I too would love to see this a monthly tournie. Sats are critical as most people on here (me included) can't afford to consistently shell out £110. Reality tells me this will be a struggle. 30 again tonight for the £22 deepy and thats a reasonable representation of the numbers, despite everyone asking for the deepy thats all that we can get (and there are sats in place as well). Numbers are likely to decrease over the next few weeks as the holiday season deepens. In the £22 deepy paying 6 is good, but if you only get 20 runners or so, again are you going to feel that it isn't worthwhile playing? How many runners are you expecting? Also the point you make about playing poker to make money, this will be a harder field and potentially less attractive to good players like yourself as this will be a harder game to win without the usual fish. Even if this tourney goes ahead you might still make more profit from the £55 DYM's. Personally i like the 20 min 3000 chips structure, also a ten seater would be appreciated. Good luck and i hope you can make this happen!! Posted by skicowboys
the five0 got 50 players at £100 every week no prob,u need tv for more players, just bring back the five0 with longer blinds,all replay to this if u want five0 back
Thanks everyone for your comments and suggestions, you'll be pleased to know that the first £100 + £10 deepstack tournament is now up in the lobby and open for registration.
Tournament Details
Tournament name: £2000 Deepstack Start time: 7.15pm Sunday 2nd August (7.15pm every sunday thereafter) Buy-in: £100 + £10 £2000 Guaranteed Prizepool 5000 chips and 15 minute blinds (Same structure as the Viva Las Vegas Finals) Standard Sky MTT pay structure Highlights to be shown on Sky Channel 865.
Satellite Structure
Mondays - Saturdays
7.30pm 10pm 11pm
Buy-in £5.50 + £0.50 Maximum 20 players, 1 seat is guaranteed into the Sunday Deepstack. 2000 chips and 10 minute blinds
We'll run these for the 1st 2 weeks to effectively guarantee 18 players in the deepstack each week from satellites alone, then dependant on numbers we may open these up to standard satellite structures.
Sundays
1.15pm 2.15pm 3.15pm 3.45pm
Buy-In £11 + £1 1 seat into the £2K Deepstack for every 10 entrants 2000 chips and 10 minute blinds
We'll happily hold the £2000 guarantee for the 1st few weeks and guarantee the seats via satellites to help get this tournament going, but if this is going to grow into a flagship tournament then we need your support.
Also how about coming up with a name for it?
Best suggestion, as judged by me and Sky_Bernie by 5pm on Friday will win a seat into Friday Night's £9,000 GTD Open!
Thank you once again for all your comments, we hope you enjoy the tournament and if you have any further suggestions then please feel free to let us know.
Fantastic news, well done guys and a big thank you to sky. I've already registered for the first sat tonight! Just one question, why would you limit the number that can play in the sats? Similar to the vegas sats you guarantee one place then pay cash value for 2nd until its gets to the value of a second seat etc.etc. That way anyone that wants to play can play. My choice for a name "SUPER SUNDAY", or "SUPERSTAR SUPERSTACK" or "SUNDAY SUPERSTACK".
Good news about this new tournie....however I usually play live on a Sunday at a £100 tournie so will not be able to support it on a weekly basis, however if I can play in it I will.
Fantastic news, well done guys and a big thank you to sky. I've already registered for the first sat tonight! Just one question, why would you limit the number that can play in the sats? Similar to the vegas sats you guarantee one place then pay cash value for 2nd until its gets to the value of a second seat etc.etc. That way anyone that wants to play can play. My choice for a name "SUPER SUNDAY", or "SUPERSTAR SUPERSTACK" or "SUNDAY SUPERSTACK". Posted by skicowboys
We cant guarantee a seat and also allow 1 in 20 to win their ticket. Therefore if there were 19 runners, no seat would be awarded, just a cash prize. If the number of runners is good in the satellites (I.E. they keep maxing out at 20) then we will revert to the standard satellite format, in the meantime by doing this way we can guarantee at least 18 players in the Sunday Final.
Thanks for all your suggestions so far, keep them coming!
Thanks everyone for your comments and suggestions, you'll be pleased to know that the first £100 + £10 deepstack tournament is now up in the lobby and open for registration. Tournament Details Tournament name: £2000 Deepstack Start time: 7.15pm Sunday 2nd August (7.15pm every sunday thereafter) Buy-in: £100 + £10 £2000 Guaranteed Prizepool 5000 chips and 15 minute blinds (Same structure as the Viva Las Vegas Finals) Standard Sky MTT pay structure Highlights to be shown on Sky Channel 865. Satellite Structure Mondays - Saturdays 7.30pm 10pm 11pm Buy-in £5.50 + £0.50 Maximum 20 players, 1 seat is guaranteed into the Sunday Deepstack. 2000 chips and 10 minute blinds We'll run these for the 1st 2 weeks to effectively guarantee 18 players in the deepstack each week from satellites alone, then dependant on numbers we may open these up to standard satellite structures. Sundays 1.15pm 2.15pm 3.15pm 3.45pm Buy-In £11 + £1 1 seat into the £2K Deepstack for every 10 entrants 2000 chips and 10 minute blinds We'll happily hold the £2000 guarantee for the 1st few weeks and guarantee the seats via satellites to help get this tournament going, but if this is going to grow into a flagship tournament then we need your support. Also how about coming up with a name for it? Best suggestion, as judged by me and Sky_Bernie by 5pm on Friday will win a seat into Friday Night's £9,000 GTD Open! Thank you once again for all your comments, we hope you enjoy the tournament and if you have any further suggestions then please feel free to let us know. Adam Posted by Sky_Adam
sorry to say the sats to this r a joke? winner takes all sat?why not have 1 big semi £10 sat daily? the tourney looks great,but i will never be buying str8 into it,and i wont be playing a winner takes all sat,who agrees with me? i think u nearly got it right this time sky
Great Thread Dan, & nice to hear from you. How is Annicka/Annek/Anickka?
Just to pick up on a few points in the Thread.
The Summer Season - by which I mean "light nights", from about April to late September, always sees a significant downturn in Online Poker Traffic. So the existing £20 Deepie, currently getting about 30 max, will deffo get 50+ come the winter, plus natural organic growth, so 60/70/80 for this (£20) Tourney in the Winter is quite feasible. Just give it time, it WILL happen.
As to the suggestion of a Sunday Night Deepie, a sort of Flagship Tourney, well as I suggested above - VERY exciting news is VERY imminent!
I'm so excited about this, & slight leakage may have occurred.
Yes as we talked about yesterday with some of the sky reps at york. I think a tournament like this should be implemented to attract the Cash players .25/.50 /> 5/10 and i suppose £30 /> £100s Double your money / stt and Hu players who wouldn't normally feel the need to play the open or even the £20 deepstackfor serious play. The thing is we all play to make money - So the £20 deepstack is great dont get me wrong but i would have to basically come 2nd or win it everynight to justify me playing it for money as opposed to fun. As i could just load up 5 £50 DYM's and potentially win the first place in the deepstack £150 in around 1 - 2 hours rather than concentrate on the deepstack [which you have to] for 3+ hours as it is now with 25ish runners a night. I'm thinking thats right for any of the fellow £50 DYM players and cash players because we play for money as appose to "fun" but don't get me wrong we all love the game to ! So personally i think a £75+7? - £100+10 sunday 7:30-9pm tourny would go down a treat because every other poker site has a sunday big tourny where as sky dont. Thinking off the top of my head i could think of Nutter5932 Ljb1989 Gliterbabe Dantb10 Drewmcrobb gerrard9 Pokerbcity CasioKid Freelancer Pkrf1sh Haysie armagh Phil12uk IRONZ Bigshann llew8181 Jinglema lidboy81 gadgerno1 121285 Thank would probably play this buy-in and thier only DYM players ! A guarentee is not necessary to start with i don't think but maybe final table all payed could be. Even if the tournament gets put up in the lobby next week with no guarentee what do sky lose......nothing! Anyway just my thoughts. Posted by Nutter5932
Terrific Post Ben, but I'm hurting here....no room for an old guy?
The 'missus' is fine thanks, (thats what i call her cos even i cant pronounce her name!)
I know its a quiet period but just hope we can get it off the ground and watch it grow gradually to become 'THE' tourney, and with satelites running gives all players the opportunity to participate and win big!
Hi Tikay, The 'missus' is fine thanks, (thats what i call her cos even i cant pronounce her name!) I know its a quiet period but just hope we can get it off the ground and watch it grow gradually to become 'THE' tourney, and with satelites running gives all players the opportunity to participate and win big! Posted by dantb10
Thanks Dan.
Think positively - we WILL make it work!
"we" of course is not Sky Poker - it's us, the Players. If we support it, it will stay, & grow with time. But we do need to be patient, to give it time, & if we can hang in until the dark nights, this Tourney will grow & grow.
I to got a little over excited just being told by Dantn10 its up in the lobby....JACKPOT !
I fully expect it to hit its 20 runners atleast for the first few weeks but natrually some people will play one week then not the next because of other commitments ! Of course you would play tikay but i don't fully know if you present that night
Names hmmm..
The Sunday Deepstack ! obvious.. The Big One King of the hill
Comments
Tournament Details
Tournament name: £2000 Deepstack
Start time: 7.15pm Sunday 2nd August (7.15pm every sunday thereafter)
Buy-in: £100 + £10
£2000 Guaranteed Prizepool
5000 chips and 15 minute blinds (Same structure as the Viva Las Vegas Finals)
Standard Sky MTT pay structure
Highlights to be shown on Sky Channel 865.
Satellite Structure
Mondays - Saturdays
7.30pm
10pm
11pm
Buy-in £5.50 + £0.50
Maximum 20 players, 1 seat is guaranteed into the Sunday Deepstack.
2000 chips and 10 minute blinds
We'll run these for the 1st 2 weeks to effectively guarantee 18 players in the deepstack each week from satellites alone, then dependant on numbers we may open these up to standard satellite structures.
Sundays
1.15pm
2.15pm
3.15pm
3.45pm
Buy-In £11 + £1
1 seat into the £2K Deepstack for every 10 entrants
2000 chips and 10 minute blinds
We'll happily hold the £2000 guarantee for the 1st few weeks and guarantee the seats via satellites to help get this tournament going, but if this is going to grow into a flagship tournament then we need your support.
Also how about coming up with a name for it?
Best suggestion, as judged by me and Sky_Bernie by 5pm on Friday will win a seat into Friday Night's £9,000 GTD Open!
Thank you once again for all your comments, we hope you enjoy the tournament and if you have any further suggestions then please feel free to let us know.
Adam
How about for a name 'The Grand Slam' - Grand Slam Sunday.
Fantastic news, well done guys and a big thank you to sky. I've already registered for the first sat tonight!
Just one question, why would you limit the number that can play in the sats?
Similar to the vegas sats you guarantee one place then pay cash value for 2nd until its gets to the value of a second seat etc.etc. That way anyone that wants to play can play.
My choice for a name "SUPER SUNDAY", or "SUPERSTAR SUPERSTACK" or "SUNDAY SUPERSTACK".
Thanks for all your suggestions so far, keep them coming!
Cheers adam for the support and sorry for constantly goin on about it!lol
Lets make this tourney the flagship guys and get right behind it as we have in the forum.
It could be called 'THE SUNDAY REAL DEAL'
Sigh... im terrible at coming up with names but thats the best i can offer lol!
WATCH THIS SPACE!
Great Thread Dan, & nice to hear from you. How is Annicka/Annek/Anickka?
Just to pick up on a few points in the Thread.
The Summer Season - by which I mean "light nights", from about April to late September, always sees a significant downturn in Online Poker Traffic. So the existing £20 Deepie, currently getting about 30 max, will deffo get 50+ come the winter, plus natural organic growth, so 60/70/80 for this (£20) Tourney in the Winter is quite feasible. Just give it time, it WILL happen.
As to the suggestion of a Sunday Night Deepie, a sort of Flagship Tourney, well as I suggested above - VERY exciting news is VERY imminent!
I'm so excited about this, & slight leakage may have occurred.
Even as I typed my previous Post, the Tourney was announced.
Terrific news.
Hope you & your Dad are both well.
The 'missus' is fine thanks, (thats what i call her cos even i cant pronounce her name!)
I know its a quiet period but just hope we can get it off the ground and watch it grow gradually to become 'THE' tourney, and with satelites running gives all players the opportunity to participate and win big!
Think positively - we WILL make it work!
"we" of course is not Sky Poker - it's us, the Players. If we support it, it will stay, & grow with time. But we do need to be patient, to give it time, & if we can hang in until the dark nights, this Tourney will grow & grow.
Stars on Sunday
Sunday Showdown
High Roller
Roller Coaster Sunday
Sunday Sundae
Oooneeeeee Hunnnnnnnnnnnnnndred (as in darts caller)
Well I think that as Dan suggested the tourney, we should name it after him, how abour Dan,s Deepie ?
Very Well done at the WSOP by the way mate
Name? Hmmmmm....
The Century Sunday
The Sunday Century
You could call it THE TON UP TOURNY.
Or how about THE BLUE RIBBON DEEPSTACK
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I fully expect it to hit its 20 runners atleast for the first few weeks but natrually some people will play one week then not the next because of other commitments ! Of course you would play tikay but i don't fully know if you present that night
Names hmmm..
The Sunday Deepstack ! obvious..
The Big One
King of the hill
bah who knows ill leave that to you.