The end of SPT satellite qualification?

loonytoons

well would be a shame if what you say happerns

but yes i feel it might

so the rest of the site who play everyday gets nothing

i personally play 300 tournies a month so no chance i get no where near the priority club

so no more spts for me if your right

loonytoons

With the new sky poker priority club up and running, it appears that those members can now pick up the phone, and receive direct entry into any live SPT event direct. If only 150 of these new sky poker priority players do this, where will that leave the rest of the skypoker community? On a lighter note I also notice that sky rudolph is entered into the Newcastle SPT on 8th Jan, do they allow animals (except guide dogs) in casinos?

JAEGERBOMB

Huge huge huge huge huge huge thumbs-down to this!!!!!!!!!
10,000 points??? and even if i did qualify, i'd be away for most of the next month also!!!!!

Very disappointed and disillusioned

GREGHOGG

Maybe they should cap it to say 20-30 seats on a first come first serve basis for those PC members. That would still leave over 100 seats for sat entries.

DTWBANDIT

  No idea what Priority Club is also will be a shame if we lose the Sats

JAEGERBOMB

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Maybe they should cap it to say 20-30 seats on a first come first serve basis for those PC members. That would still leave over 100 seats for sat entries.
Posted by GREGHOGG

+1

Agreed Greg, I think SkyPoker should re-assure us that a MINIMUM of 100 seats will be available through Sateliites.

loonytoons

I personally have no problem with a priority club, give 25% extra and special tournies with other priority club members etc etc, i just think its a bit unfair to allow direct buy so they can fill all the seats with priority club members thats all.

Nutter5932

Their would not even be 100 players in the priority club I don't think.

99% of these will be cash players and maybe 5 will actually attend the spts so don't worry

ckd

 already been here today all you get is play more if you want to get rewarded

 poor poor poor promo

 stt/mtt reg here every day get nothing for there loyalty

 ow sorry we get the freerolls 
 the mid and high cash players might make you more per table but its also your stt/mtt players that keep you going more



 might be indanger of pushing those players to other sites to play there games

if you are going to do it why not do it as a whole and have a vip club
do it in levels

level 1 freerolls  0 pts - 500 pts
level 2 300 freeroll  501 pts - 1000pts
level 3 500 freeroll  1001 pts - 2000pts
level 4 750 freeroll  2001pts - 4000pts
level 5 all above and 5%cfp bonus 4001pts - 6000 pts
level 6 all above and 10% cfp bonus 6001pts - 10000pts
level 7 what sky got

be a bit better rewards for others
just a thought

dylan12

At an estimate there will only be between 30-40 players within Priority Club and of which only 7-8 players would have an interest to BI direct to a SPT event (not counting the SPT Grand Final at DTD) so I doubt this issue is of much concern tbh

BrownnDog

I can honestly think of about 10 people MAX, that rake 10kpcm, who would actually have any interest in buying in direct to an individual SPT leg. And even then they don't all attend the same events. For geographical reasons etc..

Also remember they aren't being given free seats. They are still parting with £100 or so to enter.

EDIT: Also remember sky leave about 30 or so seats each leg to allocate to people for various reasons. Those who are eligible and do buyin will probably be taken from this seat allocation. 

loonytoons

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I can honestly think of about 10 people MAX, that rake 10kpcm, who would actually have any interest in buying in direct to an individual SPT leg. And even then they don't all attend the same events. For geographical reasons etc.. Also remember they aren't being given free seats. They are still parting with £100 or so to enter. EDIT: Also remember sky leave about 30 or so seats each leg to allocate to people for various reasons. Those who are eligible and do buyin will probably be taken from this seat allocation. 
Posted by BrownnDog

i understand this and i agree with it but i hope your 10 players qualifying is correct.

Nutter5932

What lewis says,

For those of you that attend the sky poker tours - think of how many of the "big" hitters actually attend these things on a regular basis.

Dantb10 - Team sky - attended them all anyway

Nutter5932 - attended them all anyway

Gliterbabe - Team Sky - attended them all anyway

BrownnDog

ChirpyChip

ljamesl - Team sky

Mickjenn1- attends them all to 

Stoneface

Jakally does the occasional one 

cottlad 

beaneh

I can't think of many that will rake 10k + and want to attend these events. It wont change much at all

ajs4385

I shouldnt worry, they offered to put me and am assuming others in blackpool spt for free, but I wasnt bothered.

DOHHHHHHH

They put em all in for free anyway.

Was watching a table once where they were all taking the p1 s s out of 1 guy for attempting one of the sats.

He obv didn't know he cud get in for free, but prob does now. 

Bandini should get in to em all free imo for his efforts on a friday/saturday night  

loonytoons

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They put em all in for free anyway. Was watching a table once where they were all taking the p1 s s out of 1 guy for attempting one of the sats. He obv didn't know he cud get in for free, but prob does now.  Bandini should get in to em all free imo for his efforts on a friday/saturday night  
Posted by DOHHHHHHH

If this is true i think its well out of order! yes they will have 'celeb' packages to promote the site but if they are putting all the high volume players in for nowt while all the other mugs are playing and paying for sats thats just plain wrong. Are you sure about this dohhhhhhh?

DOHHHHHHH

Yeh.

If I was ever interested in going to a SPT thingy I'd make a big deal about it - especially as it would cost me 200 quid trying to qualify as I suck at sats.

OMahonyO

Of course they will give big hitters free seats, its just another perk.  Could you imagine someone going to a vegas casino with $100 and asking for comps.  They would be laughed outa town.
The wales however, wud probs get picked up from airport in a stretched hummer, with 3 honeys in the back, champagne on Ice, and a room with a grand piano in it ffs.  Its the same thing here but on a smaller scale.

Also, even if it wasnt for priority club, I wouldnt play sats to spt events.  I played one once and qualified, but couldnt go in the end, but found out afterwards ppl were buying in on the day, so I would just turn up, if it was full so be it, I would just get smashed, play cash, spt stt`s etc, still be a good day/night I`m sure.

ajs4385

In Response to Re: The end of SPT satellite qualification?:

In Response to Re: The end of SPT satellite qualification? : If this is true i think its well out of order! yes they will have 'celeb' packages to promote the site but if they are putting all the high volume players in for nowt while all the other mugs are playing and paying for sats thats just plain wrong. Are you sure about this dohhhhhhh?
Posted by loonytoons

Do you realise how much we pay in rake every month. Its thousands literally, no way of knowing how much exactly but at a guess must be like 6 to 8 grand a month at least. I usually get a couple back through cash 4 points. So I cant see that there is anything wrong with sky offering me a free £200 donkament entry every few months.

hurst05

i earn over 10k points and have no interest in buying in directly unless worst comes to worst and i failed in the sats and there were only a few places left, why pay £110 when i could qualify for £24. 

DAIBOOT

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i earn over 10k points and have no interest in buying in directly unless worst comes to worst and i failed in the sats and there were only a few places left, why pay £110 when i could qualify for £24. 
Posted by hurst05

Well Said hursty some of the other benefits are more worthwhile but as someone who will never get to 10k point this does not affect me or 99% of sky's players but that 1% of players putting alot of money in to the sky rake

Dai

loonytoons

I personally have no problem with players getting perks, its common business practice to reward your best customers, however i just happen to think the spt event is unique and the beauty of the spt tournament was that it was qualification only, no direct buy - in, everyone had to play the 1 in 5 from the pros to the micro players, it even states that on the spt page. I know they give free seats to celebs and it does say in the small print that they can change/amend the t & c as they like, but i still think this particular tourney should be qualification only (which was its founding feature)or direct buy in for all.

GREGHOGG

I think that Dylan and Daiboot should be given a few extra SPT seats free by Sky, just so they can sit down comfortably...:)))

unknown_username

Hi all, just to let you know that I have forwarded details of this thread on up the chain of command so that they are aware of your concerns.

Sky Mod4

mrsmarley

In Response to Re: The end of SPT satellite qualification?:

In Response to Re: The end of SPT satellite qualification? : Do you realise how much we pay in rake every month. Its thousands literally, no way of knowing how much exactly but at a guess must be like 6 to 8 grand a month at least. I usually get a couple back through cash 4 points. So I cant see that there is anything wrong with sky offering me a free £200 donkament entry every few months.
Posted by ajs4385

the point is all us donks have to fight for a place via sats,while others are given places free because they can afford to play high stakes and end up paying rake,
but we are getting into the whole mtt v cash game argument again.you belittle the tourny as a donkament yet think high stake cash players are above qualifing,,,,,

donkeyplop

I think anyone with over 2000 forum posts should get a free seat into an spt of there choice.

Just a thought

GREGHOGG

I would say anyone above 2950 donkey plop:)

SolarCarro

Interesting!!

To get 10000 points is a pretty hard thing to do, you must play pretty much all week in the day as well, ie play for a living!

Anybody can buy into an SPT event if they turn up and enter as an alternate, if you register about 12 noon on the day you should be pretty much guaranteed entry.

So I don't think it makes much difference, the people who can buy in after getting 10 grand points much rather do it for £5 or £24 as they have the game to win these sats every time!

Dave

DAIBOOT

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I think that Dylan and Daiboot should be given a few extra SPT seats free by Sky, just so they can sit down comfortably...:)))
Posted by GREGHOGG

I think sky should pay it cash for points in next vouchers so hoggers can get clothes form some were other than oxfam:))) 

GREGHOGG

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In Response to Re: The end of SPT satellite qualification? : I think sky should pay it cash for points in next vouchers so hoggers can get clothes form some were other than oxfam:))) 
Posted by DAIBOOT

nah, NEXT is no good, has to be Primark innit:)

good range of deckchair shirts in Primark atm.

DAIBOOT

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In Response to Re: The end of SPT satellite qualification? : nah, NEXT is no good, has to be Primark innit:) good range of deckchair shirts in Primark atm.
Posted by GREGHOGG

LOL Nice one hoggers.

Off to play some Live Poker.

The best thing about live poker is that sky can't be blamed for things that go wrong! OR CAN THEY