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UKOPS 1 will it make its guarantee?

PUCPOUNDPUCPOUND
edited November 2011 in Poker Chat
currently some £6k short

bit of an overlay here

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  • GREGHOGGGREGHOGG
    edited October 2011
    it will make it comfortably imo
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  • delaney09delaney09
    edited October 2011

    think it will easily make the guarantee with 2hrs 40mins to go and still tonnes of satellites running

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  • aussie09aussie09
    edited October 2011


    easily

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  • penguin7penguin7
    edited October 2011
    No problem... 25 places up in semi final just started.
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  • offshootoffshoot
    edited October 2011
    Why doesnt the prizepool show the full £20k? is it standard for guarantees to not show up in the blinds and prize structure bit? theres 150 odd registered but only 12k~ in the pool.
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  • GaryQQQGaryQQQ
    edited October 2011
    My guess; 227 entrants.
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  • penguin7penguin7
    edited October 2011
    In Response to Re: UKOPS 1 will it make its guarantee?:
    Why doesnt the prizepool show the full £20k? is it standard for guarantees to not show up in the blinds and prize structure bit? theres 150 odd registered but only 12k~ in the pool.
    Posted by offshoot
    ?
    mine shows 11950 cash prize pool
                       8050 heads prize pool

    thats 20    k
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  • offshootoffshoot
    edited October 2011
    In Response to Re: UKOPS 1 will it make its guarantee?:
    In Response to Re: UKOPS 1 will it make its guarantee? : ? mine shows 11950 cash prize pool                    8050 heads prize pool thats 20 k
    Posted by penguin7
    oh yeah forgot it was a BH, doh!
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  • FlashFlushFlashFlush
    edited October 2011
    I thought the 8pm and mini's were being scrapped this week? I'm sure Tikay said that on 1 of the shows...
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  • scotty77scotty77
    edited October 2011
    they probably had a rethink and realised that scrapping the normal mains would not go down well with casual players who don't have 200 quids spare to lump on a poker tournie and if they couldn't play their normal games they would go elsewhere.
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  • TommyDTommyD
    edited October 2011
    In Response to Re: UKOPS 1 will it make its guarantee?:
    they probably had a rethink and realised that scrapping the normal mains would not go down well with casual players who don't have 200 quids spare to lump on a poker tournie and if they couldn't play their normal games they would go elsewhere.
    Posted by scotty77
    That and it helps if new players attracted by the UKOPS see regular 300+ runner MTTs going as well.
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  • GaryQQQGaryQQQ
    edited October 2011
    In Response to Re: UKOPS 1 will it make its guarantee?:
    My guess; 227 entrants.
    Posted by GaryQQQ
    Can I change my mind? Misclicked ;)

    257!
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  • Tikay10Tikay10
    edited October 2011

    It is well north of it's Guarantee with an hour still to go.

    So the answer is "yes"........
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  • scouse_redscouse_red
    edited October 2011
    over 300 Smashed it well and truly
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  • TommyDTommyD
    edited October 2011
    In Response to Re: UKOPS 1 will it make its guarantee?:
    over 300 Smashed it well and truly
    Posted by scouse_red
    Surely that's still a banned phrase on anything related to Sky?  ;)
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  • AcidMan27AcidMan27
    edited October 2011
    In Response to Re: UKOPS 1 will it make its guarantee?:
    In Response to Re: UKOPS 1 will it make its guarantee? : Surely that's still a banned phrase on anything related to Sky?  ;)
    Posted by TommyD

    lol.
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  • EyemanEyeman
    edited November 2011
    Shame Sky didn't commit to this series by televising it all week. Once upon a time the velocity was televised live twice a week, not a 20,000GTD tourney gets ignored by Sky TV. Commit to the series  next time, eh?
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  • Tikay10Tikay10
    edited November 2011
    In Response to Re: UKOPS 1 will it make its guarantee?:
    Shame Sky didn't commit to this series by televising it all week. Once upon a time the velocity was televised live twice a week, not a 20,000GTD tourney gets ignored by Sky TV. Commit to the series  next time, eh?
    Posted by Eyeman
    It's pretty hard not to bite at such ill-informed & patronising coments, Graham, but I won't! I have asked a question of your similar comment on another thread.

    "Committing" to UKOPs is rather more than "just" TV, & the Company has wholly & totally commiteed to UKOPS, & I thought the manner in which the satellites were priced & designed to ensure ALL players got a shot at UKOPS, was particularly meritworthy.

    We had numerous Meetings to debate whether TV coverage was needed, or commercially justifiable. A decision was made eventually, but I hardly think this merits a suggestionn that Sky Poker have not properly committed to UKOPS. You cannot begin to be aware of how much committment has gone into UKOPs by all of us.

    I would respectfully suggest that the lack of TV coverage did not seem to adversely affect the numbers who played last night.
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  • PiAnOpLaYaPiAnOpLaYa
    edited November 2011
    In Response to Re: UKOPS 1 will it make its guarantee?:
    In Response to Re: UKOPS 1 will it make its guarantee? : It's pretty hard not to bite at such ill-informed & patronising coments, Graham, but I won't! I have asked a question of your similar comment on another thread. "Committing" to UKOPs is rather more than "just" TV, & the Company has wholly & totally commiteed to UKOPS, & I thought the manner in which the satellites were priced & designed to ensure ALL players got a shot at UKOPS, was particularly meritworthy. We had numerous Meetings to debate whether TV coverage was needed, or commercially justifiable. A decision was made eventually, but I hardly think this merits a suggestionn that Sky Poker have not properly committed to UKOPS. You cannot begin to be aware of how much committment has gone into UKOPs by all of us. I would respectfully suggest that the lack of TV coverage did not seem to adversely affect the numbers who played last night.
    Posted by Tikay10
    Cant remember the last time i watched show whilst playing im sure its only a very small % that do now a days
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  • FlyingDaggFlyingDagg
    edited November 2011
    In Response to Re: UKOPS 1 will it make its guarantee?:
    Shame Sky didn't commit to this series by televising it all week. Once upon a time the velocity was televised live twice a week, not a 20,000GTD tourney gets ignored by Sky TV. Commit to the series  next time, eh?
    Posted by Eyeman

    Graham I used to play poker on FullTilt. Did they ever televise a tournament? NO! Did they ever support the community like SkyPoker do? NO! I also played on Titan Poker. Television? They have never heard of it and they couldn't support the community because there wasn't one. At least Sky are moving in the right direction and if they continue with UKOPS it will get bigger and better then maybe you will get blanket coverage
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  • EyemanEyeman
    edited November 2011
    I have replied to Tikay in the other thread.
    One of the big selling points of Sky is the possibility of seeing your hands on TV. I know that's part of what got me hooked.
    I understand that a night of 4 hours of live TV is expensive, but this is sold as the UK Online Poker Series, and I'd have thought that Sky would televise it all.
    I am thrilled that the tournament was way over the GTD prize-pool, and don't mean to detract from the overall success of the whole venture.
    Let's hope the next 6 days go aw well as day 1.
    Day 2 - Omaha rebuy. Hmmm, see you all in day 3 guys <grin />
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