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Oi oi! You can qualify for the GUKPT Summer Series on Sky Poker now!
Well, when I say "now", I mean as & from tomorrow, Thursday.
I'll work through the details in the next 30 mins, & take any questions tomorrow, but I want you to get the news first, (because it will be disseminated widely overnight) so here's the nitty-gritty......
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The GUKPT "Summer Series" comprise SIX Events, held in 6 different Venues.
They are £550 buy-in Events. In fact, they are "Re-Entry" Events - which is NOT the same as a Rebuy, or a Freezeout, it's a sort of hybrid. I don't imagine many players will "re-enter", so the Qualifiers are "just" for the £550 original entry cost, which is £550.
They are two day Events - Saturday & Sunday -with 10,000 starting chips, & 45 min blinds all the way.
They run in un-connected pairs, as follows.....
Saturday May 14th & Sunday May 15th. (That's not this weekend, but NEXT weekend).
Venues - Brighton, and Dundee. You will be able to qualify for EITHER. You just choose, after qualifying, which one you wish to play.
In due course, GUKPT "Summer Series" qualifiers for all 6 legs will be run on Sky Poker, but for now, it is ONLY for Brighton & Dundee, as we are short of time, as per.
More awesome news, can't wait to try and qualify!
The qualifying format (I'll list the days, cost etc shortly) will be almost identical to the quallies we ran for the £1,070 GUKPT "Biggies" recently, EXCEPT that the Final (direct buy-in £110) will be on TUESDAY of next week, & ONE IN FIVE will get a seat, not 1 in 10 as per the bigger events.
That make sense?
So, the qualifying route will be as follows. I've C & P this from a note Blandy sent to me, plagarism ftw.
Note that, as previous, & as per our agreement with GUKPT, we will NOT be running any satellites or qualifiers for any GUKPT Events on Wednesdays - they will run every night EXCEPT Wednesdays.
More.....
GUKPT Satellites – Thursday 5th May – Monday 9th May
Buyin: £4.80+40p Payout: 1 in 5 à that day’s Semi Final at 2115
Times: 1515 1815 1930 (also 1115 and 1315 on Sat & Sun)
GUKPT Satellites – Tuesday 10th May
Buy-in: £4.80+40p Payout: 1 in 5 à that day’s Semi Final at 1715
Times: 1015 1215 1415 1515 1545
GUKPT Semi Finals – Thursday 5th – Tuesday 10thBuy-in: £22+£2 Payout: 1 in 5 à GUKPT Final
Times: 2115 (Thu-Mon inclusive), 1715 (Tuesday)
GUKPT Final – Tuesday 10th May
Buy-in: £110 Payout: 1 in 5 à GUKPT Summer Series
Time: 2115
The Summer Series will continue in June & July as follows......
June 11th/12th - Bolton & Plymouth.
July 9th & 10th - Sheffield & Southampton
After that, the GUKPT reverts to the £1,000 buy-in, beginning with Luton in August, then Coventry in October, Blackpool in November, & finally for this year, The Vic, also in November, though The Vic will be a £2,500 buy-in jobbie.
Quallies for ALL of these will be on Sky Poker, nightly except Wednesdays, pretty much non-stop for the rest of 2011, just as long as the demand from you guys is there.
However, the current qualifying period, starting tomorrow, through to next Tuesday, is for BRIGHTON OR DUNDEE ONLY.
So, there you go.
The first satellites will spawn in the Lobby first thing tomorrow (Thursday) & then daily thereafter.
Happy hunting.
Any questions, fire away.
Not literally, like.
Qualify now, & you could be the next Dan Brown, or Scotty77, & make the Final.
Raise it UP!
^^^^ Thursday & Friday for this?
another fantastic chance for all skyplayers to make a mark like dan and ryan doing us all proud
are these summer tournys 2 start time flight 1a and 1b as you put it
would be easier for some if it was if not no matter
thank you
mark
More haste, less speed, I'm aching to go home but I wanted to get this stuff up before I head off.
I'll deal with your PM (on the other matter) tomorrow.
You can only re-enter ONCE. I would imagine that the re-entry facility lasts for, at the very max, the first 3 levels, after that, lose your chips & that's that. I cannot imagine many players will re-enter, as in most cases, it's severely -ev in my opinion.
Dylan's explanation of the difference between a rebuy & a re-entry is spot on.
As a matter of interest, "Re-Entries" are a fairly new innovation in the UK, & DTD have just started (from NEXT month) to make their Monthly £300 jobbie a re-entry. But in their case, there are 2 opening days (Friday & Saturday), & players who bust on Day 1a can re-enter on Day 1b. Confusing, or what?
B & M hosted Re-Entry Tourneys have been commonplace in Las Vegas for many years, though.
We chewed the cud on this today, to be honest, & in fact, I'd say it was 60/40 in favour that they may well become on the TSP list. It's Mr Milner's call, but we chatted at length about it today, & I know he's giving it serious consideration.
Sky Poker is at an awkward age & size, it's still growing rapidly, & things are changing so fast.
When TSP was first mooted, the thinking was that there would be a Comms Supprt Team, a Live Update, maybe even a TV camera, at EVERY TSP Event.
But if you think "is that scaleable?" (which is what Mr Page & Mr Brin at google did on Day one, & they did OK), imagine Sky Poker another year down the line. There might well be 10, or 15, TSP Members, who knows? And they may be wanting to play Events almost weekly, as the thing grows. How could we possibly give full comms support to such a schedule in a financially viable way?
So the options MIGHT be, we either do not give Comms Support (by which I mean, Live Updates & all that stuff), OR we sub-contract it to someone - say, blonde, or SPT-RIch, for example, or, even better imo......
....we do it the "Community way". The what?
By that, I mean we could get volunteers from our Community to go & do the Update. No money would be payable, or I don't think so, but exs would be covered, & they would get a freebie entry to, say, the Sky Roller or somesuch, & maybe some apparel - a Sky Poker hoodie, cap, da de da. In my personal view, that would be just terrific, & I think it would work very well. I may be wrong, of course, I usually am!
So there it is. It's not been decided, not at all, but that's the thinking, or it was 4 hours ago!
We shall see soon enough. Things are changing, & fast. Excxiting, 'innit?
PS - On that "community" thing, this Saturday, at SPT Leeds, we have a Live Stream, as you know, & we've been working away at how best to make it zippy, zingy, & a bit different. It will be MUCH better than at Luton, for example, there will not be Stream "breaks" during Tourney breaks, for example. But we might just try an experiment, & get regular Sky Poker players to have a bash at commentating on the Live Stream for, say, 5, 15, or 30 minutes at a time. How cool would that be?
The only problem is that they need to speak properly such that everyone can understand, so no Yorkshire folk will be allowed to commentate. Just saying, that's all.
Nothing has been decided as to Brighton yet, but I'll let you know if & when it is. To be honest, we've been working most of today on various Vegas related stuff. More news on that soon.