The 6-Max festival looks great, I'll definitely try to make it for at least one of the tournaments and I'm sure it will be a great event.
Personally I am absolutely gutted that this seemingly signals the demise of the SPT's, they were one of the main reasons I played poker, I really, really hope they can be resurrected.
To state that a lot of Sky players played the UKPC is in fairness a little misleading, I was there for at last half the days and admittedly it was a superb event and a credit to Sly Poker and to Dusk til Dawn, it was far from the community feel that the SPT's had worked so well in fostering. It was a bone fide proper poker festival and I'm sure the 6Max will be the same, however it caters for a different market than the SPT's and I really think it would be shame if Sky turned it's back on what has been one of it's strongest selling points, It's community.
imho this is another nail in the coffin of SPTs, TSPs and VLVs. (all three missing in action) it looks like Sky is going full out to capture the UK poker scene - live, on-line - TV - whatever and why not - great idea - but nothing to do with the regular skypoker online experience this is about UKOPS & UKPCs sure skypoker online will be an avenue to monetise this push in the longer term but this isn't about the current online community and yes we may get SPTs etc back in the longer term just not now RIP Posted by GELDY
oh, and just to say, the only thing that got me travelling across the country for a poker tourney was that it was a SkyPoker SPT. As nice as DTD is I think I'll just stay in London where we have quite enough tourney action. I don't get much time to play weekend events and it was so nice that when I did it I could also meet up with all the SkyPoker crowd. It will be missed but I just don't think the UKPC can ever possibly have the same community spirit.
And it does make a difference to the community to be able to put faces to names. Hope this doesn't turn out to be a case of throwing the baby out with the bath water.
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Personally I am absolutely gutted that this seemingly signals the demise of the SPT's, they were one of the main reasons I played poker, I really, really hope they can be resurrected.
To state that a lot of Sky players played the UKPC is in fairness a little misleading, I was there for at last half the days and admittedly it was a superb event and a credit to Sly Poker and to Dusk til Dawn, it was far from the community feel that the SPT's had worked so well in fostering. It was a bone fide proper poker festival and I'm sure the 6Max will be the same, however it caters for a different market than the SPT's and I really think it would be shame if Sky turned it's back on what has been one of it's strongest selling points, It's community.
And it does make a difference to the community to be able to put faces to names. Hope this doesn't turn out to be a case of throwing the baby out with the bath water.