Revised SPT Satellite Structure.

Tikay10

Good morning.

As I believe I mentioned last week, Sky Poker have re-designed the SPT Satellite structure, & it will change with immediate effect - as of now, today.

The new structure will be as follows....

SPT Micro-Sats
 
£3.60 buy-in. Scheduled to run throughout the day, & these feed into the nightly Quarter-Final, 1 in 5 structure.

SPT Quarter Final.

£16 buy-in. These will run nightly at 9.30pm, EXCEPT on Sunday, whern they will run at 7pm. 1 in 5 structure.

SPT Semi-Final

£72 buy-in (or via satellites, as above). Every Sunday evening @ 9.30pm. 1 in 5 structure.  

Tikay10

The Micro Sats are in the Lobby NOW, the first one today is at 13.25, & there are SIX of them scheduled for today.

Tikay10

The first SPT Quarter-Final is scheduled for 9.30pm TONIGHT, £16 to enter direct, or qualify via the Micro-sats.

rancid

looks good, may give the QF a shot

Kiwini4u

Thats great news, definitely going to have a go at qualifying via the micro satellites later in the week.  

Slykllist

Thanks Tikay, Thanks Sky

I shall now give the Sattelites a few more shots before resigning myself to BID.

Looks more profitable for Sky this way too so everyones a winner

Mohican

Thanks for making it harder to qualify. Three tournaments to play instead of two and only one shot a week in a semi.This means there is only now 5 chances to qualify. What should've happened is micro Sats running every night, with the winner getting an £8 tourney token to enable them to play the 1/4 final the next night.

DEL560

Looks good.

GL all!

pomfrittes

In Response to Re: Revised SPT Satellite Structure.:

Thanks for making it harder to qualify. Three tournaments to play instead of two and only one shot a week in a semi.This means there is only now 5 chances to qualify. What should've happened is micro Sats running every night, with the winner getting an £8 tourney token to enable them to play the 1/4 final the next night.
Posted by Mohican

  +1 esp highlighted bit

Lambert180

In Response to Re: Revised SPT Satellite Structure.:

Thanks for making it harder to qualify. Three tournaments to play instead of two and only one shot a week in a semi.This means there is only now 5 chances to qualify. What should've happened is micro Sats running every night, with the winner getting an £8 tourney token to enable them to play the 1/4 final the next night.
Posted by Mohican

It's not necessarily harder though is it? Because you don't HAVE to play all 3 satellites.

You can jump in at the quarters, then you have to do a 1in5 twice, which (edge aside) is 1in25.

The old system, you do a 1in5 and a 1in10 which (edge aside) is 1in50.

So twice the odds, and the quarter is twice the price so theoretically it's identical, apart from the fact the games should get more runners, which means more seats, which generally makes them (IMO) easier, because the more players you get, the more weak players there are

Mohican

In Response to Re: Revised SPT Satellite Structure.:

In Response to Re: Revised SPT Satellite Structure. : It's not necessarily harder though is it? Because you don't HAVE to play all 3 satellites. You can jump in at the quarters, then you have to do a 1in5 twice, which (edge aside) is 1in25. The old system, you do a 1in5 and a 1in10 which (edge aside) is 1in50. So twice the odds, and the quarter is twice the price so theoretically it's identical, apart from the fact the games should get more runners, which means more seats, which generally makes them (IMO) easier, because the more players you get, the more weak players there are
Posted by Lambert180

This system has doubled the price of the 1/4 to a point that most social players are priced out(myself inluded) so i HAVE to play three tourneys to qualify. Players were complaining that £8 was too much, so £16 is hardly more attractive. You now have only 5 chances to qualify from a semi instead of 30ish, doesn't exactly make it easier either.(I'm working all but one of these Sundays due to the Olympics so it has completelty narrowed it for me, but my personal circumstances aren't valid in this arguement).
 I really think that this system is the 'nut low' option when it comes to these satellites.

Lambert180

I just wanted to say that I'm loving the new structure. I played my first Micro sat tonight which had 5 seats (one of which I won).

I believe there's about 5-6 of these per day, right?

So at that rate we should get about 25-30 into the quarters each night (not including direct buy-ins), so we'll get probably 6-7 seats into the Semi each night.

Which means by Sunday, we'll have 40+ runners AND it'll be 1in5 so we're gonna get 8+ seats per week. Now this is probably similar to what we'd get from them giving away 1 (sometimes 2) seats per night in the old method, but having to come top 8 out of 40 runners is MILES better than getting 7 chances per week to come 1st/2nd out of 15-20.

Great work Sky