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Rebuys
What does everyone think of the new rebuys/add-ons?
One of the main reasons I play on sky is that it different from all the other sites and does'nt have them. The tournments meant they were over once your chips had gone. I pesonally like that, you know when approximately it will finish and no-one has that upperhand with a larger bank roll.
I know all the advantages of this and have played on other sites with these options, I'm dissappointed its happened. What does the community think?
One of the main reasons I play on sky is that it different from all the other sites and does'nt have them. The tournments meant they were over once your chips had gone. I pesonally like that, you know when approximately it will finish and no-one has that upperhand with a larger bank roll.
I know all the advantages of this and have played on other sites with these options, I'm dissappointed its happened. What does the community think?
Comments
You don't have to play rebuy tournaments and there are still a lot of standard freeze-out tournaments to choose from.
i dont like the idea of charging a rake on the rebuy,(maybe this is just an oversite by sky?)
also i dont see how you can have a rebuy/bounty hunter tourny?
how many time do you have to take a guy out to win his bounty?
dave
Added to Omaha Hi/Lo which with the split pot means you often make a loss with the nuts in a cash game there does seem a lot of rake generation going on!!
Dave
that s why skypoker site whas so good.no rebuys. sky looking for more money.mtt and stt players pay 10% of every chip extra.cash tables is free and u still want more money.ty i not gonna play rebuy tourneys anymore.gl
Being charged rake on rebuys is very poor apart from that i'm glad sky has introduced them.
Played in a 50p + 10p roulette rebuy couple of nights back, 500 chips 1 minute blinds, started with £18 prize fund, finished with £97.50p.
It was crazy, guys rebuying 500 chips when blinds were 800,000.
+1
But so far.....
Freeroll players have no other choice than re-buys
one min roulette players have no other choice than re-buys
If it stops there then okay (sort of)......the "worry" comes with how thick this end of the wedge is.
If people play the rebuys they will continue but if there is no support for them then the number will decrease.
It seems simple business sense and I would guess that Sky Poker are just "feeling out" the market at present.
Well if that's what they're doing it seems to be overly effecting the bottom end of the food chain at the moment.
Each day seems to bring a little more understanding of the "current business model"
My first day at Sky Poker 8 months ago (indeed my first real money poker of any kind) gave me access to freezeout freerolls and freezeout one minute roulette. The choice for absolute beginners seems a little less user friendly now unless you come equipped with a healthy BR you're prepared to lose as you take your first steps to hopefully staying with Sky over the long term.
Hopefully the players all chucking money into the one minute roulette rebuys are all "having a laugh" I'd hate to think any new players are playing without really understanding the poor value their rebuys are giving them unless they happen to win the darn thing.
All Sky have to do is provide freezeout freerols and freezeout roulette alongside (or alternate times from) the re-buys then let market forces do their work.
As Dud Butini says choice is everything.It's all well and good at £5.50 buyins and above plenty of choice below that very little and getting less.I used to enjoy trying to satellite into bigger tournaments on a freeroll now rebuy or nothing.
Come on sky give em a whirl
How do you make the best of the rebuys available? I have registered for the rebuy freeroll tonight but realise it may cost me. Do I go for a rebuy as soon as I've got less than 2000 chips? Can I then buy another 2000 or can I buy more. Then there's the add-on, do I go for that also, I don't want to spend lots of money needlessly.
Can anyone advise me how best to proceed?
Janet.
Serious players will rebuy immediately on the first hand (so they double their starting stack), re-buy again if they drop down to just below the starting stack, and always add-on at the break. That's what you'll be up against. Good luck.
I abstained from this vote, I don't like re-buys, but I don't mind them being there as long as the sort of tournaments I do like are still there too.
Thanks for the advice.
I tried the 1 minute roulette with rebuys. I actually came first and came out with £14+ profit. I staked the original 60p and paid for one rebuy. The person who came 2nd made many rebuys, and even when he was 2nd and kept getting down to 0 chips, continued to rebuy. Is that normal practice in these games?
Puzzled
Janet.
Yes, lots of players get knocked out but keep coming back. See Banana_Dogs post today in the General Poker Chat section of the forum for a typical example. It's infuriating for you, thinking they were gone but they come back, and infuriating for them, being tempted to keep paying out for another (long) shot at the win. In this case you profited, because each time the second place finisher re-bought the first prize will have increased slightly, whereas he/she was reducing their profit from the tournament each time they made another re-buy. Sky were profiting too, due to the controversial rake charged on each re-buy.
Just like supermarkets if a product is selling well, they will keep it, if not it will usually be taken off the shelf and replaced with something new.
Its up to the sales and marketing departments to bring in new products and offers and also increase the sales of old ones, which is done by revamping the display or moving a product to a new section. This way when you go to buy your usual box of cornflakes you are now presented with a multi-pack of crisps where your cornflakes used to be.
Yes, It's all about selling, but selling also requires variety, the more variety you have the more customers will return and the more returning customers you have the more you will sell.
Anyone who runs their own business will tell you that introducing new products, is essential for a business to maintain growth and increase sales which in turn can be passed on to it's customers via special offers.
The long and short of it all is:
If there is a market for it, it will be on sale, but it's your choice. If you like it you can buy it, if you don't then leave it on the shelf for others to buy. If it doesn't sell it will be replaced, sometimes with something better and sometimes with something worse but always with variety.
I don't play on Sky poker anywhere as much as i used to because of all the rebuys. Its ruined some good games.