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As those who peruse the Tourney lobby have already seen, "Time Tournaments" debut on Sky Poker this evening.
Tonight is really a soft launch, a live trial, so the schedule, buy-ins, & duration, will almost certainly vary from that tomorrow, & going forward, based upon how tonight goes, & on user-experience & feedback.
The Timed Tourneys are recognizable by the Clock Icon in the Tourney Lobby.
The Timed Tourneys will cease immediately that the scheduled time is up - unless you have already gone busto, of course.
Prize money? You will get the exact monetary value of your chips - your effective chip equity - at the moment the Tourney ceases.
Note that you should keep an eye on the Lobby as the Tournament progresses, as the monetary value of your stack is updated after EVERY HAND, & the Lobby will show this.
The Lobby for the 6.25 Tourney, for example, as of 15 minutes ago, looked like this (only a few names included, for reference)......
88143000£3.00albaking3000£3.00alfarch303000£3.00ALNCAZ3000£3.00Alvez113000£3.00Ando3000£3.00
Those amounts will be updated continually, throughout the Tournament.
All constructive feedback & comments welcome.
Note - to see the value of your stack, go to the Lobby and open "BLINDS & PRIZE STRUCTURE".
Only your chips, but NOT your chip value, will be visible in "Tournament Overview".
I do think these timed mtts will be fun and i will try to play the 10pm when i get home
The 6.25 one got 194 runners.
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The next Timed Tournament will be at 19.25. Note, the starting stacks, buyins, & Guarantees will vary from Tourney to Tourney.
Tonight's biggest Guarantee will be the 10pm Timed Tourney. (Highlighted in Lobby).
Other Timed Tourneys tonight will commence at....
19.25, 30 mins, 2,000 chips, £3.30, £200 Gtd, 6 x 5 min levels
20.25, 30 mins, 3,000 chips, £3.30, £200 Gtd, 6 x 5 min levels
20.35, 60 mins, 3,000 chips, £5.50, £250 Gtd, 6 x 10 min levels
10.00pm, 60 mins, 2,500 chips, £5.50, £500 Gtd, 6 x 10 min levels
10.50pm, 60 mins, 2,000 chips, £5.50, £250 Gtd, 6 x 10 min levels
11.25pm, 30 mins, 3,000 chips, £3.30, £200 Gtd, 6 x 5 min levels.
This is what the Lobby looks like as the Tourney progresses. This is the Top Ten ONLY, as of minutes ago, obviously it is dynamic.
Donked out 117th,great fun lots of aggro
Please Note - Timed Tournaments do NOT accrue League Points. This would get a little messy, with so many "in the cash".
Players WILL, however, still earn poker points, based upon buy-in, which count towards C4P.
will try 1 or 2 later
[QUOTE]any bigger ones?? £11 £22??
Posted by bigflop1
Not tonight. They may have bigger buy-ins soon, but tonight is just the soft-launch.
I'm not sure that the "other site" updates the Chip Equity value after every hand, though.....
HI Tikay,
THese look great! JUst a thought...and don't shoot the messenger! What about a timed "mystery" tourney every so often? e.g. it stops at either 30, 40, 50 or 60 mins?
pad
p.s. Hope you enjoyed Ratagan BTW? And saw the sign for GLenelg?
Essentially, the Tourney ceases EXACTLY x minutes (x varies) after it commences, so I would have thought it was adequate, but I'm easily pleased.
I'd, personally, not be in favour, though. There is a particular skillset required in these, & the unknown duration would mitigate against that completely.
Ratagan? Never enjoyed anything so much in my life, Xmas was bliss up there, no internet, 'phone signal, or TV.
I visited Glenelg several times, too, & loved it. I have hundreds of photgraphs of the trip, which I Posted on my Online Diary (elsewhere), but I think most peeps would find them a little boring, otherwise, I'd stick them in a Sky Poker Blog. My holiday photos are not exactly everyone's cup of tea, eh?
Re my earlier reply to this, I have had some clarification from upstairs.
Apparently, there are built-in messages sent to ALL Tables to indicate......
10 minutes remaining.
5 minutes remaining.
1 minute remaining.
The actual message sent is.....
"This is a timed tournament which ends in XXX minutes/seconds. The more chips you have when it finishes the bigger your cash prize! View the blinds and prize section of the lobby pop-up to see your current position"
A "countdown clock" on the Tables has been designed, but takes a fair bit of coding to add. Therefore, they'll wait & see if these Timed Tourneys attract reasonable traffic before deciding whether to implement. It IS in the "Road Map", though, & currently scheduled for early summer. (A lot of other new stuff is scheduled between now & then, so it has to "get in the queue"!).
A quick tip for knowing, quickest & easiest, your chip equity (in money) is to go to "Blinds & Prize Structure" in the Tourney Lobby and then SORT BY CHIP STACKS.