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Sunday Night Biggie?
It should definitely* be called The Sunday Night Slow Rollz.
*Maybe
*Maybe
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Out & about recently, meeting a lot of the players, old & new, & the theme keeps recurring - "why don't you have a Sunday Night Biggie"?
Answer? We have PRIMO, £50, with a £12,500 Guarantee.
"But we want something with a bigger price tag, & a slower structure".
So, suggestions please.
Sky Poker WILL run this, IF the demand is shown to be there. But we barely get 50 for Thursday's £110 Sky Roller, or 40 for the Monthly (Thursday) £220 Biggie. But if the demand is there - & I think it would HAVE to get 40 or 50 runners MINIMUM to make it work - Sky Poker will start it.
I have not included a Poll, as every Forum Poll I've ever seen misrepresents the situation, but any & every suggestion is welcome.
Fire away......
copy Sky Roller structure
show hands on the channel. scrap the 30 mins or so that you dedicate to cash and show this instead.
run 1 seat GTD sats every night.
Would not the easy solution be to get all these 'lots of players'you meet to play in the ones that are on offer ATM?
One solution to the lack of numbers playing ATM is to implement the SnG sats for these bigger tournies, which has been suggested a few times on the forum.
Sky Poker want to give their players what they want, &, when we meet with players at Live Events, (as we did last week, hence this Thread) they persistently suggest an alternative Sunday Night Biggie. Possibly because, traditionally, on every Online Poker Room, Sunday Night is "Biggie Night". (The Online poker player demograph on Sundays is very different to that on Thursdays).
I am simply throwing it out there, for feedback, not suggesting Sky Poker "want to", for the sake of it. What they want to do, & try to do, is give players what they want.
I think it's rather good - excellent, in fact - that Sky Poker continually listens, & asks. Which is exactly what this thread is about, no more, no less. We are asking, not suggesting.
the problem is THE BIGGIE on other sites is a lot less to enter with higher prize funds, only thing is you are up against much larger fields playing for hours on end and still not really getting that deep.
on sky the two biggies used to have larger fields but when the buy ins went up the numbers went down as most players on the site can afford a sat but if they dont get in the buy in is too much.
so the answer must be a lower buy in with a large garantee, the higher stakes players already have as you say the sky roller and the monthly tourney and cant fill them so maybe its time to go for the low buy in, it works well on the other sites so why not give it a go.
cheers RAB
The main problem with the other Biggies, is the sub-sats rarely get 5 runners.
The pricing and timing of these will always determine the final field size.
What about 10 seat SNG qualifiers into daily Semi-Finals?
On another point Tikay, the demise of one of your favourite subjects.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-british-electricity-pylons-makeover.html
Discuss: Preferably with Orford.
The article refer to them as "unloved", & "blots on the landscape".
Ridiculous assumptions!
I'm gonna start SOAP - "Save Our Amazing Pylons"
One of the reasons that satellites are poorly supported IMO is that they start too early. I would like to see sats for the bigger events and the live events starting around the 8pm slot. Obviously starting at this time would mean that these satellites would feed into qtr/semi finals the following evening but i think that this would enable a lot of recreational players with work/family committments the opportinity.
Not sure what the solution is? Nightly £11 1-in-10s in primetime? More talking it up on 865? Running a primo style feeder structure throughout the week? Deffo think redking is on to something and that tweaks to the sat structure would mean more players in the bigger events though.
Loving the feedback, this is exactly the purpose of the thread, thanks.
Danny - no, I'm afraid it would not be possible to auto-enter Main Event winners.
Many of the Posts & suggestions seem to revolve around the Satellite formats - all noted, thanks.
Keep the ideas coming, please.
If someone hits the nail right on the head, & comes up with a stonking idea/solution, they will get Free Entry into the inaugural running of the new Sunday Night biggie - if it happens.
Loving some of the proposed Tourney Titles - keep them coming, too.
So far I've seen "Sunday Night Slow Rollz" & "Sunday Night Steam Roller", both of which are the right idea, "fun" titles.
I like "Save our 'Leccy Pylons", which sounds like a real livewire title.
Hello Tikay,
my suggestion is to have a greater range of satellites where the proportion of entrants who qualify vary according to the buy-in. For example for a £100 buy in tournament the ways to enter are:-
£100 direct buy in
£20 for a 1 in 5 qualification
£10 for a 1 in 10 qualification
£5 for a 1 in 20 qualification
£2 for a 1 in 50 qualification
£1 for a 1 in 100 qualification
there would also be several runnings of each satellite. as an inducement it might be good to guarantee one entry in every satellite. the judgement for the skypoker gurus is to schedule these events to ensure a return.
+EV to risk sounding like an idiot at the chance of that then! For the proposed sunday biggie I'd like to see:
* A daily entry level satt in primetime (probably 7.30 or 8.30 to catch the pre ME or early busto crowd) - £6 + .60 entry or thereabouts which would see 1 in 5 enter...
* Weekly semi @ £30 + 3, Thursday night, again in primetime
* Last minute £30+3 satt on sunday afternoon, and, most importantly...
* The same/similar structure to the roller/ds/hypothetical sunday biggie tournaments throughout
The last one is the main thing. Support for the roller/DS structure has been pretty universal, right? I certainly found the structure a revelation compared to the sky MTTs I cut my teeth on and would love to play the roller again, but sensible BRM dictates no direct buy in at that level for me. I would, however, plan a weekly satt campaign around the above.
I think the structure should not revolve around the TV show and if so the other way round eg. longer show or start later but with hands from the very beginning shown.
The main problem is Satelites:
I Propose 2 ways to solve this.....
Satelites should also be in STT style with different levels that way it doesn't matter what time of day you will have a chance to get in.
A nightly MTT as suggested for entry to Semi finals, maybe 2 buy in levels so you get a chance with 1 in 10 and 1 in 20 etc...
I think the Satelites that run at the momment are at bad times, you should as well as the above have as it is now but regular slots every half hour 6pm-9pm, maybe even these sats to give entry directly to the semi of the same/next night depending on time
As for a title ' The Sunday Special'
i think the issue about another biggie will revolve around the sites traffic. is it enough at current levels with enough players who would play?
should it run then why not a triple stack, 6000 starting stack n is 20 mins blinds too much? 1st level 15, 30.
i would start it early evening maybe 6 or half 6, the name "The Sunday Stroll" unsure what the buyin should be but im guessing it would have to be the £150 mark
I think your idea could be good for the lower stakes fwiw eg. £5.50
15 minutes is long on online terms so would be more then enough, 10 standard etc
Again i think thats a great idea for a micro version @ £5.50 so if they're going to put another in for the higher players surely they should do something like this ?
Then, the £100 Skyroller could run every Thursday. This would also simplify the schedule ..
every Thursday .. £33 BH and Skyroller
every Sunday .. £55 Primo and Biggie