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Time for sky to shake up the MTT schedule - Introduce bigger GTD tournies earlier in the evening?
Ive seen a few threads on this subject but it seems as though there isnt any momentum behind pushing for wholesale changes to sky pokers evening schedule.
First of all I played the £22 BH last night as went quite deep, didnt make the final table but I know if I did I wouldnt have got to bed by 1am, which for most recreational poker players who have to be up at the crack of dawn for work makes it difficult to justify the time especially if it results in playing for 3/4 hours for a min cash or nothing at all.
Skys scheduling seems a bit strange, after the ME, theres a £1k gtd BH and 8:30 pm and a £1.5k gtd BH at 9:30 pm. God knows what time the £1.5k MTT ends.
Would it not make sense to have a chunky tournament start say at 7pm or 7:30 pm each night with a guarantee of say £2k and a buyin at £20+2 which would attract the serious recreational player as well as the MTT reg?
Theres no doubt that sky are attracting more players following the full tilt saga, but im not sure if they are maximising the oppurtunity of picking up players from other sites, because apart from the me's the mtts are too small and too late.
First of all I played the £22 BH last night as went quite deep, didnt make the final table but I know if I did I wouldnt have got to bed by 1am, which for most recreational poker players who have to be up at the crack of dawn for work makes it difficult to justify the time especially if it results in playing for 3/4 hours for a min cash or nothing at all.
Skys scheduling seems a bit strange, after the ME, theres a £1k gtd BH and 8:30 pm and a £1.5k gtd BH at 9:30 pm. God knows what time the £1.5k MTT ends.
Would it not make sense to have a chunky tournament start say at 7pm or 7:30 pm each night with a guarantee of say £2k and a buyin at £20+2 which would attract the serious recreational player as well as the MTT reg?
Theres no doubt that sky are attracting more players following the full tilt saga, but im not sure if they are maximising the oppurtunity of picking up players from other sites, because apart from the me's the mtts are too small and too late.
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horses for courses,some people like the way it is and some don't.i suppose the could run a chunky tourney at 7/7.30 to see what the reaction would be it could be easily set up..gl
If there was a £22 buyin tourney starting at 7pm, im quite confident it would have more than 50 runners. Sky could start with a 1k guarantee and see how it goes.
JJ has even given a suggested itinerary for new MTTs, its about time sky freshened their schedule up to encompass all poker players not just the pros.
The suggestion is designed to make sky poker more appealing, attract more players(good and bad) and therefore bigger prizes.
Thread sent up to Head Office, to be discussed.
Good thread, imo.
Personally, I probably wouldn't play a 7pm biggie often, but there's always the odd time, and it can't do any harm.
i had to be on a job at 6 same morning
A 7pm start for the me would be a bonus as final tables for these rarely finished before 1.30am and if your working that leaves very little time for sleep.
Im normally in bed around 12 midweek, unless i run deep in the ME.
I enter the ME 3/4 times a week & 5/6 in winter, i love playing mtts but all the others start to late with the current structures i.e tsp classic & 9.30bh - so unless i enter the mini event i only enter 1 mtt a night.
If however you did something similar to what dohh has suggested, i would definately play in another 2+ mtts - the 9pm one could be 10 mins blinds like the open used to be & the 7pm same structure as the ME !!
Something needs to be sorted, there is currently not enought mtts of £10 & above.
don,t get me wrong the more tourneys with decent gtd,s at the times you state would be better(imho)for the site but i don,t think theres enough people with the bank rolls for sky to take that risk,hope im wrong
For me the "Late Registration" for the first hour is the biggest change i'd like to see. Tikay are there issues with the software being able to do this?
Major tournies from 7pm are fine with me, good idea.
The blind levels are much better now, if anything tournies at 7pm with 12 or 15 minute intervals would be great, if i need to stay up a little later to win money then i can live with that. IMO this gives better players more opportunities to win, more often.
More PLO tournies too please (i know tikay and james are doing great work on this).
More re-buy tournies too, and with late reg.
Agree big time with Thewy on the synched break times 5 mins to the hour please same as other sites as this would bring in more runners I would play more mtts if they all broke at the same time for a few reasons
1.toilet breaks (wife cracks up if I pee on the floor ;-)
2.nicotine breaks(wife cracks up if I smoke in house)
3.people playing on jokerstars etc might play a couple of sky mtts as well so more revenue for site and bigger prizepool which then attracts more runners etc etc
Not to keen on the idea of the late registration, alot of players like to know how big the prizepool is and how many people get paid etc.. when they enter, and not have to wait an hour. If your going to do this, sky will lose its unique-ness (think i made this word up), might aswell add antes , make most tournes 9 handed and play in dollars . IMO
One thing I would say in response is that Sky Poker attracts a lot more players throughout the day than it did even 1 year ago. As we speak there are 500 players logged on (a year ago youd be lucky to see 200), in the evenings its not uncommon to see 3-4k players at peak times.
Therefore, one can assume as there is clearly more demand for the sky poker product and a lot more potential demand, that it would only make sense to revamp/bring in earlier tournies with bigger guarantees.