Poll: Would you play a monthly 50k Guarantee?

devil_tear

Just having a discussion on table and all agreed it would be great if we had the 50k Guarantee monthly. Be interesting to see how it went. Obv hoping it was a success. So yeah doing a Poll to let Sky know what type of numbers they could expect.

FeelGroggy

A monthly £110 sunday bounty hunter would be lovely. Tonight's guarantee was cleared easily with the prizepool at over £60k. Even if sky had to reduce the guarantee a bit, particularly in the less popular months, some kind of big guarantee £110 rebuy bounty hunter would be an amazing addition to the schedule and I think it would succeed, particularly if there are a lot of feeders and unlimited re-entry

hhyftrftdr

First weekend of every month would be logical. Have a good sat tree and chuck some seats in FRs again and it should hit the figures over winter when traffic is at its highest.

Was gonna start a similar thread but regarding the mini, so will just tag it along in here; this should be a monthly addition (minimum) Would be nice to see it either extended to 12 min levels, or retain 10 min blinds but add a couple of levels, as it did get pretty shallow just a couple of hours into it.

Could also make it a rebuy (or single re-entry) if worried about overlay, but tonights made a pool of almost 7k playing as a freezeout. Should be on the schedule at least once a month going forward, so us peasants have something to look forward to

devil_tear

Agreed! I think when ppl see "50k Guarantee" theyre more likely give it a go. Be awesome if Sky could trial it until Xmas. ( Or until it stops meeting Guarantee.)

The other good thing is the new customers who will then stick around, im pretty sure thats worth it in itself.

Was great to see the turnout today. Good Job Sky Team.

HaveaA1Day

I would but I dont know why, guess am just a masochist.

Your all talking monthly, why couldn't this replace the Sunday Major, before I went to bed last night, this had like 108 people registered for it, but some how managed to get 515 people enter it and then got 94 rebuys.

K0BAYASHl

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I would but I dont know why, guess am just a masochist. Your all talking monthly, why couldn't this replace the Sunday Major, before I went to bed last night, this had like 108 people registered for it, but some how managed to get 515 people enter it and then got 94 rebuys.
Posted by HaveaA1Day

 Too frequent I think for a big guarantee at the moment to be held weekly, I think monthly and lots of sats all week

Angmar2626

Would play this for sure.

Having it as a bounty hunter I think would encourage shot taking because of the prospect of winning part of your buy in back.

Once a month would probably be ideal as I think too many people would be up in arms if the Sunday Maj changed permanently to a bounty hunter...

But yeah, once a month with an attractive gtd, plenty of sats, and some catchy name - Super Major or whatever ha

mumsie

What about every few months, or say, months with 5 Sundays.

Of 2018 has 4 such months.**

29th April.

29th July.

30th September.

30th  December.

**  off the top of my head, no search of Google® ,so no citation to credit.

 

goldnballz

For some reason I cannot see the poll?

But, I agree it should be added to the schedule. I'd definitely play it. The satellite structure was great & meant it easily beat the guarentee.

How did Tikay & Neil Channing get on? Anyone know?

mumsie

Tk wasnt shoving as per shove / fold charts, he was waiting till he saw a flop, tricky,  ill post the exit  hand, pending no objection

MAXALLY

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For some reason I cannot see the poll? But, I agree it should be added to the schedule. I'd definitely play it. The satellite structure was great & meant it easily beat the guarentee. How did Tikay & Neil Channing get on? Anyone know?
Posted by goldnballz

NChanning

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210

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tikay1

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£37.50 Head Prizes

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Not sure who knocked them out and won the SPT seats, but rumour has it, it was Orford.

mumsie

 (22:44 01/10/2017)

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
JMcCririck	Small blind		400.00	400.00	74150.00
K_1rving	Big blind		800.00	1200.00	34966.00
	Your hole cards	4 2
HaveaA1Day	Fold
k1realis23	Raise		1600.00	2800.00	66158.00
tikay1	Call		1600.00	4400.00	11265.00
mumsie	Fold
JMcCririck	Fold
K_1rving	Fold
Flop
		J 3 8
k1realis23	Check
tikay1	All-in		11265.00	15665.00	0.00
k1realis23	Call		11265.00	26930.00	54893.00
k1realis23	Show	10 7
tikay1	Show	J K
Turn
		6
River
		6
k1realis23	Win	Flush to the Jack	26930.00

MattBates

Yesterday was a great success, people were discussing it in the chat box at some of my tables in the days before. There seemed really good hype about it. It needs to be considered special to be able to get people to want to take a shot at playing it, try some sats etc. If it moves from being super to being normal then it wont get the numbers as people wont be bothered if they miss this one as they can play another. Freerolls for seats are great but this costs sky so they need to consider if they want to use marketing budget on a regular basis for this. If they dont then the guarantees may need to be looked at. 

Maybe there could be a super one with £50k guarantee every quarter and say £25k guarantee one every month. Sunday major still remains in the other weeks as I do think a big freezeout is important for a poker site. Having a headline grabbing tournament which attracts players to the site and creates a real buzz is really good for the site. 

devil_tear

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Yesterday was a great success, people were discussing it in the chat box at some of my tables in the days before. There seemed really good hype about it. It needs to be considered special to be able to get people to want to take a shot at playing it, try some sats etc. If it moves from being super to being normal then it wont get the numbers as people wont be bothered if they miss this one as they can play another. Freerolls for seats are great but this costs sky so they need to consider if they want to use marketing budget on a regular basis for this. If they dont then the guarantees may need to be looked at.  Maybe there could be a super one with £50k guarantee every quarter and say £25k guarantee one every month. Sunday major still remains in the other weeks as I do think a big freezeout is important for a poker site. Having a headline grabbing tournament which attracts players to the site and creates a real buzz is really good for the site. 
Posted by MattBates

Valid points. I do think though we are at a "tipping point" in online poker. Poker Stars is really letting their players down, and players are going elsewhere ( hence why Party Poker is really pushing at the moment ). I know Skypoker is not on that level, but still think with decent weekly/ monthly guarantees it can take advantage in the current climate.

Im curious why you think a big freezout is important for a poker site? I agree they should be part of the schedule but IMO SkyPoker's unique selling point is Bounter Hunters, and 6 max mtts. I think the reason the 50k smashed the Gurantee was in part to it being A BH. People like the fact you can knock a few players out and get your buyin back and freeroll. 

Tikay10

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Tk wasnt shoving as per shove / fold charts, he was waiting till he saw a flop, tricky,  ill post the exit  hand, pending no objection
Posted by mumsie

My new book will be out soon;

How to butcher a hand of poker

NoseyBonk

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In Response to Re: Poll: Would you play a monthly 50k Guarantee? : My new book will be out soon; How to butcher a hand of poker
Posted by Tikay10

Can't wait! I look forward to your other book The Folder's Edge

Tikay10

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In Response to Re: Poll: Would you play a monthly 50k Guarantee? : Can't wait! I look forward to your other book The Folder's Edge
Posted by NoseyBonk

I felt such a fool. The exact moment I did it I realised.

To make it worse, I was having such a great time playing it. It was my first NLH Online MTT in many years, & my first MTT on Sky since my Health problem, & I was having a ball.

Then I went & committed hari-kari. At least I can't blame anyone else for my exit.




 

HaveaA1Day

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I agree they should be part of the schedule but IMO SkyPoker's unique selling point is Bounter Hunters, and 6 max mtts.posted by devil_tear

You forgot antes, I love that they dont have them here because I dont have to play such ridiculous ranges, although that doesn't stop some people

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In Response to Re: Poll: Would you play a monthly 50k Guarantee? : My new book will be out soon; How to butcher a hand of poker
Posted by Tikay10

Whoa how did you play that hand badly your the favorite vs that exact holding, you took a line that gave him the worst price - you psychic? lol - think the line was played tricky, you block the only hand that wants to check on that flop.

Also my Sky rage is making me bring this up so forgive me, but if you wanna post a hand login via the browser go to hand history select the hand then copy paste it into the thread like so

Hand History #1207372361 (22:44 01/10/2017)

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
JMcCririck	Small blind		400.00	400.00	74150.00
K_1rving	Big blind		800.00	1200.00	34966.00
	Your hole cards	J 7
HaveaA1Day	Fold
k1realis23	Raise		1600.00	2800.00	66158.00
tikay1	Call		1600.00	4400.00	11265.00
mumsie	Fold
JMcCririck	Fold
K_1rving	Fold
Flop
		J 3 8
k1realis23	Check
tikay1	All-in		11265.00	15665.00	0.00
k1realis23	Call		11265.00	26930.00	54893.00
k1realis23	Show	10 7
tikay1	Show	J K
Turn
		6
River
		6
k1realis23	Win	Flush to the Jack	26930.00		81823.00

NChanning

 The simple answer is I would play.

 I do tend to agree with Matt though. I thought Sunday was a great success. I wasn't certain the guarantee would be beaten and it got through £50,000 pretty comfortably. There was quite a cost to that though. Sky Poker put quite a lot in with freerolls and if it takes a big investment from Sky Poker every time then they will have less money to spend on other promotions. I agree, it's a good one, worth spending something on, as long as it gets new players to the site and encourages infrequent visitors to drop I, then I think it's worth spending a bit of money on.

 I definitely think that if you have a big event every now and then it has a bit of "sparkle" and gets people talking and becomes a "must play" event. If you had it once a month I think it might be hard to sustain the enthusiasm. It's also important to remember the huge difference between liquidity in the winter and the summer and if this had been held in July it probably would have been a disaster.

 I quite like the idea of quarterly although I'd skew it towards the winter months.

 I also really like the idea of having some bigger buy-in events infrequently to get new players in at the middle and top of the player range. If you had a few extra £500 freezeouts I think you might find some bigger players who don't come here often drop in and try it and even with 40 or 50 runners I think that might be quite a fun idea.

Phantom66

The winter whopper?

HaveaA1Day

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I wasn't certain the guarantee would be beaten and it got through £50,000 pretty comfortably.Posted by NChanning

Yeh I was amazed with the numbers it got to.

There was quite a cost to that though. Sky Poker put quite a lot in with freerolls and if it takes a big investment from Sky Poker every time then they will have less money to spend on other promotions.Posted by NChanning

The only extra cost I can see that Sky incurred was the 50 seat freeroll they put on - because the usual nightly freeroll that gives away 3 seats for the Sunday Major where channeled into this, and the seats Sky awarded from the Sky Rewards freeroll, came out of the £1k prizepool - and even when you deduct these from the prizepool it still smashed the guarantee.

I definitely think that if you have a big event every now and then it has a bit of "sparkle" and gets people talking and becomes a "must play" event.Posted by NChanning

I agree with this, but isn't that what *cough* UKOPS is supposed to be about?.

If you had it once a month I think it might be hard to sustain the enthusiasm. It's also important to remember the huge difference between liquidity in the winter and the summer and if this had been held in July it probably would have been a disaster.Posted by NChanning

Yeh thats true. But cant Sky just put it on every month but with a lower guarantee like they did with other mtt's over this period.

I quite like the idea of quarterly although I'd skew it towards the winter months.  I also really like the idea of having some bigger buy-in events infrequently to get new players in at the middle and top of the player range. If you had a few extra £500 freezeouts I think you might find some bigger players who don't come here often drop in and try it and even with 40 or 50 runners I think that might be quite a fun idea.
Posted by NChanning

Yeh I would love to see some bigger buyin mtt's to. Just make sure you give me enough time to sat into them tho .