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1k snowball fiasco

chelschels Member Posts: 149
edited August 2013 in Poker Chat
noticed this tournament so thought i would pop in and watch a bit, only 62 players in the 1k GUARANTEED each with a bounty on their head of £16.12

yep you guessed it 62 players times £16.12 is £999.44

you cant advertise a tournament with a guaranteed prize pool and then not pay the full amount can you?

i hear you say its only 56p but its still 56p, how do we know this is the first time this has happened?
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  • MereNoviceMereNovice Member Posts: 4,364
    edited January 2010
    lol
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 173,868
    edited January 2010

    I'm lost for words.

    A nice juicy overlay of £380, & someone complains the Room has nicked £0.56.

    It could only happen in poker.
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  • chelschels Member Posts: 149
    edited January 2010
    tikay we both know thats not the point, if this happened on another poker site then people at sky would make out its disgraceful, at the end of the day its false advertisement, overlay could be £600 for all i care, if the tournament has a guaranteed prize pool then sky should meet that, not acceptable!
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  • DOHHHHHHHDOHHHHHHH Member Posts: 17,929
    edited January 2010

    What else can they do? put another penny on everyones head? - Or advertise it as a £999.46 gtd game?

    I thought this was a joke when I first read it, you can't be serious?

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  • BurrfootBurrfoot Member Posts: 14
    edited January 2010

    lmao!

    I dont know how that tourny works, but from your post Im presuming its a pure bounty hunter type thingy....

    you've been bothered to carry out some maths even though you're not in it by multiplying £16.12 by 62.... Ive been bothered doing a little more (bored) and divided £1000 by 62.....

    £16.129    :o   shock horror lol think theres better battles to fight, but it made me laugh.. dont think you'd find value like that on any other site tbh

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  • dav1964dav1964 Member Posts: 2,526
    edited January 2010
    In Response to Re: 1k snowball fiasco:
    tikay we both know thats not the point, if this happened on another poker site then people at sky would make out its disgraceful, at the end of the day its false advertisement, overlay could be £600 for all i care, if the tournament has a guaranteed prize pool then sky should meet that, not acceptable!
    Posted by chels
    i can see what you are saying but dont you think youre being a wee bit harsh here,dav
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 173,868
    edited January 2010
    In Response to Re: 1k snowball fiasco:
    tikay we both know thats not the point, if this happened on another poker site then people at sky would make out its disgraceful, at the end of the day its false advertisement, overlay could be £600 for all i care, if the tournament has a guaranteed prize pool then sky should meet that, not acceptable!
    Posted by chels
    Yes, you are of course quite right.

    I hope you will forgive my wry amusement & perhaps frivolous reply. As someone else Posted, I kinda thought "well, I can think of better things to go to war about".

    If you contact Customer Care, & complain, I'm sure they will deal with the matter fairly.

    How did you get on in the Tourney, anyway? Take many Bounties? 
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  • lucy4lucy4 Member Posts: 8,374
    edited January 2010
    In Response to Re: 1k snowball fiasco:
    In Response to Re: 1k snowball fiasco : Yes, you are of course quite right. I hope you will forgive my wry amusement & perhaps frivolous reply. As someone else Posted, I kinda thought "well, I can think of better things to go to war about". If you contact Customer Care, & complain, I'm sure they will deal with the matter fairly. How did you get on in the Tourney, anyway? Take many Bounties? 
    Posted by Tikay10
    meeeeeoooooooow haha
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  • chelschels Member Posts: 149
    edited January 2010
    i never entered the tourny but was watching and noticed that the guarantee had not been met, your right there are bigger fish to fry but thought i would point this out
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  • JingleMaJingleMa Member Posts: 1,319
    edited January 2010
    In Response to Re: 1k snowball fiasco:
    i never entered the tourny but was watching and noticed that the guarantee had not been met, your right there are bigger fish to fry but thought i would point this out
    Posted by chels
    Chels, this is the biggest wind up ever right?

    You're sitting there laughing your melons off at us right?

    And if you're not, you seriously need to find another hobby or something.

    If you really think you're being helpful in any way or that you have an argument which holds any water whatsoever, you're deluded beyond belief.



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  • JingleMaJingleMa Member Posts: 1,319
    edited January 2010

    Oh, and if it was a joke, it wasn't very funny, but each to their own I guess.
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  • FINSFINS Member Posts: 1,080
    edited January 2010
    I have reported this matter to my mp,He will be raising it in the house of commons,
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  • JingleMaJingleMa Member Posts: 1,319
    edited January 2010
    In Response to Re: 1k snowball fiasco:
    I have reported this matter to my mp,He will be raising it in the house of commons,
    Posted by FINS
    Well done Fins, clearly this is an atrocity which needs to be resolved ASAP!
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  • FINSFINS Member Posts: 1,080
    edited January 2010

    I suggest sky act quickly to avoid a mass bad publicity outburst by announcing a 56p freeroll asap,

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  • donkeyplopdonkeyplop Member Posts: 3,795
    edited January 2010
    as they say on talksoprt...............................WHAT A WASTE OF INK!!!!!
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  • GREGHOGGGREGHOGG Member Posts: 7,155
    edited January 2010
    Try dividing 56p into 62 players. Its not possible without going into decimals which is rather pointless. (well actually  there is a decimial point, but you get my point)

    If you do divide it it is 0.90322 pence that should be on each head.

    75% of this is 0.67415 pence per bounty taken.

    So as you can see a huge amount of money considering Sky gave £379.44 to this competition for free, yes free overlay!

    So Chels, unless you can propose a way of meeting a 1k prize pool exactly with 62 players without going into redicious decimal calculations then i suggest that you find better things to do...

    Or my account will have 450 pounds and 51.5757509895898598958985 pence in it tommorow:)

    Merenovice i await the inevitable mathmatical or spelling corrections.

    Right, back to 22 deepstack which is a £300.5623553 GTD...






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  • zxghostxzzxghostxz Member Posts: 482
    edited January 2010
    In Response to 1k snowball fiasco:
    noticed this tournament so thought i would pop in and watch a bit, only 62 players in the 1k GUARANTEED each with a bounty on their head of £16.12 yep you guessed it 62 players times £16.12 is £999.44 you cant advertise a tournament with a guaranteed prize pool and then not pay the full amount can you? i hear you say its only 56p but its still 56p, how do we know this is the first time this has happened?
    Posted by chels
    lol... its a wind up........................som1 tell me its a wind up
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  • dav1964dav1964 Member Posts: 2,526
    edited January 2010
    You may all mock but i take these matters very seriously and have contacted MI5
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  • scotty77scotty77 Member Posts: 4,970
    edited January 2010
    thread of the year IMO.
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  • namesb0ndnamesb0nd Member Posts: 402
    edited January 2010
    it is a funny thread,but technically it was false advertising and as a result we should all be given free primo entry XD
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