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Big Brother's Little Brother (Tournament Idea)
In Response to Big Brother's Little Brother (Tournament Idea):
Quite simple this one. Run a Tournament at exactly the same start time/structure/blind level etc as ANY of the Main Events (8pm Mon - Thurs/8pm Fri - Sat & 8pm Sun) apart the buy in will be for the lower bank roll players . ie....ME = £20 +2, BBLB = £2 + 20p ME = £50 +5, BBLB = £5 + 50p Even the monthly £220 could also be run as a £22 buy in. One important proviso which may or may not be easy to implement - you can ONLY enter ONE of these tournaments per night i.e. if you reg for one you can not reg for the other on the same night. No guarantee to begin with to see how the numbers compare against the Main Events.I had a Similar idea - would also be good for those who bomb out of the main one, so in that respect could run at 9pm or something to get the "outs" from the ME?
Posted by MAXALLY
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* EDIT - The winner of the BBLB gets free entry into the ME of the same for the following week (thanks goes to Pete, JOCKBMW, for this addition)
As a matter of interest, becase the question is bound to be asked, why this rule?
"...you can ONLY enter ONE of these tournaments per night i.e. if you reg for one you can not reg for the other on the same night....."
I'd also add (& I'm just trying to be helpful here) that....
1) As a principle, I doubt Sky Poker would ever allow a Tourney where players are "banned" from entering another, unrelated, Event. "Locked" Events apart, all players should have the right to enter all "public" Tourneys.
2) It needs to "work" for the Site, & saying "if you enter one, you cannot enter the other" is not going to float many boats in HO. Why should players not have the choice to play either or both?
I think the idea is fantastic, really excellent, & must (or would....) be well in the running for a Prize, but that "Rule" would deffo need to be removed imo.
I will have no say in judging this, by the way, nothing to do with me, but I know they would not find any form of discrimination acceptable.
NB - Entrants are free to amend their proposals.
Up to you, Alan, & I note your comments, & I reiterate, I will not be judging this.
I still don't quite see why players should not have the choice, but it's your suggestion & you are free to suggest it.
As worded, or intended, that players do not have the choice to play both, there would be absolutely nil chance of it being given the nod upstairs, that's the "steer" I'm trying to help you with, really.
I guarantee someone will modify your suggestion, but allowing players the "either or both" choice though, if you don't, because it's such a grand idea, & it looks to me odds on to be a Top Six (& thus Prize) contendor.
Modify yours first, imo!
Yes for me, provided I don't gift most of my chips to scouse too often like in last nights Tikay. :-(
fwiw i would play in both tournies if they were offered. if i was banned from playing in both, the bigger buy in main event would always be entered.
Other than that, good idea and I think it would work well
I've voted for a resounding yes Alan........and gr8 additional suggestion by JockBMW.
Now u 2 could get together and become the new Morcombe & Wise, Cannon & Ball.............so here goes how, about.......
........................ModMax & BM W ally
Reference the 'play in both' debate, I would say this should be encouraged in fact!!
Would certainly benifit Sky, and the double promotion of both tourneys, obviously you don't HAVE to play in both, but......
1, If 'Higher rolled' players played in the smaller tourney, does that not make the tourney maybe a better quality, & more attractive to ALL !!
2, Conversley, the 'Lower rolled' players can have the choice of maybe treating themselves maybe once or twice a week/month to play in a different field/style of tourney !
3, To Conclude, How about an prize for the best aggregate score/finish, have seen this work well before, and it would certainly encourage play in both!! Would help begiinners [like me] start to MTT multi-table too !!
Alan you can have those ideas on me, mines a pint in Al's bar ta !
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However, I do not believe that you should try to restrict entry at all. As we know there is quite a range of abilities in both "High-Rolled" and "Lower-Rolled" staked players. In my opinion there is absolutely no reason for the "Lowers" to be phased by playing against the "Highers", there is everything to gain and nothing to lose. Besides I have always found that, in many competive situations over many years, the stronger the opposition the better I have played, and even won more than a few.
The down side for Sky could be that they lose some entries from the satellites into the ME, thus reducing the final numbers, but I think this would be more than compensated by entries into the BBLB. It could also make the Sky site more attractive to current non Sky players, there must be a lot of "Low Rollers" out there who could find this attractive.
I feel sure that once everything is "tweaked" that this idea will be adopted by Sky and we, as a community of players, will all benefit. So it looks like Win! Win! to me.
p.s i voted yes