Tournaments, Technology and Tweaks (TT&T) - Updates from Sky Poker

Sky_Dave

As requested, this is going to be our thread for announcing revisions to tournament schedules, major updates on the software and other major news from Sky Poker. 

As mentioned in another thread, we're not able to unveils the reasoning or details behind every decision (some of the information would be considered business-sensitive), but we'll do our best to let you know of the revisions made where possible.

We'll keep it locked and Sky staff and talent will post on here as and when there are bits of info for you all. 

Enjoy!

Sky_Dave

So, now would be a good time to introduce you to Sky_Joe, who is with Sky Poker crunching numbers, providing interesting little stats and eating way too many tuna sandwiches.

Over to you, Joe!

Sky_Joe

Hey Everyone,

The first event to report on this thread is the introduction of the brand new £1,000 Guaranteed Freezeout at 5pm TODAY.

This tournament will cost £33.00 to buy directly in, or you can satellite in for just £3.30 from one of our '£1k Gtd Direct' that offer up a guaranteed 3 seats into the tournament.

This is good old fashioned poker at its very best so I hope you enjoy:) Go to the lobby now to register.

Thanks,
Joe

Glenelg

@Dave/Joe - prob best to make it a "sticky"?

Sky_Dave

In Response to Re: Tournaments, Technology and Tweaks (TT&T) - Updates from Sky Poker:

@Dave/Joe - prob best to make it a "sticky"?
Posted by Glenelg

We've got quite a few stickies up there at the moment Glenelg. Hopefully we'll update it enough to make sure it's seen often!

Sky_Joe

Hi everyone,

There are a few changes to the tournament lobby this weekend.
So here it goes:

-Tonights £4,000 Bounty Hunter (9pm) has been cancelled
-Sunday evenings £5,000 Bounty Hunter (9pm) has been cancelled

Rest assured, these tournaments will be back in full force next week.

Hope you guys find this thread informative and it gives you a heads up as to any changes to the schedule

Thanks a lot,
Joe

Sky_Joe

As for new tournaments and tweaks,

If you haven't noticed already, all of the £500 Bounty Hunters (£11.00 buy-in) have had their guaranteed prizepool boosted to £750!

Also, there are the new £600 Bounty Hunter (3pm), £1,000 Guaranteed Freezeout (5pm) and £1,000 Bounty Hunter (6pm) to try in the lobby right now, all of which have satellites to gain entry!

Hope you enjoy

Joe

Sky_Joe

Hey everyone,

A new trial tournament is having it's first run tonight.

The £4,000 Bounty Hunter- £55.00 buy-in at 9pm tonight is in the lobby now.

See this thread for more details.

Thanks a lot,
Joe

Sky_Joe

Hey everyone,

Just a quick heads up that tonights 9pm and 9:30pm Bounty Hunter tournaments will be guaranteed at £1,500.

They will be back at £2,000 tomorrow evening

Thanks a lot,
Joe

Sky_Joe

Hey everyone,

We have decided to boost the guarantee on a number of Bounty Hunters as a trial for a few days, here are the effected tournaments:

-11:30am- £5.75 £100 Gtd Bounty Hunter- now £200 Guaranteed!
-6:45pm- £5.75 £100 Gtd Bounty Hunter- now £250 Guaranteed!
-7:15pm- £5.75 £100 Gtd Bounty Hunter- now £250 Guaranteed!

Good luck winning your share 
Joe

Sky_Joe

Morning everybody!

Just letting everybody know that the £4,000 Bounty Hunter tonight at 9pm is a £55.00 buy-in as opposed to a £110 buy-in.

There are many satellites running into the tournament, so good luck and let us know what you think.

Thanks a lot,
Joe

Sky_Joe

Hey everyone,

With the HUGE £20k Super Roller running on Sunday evening, and a real shift in focus towards that this week, there have been a few tweaks to the tournament schedule.

-The £22 buy-in Bounty Hunter at 9pm will not run this week, instead the £20k Roller Semi will run in its place.

-The £1k Lucky 7's tournament is taking a break from the schedule and will not run this week

- A brand new £20k Roller Super Sat will be appearing in the lobby shortly, with guaranteed seats into Sunday nights £20k Super Roller up for grabs.

So get your game heads on and make sure you get a seat into Sunday nights extravaganza, I'm sure it's going to be a great occassion and you don't want to miss out!

Thanks,
Joe

Sky_Poker

Last night's '£20k Roller Direct' proved popular and sold out some time before its start time.

This satellite is £6 to enter, guarantees 2 seats to the £20k Super Roller on Sunday and is only £6 to enter!

We've added another of these tournaments tonight so they run at 8.4pm and 9.15pm

Kind Regards

Sky Poker Team

Sky_Joe

Hi everyone,

We are running a £4,000 Bounty Hunter at 9pm tonight with a £55 buy-in. There will be many different satellites running into this tournament, so hopefully it will run smoothly and can be considered to run again in the near future. Let us know what you think to it

We have also introduced a new £1,000 Bounty Hunter at 10pm with £22 buy-in. There will also be satellites running into this.

Hope you enjoy,
Joe

Sky_Joe

Hey everyone,

There is a Football Freeroll in the lobby right now with all the Premiership teams in league order.

However, Chelsea and Reading do not play this weekend. The players that gain either Chelsea or Reading will receive a £5 free bet instead.

Thanks a lot,
Joe

frascati

Don't know if this is the right place to post this,but is there any news on the table resizing yet.

Thanks

Sky_Joe

Hi Everybody!

Another £55 Bounty Hunter with plenty of satellite options is taking place again tonight!

So get to the lobby and register and let us know what you think...

Thanks a lot,
Joe

Sky_Joe

After a successful trial and evaluation, the £1,000 Guaranteed Freezeout (£33 buy-in) will run on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 5pm.

In its current format it had been running every day at 5pm.

Watch this space for other tournaments...

Thanks a lot,
Joe

Sky_Joe

Hey everyone,

We've added even more cash to the guaranteed prizepool of the monthly Super Roller, which now stands at £25,000! The event will take place on Sunday 30th September at 8pm.

You can satellite into the huge event all month long, starting from today!

There will be daily satellites running into a nightly semi-final at 9pm. The micro sats will be £5.30 to enter and the semi final will be £24 to directly buy-in.

So get yourself to the lobby and register for the event that nobody will want to miss!

Who will be the first to take their seat I wonder???

Thanks a lot,
Joe

Sky_Joe

Hi everyone,

In light of the SPT final this weekend, tomorrow nights Bounty Hunter will have a guarantee of £8,000.

Secondly, tonights £5,000 Rebuy Open will have late registration for an hour

Thanks a lot,
Joe

Sky_Joe

Hey everyone,

The £25k Super Roller Semi-Final will no longer run nightly at 9pm. It will instead run weekly, on a Sunday evening at 9pm.

There will still be daily satellites that run into the Sunday night semi.

In the week leading up to the Main Event on Sunday 30th September, the semi-final will run nightly as opposed to weekly.

Thanks a lot,
Joe

boatrace

In Response to Tournaments, Technology and Tweaks (TT&T) - Updates from Sky Poker:

As requested, this is going to be our thread for announcing revisions to tournament schedules, major updates on the software and other major news from Sky Poker.  As mentioned in another thread, we're not able to unveils the reasoning or details behind every decision (some of the information would be considered business-sensitive), but we'll do our best to let you know of the revisions made where possible. We'll keep it locked and Sky staff and talent will post on here as and when there are bits of info for you all.  Enjoy!
Posted by Sky_Dave

hi Dave not sure if can help, im interested to know i would find the sng champ leader board? i want to give it a go, but i want to see what im up against ( cant do volume compared to full time players) regards carlo

Sky_Joe

Evening all,

As the dust finally settles on the epic final from last Sunday, the next SPT begins!

The £220 buy-in £30,000 guaranteed 6 max SPT Event at Dusk til Dawn Nottingham is up in the lobby and ready to be satellited into.

Semi-Finals will run every night at £48 direct buy-in at 8:30pm, with SPT Satellites running early evening at £9.60 direct buy-in.

So get to the lobby and book your place via satellite now

Joe

Sky_Joe

Morning everyone,

With the run up to the £25k Super Roller this Sunday (30th September) at 8pm, the satellite structure has slightly changed.

The £25k Roller Semi will now run every evening up until Sunday evening (when the semi-final will be at 6pm) at 8:45pm with 1 in 5 booking their place into the grand final.

Satellites will still run throughout the day to qualify for the Semi-Final.

With this change this week, the SPT Semi-Final will run on Sunday evening instead of nightly. Satellites and micro sats will run as usual but instead of making it into a nightly semi-final, winners will book their seat for Sunday nights showdown at 8:30pm.

Thanks a lot,
Joe

Sky_Joe

Morning everyone,

Just a quick note. The £4,000 Bounty Hunter (£55 buy-in) will run tonight and tomorrow at 9pm!

Also in anticipation to SPT this weekend, we will be running an additional 2 Super Sats each night which guarantee a seat into the Final and have a maximum of 40 runners

Thanks,

Joe

Sky_Dave

Hi all,

Some news on the latest release that was put on site this morning:

Blocking Rail bird chat on Cash Tables

For some cash tables, chat restrictions have now been put in place. In order to chat as an observer (Rail Chat) you will need to have the equivalent of 30 big blinds (the table minimum for 95%+ of cash tables) for that table in your account balance.

• For today, it will only be applied to  cash tables of £0.50/£1.00 and above, will be reviewed in due course

• Obviously if you are seated and playing you are not affected.

• Sit and go’s and tournaments are not affected by this.

Customers who cannot rail chat because of an insufficient balance will get this message:

Please note that to chat as an observer on this table you must have at least 30 big blinds in your account balance, which is the minimum buy-in for the majority of tables.

Late Registration

If a customer has late registered and has been waiting on a waiting list for more than 3 minutes, we will automatically seat the entire waiting list at that time and shuffle the tournament accordingly to balance the tables where needed.

Again, the figure of three minutes may be reviewed and amended. We are looking to strike a balance between ensuring people on the Late Reg list aren’t waiting too long vs. making sure those in the tournament are not being moved too often.

Tournament Start Times – 1 minute increments

We can now schedule tournaments to run at 1 minute intervals if we wish, previously they had to be every 5 minutes. This means we’ll be able to add more tournaments into the schedule over time, with the most immediate beneficiaries being Satellites.

Cash Table Lobby Filters

There have been a few changes around how the Cash Table Lobby Filters now work.

• Heads up table have been removed from the ‘Regular’ filter

• Heads up tables now have their own ‘Heads up’ Filter

• The default filter will be ‘Regular’, although your personal preferences will be remembered when you return to the site

• Tables are now always grouped by the max number of seats (2, 6, 10) which will make it easier to find a free table  – this is most noticeable under ‘All’ where heads up and 6 max tables are shown

• Action and Deep filters have been removed for the moment but expect these to return soon.

Sky_Joe

Hey everyone, 

Here are the changes to tonight’s schedule due to tonight’s outage:
 ·         Main Event £6,000 Open, now changed to a £5,000 Bounty Hunter (£11 buy-in)-8pm
·         Mini Event £1,000 Bounty Hunter- 8:15pm
·         £150 Deepstack- 7:15- now a £150 Doublestack
·         £100 Deepstack- 7:45- now a £100 Doublestack
·         £500 Bounty Hunter- 8:05- now has faster blind structure
·         £750 Bounty Hunter- 8:30pm- now has 7 minute blinds
·         £400 Bounty Hunter- 8:45pm- now has 7 minute blinds
·         £250 Guaranteed- 9:05pm- now has 7 minute blinds
·         £150 Deepstack- Cancelled
·         £300 Bounty Hunter- 9:25pm- now has 7 minute blinds
·         £2,000 Bounty Hunter- 9:30pm- Cancelled
·         £1,500 Bounty Hunter- 10pm- Cancelled
·         £300 Bounty Hunter- 10:05- Cancelled 
Note that the jackpot will still be running via the 8pm and 8:15pm tournaments. 

Everything past the 10:05 will also be cancelled (with the exception of timed tournaments)

Thanks a lot,

Joe

Sky_Joe

Hey everyone,

We have decided that it's time we boosted up those guarantees!!!

Here is the list of all tournaments boosted, in effect as of tomorrow evening

-£150 Bounty Hunter- 10:30am- now £250 Guaranteed- remains £5.75 buy-in-£250 Bounty Hunter- 14:30- now £400 Guaranteed- remains £5.75 buy-in
-£250 Bounty Hunter- 15:30- now £400 Guaranteed- remains £5.75 buy-in
-£250 Bounty Hunter- 16:30- now £400 Guaranteed- remains £5.75 buy-in
-£250 Bounty Hunter- 17:30- now £400 Guaranteed- remains £5.75 buy-in
-£250 Bounty Hunter- 19:15- now £400 Guaranteed- remains £5.75 buy-in
-£300 Guaranteed- 00:00- now £500 Guaranteed- remains £11 buy-in
-£500 Bounty Hunter- 16:00- now £750 Guaranteed- remains £11 buy-in
-£500 Bounty Hunter- 18:45- now £750 Guaranteed- remains £5.75 buy-in
-£500 Bounty Hunter- 20:45- now £750 Guaranteed- remains £5.75 buy-in
-£500 Bounty Hunter- 21:25- now £750 Guaranteed- remains £5.75 buy-in
-£500 Bounty Hunter- 22:40- now £750 Guaranteed- remains £5.75 buy-in
-£750 Bounty Hunter- 20:30- now £1,000 Guaranteed- remains £11 buy-in
-£750 Bounty Hunter- 23:00- now £1,000 Guaranteed- remains £11 buy-in
-£750 Bounty Hunter- 00:30- now £1,000 Guaranteed- remains £11 buy-in
-£1,000 Bounty Hunter- 19:00- now £1,500 Guaranteed- remains £22 buy-in

Thanks a lot,
Joe

 

Sky_Joe

Hey everyone,

Having upped the guarantee of the £12,000 Thursday night Sky Sports Bounty Hunter to £15,000 we decided to review the tournament as a whole.

In light of this review, we have decided to make one small tweak.

We have implemented a slightly different blind structure that plays slightly slower than the older structure used in the past.

There are two reasons for this change:

-We realise that with such a large guarantee at stake, there should be more time to really play your way into the tournament, with less luck and more skill playing its part

-The new blind structure implemented is in line with all other 10 minute blind bounty hunters on the site at the moment. The old structure was very dated and had been attached to the Sky Sports Bounty Hunter for many years without review.

Hopefully you enjoy the new 10 minute blind structure, and any comments on the forum would be greatly appreciated.

We understand that the tournament is one of the most popular on the site and in no way would we want to jeopardise that, so therefore, for the time being, the new blind structure is just temporary and may be subject to change.

Thanks a lot,

Joe

Sky_Joe

Morning all,

After in-depth review of the sit n go structure and schedule, we have now implemented a new prize payout to all 6 seater tournaments in the STT lobby.

After customer feedback, from now on, a 65:35 payout structure will replace the 75:25 structure currently in use.

This change will feed into the lobby throughout the day.

Thanks a lot,

Joe