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Another tournament suggestion with a poll
Ok with the sucsess of last nights deep stack i got thinking. A number of people suggested a few things in the chatbox i wont take credit for these and should they wish to suggest then they can post themselves.
However i was thinking what does other site have over sky. And this is what hit me
A) Antes
H4H
all been requested before and again im not going to push for these as although i think theyd make a massive differance its up to sky.
My suggestion is something that i know at least one other site is so much better than sky in.
Deeper Stacked tournaments.
Say we have a tournament thats a deep stack just now which we do, we get 12 minute blinds wth 5000 starting stack.
I played in a tournament the other day, on a differant site and i think sky could learn from this.
3000 starting stack. 30 minute clock.
Have say 3 different start times throughout the day
One say a lunchtime teaser
A Tea time one
And a Night-time one
As the nature of how this would work and the lenth of time involved i think it would be differant players in each tournament keeping it fresh.
Still a reasonable Garentee onto it and you have a tournament worth playing i think.
Ill let the players be the judge of that however so ill add a poll
However i was thinking what does other site have over sky. And this is what hit me
A) Antes
H4H all been requested before and again im not going to push for these as although i think theyd make a massive differance its up to sky.
My suggestion is something that i know at least one other site is so much better than sky in.
Deeper Stacked tournaments.
Say we have a tournament thats a deep stack just now which we do, we get 12 minute blinds wth 5000 starting stack.
I played in a tournament the other day, on a differant site and i think sky could learn from this.
3000 starting stack. 30 minute clock.
Have say 3 different start times throughout the day
One say a lunchtime teaser
A Tea time one
And a Night-time one
As the nature of how this would work and the lenth of time involved i think it would be differant players in each tournament keeping it fresh.
Still a reasonable Garentee onto it and you have a tournament worth playing i think.
Ill let the players be the judge of that however so ill add a poll
Comments
Also those who voted needs tweeking can you suggest improvements and we can obviously discuss what would need improving on.
Good call mate.
Also +1 to Adam implementing the changes he has.
and defo a good idea to impliment antes in sky tourneys, more fun and strategic ...got my vote
p.s i allways hated h/h, pkr has h/h for every level the prize money rises like every 10 mins ridic, scrap h/h for ever, suppose its important for tourney reg
This subject has come up before and I agree with most of it, but not in every tournament.
I would suggest that Sky Poker implement a very good structured event and introduce antes to that and bring in h4h, only on the cash and final table bubbles. In most of the tourneys here, the pace is quick enough, so no need for antes in them. You could have a bi-monthly tourney, with 30 min blinds 5000 /10000 stack(at whatever buy-in) and run antes after level 3/4.
Might work might not but any tourney would need patronage by us the players for Sky to experiment. Tyhey have tried to keep us all happy with ideas from us but some have gone by the wayside when the numbers dropped off.
col
I've just pasted all the info from sky adam into my post:
Link Here (All the Info)
Hense why i suggested this tournament. It could start without Antes or H4H and then would be great to use as a test dummy because of its structure.
Steve
I wasnt advertising Antes. Yes id like them but their not essential.
This thread was meant to be about having another tournament. Bigger and longer. This would later allow for antes as a guinea pig tournament because of a 30min blind structure.
Don,
You'd need to explain something to me, serious question.
You want a 30 minute clock - yup, lovely, for those that like that sort of thing, nice & slow, sleepy sleepy. Fine by me, too, as it happens. It could happen at the press of a button, it's that simple, But "demand" might be an issue. It would be low entry fee, bacause, largely, that's what this Site does, & would last for 6 or 7 hours - how many would want to do that every night for £100 first prize or whatever?
More to the point, a 30 min clock is designed to slow the Tourney down, yup? And Antes are designed to speed Tourneys up, yeah?
You get my drift? Seems a bit of strange logic to tie those two together.
H4H - it IS in the pipeline, or "road-map" as it's called, but it's a bit down the line. Bigger, better, more important things are scheduled ahead of it.
The whole Site is evolving, but it does not happen overnight. That's the penalty with being with a young, home-grown, site, like Sky Poker. It's also the benefit, as we grow together.
thanks for commenting.
My origional suggestion was meant to be the tournament alone, i said other things that other players had mentioned one of those was antes.
I didnt mean for it to be the case.
This tournament i was referring to was for the long haul and of coarse this isnt to all players tastes - hense the poll.
As you said it would last 6 to 7 hours, so obviously a decent Garentee would be needed to attract players to it. Say £5.50 for £250 as a tester with maybe a £2.20 one with a £100 GTD running an hour behind. Whichever is more popular could obviously be kept.
3 tournaments like this per day would be good imo.
As stated one at lunchtime-ish so maybe 1PM or something
Again one at tea time so say 6 or 6.30
And one around 9
Again if their demand maybe have a cheaper one running an hour behind.
I understand because of the nature of this Demand maybe not there as it would be pretty different from anything that sky tournaments offer. The only reason i think antes would help this is because as you state this could take 7-8 hours without. I dont mind this i actually enjoy these kind of tounrmanets, obviously not everyone is happy being around for that long.
I was trying to be ummm... Helping everyone?
You'll get battered by half, & praised by half, & you'll need a thick skin, too.
But you can't ride two horses at once.
Go with your conviction, & stick by it.
The long-clock Tourney COULD be started any time, there are no technical challenges. There might be "demand" challenges, though. 7 hours to perhaps not even cash?
However i think this would be a good tournament to have, and will help boost skys appeal market.
Ill maybe re-post this thead and be a bit clearer as i suspect most people think im talking about Antes and H4H here going by the feedback.
Thanks for having an input tikay
Good luck with it, & if it's well-received, I'll deffo send it upstairs.
For all big tournies, i.e. 100 player plus. + poster events like All Rounders
There must be a significant minority of players who, like me, cannot guarantee when they might be free to play. Signing up early and turning up much later is just too tedious. Being able to join in if only 20/30 mins late would be a delight.