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SKY 1 CHIP TORNS???
As John Mcnroe said you cant be serious!
Sky i think in the competition you held called COMPETITION SUGGESTIONS you had 8 pages of fantastic ideas, and i must say i got 3rd with my idea of a Nations torn which after the satelites would be a live torn to decide the Nations champ
But after reading a few blogs i cant beleive you have picked 1 chip torn as the winner please tell me and the community you are kidding? because if your not that sort of spells the end of poker on here me thinks,,the standard i personally think has gone down quite dramatically on here in the last 6 months and think others agree but no wonder why if you put these bingo chancing torns on like 1 chip etc!
Im hoping its april 1st and its my mistake
Sky i think in the competition you held called COMPETITION SUGGESTIONS you had 8 pages of fantastic ideas, and i must say i got 3rd with my idea of a Nations torn which after the satelites would be a live torn to decide the Nations champ
But after reading a few blogs i cant beleive you have picked 1 chip torn as the winner please tell me and the community you are kidding? because if your not that sort of spells the end of poker on here me thinks,,the standard i personally think has gone down quite dramatically on here in the last 6 months and think others agree but no wonder why if you put these bingo chancing torns on like 1 chip etc!
Im hoping its april 1st and its my mistake
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I know they do russian roulette which is similar tbh scrumdown but i know its good to do different torns but surely everyone on here want PROPER torns not BINGO torns .
+1
i agree with u kev it was just an idea ps your never going to let that q7 go lol
Posted by oynutter
You put YOUR cards on your forehead so thta you cant see them but everyone else can (you have probs seen it before) You then play the usual game but never knowing ur cards util the showdown.... This could be done as £1 entry for example as i dont imagine ne1 will want to spend any decent money on a joke game.... Never seen it online, but would be hilarious
put em on ur forehead lol lol lol
I put a post on the original thread, and i stand by it.
If you ever see me in one of these you can shave my head, shove a chicken up my bum and display me in any shop front of youre choice.
it was mentioned that the idea was for a freeroll but the last thing, IMO, the site and the comp needed was a result like this.
To be fair Oynutter did post that this was just an idea that was supposed to be fun, so WHY did it win?
I have no idea, but if this is the thinking of future comps i wont take part.
Surely, the idea should be to promote serious ideas for implementation, and imo this should fall into the catergory of spot prize for funny(strange that none were given for this).
If you think i'm being a bit disingenuous, im doing this after a few drinks n=but tihs is my honest view.
col
The deepstack games will continue to suffer as long as players can get a quick rush of adrenaline by eliminating someone rather than the whole laddering up and playing a game of skill for 3 - 4 hours. Unfortunately, for those of us who like a decent game we are gonna have to make do with decent games with small prize pools and runners whilst the mega money and the large tournies go to the players fancying a bit of a gamble.
The Sunday deepie simply will not survive with £110 buy in and 3 places paid. Players (myself included) want to play games with a decent number of runners. Make it £55, more satelittes during the week (including anytime sng's) and let's see Sky set a POKER STANDARD AND NOT SLIP BACK INTO THE JOKEY SITE IT WAS CONSIDERED WHEN IT LAUNCHED.
BTW......... if the shows are now only live 3 nights a week, surely the 9pm start time is no longer an issue for The Open and play can start earlier with longer than 7 minute blind levels at 8pm???
TBH think the majority of what i call old school sky players only play on here because of the community it has generated not the silly no point torns they have generated
I HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE STALWARTS OF THIS SITE OVER THE THE LAST 2 YEARS, BUT IM LOSING FAITH IN WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE.
Those who know me, know how hard it is for me to make that statement.
In Rich's original post, he stated that if there was any fun ones there was spot prizes up for offer, but have any been given NO.
WHAT EXACTLY DO THEY SEE AS FUN POSTS.
COL
I suppose it comes down to what was actually possible for Sky to implement with haste and I assume most of the serious suggestions they felt would take a lot of resources to make happen very quickly. Still it was about serious suggestions. Assuming Sky are taking the 1chip tourney as a 'serious suggestion' then you could read into this that they are pro poor structured tournaments.
Cest la vie.
Yes would love 2 c why they chose this , i wonder if we get an answer? im really saddened because i have to play other sites for my poker now !
I posted this elsewhere but it is more relevant here so here goes....
One of the most popular suggestions on the recent competition was ideas to use up surplus points. This would obviously cost sky a few quid.
What a shock, not even a mention of this when the prizes were dished out.
The winners all had idea's that would cost sky nowt and in oynutters idea (not moaning at your win mate) would generate very fast earning rake.
Moneygrabbing instantly springs to mind.
See a pattern here?
Quick rake, no skilled madness.
I thought this was a poker site. If I wanna gamble I think I will stick a quid on the roulette table on skyvegas. At least i save the rake.
So, to everyone banging on about this as if it's the end of the world as we know it, I'd suggest that you just don't play them.
There are plenty of deepstack tournaments (several created at the request of people on this forum).
If people want to play these types of games, that's their choice.
As far as I am aware, SkyPoker is by far the most receptive poker site in terms of putting on the types of tournaments that customers request. They are, however, in the business to make a profit, not just to run a few games for 100 or so mates to have fun. Since I doubt that the deepstack tournaments are really profit making ventures at this stage, I guess that we should look on the gimmicky, popular games as subsidising our poker rather than mocking them.
The constant denigration of different types of games and inexperienced players is getting rather tiresome.
Just my opinion, obviously.
I genuinely think that backlash via the forums is the only way of letting the top brass know we dont want these sort of games, thus protecting the games we all enjoy. Again, just my opinion. See you at the tables mate.
The deepstacks ahve a loyal base and will always run; these new flip tournies are aimed at a different market plus their BIs are gonna be lower. And the cost of running a DS tournie is gonna be exactly the same to Sky as running the new 1chip tournie.
I read the thread about the suggestion and it make me LOL. I can't believe a regular member would post it as a SERIOUS suggestion, and also I can't believe that Sky would take it on board AND give the person £50 for posting it.
Total joke decision by Sky. If you wanna have gamble tournies then go ahead. But don't aware prizes for it and promote it on the froum, which was created to help people at all levels in their poker education to get better.
I said this before tho that Sky want gamblers on the site; Sky aren't just thinking about the poker section but aslo the betting/bingo/slot machine sections and they want something that can appeal to people with that kind of mentality.
Oh and RazorKev your nation tournie should have won IMO. A tournie like that would create a lot of interest and also bring a lot of new members onto the forum.
However, I really don't see how getting rid of other types of game "protects" the games that you (and I) enjoy playing - and it is certainly wrong to use the phrase "we all enjoy" - the figures clearly show otherwise.
I would guess that any 1 chip tournament would quickly die a death as people realised they are paying a 10%/20% rake for the opportunity to try and win 6 or 7 50/50 races consecutively in order to win a prize.
"Variety is the spice of life" may by now be a hackneyed phrase but I believe it to still hold true. Let's just be glad that there are plenty of choices for us to make and let other people make their own choices.