Your opinions on the 12k Sky Sports Bounty Hunter structure please.

sweetylady

I very rarely play in the 8pm main event but I managed to satellite into both last Thursday's 12k bounty hunter and last nights 10k bounty hunter. I have never really taken much notice of the structure of the tournaments, but even I noticed last night how much slower the play was compared to Thursday.

This lead me to do a little maths with regard to the blinds at the end of each tournament:

Last Thursday the tournament finished at 23:46 which means during the heads-up battle the blinds were 50000/100000 rising to 100000/200000 at the end. There were 996000 chips in play meaning the average chipstack at the end was just 2.5 big blinds.

Last night the tournament finished nearly an hour later at 00:43, I watched the final table (congratulations Graham) during the heads-up play blinds were just 2000/4000 so with a total of 812000 chips in play, the average chipstack was 100 big blinds.

I think that perhaps the Thursday night tournament was structured so that it could be covered on the television but since the T.V. schedule has changed on 865 they don't dedicate Thursday nights coverage to following the 12k bounty hunter anymore, perhaps the faster structure isn't necessary anymore?

Both tournaments cost the same to enter (£33) so shouldn't both structures be the same also?

EvilPingu

This would be a very boring site if every £33 tournament was exactly the same. I don't play the Thursday donkfest 'cause the structure is awful and you're flipping for stacks by level 4/5 - might as well blow £33 on Sky Bingo as it's the same thing to me. However, there's other players who will prefer the Thursday BH to the Monday one.

Keep the variety IMO. Would suggest renaming the Sky Sports BH as it's not really on Sky Sports any more except for a couple of hands in the last hour, but meh.

sweetylady

Ok I take your point about variety.

I just think the structure needs altering somewhat to give more favourable play at the end of the tournament. Perhaps all it needs is a few extra blind levels? 

Eyeman

TBH - my play is more suited to the Thursday donk-fest.

sweetylady

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TBH - my play is more suited to the Thursday donk-fest.
Posted by Eyeman

No skill winning out rather than luck last night then?

 you got the other man to call all in out of 50 bb stack with the worst hand at least 3 times heads up!

EvilPingu

In Response to Re: Your opinions on the 12k Sky Sports Bounty Hunter structure please.:

Ok I take your point about variety. I just think the structure needs altering somewhat to give more favourable play at the end of the tournament.  Perhaps all it needs is a few extra blind levels? 
Posted by sweetylady

I agree about ending with a proper HU rather than playing Russian Roulette for several hundred quid because the stacks are so ridiculously short.

IMO, the best way of having a "proper" HU without changing the entire tournament would actually be to do the opposite of what you suggested, cap the blinds at 25k/50k (so basically remove the last 2 levels). Either that, or roll back the blinds a level or two when the FT begins so everyone starts the FT deeper. This wouldn't affect 99% of the field, but would also give more play when it gets down to the FT.

Although I'd never spend £33 of my own money on the tournament as it's a crapshoot and would play virtually anything else in it's place as I simply don't enjoy playing it, I think it should still remain the same as it is for the most part for the following reasons:

1) Variety.

2) Fish enjoy the tournament. Softest main event of the week IMO. Do anything to keep the fish happy if it means they're more likely to sit on my tables in the future.

3) Currently biggest guarantee of the week - Not my cup of tea but Sky can't be doing much wrong if it's the tournament generating the most £££ in rake for them every week.

Eyeman

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In Response to Re: Your opinions on the 12k Sky Sports Bounty Hunter structure please. : No skill winning out rather than luck last night then?  you got the other man to call all in out of 50 bb stack with the worst hand at least 3 times heads up!
Posted by sweetylady

There's no kind way to say it. It was the weakest HU opponent I have ever had. Even when he binked trips on the river to prolong it, he still gave me 420,000 chips inside half a dozen hands. He was a 2/1 chip leader going in. He played like the blinds were 50,000 100,000 - maybe it was very late.

goldnballz

Agree with what evilpingu says. I would never pay £33 for a tourny with such a poor structure (occasionally I'll try to sat in), but if it continues to be popular with the majority of players - always smashing the guarentee i think - then sky are not likely to change it.