Whoops. I have had a series of PM's from Haysie, who is suing me for defamation of character. I'm really not sure how one could do that, he's as daft as a brush.
I still really think the sat structure needs drastically changing. 1 in 10 sats are fine if there's an abundance of players but sky doesn't have so many. A lot of people play 1 or 2 sats and fail and don't have the roll nor inclination to keep trying which is why there are less and less players qualifying for the finals,
I really think that as well as the 1in10 sats there could be 1in5 or 1in6 running alongside. So 1100 / 220 / 60 / 17. It adds another stage to qualify but instead of 9-1 x 9-1 x 9-1 = 729-1 it's 4-1 x 4-1 x 4-1 x 4-1 = 256-1. It also allows for more people to progress through more stages which would give them hope instead of always being against a 9-1 brick wall.
Just some thoughts.
PS..... someone needs to check my sums as the odds of making it to the final seem rather skewed????
I still really think the sat structure needs drastically changing. 1 in 10 sats are fine if there's an abundance of players but sky doesn't have so many. A lot of people play 1 or 2 sats and fail and don't have the roll nor inclination to keep trying which is why there are less and less players qualifying for the finals, I really think that as well as the 1in10 sats there could be 1in5 or 1in6 running alongside. So 1100 / 220 / 60 / 17. It adds another stage to qualify but instead of 9-1 x 9-1 x 9-1 = 729-1 it's 4-1 x 4-1 x 4-1 x 4-1 = 256-1. It also allows for more people to progress through more stages which would give them hope instead of always being against a 9-1 brick wall. Just some thoughts. PS..... someone needs to check my sums as the odds of making it to the final seem rather skewed???? Posted by cottlad
fwiw, the odds of qualifying through three rounds of one in ten are 999/1 and the odds of qualifying through 4 rounds of one in five are 624/1. I'm not sure what the "1100/ 200 / 60 / 17" represents.
Fergie 78 is what I would call one of the old school Sky players as he was here playing MTT's when I started and I remember he was one of the tougher players back then.
A few of them went to hone their skills elsewhere, such as Fergie, Farryboy and a few more will come to me I'm sure. After all back then there were fewer good players here to have skirmishes with. Funnily enough one of the best tables I was on in an MTT to learn from included Meredonkey, Youngster and THESWISS.
Cottlad makes a great point about the the sat structure too, I've looked at the quarter final a few nights and played a couple of them but the cost v chance option is slim in my eyes with the lack of players and I am trying to stick within my bankroll. I've also noticed alot of strange names playing, visitors I assume, which shows what a great package it is to win!
In Response to Re: The Official Viva Las Vegas Thread : fwiw, the odds of qualifying through three rounds of one in ten are 999/1 and the odds of qualifying through 4 rounds of one in five are 624/1. I'm not sure what the "1100/ 200 / 60 / 17" represents. Posted by MereNovice
1 in 10 = 9-1 odds right? i thought that meant 9x9x9?? 1 in 5 being 4-1 = 4x4x4x4?
In Response to Re: The Official Viva Las Vegas Thread : 1 in 10 = 9-1 odds right? i thought that meant 9x9x9?? 1 in 5 being 4-1 = 4x4x4x4? Posted by cottlad
I've sent you a PM. I don't want to hijack another thread. :-)
Today is the last chance for players to qualify for Viva Las Vegas 2010, so a quick recap is in order.
At 4pm today, the very last VLV Semi-Final takes place. It is a 1 in 10 affair, & as of now, 9am Sunday, (I imagine there will be a few direct buy-ins) there are 24 runners.
The 24 runners are.....
50_50call2500andrew19472500blueyepete2500cookie832500ctbn2500DiggerMan2500DJ19562500FREELANCER2500hazzer2500jay19912500kevcoke692500kidgirlgy2500kohan2500Lucia12500Machina2500pokerdarts2500rumpo_kid2500sandman2902500sara36dd082500sherriff072500SHY-BOY2500SUPERNOVA2500SUPERSNEDD2500swordsyboy2500 Good luck to every one of of them!
Then, at 8pm (EIGHT PM) this evening, the "Final Final, so to speak.
With the 2 or more qualifiers from this afternoon's Semi still to be added, there are 8 runners, so that number will increase to 10 or 12 I imagine.
The 8 so far in are.....
cottlad
5000
DrMarbles
5000
FERGIE78
5000
HAYSIE
5000
iklejack
5000
Jackpot88
5000
OOOOOOOOOO
5000
VGOOCH
5000
I hope to be Online later this evening to Rail the Final - I first have to drive to Nottingham and back again - exactly as I did yesterday! - but for now, my best wishes to all of them.
I actually bumped into DrMarbles yesterday, at DTD in Nottingham, & I know he's well revved up for it. I'm seeing him again today, too, at a sort of Quiz affair, at lunchtime, in the Holiday Inn Nottingham, after which he plans to go & prepare for tonight's jobbie.
Haysie will be going for his 2nd package in a row, having been there in 2009, too.
Anyway, I know some of those guys, but to all of them - Attila & I will meet one of you at McCarron Airport, in Las Vegas, on July 2nd.
In the VLV Final last month, there was a huge rail on the Final Table. It was a 19 runner affair, so ONE VLV Package worth £10,000, with a very sweet £9,000 in cash for the "unlucky" runner-up.
There was lots of chatterbox nattering about whether the eventual runner-up would be able to "sort" a package to Vegas out with Sky Poker by some means.
In fact, the runner-up & recipitent of £9,000 cash into his Account was Direwolf.
Direwolf later contacted Sky Poker to "see what the position was".
It went back & forth a bit, & then, but we could not contact him, as he was away from home, & we only had his home number.
The following Friday, I bumped into Direwolf at Glasgow SPT. He explained that he was interested in exploring the situation as to whether he could come to Vegas with us. So I introduced him to Rich Milner, & Rich outlined "the situation" to him, which Direwolf said he would consider.
"The situation" was this.
The VLV WINNERS get a package worth £10,000. What happens is that the £10,000 is retained by Sky Poker. Attila then books their return flights to Las Vegas for up to 2 people, their Suite at The Rio Hotel, & pays their entry into the $10,000 WSOP Main Event. The difference between the total cost of all that, & the £10,000 - in other words, the cash left over - is given to the player as their spending money.
Flight tickets & Hotel rates vary daily, as do currency rates, depending upon when Attila books them, but if a VLV Winner takes a guest, the total cost comes to just over £9,000, with the balance in cash being given to the player. If they do NOT take a guest, the cost drops to about (roughly) £8,500.
Direwolf's position was that Sky Poker could give him £9,000 worth of value - not a penny more, not a penny less - if he wanted to join us as part of the VLV Team.
The obvious answer was for him NOT to take a Guest, & that is what he elected to do, if indeed he decided to come with us.
He gave it 24 hours of thought, then contacted me to say he would like to accept that deal.
It gets quite complicated here, because he still had the £9,000 in his Account, but Sky Poker have absolutely no right to touch that money. So Attila had to formally write to him, & seek his written confirmation that he agreed to the money being taken out of his Account by Sky Poker, & his agreement to accept the VLV T & C's. Attila did that, Dire quickly confirmed, & that was that, happy days.
So Attila did all the booking & stuff, for ONE person, & it came to a shade under £9,000, with the small balance being given to Dire for spending money. Job done!
So Direwolf joins the Team Sky Poker Vegas raiding party, & I hope you'll ll join me in congratulating him. Those who met him at Glasgow SPT will confirm he's quite a character!
Finally, for now, the players already qualified via Sky Poker are all safely paid in & registered for the WSOP Main Event.
As you may know, there are FOUR opening days, or "flights" as they call them, this year, being named, with great originality, Days 1a, 1b, 1c, 7 1d.
Ia will be July 5th, 1b July 6th, 1c July 7th, & 1d July 8th.
The Day 1a & 1c survivors will play Day 2b on July 9th, & the survivors from Day 1b & 1d will play their Day Two on July 10th.
July 11th will be a Rest Day, with Day Three, when the Day 2a & 2b survivors will combine into a single flight, being July 12th.
The days booked for each player (they are all paid in & registered) are as follows.
Day 1a - Darren (LUFC1982).
Day 1b - Dan. (DanTB10).
Day 1c - Paul Rumboll (JazzyJ) & Tony Stroud (penguin7).
Day 1d - todays VLV winner.
So there it is, & by spreading what days they play, Attila & I in Vegas will be able to bring you interviews with them all to camera, a running a Forum Live Update on every single day, blogs, tweets, the full works, & we can give all of them the best possible coverage.
I see Sky Poker legend Will Brewin just bought in direct for tonights final.... that field isn't getting any easier.. I'm in the 4pm semi, just hoping I get a sho at it.. good luck to everyone else in the semi and final
gla tonight! Hopefully we can get 11+ runners and riders to create a little kitty for 2nd. Posted by cottlad
With 40 minutes to go, there are 13 registered, so the £10,000 package to the Winner, plus £3,000 to the runner-up. There may yet be more direct buy-ins, too, so yes, there's a nice consolation prize for 2nd.
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Whoops. I have had a series of PM's from Haysie, who is suing me for defamation of character. I'm really not sure how one could do that, he's as daft as a brush.
I really think that as well as the 1in10 sats there could be 1in5 or 1in6 running alongside. So 1100 / 220 / 60 / 17. It adds another stage to qualify but instead of 9-1 x 9-1 x 9-1 = 729-1 it's 4-1 x 4-1 x 4-1 x 4-1 = 256-1. It also allows for more people to progress through more stages which would give them hope instead of always being against a 9-1 brick wall.
Just some thoughts.
PS..... someone needs to check my sums as the odds of making it to the final seem rather skewed????
I'm not sure what the "1100/ 200 / 60 / 17" represents.
Fergie 78 is what I would call one of the old school Sky players as he was here playing MTT's when I started and I remember he was one of the tougher players back then.
A few of them went to hone their skills elsewhere, such as Fergie, Farryboy and a few more will come to me I'm sure. After all back then there were fewer good players here to have skirmishes with. Funnily enough one of the best tables I was on in an MTT to learn from included Meredonkey, Youngster and THESWISS.
Cottlad makes a great point about the the sat structure too, I've looked at the quarter final a few nights and played a couple of them but the cost v chance option is slim in my eyes with the lack of players and I am trying to stick within my bankroll. I've also noticed alot of strange names playing, visitors I assume, which shows what a great package it is to win!
1 in 5 being 4-1 = 4x4x4x4?
I've sent you a PM.
I don't want to hijack another thread. :-)
Good morning.
Today is the last chance for players to qualify for Viva Las Vegas 2010, so a quick recap is in order.
At 4pm today, the very last VLV Semi-Final takes place. It is a 1 in 10 affair, & as of now, 9am Sunday, (I imagine there will be a few direct buy-ins) there are 24 runners.
The 24 runners are.....
50_50call2500andrew19472500blueyepete2500cookie832500ctbn2500DiggerMan2500DJ19562500FREELANCER2500hazzer2500jay19912500kevcoke692500kidgirlgy2500kohan2500Lucia12500Machina2500pokerdarts2500rumpo_kid2500sandman2902500sara36dd082500sherriff072500SHY-BOY2500SUPERNOVA2500SUPERSNEDD2500swordsyboy2500
Good luck to every one of of them!
Then, at 8pm (EIGHT PM) this evening, the "Final Final, so to speak.
With the 2 or more qualifiers from this afternoon's Semi still to be added, there are 8 runners, so that number will increase to 10 or 12 I imagine.
The 8 so far in are.....
I hope to be Online later this evening to Rail the Final - I first have to drive to Nottingham and back again - exactly as I did yesterday! - but for now, my best wishes to all of them.
I actually bumped into DrMarbles yesterday, at DTD in Nottingham, & I know he's well revved up for it. I'm seeing him again today, too, at a sort of Quiz affair, at lunchtime, in the Holiday Inn Nottingham, after which he plans to go & prepare for tonight's jobbie.
Haysie will be going for his 2nd package in a row, having been there in 2009, too.
Anyway, I know some of those guys, but to all of them - Attila & I will meet one of you at McCarron Airport, in Las Vegas, on July 2nd.
Those with their return flight tickets to Las Vegas, their Suites at The Rio Hotel booked, & their entries to the WSOP Main Event confirmed, are......
Dan Brown - via Total Player, NOT VLV.
And the VLV guys are.....
Penguin 7
LUFC1982
JazzyJ
Direwolf
Wait a minute - Direwolf? How did HE get in?
See next post!
In the VLV Final last month, there was a huge rail on the Final Table. It was a 19 runner affair, so ONE VLV Package worth £10,000, with a very sweet £9,000 in cash for the "unlucky" runner-up.
There was lots of chatterbox nattering about whether the eventual runner-up would be able to "sort" a package to Vegas out with Sky Poker by some means.
In fact, the runner-up & recipitent of £9,000 cash into his Account was Direwolf.
Direwolf later contacted Sky Poker to "see what the position was".
It went back & forth a bit, & then, but we could not contact him, as he was away from home, & we only had his home number.
The following Friday, I bumped into Direwolf at Glasgow SPT. He explained that he was interested in exploring the situation as to whether he could come to Vegas with us. So I introduced him to Rich Milner, & Rich outlined "the situation" to him, which Direwolf said he would consider.
"The situation" was this.
The VLV WINNERS get a package worth £10,000. What happens is that the £10,000 is retained by Sky Poker. Attila then books their return flights to Las Vegas for up to 2 people, their Suite at The Rio Hotel, & pays their entry into the $10,000 WSOP Main Event. The difference between the total cost of all that, & the £10,000 - in other words, the cash left over - is given to the player as their spending money.
Flight tickets & Hotel rates vary daily, as do currency rates, depending upon when Attila books them, but if a VLV Winner takes a guest, the total cost comes to just over £9,000, with the balance in cash being given to the player. If they do NOT take a guest, the cost drops to about (roughly) £8,500.
Direwolf's position was that Sky Poker could give him £9,000 worth of value - not a penny more, not a penny less - if he wanted to join us as part of the VLV Team.
The obvious answer was for him NOT to take a Guest, & that is what he elected to do, if indeed he decided to come with us.
He gave it 24 hours of thought, then contacted me to say he would like to accept that deal.
It gets quite complicated here, because he still had the £9,000 in his Account, but Sky Poker have absolutely no right to touch that money. So Attila had to formally write to him, & seek his written confirmation that he agreed to the money being taken out of his Account by Sky Poker, & his agreement to accept the VLV T & C's. Attila did that, Dire quickly confirmed, & that was that, happy days.
So Attila did all the booking & stuff, for ONE person, & it came to a shade under £9,000, with the small balance being given to Dire for spending money. Job done!
So Direwolf joins the Team Sky Poker Vegas raiding party, & I hope you'll ll join me in congratulating him. Those who met him at Glasgow SPT will confirm he's quite a character!
Good man him.
Finally, for now, the players already qualified via Sky Poker are all safely paid in & registered for the WSOP Main Event.
As you may know, there are FOUR opening days, or "flights" as they call them, this year, being named, with great originality, Days 1a, 1b, 1c, 7 1d.
Ia will be July 5th, 1b July 6th, 1c July 7th, & 1d July 8th.
The Day 1a & 1c survivors will play Day 2b on July 9th, & the survivors from Day 1b & 1d will play their Day Two on July 10th.
July 11th will be a Rest Day, with Day Three, when the Day 2a & 2b survivors will combine into a single flight, being July 12th.
The days booked for each player (they are all paid in & registered) are as follows.
Day 1a - Darren (LUFC1982).
Day 1b - Dan. (DanTB10).
Day 1c - Paul Rumboll (JazzyJ) & Tony Stroud (penguin7).
Day 1d - todays VLV winner.
So there it is, & by spreading what days they play, Attila & I in Vegas will be able to bring you interviews with them all to camera, a running a Forum Live Update on every single day, blogs, tweets, the full works, & we can give all of them the best possible coverage.
So, just one more name to go on that list.
Good luck to all trying to win the final seat(s) tonight.
I see Sky Poker legend Will Brewin just bought in direct for tonights final.... that field isn't getting any easier.. I'm in the 4pm semi, just hoping I get a sho at it.. good luck to everyone else in the semi and final