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£33 mains
Please can some one tell us y all the main are going up to £33
is the site trying to push a lot off the lower limt players away from playing ???????
It is not like the gu has gone up to make more come and play
is the site trying to push a lot off the lower limt players away from playing ???????
It is not like the gu has gone up to make more come and play
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If what you say is true, then it is a shame yes. I know alot of people want bigger MTTs because there's nothing much inbetween a £10 BI and a £110 BI but I don't think these should come at the cost of the mains.
yes have noticed the mains are going up in price
problem is the guarentee prize pool is not going up
surely if one goes up so should the other
thats my opinion
Another decision taken with no consultation with the community. Well done sky. Clap. Clap. Clap
please bring these back asap!
We're are still offering satellites into the mains, and the tournaments affected are only the Tuesday and Wednesday main events.
i belive in the main most people are recreational players and a 50% increase in a time when a lot of peoples disposable income is falling can not be good long term. i know i didnt load skypoker up untill 9pm last night as there was a better option (for me) elsewhere at 8pm.
But i don't understand where this ethos of 'poker should be accessible to all'.. I mean that is just ludacris (i'm not sure if that's the correct spelling, but that's how the rapper spells it).
Poker is cut throat, you play to take other peoples money and pay a cut to the platform that gives you the privelige.
If you can't afford the main event, unlucky. You either have to find the money from life, or get better at poker.
Sky offers plenty for al bankrolls and nobody has an entitlement to play in any poker tournaments. If sky persistently fails to offer a lower stakes player what they want then they can ultimately leave, but across the board sky looks after the small bankrolls.
There are alot more considerations for a site when looking at tourney schedules and as such not everyone can be happy all the time.
But it's like saying, 'when was the last time you played 2p/4p cash live?' so let's get rid of that too lol.
Personally im glad there are less runners i wouldnt play if they wer 400 player fields unless its a BH where the field drops dramatically so quick!
Thats why the mini was introduced for the lower stakes i only play this due to there bein a jackpot on offer
Im happy with it bein £22 or £33 either way its okay
some i like some i dont but ty all
But i still think that is is wrong that it goes up 50% and there is no added fund to the ppool.
And on the point from sky dave that it is only tusday and wednesday is a bit odd because that monday and thruday and saturday is allready £33 any way so the only 2 that are not are sunday at £55 and friday being £11 rebuy.
I have enjoyed playing the Main Event on a Tuesday & enjoy playing on SKY, partly because you can feature on TV in a £20 event. I suspect that there will be less players now on Tuesdays & Wednesdays although there will be some that creep back over the months while other will move to other sites. I always thought that the varying buyins for the Main Events meant that more players could access them without tying themselves up for hours in satelites.
If SKY are so confident that £30 on a Tuesday is such a good idea, why not put a £20 event & a £30 event on at the same time & see which provides the most revenue. Probably they will have done this. Business don't just raise prices by 50% without market testing it first.
One thing I have noticed over the last months is a growing hostility to SKY Poker & some of their decisions. I am not sure why this is but it is something that I have not been aware of until recently. I am sure that SKY are aware of this too so I am surprised if they took this decision without making community members aware of it in advance (I totally missed it). It was only after I had entered last night that I realised that the price had gone up. I was trying to work out why there were so few players. Good job I cashed then.
I think a spin off effect of the reduced numbers may be reduced viewers for the TV show particularly on a Tuesday night. There may be plenty of £20 tournaments & there may be plenty of £30 tournaments, I don't know. The only one I looked for was the 8.00 one because that was the only one I wanted to play.
On the point about prices at casinos. Walsall have now stopped all their high buyins. Their highest tournament of the month is now £30 with most nights at £15 or £20. They are looking to get more players in at lower buyins. Time will tell which strategy is right.
Although the majority of players seem to be upset with this move, experience has taught me that SKY don't get much wrong. People said that satelite TV would never take off. Look at it now.