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SPT final shambles.
Well i took part in this year's final at dusk till dawn and it was the worst one i have been too,
you would have thought that Sky would put on a good show being it was the grand final but they made nearly no effect at all.
Where's the show gone there was no bounty,s for knocking the presenter out well the presenter being only TK there no running commentary in the early stages for the all in;s and Sky being a big company no freebies for the sky players that qualify not the players who brought in on the day and the players that have never played on sky poker ever being 4 on my table so come on Sky if you read this lets have some more effect for the sky players who qualify next year which i think it's your 5th final next year, lets have some real effect please.
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Coming from Devon I am not a regular visitor to Dusk till Dawn but i have been around 8 times in the last 3 years and i think the general standard of the service their is getting worse each time.
I know dealing is a long and tedious job but most of the dealers looked like they would rather be anywhere but there and when they spoke it was always how tired they were or how bad the job was.
The waitresses are pretty yes but there is nowhere near enough of them and I would rather get a hot tea served by a smiling girl next door than a cold one served by a slightly better looking one 1 hour after I had paid for it.
In my opinion a lot of this is WAY too harsh
There were major challenges on the day, to do with the failure of the live stream equipment for starters. This needed to be communicated to people at home too, we have up to 50 people waiting for the live stream to start online..and an alternative had to be started via the forum thread
Secondly, the tournament started on time despite the challenges of far more people than a usual SPT turning up right at the last minute. Up to 70 people on the day, an alternates list to manage, new tables to open to get everyone playing etc etc
As a result, about 100 of the field bought in direct or qualfied at DTD and most would be completely new to Sky Poker...but then again the Sky players had 3 months to qualify in or buy in....so Sky can't be blamed for you not being surrounded by regular Sky Poker players
Thirdly without a live stream, and tikay playing the event, and Blandie away being a new Dad there simply wasn't the resource to walk around covering lots of all ins over the microphone
Fourthly, freebies? People play an SPT for a cap? or a mousemat? or a keyring? I though the tour had become a bit more sophisticated than that! They hadn't been missed in any of the legs this year, with no freebies
I went home thinking the Grand Final was a big success. In terms of numbers, atmosphere, and community spirit
Not that it matters much, but I've never worked harder. I counted I was working 35 hours over two and a half days!
It felt alot more like as serious poker tournament than some of the others perhaps, but so it should there was £26,000 up top!
It was a £300 buy in, £75,000 GTD. Serious stuff, for many
Big name players turned up to play it
SPT Tour events have to balance the aims of the community with the desire to put on a top tournament befitting a Tour that we want to be a "must play"
I think we achieved that
Give it an extra five people, and working equipement, and we'd have been calling every all in over the mike, and giving Iceborg a round of applause and a mug for kncking tikay out :-))
How long is a piece of Tour string though? You do the best job you can with the resources you've got
Also i was commenting on the Ops original thinking about commentry and freebies and in no way think any of the SKY team were slacking but do think the DTD staff are not great.
I didn't get to stay til Sunday, but I thought it was a great weekend. Great reply Richard
Apart from the above very upsetting experience, I got to meet and play some cards (and have a few beers with) a number of people whom I had previously only spoken to online. I also got to catch up with a few of the players I had met earlier in the year which again was great. It was my first SPT so cant make comparison but it exceeded MY expectations albeit I guess my expectations were a bit lower than others.
Skypoker isn't the biggest site in the world which is of benefit to players, especially forum contributors as individuals have more of a chance to get their views across. Having said that OP, your comments just come over as a rant and aren't aimed at improving future SPT's which is a bit disappointing.
Matt
At £300 buy in as a regular SPT player I was gutted to miss this, I popped along on Saturday to rail and had a great time with great friends I have made over the years.
SPT's at DTD are harder to do the fun SNG's as they don't like self deal, they are the premier card room in Europe and put on enough games to keep the majority happy
The failure of the live feed and no Blandie makes Tighty's job a bigger slog than it already is, as usual Rich worked his socks off I didn't see him away from work all Saturday I was there
We haven't had goodies at an SPT for over 2 years, like Rich says it's an established tour, they give trophies to everybody on the FT (UKIPT just the winner) and give tournament entries as added value to side events, if people keep moaning about lack of goodies on this forum we soon won't have any goodies!!
i am disappointed that they are not giving out green shield stamps.
Also even though live stream wasnt working i saw the updates that were on here and they did a great job for people to follow it. Theres even a picy of me when i had chips lol
actualy come to think of it im glad they didnt have any comentary or people would of noticed my exit whereas i was able to creep away to the bar
I have no idea what you expected. I thought it was a well run tourney, the Sky Guys all worked exceptionally hard despite uncontrollable problems with the stream and I had a lovely time despite playing like a muppet. Did you put yourself out there and introduce yourself to many of the other Regs? That's what really makes these things. I don't remember seeing you (although if I saw you after ten on either Friday or Saturday then I may have, ahem, forgotten it due to a dodgey pint).
On celebs and freebies, IMO Skypoker is in a different place now than it was when it started or was up and coming. Back then maybe to get the punters in for a one day crapshoot tourney (which was still a lot of fun, see meeting regs as above) you'd have a few celebs turn up on a day when there were no envelopes to open. As a person who was sat on the same table as a famous horce racing tic tac man, you've missed nothing. Now celebs turn up because they want to play the event and they are very welcome (Bill Maynard, Darren Campbell etc), not because they have been prompted to make an appearance for free or a fee (I have no idea on the last part of that statement, but not every celeb were there for the poker IMO).
As for freebies, if you're quite desperate PM me your address, I'll send you one of my hoodies I won for winning stuff, not for just turning up.
SPT Rich, the plethora of Dans, Anna, Tikay and many more whose name starts with Sky worked their backsides off there. Original Poster, I believe you owe them all an apology for your badly thought out post. My opinion of course.
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ok shambles was a bit harsh,
But i think that some of you are missing the point, like some of the posts on here says it was just like a big dusk tilll dawn comp when really as sky build it up to be their highlight event of the year and sky being such a big company i just thought that they would make at bit more of a occasion for their sky players who play and qualify for this final and not just another dtd comp.
ps If my memory serves me right the camera crew turned up half a day late last year !
I may be sad! but I was glued to the thread in General Poker Chat to find out how the regulars were doing.
I can understand what OP was saying but as the family grows i'm sure it's very difficult to meet everybody's expectations!
And like him or loathe him Rich Orfords presence would probably have made a difference for at least 15 minutes! Trevor Harris at least 2 minutes!
Had Iceborg cashed would this post be on here?