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Satellites for Blackpool
FlyingDagg
Member Posts: 4,146
I qualified for the Blackpool semi last night and when it started to say players were unhappy is an understatement. There were 19 runners and only one place on offer, and nearly all the players on my table were cursing the fact. A week or so ago I also played a semi that had 29 runners and only 2 places available. All this does is make the 1 in 10 seem a joke and it' so much harder to qualify. The field is barely increasing by 8 or 9 places a week and at this rate will not fill. Last night it was 1 place and £198 for runner up, surely Sky could round them up to 2 places when it is so near the next limit?
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however if you came 2nd you could add £20 and bingo you have a seat..
Stick a £40 + rake 1in5 game up, and say some £8 + rake 1in5 into that
People are playing Blackpool sats cos they wanna play at SPT Blackpool
However at no point do I discuss what I'm doing, if you talk to the other people at the table, then you are colluding to affect the natural course of the result.
Your way, you just build up your stack until someone can call you and you have a chance of knocking someone else out. Just saying.
As for the best way, it would have been pretty simple to limp in, check to the river multi-way and disclose your hands to each other. That's how you rig a hand,good and proper... Although if you do that in any normal form of the game you'd be in the brown stuff. lol
Strictly speaking a £40 satellite would only make it easier to qualify if you could afford to buy straight into it. Otherwise, your chances of qualifying for the event via the £5 sats would be unchanged. You'd just have to finish higher in the field at the lower level before going into the £40 sat.
The difficulty is the £220 buy-in. If it doesn't make its cap I'm sure Sky will restrict themselves to £110 events in future, but that price isn't conducive to a two day event.
On the other hand, I'm pretty sure it will get close to its cap. 77 at the moment so if they average 2 per night for the next two weeks, that's 105. Add a few live satellite winners, priority club and maybe direct buy-ins and I'm sure they'll make it up to 150. I'd suspect you'll see the satellite fields grow in the last few days before they close, anyway.
Would you go into Tescos get an item that costs £1.09 go up to the counter and say i only have £1, can't you just let me have it for that.
As another post here sais , nearer the time there will prob be direct buy in which will not be much more that you won, or spend the winnings on trying to qaulify again.
Borin Loner 2 seats a night is optimistic. 1 seat a night seems standard 2 at the most maybe a couple of times a week.
The reason this one is 1 in 10 is because the buy in is £220 rather than £110 so Sky have decided to keep the sats at the same price but make it 1 in 10 . I am sure if the sats were £40 and 1 in 5 people would complain they were too much .