5k freeroll

QueenKiz

im trying to register for this tourney but its not letting me ive done what you have to do earn 5 points can you help pls skypoker .

Snuffer

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im trying to register for this tourney but its not letting me ive done what you have to do earn 5 points can you help pls skypoker .
Posted by QueenKiz

Did you earn the points last week or this week?

waller02

I was wondering why there are 2 freerolls? Is due to the vast amount of players, so rather than run one with 7000 runners they are running two with 3500 each?

Is anybody entered in both? If so, how and why?

Snuffer

It was due to the to the amount of entrants so you should only be entered in 1 or the other

Tikay10

There were so many players who qualified, that an ADDITIONAL £5,000 Freeroll was added.

Sky Poker then randomly assigned players to one or the other, but not both.

You cannot play both.

All players are pre-registered by Sky Poker.

Snuffer

It was due to the to the amount of entrants so you should only be entered in 1 or the other

waller02

Ah right, I thought that might be the case. Thanks for the clarification.

Tikay10

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im trying to register for this tourney but its not letting me ive done what you have to do earn 5 points can you help pls skypoker .
Posted by QueenKiz

Hi,

The 2 £5,000 freerolls are for points earned in the five-a-day Promo last week.

Players aware pre registered by Sky Piker, you cannot enter them yourself.

If you believe you should be in one or the other (you cannot be in both) please speak to Customer Care. 

StayOrGo

In Response to Re: 5k freeroll:

There were so many players who qualified, that an ADDITIONAL £5,000 Freeroll was added. Sky Poker then randomly assigned players to one or the other, but not both. You cannot play both. All players are pre-registered by Sky Poker.
Posted by Tikay10

Hi, not wishing to appear ungrateful, however why are players pre registered?

It can be a little frustrating for grinders who are trying to play an optimal number of tables and don't want to be in the freeroll, who don't realise they've been registered.

It also creates a situation where lots of players are sat out and it becomes a blind stealing exercise for the players who are there.

I've never really understood why registration is automatic, (unless it is an all in shoot out and players don't need to be there)

For me, I'm not great at multi tabling, and usually just play 4 MTT's at a time. I find if a 5th one like this is added, it creates a -ev situation for me if I try to play it.

Like I said, Sky do some great promos, and some people really love these freerolls. If they were manual entry, the people that really want to play them will of course have more chance in the resulting smaller field.

As said at the beginning, I don't wish to seem ungrateful, it is great that Sky put £10K up in freerolls, it just appears at first glance, to me anyway, that it would be better all around if they were manual entry. Is it auto purely to "even the field size" between the two tournaments?

Cheers,

Graham 

Boxster

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In Response to Re: 5k freeroll :   don't want to be in the freeroll,  
Posted by StayOrGo

There is still a 'cancel registration' button

stokefc

In Response to Re: 5k freeroll:

In Response to Re: 5k freeroll : Hi, not wishing to appear ungrateful, however why are players pre registered? It can be a little frustrating for grinders who are trying to play an optimal number of tables and don't want to be in the freeroll, who don't realise they've been registered. It also creates a situation where lots of players are sat out and it becomes a blind stealing exercise for the players who are there. I've never really understood why registration is automatic, (unless it is an all in shoot out and players don't need to be there) For me, I'm not great at multi tabling, and usually just play 4 MTT's at a time. I find if a 5th one like this is added, it creates a -ev situation for me if I try to play it. Like I said, Sky do some great promos, and some people really love these freerolls. If they were manual entry, the people that really want to play them will of course have more chance in the resulting smaller field. As said at the beginning, I don't wish to seem ungrateful, it is great that Sky put £10K up in freerolls, it just appears at first glance, to me anyway, that it would be better all around if they were manual entry. Is it auto purely to "even the field size" between the two tournaments? Cheers, Graham 
Posted by StayOrGo

i think you can de-reg if you dont want to play it Graham

mumsie

You could practice your blind stealing stratergies against the sat outs.

StayOrGo

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In Response to Re: 5k freeroll : There is still a 'cancel registration' button
Posted by Boxster

Yes true. and I agree, it's not a big deal to cancel registration, if one remembers.

Although I do still think it's a valid point, that there will be lots of players regged that are not logged on, creating an imbalance of the number of "live" players at each table. 

It's not a complaint, just more of an observation really. Good luck to all in it!

Cheers,

Graham

gerardirl

It is a good point and I know its come up before and usually people are slatted for bringing up these points, be interesting to see if Sky reply. Im very happy to steal blinds from away players however Id be interested to see why sky chose this format rather than just asking people to reg themselves.

Ger

QueenKiz

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In Response to 5k freeroll : Did you earn the points last week or this week?
Posted by Snuffer

I earned them this week ive earnt 83 points this week

gerardirl

I think it from points earned last week Queen and not this week. I resume you know about earning them over a number of days.

Ger

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Tikay10

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In Response to Re: 5k freeroll : I earned them this week ive earnt 83 points this week
Posted by QueenKiz

The big freerolls tonight are for players who earned their qualifying points last week Kiz, not this week.

QueenKiz

In Response to Re: 5k freeroll:

There were so many players who qualified, that an ADDITIONAL £5,000 Freeroll was added. Sky Poker then randomly assigned players to one or the other, but not both. You cannot play both. All players are pre-registered by Sky Poker.
Posted by Tikay10

I have done what is asked why cant I get in it

dragon1964

I think the pre reg was simply because people have different starting stacks so they had to do it to ensure everyone got the correct amount

raggy94

In Response to Re: 5k freeroll:

It is a good point and I know its come up before and usually people are slatted for bringing up these points, be interesting to see if Sky reply. Im very happy to steal blinds from away players however Id be interested to see why sky chose this format rather than just asking people to reg themselves. Ger
Posted by gerardirl

I'm guessing the fact everyone has different starting stacks, and what it's based on ,has a lot to do with it in this instance. Probably quite hard to automate. Never really understood what most say about away players either, i mean it would be better to have a tournament with 1500 active players, than a 3000 one with half the field away. Although I find it quite fun in a way to play a 6 player heads up game, the fact you have to flip to see who gets 4 out of 5 buttons takes away from it a lot i think. Little too much luck of draw at start.