You're doing all you can Churchy. More than should be expected I'd say. I think you/Sky have realistically hit the saturation point for expected numbers to play these tournaments. In hindsight, we were all probably too unrealistic with our requested buy-ins for these. Simply, they are too small. There's obviously a fine line between wanting new players to have a go, hence the x2 £1 jobbies, but I'd hazard a guess these micro stakes are putting a lot of people off. Unless you love playing the game, managing to hit a FT yet only winning enough to buy a happy meal, isn't much of an incentive. It's probably been said before, but a buy-in of at least a tenner is needed to attract the NLHE tourney regs to the any4cardbingo.com world. At least a tenner. Too late now though me old pal, don't sweat it, what will be, will be.... Anyroad, I'm donating in them tonight, don't know why as I get bored in tourneys and give up. Catchya later. xx Posted by Macacgirl1
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Hi Brian. pls can I have 5 sets of thurs free entries. pls do not ban me, I have thought about trying to give something back to the community, but everytime I write something on the forum it seems to antagonise someone! If anyones Ploppers are interested I'd be happy to review hands either on the forum or privately via PM. If its any consolation, the last 50 or so tournaments on stars haven't gone so well! cheers, suzy666. Posted by suzy666
hi Brian / sky Dan,
I'm still owed 2 sets of free entries for all the thurs eve games
Thanks for the kind words people but it is not just me who has done it is all of you who play every week.
Steve never meant it too come out as if i was moaning just not sure how/what else too try do I agree with mac that what is probably missing is a bigger buy in too attract more players from hold/em as she hits it on the head with winning a happy meal last night the 9.20 game was on till after 12 and i finished 3rd for £6/7 so 3 hours for £5odds not really going too attract someone who grinds £11+ mtts.
any1 with any ideas please leave them and maybe we can try and see if sky could maybe help us out with a small change too the schedule.
And yes suzy666 you should have been entered tonight and next week is your last will message dan too try get it sorted but think kirsty was dealing with that set of entries will try get it sorted.
EDIT: Just noticed sky dan has changed name of games and hopefully from next week/month there will be a small blurb linking it too the this thread.
YOU MUST PLAY AT LEAST 2 TOURNAMENTS TO BE IN WITH A CHANCE! SCORING WILL BE, 1ST PLACE=1POINT 2ND=2POINTS, etc Aggregate of best TWO scores, ie lowest wins!! WEEKLY WINNER WILL WIN SKY FREE ENTRY TO ALL TOURNIES THE FOLLOWING WEEK!! TOO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE MONTHLY PRIZE YOU MUST PLAY 3 WEEKS TOO BE IN WITH A CHANCE! BIG MONTHLY SKY ADDED VALUE PRIZE!!! First & Second get ..... £33 B/HUNTER SEAT OR 3 x £9.90 weekly FOSP Hilo Entries!! 3rd/4th Get 1 x Free Weeks Entries
Thanks for the kind words people but it is not just me who has done it is all of you who play every week. Steve never meant it too come out as if i was moaning just not sure how/what else too try do I agree with mac that what is probably missing is a bigger buy in too attract more players from hold/em as she hits it on the head with winning a happy meal last night the 9.20 game was on till after 12 and i finished 3rd for £6/7 so 3 hours for £5odds not really going too attract someone who grinds £11+ mtts. any1 with any ideas please leave them and maybe we can try and see if sky could maybe help us out with a small change too the schedule. And yes suzy666 you should have been entered tonight and next week is your last will message dan too try get it sorted but think kirsty was dealing with that set of entries will try get it sorted. Posted by churchy18
ok, many thanks, as long as you acknowledge it that's fine.
YOU MUST PLAY AT LEAST 2 TOURNAMENTS TO BE IN WITH A CHANCE! SCORING WILL BE, 1ST PLACE=1POINT 2ND=2POINTS, etc Aggregate of best TWO scores, ie lowest wins!! WEEKLY WINNER WILL WIN SKY FREE ENTRY TO ALL TOURNIES THE FOLLOWING WEEK!! TOO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE MONTHLY PRIZE YOU MUST PLAY 3 WEEKS TOO BE IN WITH A CHANCE! BIG MONTHLY SKY ADDED VALUE PRIZE!!! First & Second get ..... £33 B/HUNTER SEAT OR 3 x £9.90 weekly FOSP Hilo Entries!! 3rd/4th Get 1 x Free Weeks Entries
Thanks for the kind words people but it is not just me who has done it is all of you who play every week. Steve never meant it too come out as if i was moaning just not sure how/what else too try do I agree with mac that what is probably missing is a bigger buy in too attract more players from hold/em as she hits it on the head with winning a happy meal last night the 9.20 game was on till after 12 and i finished 3rd for £6/7 so 3 hours for £5odds not really going too attract someone who grinds £11+ mtts. any1 with any ideas please leave them and maybe we can try and see if sky could maybe help us out with a small change too the schedule. And yes suzy666 you should have been entered tonight and next week is your last will message dan too try get it sorted but think kirsty was dealing with that set of entries will try get it sorted. EDIT: Just noticed sky dan has changed name of games and hopefully from next week/month there will be a small blurb linking it too the this thread. Posted by churchy18
Great that the names have been changed. That will help.
Think we maybe fall between two stools. There is a market for £1/£2 tournaments and another market for £5/£10+ tournaments. Understandably several players skip the £5 tournament. If we were tarting from scratch, maybe we would have four £2.20 tournaments.
Maybe someone should experiment on a different evening with a £10 PLO8 tournament or maybe put one into the regular schedule.
I only found out about this because somebody told me. It's not very obvious from the name of the games that this is a league, hopefully the name changes will help.
You could PM all the people playing only one game and explain what they are missing.
The league prizes are fine; if more people enter the prizes for the games will go up anyway.
Thanks again Churchy. Couldn't help noticing that there were 77 players that played just one of the four tournaments last week and another 12 who played just two of the tournaments. Imagine if they all played all four. Should we be looking at ways to encourage these players to play all four as its more money for SKY and bigger prize pools for everyone. Not sure what the answer is here but this has to be an opportunity to build on the early success of PLO8 Night. Maybe more & bigger weekly & monthly prizes? Posted by Ice_Tiger
(See also the reply by suzy).
I could do this without asking upstairs, but we have to be realistic with these things. It's great that Brian & others work so hard to run this, & of course you all know how much I would love to popularise PLO8.
However......
At present, it is simply not cost effective, even at the present volumes, for Sky to donate the prizes they do. In truth, that cash could be put to better use, with something that was more cost-effective. The money would still be given away for something, but right now, this League is costing Sky Poker more than can be justified.
Sorry to be Mr Wet Blanket, but them's the facts, so I'm afraid there is no chance of adding additional money, it just makes no sense. At some stage, it may even be that the prizes for this are reduced, & the cash saved used for some other League-based affair.
In Response to Re: FOSP OMAHA HI/LO LEAGUE THURSDAY 20TH AUGUST ALL WELCOME : (See also the reply by suzy). I could do this without asking upstairs, but we have to be realistic with these things. It's great that Brian & others work so hard to run this, & of course you all know how much I would love to popularise PLO8. However...... At present, it is simply not cost effective, even at the present volumes, for Sky to donate the prizes they do. In truth, that cash could be put to better use, with something that was more cost-effective. The money would still be given away for something, but right now, this League is costing Sky Poker more than can be justified. Sorry to be Mr Wet Blanket, but them's the facts, so I'm afraid there is no chance of adding additional money, it just makes no sense. At some stage, it may even be that the prizes for this are reduced, & the cash saved used for some other League-based affair. Posted by Tikay10
hi,
I personally think a 2.2 game with 3000 (or 2000) chips, starting at 8pm everyday would be popular. lots of people are playing the 1.1 games daily would also likely play it. with a reasonable field it would also attract the daily 5.5 regs to play alongside. with no guaranatees could it hurt?
In Response to Re: FOSP OMAHA HI/LO LEAGUE THURSDAY 20TH AUGUST ALL WELCOME : hi, I personally think a 2.2 game with 3000 (or 2000) chips, starting at 8pm everyday would be popular. lots of people are playing the 1.1 games daily would also likely play it. with a reasonable field it would also attract the daily 5.5 regs to play alongside. with no guaranatees could it hurt? Posted by suzy666
It might do, yes.
There's a double edged sword here. Many of those who play the £1 jobbies cannot afford to go up to £2 every night, 7 nights a week. Personally, if there were a £5 or tenner every night, I'd play both, but the fields would be horribly small I fear. It sounds a bit offensive & elitist to say I cba to play a £1 Tourney, but you get my drift, I hope?
Anyway, lets discuss it, get some feedback from those who currently play regularly, & see what they think.
I can say, with 90% certainty, that if it was felt by the players that a nightly £5.50 or £11 PLO8 MTT was in demand, I could get Sky Poker to set it up. I'd just ask them & I think they would do it. I would NOT ask for it to carry a Guarantee though. If we - the players - demand a Guarantee, it probably won't get approved by Sky Poker. It might, but personally, I would not recommend it.
For what it's worth, (not much....) if there were bigger PLO8 or PLO MTT's here, I would commit to playing them regularly.
In Response to Re: FOSP OMAHA HI/LO LEAGUE THURSDAY 20TH AUGUST ALL WELCOME : It might do, yes. There's a double edged sword here. Many of those who play the £1 jobbies cannot afford to go up to £2 every night, 7 nights a week. Personally, if there were a £5 or tenner every night, I'd play both, but the fields would be horribly small I fear. It sounds a bit offensive & elitist to say I cba to play a £1 Tourney, but you get my drift, I hope? Anyway, lets discuss it, get some feedback from those who currently play regularly, & see what they think. I can say, with 90% certainty, that if it was felt by the players that a nightly £5.50 or £11 PLO8 MTT was in demand, I could get Sky Poker to set it up. I'd just ask them & I think they would do it. I would NOT ask for it to carry a Guarantee though. If we - the players - demand a Guarantee, it probably won't get approved by Sky Poker. It might, but personally, I would not recommend it. For what it's worth, (not much....) if there were bigger PLO8 or PLO MTT's here, I would commit to playing them regularly. Posted by Tikay10
There are nightly £5 games (pretty sure one carries a £100 guarantee) but I think the fields are fairly small, however we had
39 runners in last nights £5 game, smashed its guarantee (If we were going to try a £10 game, I think it would be best on Thurdsday)
64 runners in the £2 game, missed its guarantee again, perhaps this game should be £3 with same guarantee
Perhaps change one of the leagues £1 games to a £2 game (the later one) as I agree with whats been said, I will sometimes jump into that if the others are going badly (often) but really cba playing so late for so little (an hour playing a few Dym makes you the same as a win)
Some great replies as tikay said we should be careful at how we do this as sky really do give this a lot of backing and feel it is unfair too ask for more until week on week the numbers rise it is just trying too get more people interested.
Have sent sam a email(hes off till monday i think)asking if there was maybe a way too get it posted on the offical sky poker facebook page/twitter feed
Also too get a small blurb in the details pointing people too this thread think that will help just like the names being changed on the games great idea suzy.
Also thursday is the 1st night the £2.20 game has been visible if playing on a tablet think that helped boost the numbers slightly as well for that game don,t know why i never pointed it out before.
Here is an idea maybe some will like it some won,t for those wanting a £11 game how about a big 1 last sunday of the month and we could rework the prizes so instead of entry into all four games give them option of which they prefer. to get that too work we would probably drop the 2nd place £33b/hunter seat make it entry too the sunday game or all four on the thursday or somthing along those lines.
What about also if we could get a monthly game on the go sky could maybe run a sat every night 1 seat gtd £2 buyin too try help build entries try that for a month and see how it goes as i feel if it got too 30 it could maybe take off as some of the bigger buy in players would maybe be more intrested if they where going for £100 for 1st instead of what some of them pay in buy ins day in day out.
I have tried mick tikay wont go for it will ask dan if he will change suzy666 too macacgirl and then tikay will deffo ban her:@}
Again thanks for replies and ideas and the support all give this great wee game.
And also thanks too sky for the prizes they provide thanks too sky dan, sky sam, sky kirsty and of course tikay {sorry roffels not annoyed you yet:@)for sorting out prizes and all else you do for us.
I am so glad to have found this comp of late - it is really my bag as compared to the 2 card stuff. I sometimes do not play the £5 game as i am treating it as a challenge not a money making experience - I prioritise finishing position over cash - HOWEVER - if it was a fiver - or heaven forbid a tenner i would play for the kill!! That being said i think Sky have been uber generous here and wouldn't mind it staying the same (i realise however they are losing money - not a good business strategy!!)
I would be tempted to a 2 x £5 a night challenge (not a single tenner game) if the starting chip count was 5000 or at least a bit higher than the normal 2000.
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I'm still owed 2 sets of free entries for all the thurs eve games
please can you acknowledge and get me in tonight.
thanks
Steve never meant it too come out as if i was moaning just not sure how/what else too try do I agree with mac that what is probably missing is a bigger buy in too attract more players from hold/em as she hits it on the head with winning a happy meal last night the 9.20 game was on till after 12 and i finished 3rd for £6/7 so 3 hours for £5odds not really going too attract someone who grinds £11+ mtts.
any1 with any ideas please leave them and maybe we can try and see if sky could maybe help us out with a small change too the schedule.
And yes suzy666 you should have been entered tonight and next week is your last will message dan too try get it sorted but think kirsty was dealing with that set of entries will try get it sorted.
EDIT: Just noticed sky dan has changed name of games and hopefully from next week/month there will be a small blurb linking it too the this thread.
THURSDAY 27TH AUGUST
WELCOME TO THE FRIENDS OF SKY POKER OMAHA HI/LO LEAGUE
A FUN AND FRIENDLY SET OF GAMES THAT WON'T BUST THE BANK!
EVERYONE IS WELCOME!
NO NEED TOO REGISTER JUST PLAY AND
Churchy18, League Organiser
WILL ADD UP THE SCORES & POST RESULTS HERE
SO EVERY THURSDAY WE WILL TAKE ALL THE RESULTS FROM THE FOLLOWING GAMES...
7.50pm £1.10 BUYIN
8.25pm £5.50 BUYIN £100 GTD
8.40pm £2.20 BUYIN FOSP PL08 £150gar
9.20pm £1.10 BUYIN
YOU MUST PLAY AT LEAST 2 TOURNAMENTS TO BE IN WITH A CHANCE!
SCORING WILL BE, 1ST PLACE=1POINT 2ND=2POINTS, etc
Aggregate of best TWO scores, ie lowest wins!! WEEKLY WINNER WILL WIN SKY FREE ENTRY TO ALL TOURNIES THE FOLLOWING WEEK!! TOO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE MONTHLY PRIZE YOU MUST PLAY
3 WEEKS TOO BE IN WITH A CHANCE!
BIG MONTHLY SKY ADDED VALUE PRIZE!!!
First & Second get .....
£33 B/HUNTER SEAT OR 3 x £9.90 weekly FOSP Hilo Entries!!
3rd/4th Get 1 x Free Weeks Entries
THURSDAY 27TH AUGUST
WELCOME TO THE FRIENDS OF SKY POKER OMAHA HI/LO LEAGUE
A FUN AND FRIENDLY SET OF GAMES THAT WON'T BUST THE BANK!
EVERYONE IS WELCOME!
NO NEED TOO REGISTER JUST PLAY AND
Churchy18, League Organiser
WILL ADD UP THE SCORES & POST RESULTS HERE
SO EVERY THURSDAY WE WILL TAKE ALL THE RESULTS FROM THE FOLLOWING GAMES...
7.50pm £1.10 BUYIN
8.25pm £5.50 BUYIN £100 GTD
8.40pm £2.20 BUYIN FOSP PL08 £150gar
9.20pm £1.10 BUYIN
YOU MUST PLAY AT LEAST 2 TOURNAMENTS TO BE IN WITH A CHANCE!
SCORING WILL BE, 1ST PLACE=1POINT 2ND=2POINTS, etc
Aggregate of best TWO scores, ie lowest wins!! WEEKLY WINNER WILL WIN SKY FREE ENTRY TO ALL TOURNIES THE FOLLOWING WEEK!! TOO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE MONTHLY PRIZE YOU MUST PLAY
3 WEEKS TOO BE IN WITH A CHANCE!
BIG MONTHLY SKY ADDED VALUE PRIZE!!!
First & Second get .....
£33 B/HUNTER SEAT OR 3 x £9.90 weekly FOSP Hilo Entries!!
3rd/4th Get 1 x Free Weeks Entries
I only found out about this because somebody told me. It's not very obvious from the name of the games that this is a league, hopefully the name changes will help.
You could PM all the people playing only one game and explain what they are missing.
The league prizes are fine; if more people enter the prizes for the games will go up anyway.
Game 1
Game 2
Game 3
Game 4
Best 2
suzy666
7
14
2
1
3
trevil25
2
15
9
11
eon1961
31
4
15
10
14
sydn3y
12
58
3
15
imber
13
11
8
19
Ice_Tiger
51
10
26
14
24
IC_DEADPPL
9
51
17
26
churchy18
10
17
19
29
27
petebryn
1
30
31
Macacgirl1
15
33
16
45
31
Catsnap
18
14
32
TheMuckr
28
35
5
33
Cormach
20
13
57
39
33
lokiii
14
20
23
34
f1fanmat
33
22
13
35
county
29
6
35
penguin7
11
25
43
36
HENDRIK62
9
28
37
daffo
23
15
38
smoki3
27
11
41
34
38
shellyyyy
50
29
29
11
40
pomfrittes
48
23
18
49
41
ajmilton
36
39
35
7
42
ICEMAN
37
55
9
46
strube
20
26
46
Bashi
8
44
47
52
j3ono
17
38
40
55
PgdL
26
33
59
botneck
39
16
49
46
65
Wk 1
Wk2
Wk3
Wk4
Best 3
suzy666
8
12
20
3
23
eon1961
10
13
14
37
churchy18
13
9
27
49
trevil25
57
12
28
11
51
imber
9
36
25
19
53
f1fanmat
17
35
24
35
76
shelly1967
49
5
33
40
78
IC_DEADPPL
47
27
25
26
78
pomfrittes
21
20
41
82
smoki3
7
50
38
95
botneck
14
31
53
65
98
HENDRIK62
44
14
37
99
ajmilton
68
32
40
42
114
county
54
67
35
156
NOT QUALIFIED (LESS THAN 3 WEEKS)
Ice_Tiger
4
4
13unlucky
6
6
footsie66
9
9
Dagnamit
10
10
HOLLYWHIT
10
10
XYZMALCOLM
14
14
Enut
16
16
AA601
17
17
chachabink
22
22
Smithy29
25
25
bearchair
26
26
Phantom66
26
26
Catsnap
28
28
PEACEPAW
31
31
_kagawa_
32
32
sandy562
32
32</
I could do this without asking upstairs, but we have to be realistic with these things. It's great that Brian & others work so hard to run this, & of course you all know how much I would love to popularise PLO8.
However......
At present, it is simply not cost effective, even at the present volumes, for Sky to donate the prizes they do. In truth, that cash could be put to better use, with something that was more cost-effective. The money would still be given away for something, but right now, this League is costing Sky Poker more than can be justified.
Sorry to be Mr Wet Blanket, but them's the facts, so I'm afraid there is no chance of adding additional money, it just makes no sense. At some stage, it may even be that the prizes for this are reduced, & the cash saved used for some other League-based affair.
I personally think a 2.2 game with 3000 (or 2000) chips, starting at 8pm everyday would be popular. lots of people are playing the 1.1 games daily would also likely play it. with a reasonable field it would also attract the daily 5.5 regs to play alongside. with no guaranatees could it hurt?
There's a double edged sword here. Many of those who play the £1 jobbies cannot afford to go up to £2 every night, 7 nights a week. Personally, if there were a £5 or tenner every night, I'd play both, but the fields would be horribly small I fear. It sounds a bit offensive & elitist to say I cba to play a £1 Tourney, but you get my drift, I hope?
Anyway, lets discuss it, get some feedback from those who currently play regularly, & see what they think.
I can say, with 90% certainty, that if it was felt by the players that a nightly £5.50 or £11 PLO8 MTT was in demand, I could get Sky Poker to set it up. I'd just ask them & I think they would do it. I would NOT ask for it to carry a Guarantee though. If we - the players - demand a Guarantee, it probably won't get approved by Sky Poker. It might, but personally, I would not recommend it.
For what it's worth, (not much....) if there were bigger PLO8 or PLO MTT's here, I would commit to playing them regularly.
Have sent sam a email(hes off till monday i think)asking if there was maybe a way too get it posted on the offical sky poker facebook page/twitter feed
Also too get a small blurb in the details pointing people too this thread think that will help just like the names being changed on the games great idea suzy.
Also thursday is the 1st night the £2.20 game has been visible if playing on a tablet think that helped boost the numbers slightly as well for that game don,t know why i never pointed it out before.
Here is an idea maybe some will like it some won,t for those wanting a £11 game how about a big 1 last sunday of the month and we could rework the prizes so instead of entry into all four games give them option of which they prefer. to get that too work we would probably drop the 2nd place £33b/hunter seat make it entry too the sunday game or all four on the thursday or somthing along those lines.
What about also if we could get a monthly game on the go sky could maybe run a sat every night 1 seat gtd £2 buyin too try help build entries try that for a month and see how it goes as i feel if it got too 30 it could maybe take off as some of the bigger buy in players would maybe be more intrested if they where going for £100 for 1st instead of what some of them pay in buy ins day in day out.
I have tried mick tikay wont go for it will ask dan if he will change suzy666 too macacgirl and then tikay will deffo ban her:@}
Again thanks for replies and ideas and the support all give this great wee game.
And also thanks too sky for the prizes they provide thanks too sky dan, sky sam, sky kirsty and of course tikay {sorry roffels not annoyed you yet:@)for sorting out prizes and all else you do for us.
All the best brian