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The Sunday Night £110 Deepstack. Time to talk........
A lot of us lobbied for the big-buck Sunday Night Deepie - the £2,000 Guaranteed, £110 jobbie - but it's never really taken off.
Countless threads, & lots reaons why it rarely gets 20 Runners have been discussed, but the fact is, it's not getting Runners.
So, on THIS Sunday - & ONLY this Sunday, the Guarantee will be reduced to £1,500.
Sky Poker have given it long enough, & paid the Guarantee every week, but it cannot, & will not, continue, there is no point.
At present, it will be £110 Entry, & £1,500 Guaranteed, for THIS SUNDAY ONLY.
And what happens after that?
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Sky-Bernies current thinking is to make it £50 +£5, with a £1,000 Guarantee, supported by Satellites as previously. It will ALSO - from next week, not this week - move to Saturday, to avoid the big Sunday Night Primo etc.
But he's open to ideas & suggestions, as to what you guys want. But it HAS to be something that attracts a reasonable field, or, if I read the signs correctly, it will disappear completely.
Previously, there were requests for Satelites, but the truth is, they rarely ran. Too dear? Maybe. The Satellites for the £55 one will of course be cheaper, so that might help.
So, it's up to youuuuuuuuu.
What do you propose?
Sky-Bernie has shown time & again, that he'll give us any Comp we want, so speak now, or forever hold your peace.....
Can't say fairer than that.
Good start!
Any more for any more?
I can't afford £110, nor really £55 (£22 7.30 DP is really my max), but I'd try and satellite in if it becomes possible again.
Could you run the sats every night during the week at circa 9pm?
I'd prefer that to sats in the daytime tbh
Keep the feedback coming - I will send the Thread to Sky-Bernie when it's run it's course.
If its moved to a saturday night i cant play it due to other commitments. We usually get 15 runners every week so hopefully it could carry on with the new guarantee?
I completely understand the reason why sky have to drop the guarantee, but would hate for this tourney to be changed.
Alot of people have been asking recently for satelites to the tourney.
I really hoped this tourney would take off and thought (and still do) that it could be 'The' tournament for all serious mtt players.
Would it not be possible to keep the same time, day & buy in, this will attract the usual 15 - 18 runners and then look into the satelite structures to try to attract some more players?
Would all the £22 deepie players play the satelites?
I cant remember of the top of my head , but ..the 50 game was always an early sell-out and people moaned they cou;dn't get a seat and it became '500... The point I'm making is why not go back to an exclusive 'first come first served" 50 buy in .'something called THE BIG FIVE 0 ...fifty quid entry 50players ... After all there are plenty of good other games for 5 11 22 tghrough out Saturday night .. Just my thought ..who knows there might come a time when the players are banging the door down to get into the "Fifty Club" (my age by the way ..what ?)
( I know this doesnt make much sense as I'm busy reading greyhound form and answering phone calls)
glk with whatever you come up with benny
I have tried entering sattelites to some tournies. I have found, that when the sats are less than £5 they are generally successful, and £10 plus not very successful.I think £10 plus players would rather pay direct into the 8pm tourny than a sat. Also it seems the sats are few and far between, so dont target the wider poker audience. Quite often i can be on the site and the next sat is 4 hours away. Why not advertise and try them in sit n go, and try the ladder format, like say, £4 1in 3 qualify for £11 1 in 4,qualify for £44 1 in 3 and buy in to any stage. (these prices are only examples) that way you will get the smaller bankrolled players having a go and their would be no cancelled tournies.They can also be open and running perminantly all week. Ive also seen on other sites where 2 hour b4 the tourny they have scary blind qualifiers in the mtt section, for the late players. The one thing i would say is, to get more players in expensive tournies, you have to run good sats, its the only way
I get a sense of de ja vue, it wasnt all that long ago the 19.30 deepy was struggling, I was asked to do some advertising thro the forum which I duly forgot (until tikay did a thread similar to this 1) to try to save it, it thankfully has seems to have worked, so maybe it is time I swapped advertsing the 19.30 and began concentrating on this?
Keep it to a sunday same stuff and see how it goes for say 3 weeks - then maybe drop it to a 50+5 and i pretty much guarentee that hitting 1k+ everyweek.
Hi,
I would definitely look to play this every week if it was a £55 buy-in (obviously bankroll dependant) as my usual buy in, like Darich, is no more than £22.
However, im happy to pay extra for this comp, as the structure is brilliant!
My suggestion would be to leave it on a Sunday and make it £55. Cancel the £22 Deepie on a Sunday and have this £55 one instead.
I believe we would get 30 runners at least and alot of the £22 Deepie crowd would play the £55 instead if the £22 Deepie does not run on the Sunday as suggested.
Of course Satellites (1 in 5)- £11 and (1 in 10) £5.50 should run all day sunday too!
Thats my input anyway:)
In Simple Terms:
Increase the buyin for the £22 Deepie to £55 on a Sunday! lol ) Oh and cancel the £110 one...
I also think that, as benny as pointed out, when these turneys are promoted heavily they get the support.
The five 'o' was a £110 buyin turney and got 50 runners every week with out fail.
Dantb and Nutter, GB, Ger etc etc would all play in this if it was the flagship turney! I dont think the £2k deep stack has had the promotion that other sky 'main event' turneys get. Make it exclusive like the five'o' and they will come.
Or even make the five'o' a once a month turney with a £20k guarantee. £55 buyin. Satelite/promote the h ell out of it all month and this is sure to get the numbers. Sky dont have a special once a month turney any more and this would be ideal to fill that gap.
If its reduced to £55 i'll pledge to play every week.
This would work imo.
Keep the feedback coming, & I'll forward it to Sky-Bernie.
Question - many of you suggest £55 Entry, but stick to Sunday. But what if they do not stick upa guarantee - would you STILL play it? I'm not suggesting they would not, just pumping for opinion. Bear in mind it's less of a risk if there is no Guarantee, so more chance of it happening, logically.
And.....
If it were to remain on Sunday, what start time? I think an 8pm clash with the Main Event will kill it for sure.
Also, i think 7.15 is a good start time. Many of the runners (if not all) will play the 8pm PRIMO too