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you won a seat in a satellite...so why do you enter again???
i know i will be shot down in flames... but if you have won a seat into a tourny through a satellite is there a need to enter again just to win the entry cash...i entered 3 all in sats to win a spt luton seat & they were all won by a player who had already won a seat so they win the cash ...if sky poker are trying to fill the seats then they will not fill them..will they ??? if a high roller was to dominate the viva las vegas sats. each month just too win the cash after they already won a package im sure someone would be whispering in there ear asking to give others a chance...JUST SAYING
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If you have a complaint, it shouldn't be with the players, it should be with the Sky policy that allows this to happen, it would be pretty easy to stop it.
I have to admit that I have little sympathy with people losing in these all-in satellites. The odds are better than roulette whenever they don't hit their guarantee, but essentially there is just as little skill involved. You're losing a gamble, that's going to happen.
It's sad that even Mods who have contributed to threads on the subject and already have places in the tournament are still taking part.
Depriving regulars from entry
hmmmmm
1in30ish (most times) chance to win 50 times your stake.
It really isn't like that Sunny, it happens to all of us sometimes, and anyone playing these all-in sats (who hasn't got their seat yet) is still getting a great deal on their money. I've bubbled 3 satellites for the same SPT once (proper sats) and I didn't even look if the people that beat me already had seats or not, it doesn't make a difference really, if ya don't get ya seat, who cares who did. Good luck with getting your seat though.
ARE SKY GIVING MONEY AWAY BY RUNNING SATS THAT DONT FILL OR ARE THEY TRYING TO FILL THE TOURNY THE LATTER WOULD BE MY GUESS....
GOOD LUCK TO ALL THOSE GOING TO LUTON & MERRY XMAS
Surely there are enough games on here to win/lose money rather than stopping people who are trying to win a satellite to get to a bigger tournie from winning when you are already through.
Looks like selfish bullying to me.
Sky should stop it by changing rules so all you do is win a seat and no money.
The all-in sats are different but as said in the other thread about regular satellites; when these players looking for the cash are involved, it increases the liquidity of the satellites. That makes it easier for us to qualify if we're better players than the majority of the field. If they're better players than us, then obviously that makes it harder.
Effectively, in the regular sats, people only complain when they're not better than those other players. The only thing depriving you of a seat in those tournaments is your own inability to win.
I went over this many times in the thread I linked to above, so I don't feel a need to repeat too much of that.
For anyone who reads my diary and saw a few weeks ago how I lost 20 BIs @ 8NL in the space of a matter of days by just cooler after cooler can't feel too much anger towards me
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Yeah I definitely see the difference, and I know there are a few players who play satellites with the full intention of just pocketing the buy-in money when they cash which I can see how some people might have a problem with that. For instance, if it was an SPT Semi, I'd be a bit gutted if I lost out to a guy that was just playing for the £110, although I'd be gutted if I bubbled to anyone lol...
Although on the other side of the coin, that person who bought in might have made it from 14 players to 15 players and might be the reason I get a seat for coming 3rd rather than some money... swings and roundabouts.
But I think/hope that most people who do register in advance are intending to play the event and so in them cases it wuoldnt make any difference.
nice cash m8 contradicting yaself abit on this post lol u are in spt luton an still playing sats
Quite a few Posts have missed the point completely, but several got it exactly right, including MAXALLY, Borin, Dohhhhh & others. These Satellites WOULD and COULD not run if they were limited to those without a seat. A painful but true fact of life.
Dohhhhh nailed it here....
Whether we all agree with that, like or dislike it, THAT is the situation.
I do feel bad for those of you who tried & failed to win a seat, but I'm afraid that is the very nature of poker. The whole idea of those All-In Sats was to make them affordable to everyone. In doing so, however, it was necessary to allow everyone to play.
Quite a conundrum really!
Sorry maybe I am missing something, I thought you couldn't have the cash money if you won a seat again when playing SAT's.
Did all this change and no one told me !! )
Or maybe I am confusing myself, tis early and no one has brought me a bacon roll yet !!
Just for Rancid.
I don't care what anyone says, you'll struggle to get Customer Care like this anywhere else.
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