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Avenger Rebuy (Friday) becomes a Rebuy Bounty Hunter
As of tomorrow (Friday 9th December), the Friday Night Avenger & Mini Avenger, which were previously pure rebuys, will become Rebuy Bounty Hunters.
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Yup, like THIS
As far as I am aware, no, you don't have to lose all your chips before rebuying. Those who played that £3.30 one last night are better placed to confirm though.
Sunday Major, Iceman & High Roller become Rebuy BH's?
I guess that depends if they perform financially by meeting their Guarantees. If they don't, they might. It's either that, reduce the Guarantees, or cancel the MTT altogether.
Sky Poker absolutely do NOT have an agenda to make everything a BH, but they have to (try to) give customers what they want. And if the majority prefer BH's, Sky Poker would be daft to deny them.
I tend to agree with the thrust of your point, but I don't see an alternative.
Hope you are well mate, in good heart, & ready for that big annual thing in a few weeks time - Xmas UKOPS.
The change to a Rebuy BH in last night's two Avengers, which had been struggling as regular Rebuys, resulted in the Main Avenger beating Guarantee by 25%, & the Mini Avenger beating Guarantee by 40%.
Props for keeping the rebuys and add-on rake free despite the change.
I'll leave the BH regulars to comment upon how the Rebuy element of a BH changes things.
Think I tend to agree with you as to the Summit being affected though, it's now too close to another good BH, & maybe that's too much.
I would imagine James will give some thought to relocating Summit, maybe on another night when the Main is not a BH.
Good luck if you plan to play the upcoming UKOPS.
Mr Bates nails it.
Sky Poker are like Swansea FC - they can't win.
Although it would be nice (in addition to the BH ME RB & AO Speed turbo All-in RR Spin-Up games) to have a few novel tourneys of an evening with no late registration, no bounties, no re-entry, no rebuy etc. You know those old styled tourneys where you turn up on time, sit with a little wedge of chips and if you lose them you are busto. As much as all the other formats can be fun, I do miss that simplicity sometimes.
Then again I have not been playing much poker lately so feel free to tell me to 'GO AWAY' ;-)
GO AWAY
The knock on effect of last night's change on the summit was disappointing but I don't think there is room on another night where it fits and so will have stay where it is with reduced guarantee (fine by me - I don't think I have ever moaned about reduced guarantees). The only two mains that are non-BH are Sunday and Tuesday. Tuesday already has the Sky high roller (also now a BH - more below) and the wider games available on Sundays means there is unlikely to be much appetite for a 9pm £110 jobbie.
Sky High roller change to BH was probably inevitable and it fits tbh as long as the Iceman remains a freezeout.
I am beginning to wonder about the future of Sky Poker. The closure of the TV channel, the seemingly desperate changes to tournament formats both make me think they are struggling to keep things going. I understand business is business and that a profit needs to be made but there seems little strategy to the tounament formats. There was a major relaunch of the tournaments structure but a couple of months later and there have been several canges to the launch plan. Is there a chance Sky Poker could go busto? Should I be keeping my bank-roll at a minimum?
Maybe Sky Poker has run its course? (Or maybe it will relaunch as Sky Bounty Hunter Poker)
I guess the question is... Is the priority to 'attempt' to cater to everyone or simply to cater to the majority. I can see both sides of the coin TBH.
Bounty Hunters have always been popular here, and it was inevitable that some of the less robust new MTTs were going down this route to prop them up. Think it's more a case of 6 steps forward and 2 back....that said, I so wish that the High Roller could remain as a traditional MTT...
Sky have constantly tried to push rebuys and freezeouts/deepstacks but the numbers arent there so the guarantees have to drop and they eventually die a death.
Swansea 2 - Sunderland 0
That was the whole point of this thread.
It was Sky Poker's view that the players would prefer a Rebuy BH rather than a traditional rebuy.
I decided to start a thread, so as to communicate the decision, & the reasons.
This morning, I made it known that the two MTT's in question had performed much better.
If that's not listening to the player base, I don't know what is.
You seem to have a bee in your bonnet about Prio players being looked after. I'd say that was good business practice, personally, to go that extra yard for your biggest customers. (cue "but what about the little guy?".....).
I doubt any site works harder, via Promos & this Forum, to look after everyone. Everything the site does is communicated as well as possible to everyone, & the threads go back & forth. How is that a bad thing?
But the numbers, repeatedly, again & again, say otherwise.....
So he does his job.
Of course you should articulate your preferences. That's why Sky Poker has a Forum & other sites don't, despite what Alan says.
However, I do NOT think you should glibly say things (which I am 100% sure you do not believe, & were tongue in cheek) like this....
"Is there a chance Sky Poker could go busto? Should I be keeping my bank-roll at a minimum?"
People have actually responded to that, so some must have thought you were serious.
So I'm obliged to say anything is possible, but that's as near as impossible as I could imagine. Sky Poker are owned by SB&G (google their annual results or their year on year improved performance for the last 5 years), who in turn are owned by CVC Capital Partners.
I'm also pretty sure that players funds are ring-fenced, as required by The Gambling Commission.
So no, it won't be going belly up in your or my lifetime.
Could they close it, as it is not viable? (A completely different thing). Well they could, but they won't, as it plays a part in an integrated gaming platform, & does so very well.
The fact that they are now managing overlay is a good thing, not a bad thing.
So I'm 100% fine with you disagreeing with MTT changes - that's perfectly subjective. That's a very long way from wondering out loud if the Business is struggling as a whole.
It makes good money. As part of a well-managed business, it has to make more money each year - that's what any good business must try to do. So it manages the Business very tightly, & when, say, they look at the half a mill per year or whatever it was they were spending on the TV Show, & can't see that is producing any significant payback, they close it, & decide to invest that sum in improving the Product overall. (A process which has already begun under the radar). Is that bad business?
If so, I have some bad news for you - it was, is, & will remain a work in progress, & will be continually tweaked.