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After looking forward to UKOPS since it was announced, and trying to satellite into all the events (with some success) that i was able to play, and buying in the events i did not satellite into, i recently found out i am unable to play tonights event and saturdays event due to covering for someone at work.
I emailed Sky and they did change the saturdays £110 event so i can play in wednesdays £110 event, and i was very greatful.
I then unregistered for the omaha event UKOPS2, thinking this was one i'd bought in direct, it wasn't however, and my account was not refunded, fair enough.
I emailed my PRIORITY contact and was told that they could not refund my £55 , and could not change this to another event.
I then asked if i could be re-entered into the event, with the £55 buy -in i'd earned and they would not even re-enter me.
So i'm now £55 out of pocket, and have to go to work, now i can't wait for UKOPS to be over, and i will never ever be satting into an event again, as sky seem reluctant to help me out when work or other things may prevent me from playing.
Must run better
Thanx for all of the support guys, much appreciated
Really enjoyed taking that one down, as you can imagine
Roll on the rest of the Series
Delighted when I squeezed into the money.
Even more delighted when made final table, without rebuys or top-ups, as out of my financial league. Till now, anyway.
I'm a noob at Omaha, love it though I do.
The biggest win of my life, and I am now a winning poker player at sky poker, by a couple of grand give ot take a bit, I should think.
So happy! So drained!
David aka 10BITE aka Tenbyite
Tuesday 1st November 2011
UKOPS Event 2 £10,000 Gtd PLO
https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby?action=go_tnmt_lobby&game_id=5195669&guid=b92adc87-1d32-4195-b316-6f194b8c9cbe
Bet you feel even more proud this morning, basking in the glow. And so you should.
Congrats Sir, many congrats.
UKOPS1 & UKOPS2 have both gone to "regular guys". What's not to like?
Congratulations sir and well played!
U put my chippies to good use!
About the UKOPS coverage/commitment/expenditure etc.
Whilst i think it's hard for anyone to disagree that it costs a bunch of money to air a live show, the rake taken from the UKOPS tourneys themselves would more than cover it surely? I work it out to be about £4400 worth of rake taken in just the bounty hunter tournaments alone, so even if it was some sort of internet only stream from your living room where you discuss what's going on :P (obviously i'm in jest here but i think the point still has some merit). With such a loyal fanbase that SkyPoker has, and the community that's been built up around it, to hype up the UKOPS and then show all these satellites on TV, but not the actual events themselves seems... not unfair, just a little unbalanced.
I'm also gunna chip in and say whilst i'm not questioning the behind the scenes of SkyPoker at all, i'm sceptical that such a big emphasis can be put on the work ethic of those that produced UKOPS. There were no bracelets given out, the tournies were pretty similar to weekly ones on Sky despite a few little changes in starting stacks and blind levels, along with no form of coverage of the events themselves or an opportunity for people to switch tickets between events.
I LOVE SkyPoker, and i'm only saying all this because i truly believe that this UKOPS thing has legs. It's just at the moment they are prosthetic, and squeeking a little bit :P
TommyD - For someone to say that too much coverage over a 1 week period of 7/8 events is absolute crazy imo. All you have to do is look at PokerStars to see that coverage = WIN. The WCOOP and SCOOP had over 50 events each and they each had their own live-streams, radio shows etc and it was a MASSIVE success. Too much coverage /> too little, and i'm sure most of the people on Sky would say one of the best things about playing on the site is to see themselves on TV!
Cliffs:
1) TK, i love you, and Sky Poker.
2) UKOPS has the potential to be HUGE, instead of a something that people are gunna forget about in a week or two.
3) Coverage = GOOD. If you think you'd get worn out from only 7/8 events worth of coverage, i doubt you're a poker fan at heart. Bigger the better baby!
Much love to y'all and run good out there people.
Cheers,
Carlos Smitalos
P.S. This is NOT supposed to be a "this is wrong, that is wrong, fix it". I'm just pointing stuff out that people can agree/disagree with. It's all just my opinion and if people wanna come on here and tell me i'm wrong that's cool!
Wednesday 2nd November 2011
UKOPS Event 3 - £10,000 Gtd. Double Stack
https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby?action=go_tnmt_lobby&game_id=5195684&guid=f23b074c-1703-4cf4-8b4f-aa8b38538380
not taking into account the massive overlay that sky got done for in the first week of sats
plus they get taxed on all rake
plus all the expenses of all the UKOPS stuff like the site graphics/leaflets at SPT/producing promo videos."
scotty get your tongue out of skypokers ar se!!
why cant people on this forum give some input without being shot down??? i dont think its fair..
surely everyone has a right to there own opinion.. and its not like hes talking absolute rubbish is it...
its not impossible for sky to air more of the ukops next time around...
surely increasing the traffic of the site long term will increase revenue long term... so i think airing all the ukops would potentially increase future profits over the following... gotta spend money to make money havent you??
i dont disagree with the fact they spend alot of money etc etc... as sky are very good imo...
i also think it would of been nice to air all of the series as its not a regular occurance is it?
its a bit like hosting the world cup... we are only gonna show the semi final and the final.... just doesnt seem to be logical...
at the end of the day... sky is a business and its up to them what they want and wish to do...
but also keeping the majority happy is also good as they want feedback..
gl to all...
Heck, I'd vlog about the UKOPS series for free for gods sake! It can't be that hard to string some form of display together to give the series a little more prestiege.
Cheers,
Carlos Smitalos
P.s. Thanks to IMAROCK for covering my back, much appreciated man. It doesn't take someone to agree with you to have to stick up for ya, thanks again dude. Even if people don't agree with what i've said in my posts that's absolutely fine with me!
Apparently 100 meeting went into the making of UKOPS - I'm guessing a few fewer meetings, and the air-time would have been more than covered, and the world would have more little packets of biscuits than now (tongue in cheek, btw).
To see TommyD suggest that Sky needs to move away from their TV roots and that no-one cares about the channel is nonsense.
Maybe Apple might want to discontinue their iPod and iPhone series - we're all bored of them now. When you have a unique selling point, don't rejoin the crowd.
I'll mention again that when the open (and velocity) was shown nightly, the tournament was maxed out at 600 EVERY NIGHT. It's clear that Sky can't afford such frippery, but 7 days of TV to go with the UKOPS events seems like a great idea to me.
I'm made up that the series has been a success, and hope it is repeated (at least annually if not 6-monthly or more). Due to work commitments etc, I am unlikely to play an more of this series' events, but can't remember being so excited to see my table open for these tournaments since my early days of online poker.
TommyD - Thanks for taking the time to respond with such humility sir! Brought a smile to my face just reading your thought out response, so thank you!
I was chatting to a poker-mate of mine from Canada the other week and explained how i've moved to Sky. (He hadn't even heard of the site to be honest!). But when i mentioned the 'you can be on TV' thing, his ears perked up and said it was "sick" in a good way! :P
Yes, Sky doesn't want to be a one trick pony with the TV thing, but my oh my is it one hell of a trick to get people onboard and loyal to the site in the first place.
SkyDave - All i can really say is thank you for coming to the thread, and that i'm glad some of the stuff is being taken onboard.
I apologise dearly for the ramblyness of my reply, i've been up for about 20hrs and am knackered!
Keep up the good discussion guys.
Cheers,
Carlos Smitalos
Bounty hunters continue to be very popular on this site and adding to Scotty77's suggestion I think the £100 buy in should be something to try and include in the tornament schedule on a regular basis.
Also, if the UKOPS event is repeated it may be worth adding an small extra buy-in of 50p to the main tourament each night so that the winner gets the normal cash winnings plus a seat to the main event. Dependant upon entrants this may even stretch to 2nd or 3rd place receiving seats to the main event - just a thought.
Very well done so far - can't wait for tonight's show!