general, lazy. People are less inclined to scroll down and search through a cluttered lobby for games, also for things like sats and non-GTD MTTs people are much less likely to join if there's hardly anyone in there, so it all knocks on as an effect. All lobbies, filters and search functions are in dire need of an overhaul.
3) I kind of touched on this in (1) but I would also have a favourites page available in the client. Past MTTs, the most popular MTT or SnG you have played. Alongside this I would put suggestions, it would really help communication.
A fraction of the SkyPoker users come to this forum. SkyPoker used to have a 24 hour advertising channel constantly running a ticker letting people know what was coming up at all times. Now obviously that channel wasn't hitting any Prime Time ratings numbers, but it was there to be stumbled upon and for its purpose was a high quality product. That doesn't exist now, and that fact and resulting shortfall of marketing has never been addressed in the slightest.
Just my opinion, you can see examples of all three of my suggestions if you open nearly every other poker client available. Begin 'next door' for inspiration if needed.
my vote would be a Speed Bounty Hunter £15.75 buy-in and with a deliberately short late registration period of 30 minutes.
7pm Speed Bounty Hunter £15.75
10pm Speed Bounty Hunter £15.75
Bonus for winning both £1,000 or Final Table both £100.
Attract people early (esp with 30 min late reg) and keep people until late.
deep stack and rebuy bounty hunters would be a good spot to start, now the MTT will get a combination of those who play for the interest of getting heads and will allow greater guarentees for those who prefer deepstacks. I do imagine these will go on for longer but that problem would be easily solved from the introduction of antes.