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Design your own tournament - with prizes
Hi everyone
A fun suggestion competition where we will give prizes for the ideas we like best.
There are no restrictions on what you suggest, but we do ask you think about buy-in, when it should run (and how often), what the structure should be.
It can be any tournament format you like (bounty, timed, rebuy, turbo, deep etc). Just to be clear, we are talking about an MTT not STT. Please also give it a catchy name.
We'll lool to trial the winning tournament to see how it goes.
The prizes are:
1st - £55 Primo Seat
2nd - £33 Sky Sports Bounty Hunter Seat
3rd - £11 Thews at Ten Seat
Please post your ideas on this thread.
The deadlines for submissions is 12noon on Friday 13th July
Thanks
Sky Poker
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SkyPoker Olympics.
Events mirror the real Olympics with the SkyPoker 100m being a Velocity event with heats on Saturday and Final on Sunday evening. Other events could include a 1500 metres final (normal freezeout) Boxing (heads-up tournament) Marathon (a deepstack running all day from 2pm on Sunday) Decathlon (multiple games played) and so on. Every game will be £5 to enter. Over the week we could have, say, 20 Olympic events and limited only by our lateral thinking to devise more.
In addition to the normal prize-money I would like to think that SkyPoker will sponsor games by awarding a Primo seat for each gold medalist and others prizes for Silver and Bronze. Gold, Silver and Bronze medals being announced (anthem, graphics, podium) on the Sunday programme with a "SkyPokerlympics" Medal Table.
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Buy in £275 (£250+25) Starting stack 10k blinds 30 mins.
DAY 1: Starts at 7 in the evening and runs until level 15 (2:30) (This can be earlier e.g. level 13 which is 1 o'clock)
DAY 2: Starts at 7 and runs until finish.
It can run once a month (Preferably the end of the month where alot of players are on the site getting the C4P's up) 1st day saturday - 2nd sunday!
This would also make a great TV show with loads of hands which can be used as a good replay show in the week. Mayble a replay of the final table aswell throughout the week to fill the gaps in shows.
The format would be a regular MTT prizes paid to the top 10% or 15% whichever sky prefer.
Sats can run all month and start at very low amount to allow all BR's the chance to get in, and enough time to grind in. This would also earn sky a fortune in rake.
E.G Sats start at £2.00 +0.40p 1 in 5 get a seat to a £10+1 sat where one in 5 get a seat into a £50+5 sat where one in 5 get a seat into the tournament.(These can be run consistently as no seats are guaranteed unless it makes the runners so there could be quite a few a day) These can be run all day every day with a big semi each night aswell, probably another £55 one which you can sat into throughout the day aswell.
Also there could be a few £25 + £2.75 buy in where 1st and 2nd are guaranteed seats.
This would be and absolutely brilliant tournament
Name "THE SKY SUPER DEEPSTACK" courtesy of Batkin88 lol
Introducing the...
Hyperblast
2000 chips, 2 min blinds, 6 max, 10 second timebank (freezeout)
10/20
20/40
30/60
40/80
50/100
75/150
100/200
125/250
150/300
200/400
250/500
300/600
400/800
500/1000
600/1200
800/1600
1000/2000
and so on...
Can put these on all day, at all levels. with small guarantees, would defo fill imo
But i would suggest doin a main Hyperblast every day at 8pm to go alongside the main event. £11 entry, 1k gtd, reckon it would be very popular! shovefests ftw!
Bounty Bingo
Standard Bounty Hunter format (50% of prize pool on heads). All players are automatically put all-in every hand, ie it's the MTT equivalent of Russian Roulette. There must be cheap rake or nobody will enter (5% max).
If you win the first hand outright you will bust 5 players and make an instant profit. Will be more exciting than RR HUs because the prizes will be bigger.
Could also be used as an alternate to frenzies for last chance satellites to big events.
Might work as a SnG too. Maybe starting when 10 runners sit, top 3 paid.
PS A version of this was trialled as a freeroll during the Euro Champs, soon after I'd posted the idea in Community Suggestions
incidentally, whilst in the future, i used my time-travel ability to see your all-in triple barrel bluff with 86o shown on tonight's show.
rob.
how about a tourny where you do a freeroll or £5 entry first, and like you did in the euros the higher you come the team you then get.but instead of a team you get skypoker players and presenters for example.
1st-tikay
2nd yoyo
3rd orford
etc
etc
say if you get 20 places, if you have enough players or presenters to do that?
then once the first stage is done and people have won their players you then do a tourny and you and your player/presenter are together as a team and the winners are who get the better placings as a team so if theres 40 runners
1st-40
2nd-39
3rd-38
etc
etc
and maybe a spt seat to the winner and the player/presenter has 50% of any winnings in nottingham??
just an idea you can tweak it if you want
DEALER MUST CALL (DMC)
£1.10 entry fast structure say 1000 chips 2 min blinds
Player on button is forced to call any bet, they can't fold and they can't raise they must call any bet
(not sure how u get the software to do this but it is great fun live)
Dave
What's more concerning is that I would not be in the slightest be surprised to see me try to triple barrel with 86o, are you really Marty McFly?
I'd like to see a bragger stagger!
Sunday Mid Day start
Buy in begins at £1.10 Then every 90 minutes the tariff goes up. eg, £3.30. £5.50, £11, £22 £55 culminating in a £110 buy in at 21.00
Players buying in to intermediate stages receive average stack rounded up to nearest 1,000 chips
Player busting out in early levels are allowed to re-enter once more between £3.30 and £55 levels but anyone can buy in for the maximum £110 at 21.00 hrs
To ensure everyone has a chance of a return I'd like it to be a Bounty Hunter with Heads increasing every 90 minutes in line with the increased prize money.
Hopefully this will mean that dedicated micro players cash on the way and don't get to 21.00 then see players with bigger bankrolls take all the glory!
I like this idea but have to say the Olympic Idea does sound good!
So 'Winner Takes It All'
Say you get a £2 DS with 100 runners, rather than 1st getting £50 ish, first place gets £200 and no-one else gets anything. Sure alot more variance, but teach people to go for the win and every night someone is gonna turn £2 into £200 (or whatever the case may be).
I do have a better idea which I'll type up once I've got blind levels etc sorted but just thought I'd stick this up for now.
£20 + £2 entry
£10 to main Event
4 x 10 seat rings split £2.50 each
BH, Timed, Holdem and Omaha
Players play all 4 Tournaments at the same time £25 prize per table allocated in the normal way.
but the top 2 positions qualify to play in a holdem freeze out for the big money
obviously if you won all four tournaments you wouldn't be able to qualify for the Main Event four times but you would eliminate 3 positions from the Main event and increase your chances of cashing!
the benefit would be a modest investment to experiment with the different tournaments on offer and potentially five opportunities to cash.
If you have set up problems we could always revise the name to disconnect 4 lol
Ill agree with Greghogg im a big fan of quick formats!
3 minute blinds
3k starting stack
Bh format so percentage on heads n rest in prizepool
Rebuys for first hour! then addon at break
£11 buy in
It shall be called umm "Speed Heads"
Couple of ideas:
Antes Only - Regular structure but instead on blinds, every player at the table posts an ante right from level one, idea blatantley stolen from WSOP event #49
Face Value - Again a regular structure NL Texas Holdem game, but every player is dealt 1st card face down and 2nd card face up.
A timed tourney, HU, Turbo with Bounties and shuffle the players every 2 hands.... I jest of course lol.
Now the real idea, Emma had the beginnings of an idea as soon as this thread went up and she's asked me to run with it...
Beat The Clock
3000 starting stack
10/20
15/30
20/40 The first 5 levels will be at 5 min blinds
25/50
30/60
40/50
50/100
75/150 The second 5 levels will be at 8 min blinds
80/160
100/200
150/300
200/400
250/500 All levels from 150/300 onwards will be at 12 min blinds
300/600
400/800
and so on....
It'll suit alot of people who wanna get stuck in early doors to either build up a stack or bust out and move on to the next one. It get's the early levels out the way quickly and should hopefully allow for a bit more play in the latter (far more important) stages.
They're probably best suited for evenings where they can get 80-100 runners or more to give the full benefit of the structure.
Keep the ideas coming!
Thank you.
I actually laughed out loud , what a geek
Plus with it being online and you playing probably 3 times as many hands per hour compared to live, what would be a live 2day event, could easily be done in 1day online.