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£1500 & £1000 Bounty Hunter Fiasco
Reducing the GTD Prize will just mean more reduced entrants
no it won't.
no it won't.
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The £1500/Gtd Bounty Hunter has been reduced to £1200
And
The £1000/Gtd Bounty Hunter has been reduced to £750
Errrrrrrrrrr What? **I was assuming this is because they are not raking in enough money? ** or maybe the numbers were down because its virtually impossible to enter both of them on the same night due to the timing of them.
Reducing the GTD Prize will just mean more reduced entrants and inevitably the end of our big bounty hunter
**Edited** I have edited this thread because I have checked the entrants and the numbers are not down
So, Why have they been reduced? Answers Anyone Please..........
As i said it was a trend i noticed when playing here on a regular basis and is my theory as to why they have been decreased today.
Here are the entrance stat for the last 4 £1500 B/Hunters that Ive been in.
10th Feb - 170 entrants @ £10 = £1700
12th Feb - 210 entrants @ £10 = £2100
13th Feb - 233 entrants @ £10 = £2330
15th Feb - 191 entrants @ £10 = £1910
The tourny is usually £11 to enter but obviously I have not included the additional £1 fee as this does not go into the prize pool. So it certainly isnt because the numbers have dwindled.
Also if you look at the £1200 satelites Today, the description in the tournament area say that it is a satelite into Tonights £1500 Bounty Hunter, however, if you go into the lobby is says it is only a £1200 BH.
Sky, What is Goin On? Reduced GTD Bounty Hunter Prize Pool & Now - Missleading Description.
Any Ideas - Sky Rich.............Anyone?
Trev it's quite normal for guaranteed prize-pools to fluctuate up and down. Sites often cough up big overlays on guaranteed mtt's, but they can only do that for so long.
As I said they go up and down on all sites, so this is no different. I played a $50k guaranteed last week that made a pool of $102k ........... but it ended up with 6000 runners. Not long ago it was a $30k guarantee. Another site has a nightly mtt that was $40k but is now $25k. It happens all over m8.
Business on the Site is always affected by "big" Champions League nights, & no amount of Guarantees will stop people watching CL if that's their thing.
It's perfectly normal, & it's just makes no sense to throw money away when the Players will not be there.
Sky Poker have a budget for Guarantees & "overlays", & it is a massive sum of money. They just have to manage that Budget sensibly. All their spend, ultimately, comes out of the same pot of money, & if the spend in Guarantees & Overlays is increased, then something else will be cut.
A good question by PokerTrev, but I think the answer makes sense, too.
I know what your saying, but as per one of my posts above, there have been no overlays in this tourny, the tourny has exceeded the required entrants for the gtd prize pool.
I don't know whether you saw my post today in this thread, but todays satelite tourneys say £1200 BH Sat, but the description on the right says, satelite into Tonights £1500 BH, which is a bit missleading me thinks.
As to today's satellites, they have clearly made a mistake & forgotten to change the Template, &, you know, mistakes can happen. I'll drop them a note so they can correct it.
Champions League football has a say in it. Because Sky Poker is a very UK-centric poker room, when there's a major football game on, we expect to see a dip in the number of players who come to the site and subsequently play the tournaments. Lowering the guaranteed amounts isn't the norm, just good business practice in those rare cases where an English football team actually does achieve a result in Europe
Last night was Man Utd, tonight is Chelsea and Arsenal. You should find the guarantees are back to normal tomorrow.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
Cheers,
Dave
I've looked at tonight's Satellite. In the Lobby, it's clearly Labelled "£1,200 BH Sat", but in the wordy bit, it says "£1,500 Bounty Hunter".
I've dropped them a note, & arranged to have the culprit summarily shot.
You know I can't stay serious for too long. Anyway, I think the culprit may have been watching the game lol, but don't tell anyone.
Ok Thread Closed, I'm going to make a brew.