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That's all i can think but yeah, I have no doubt Tikay knows what he's talking about, I'm just interested to hear the reasons behind it.
Guys,
It's late, so bear with me please, I'll do this as briefly as I can, I need to get to bed. It's not complicated, & Lambert comes pretty close when he said.....
".....The only thing I can think is that Tikay means if you have tons of different levels, then rather than having say 100 people playing £5.50s (at any one time) so there's always a game going, it might end up being 10 people playing a certian level at anyone time which will annoy people cos it'll be harder to get a game going......"
Liquidity is NOT how many players are on the Site - liquidity is specific to the Level of Cash, Tourney buy-in/type, or DYM buy-in.
If Sky Poker accept every suggestion/request for different entry level DYM's, the total amount of people playing them would not necessarily increase by much, if any. But the available player-count for each buy-in Level would be much less. In other words, less liquidity. Less liquidity = less action, & a Lobby which becomes more & more cluttered.
Earlier, Lambert Posted this......
".....Surely if 20 players stop playing £5.50s and 20 players stop playing £11 games, they haven't disappeared, them players are playing £7.50s (or whatever the level would be) so you've still got them 40 player....."
So now, instead of 20 players @ £5.50, & 20 players @ £11, we only have 13 players at the 3 Levels, down from 20 at 2 Levels. Same number of players, yes. Same liquidity, no.
Now take that to it's extreme.......
Lots of players in the Thread are suggesting new, & different, buy-in Levels, & are disappointed/annoyed that Sky Poker do not provide them.
So, Sky Poker introduce EVERY new Level suggested. Let's say, (this is an extreme example, to make the point) a DYM at every 50p Level between £5.50 & £11. (£5.50, £6.00, £6.50, £7 etc).
Now, those SAME 40 players will be spread not between TWO levels, (20 per Level) but between TWELVE Levels (3.5 per level).
So those 40 players are now spread over TWELVE different Levels, an average of, say, 3.5 per DYM. And now the liquidity has completely gone, because most of those games will never start, as there are insufficient players. Due to inadequate liquidity.
The same thing applies right across the site, at every type of game, format, & buy-in.
Liquidity is very important, especially in a young & growing site like Sky Poker, & it's critical that is is managed with great delicacy & care, so as to keep the right liquidity balance, relative to the size of player base.
I hope that all makes sense.
Night all.
So not a contradiction, it's just, as I tried to explain, that liquidity is something that is delicate, & needs managing "just so".
think this only works during the day tho 9am - 6pm.... they fill up quickly in evening so do not think it would apply that much
Not convinced by the arguement that the more customer choice in the number of levels available will mean less liquidity/takings for Sky. Simple answer would be to trial the proposed level, and if there isn't sufficient demand for it over the trial period then remove it? Simples.
As Tikay said in his example, imagine there's only 100 players playing DYMs, if there's only 1 level of them, there's constantly gonna be tons of games going and very little waiting time. If there was 100 levels of stakes there would be 1 player per level, so these players would be spread out much more thinly meaning either it's a nightmare to get a game going or 90% of the stakes never get played (hence why they won't add it).
Obviously Sky will have stats on how many people they have playing various different formats at various different times of the day, so I'd say it would be fairly easy to make 'assumptions' based on this.
IMO you need a divider between the £5.50 and £11 levels as a double in stake is just too much for players trying to move up.