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Sky's tournament schedule
EvilPingu
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Earlier today, I was replying to a post in my diary thread earlier, which was basically saying "Why don't you play more tournaments?". The honest answer to this is that there's not much on Sky's tournament schedule which really interests me.
4) Lack of micro stakes timed tournaments - There's two £3.30 Timed Tournaments, one at 19:05 and another a bit later. The rest are £5.50 and above. I reckon that a couple of £1.10 and £2.20 Timed Tournaments would be a welcome addition to the lobby. Also a couple of 60 minute ones with smaller buy-ins, I think the smallest 60 minute Timed Tournament is £11? Why no 60 minute, £3.30 Timed Tournaments? Can understand from Sky's point of view that only 30p rake for someone playing for an hour is rubbish, and they'd probably make more if that same person sat at a 4NL table, but at least give us a 60 minute, £5.50 Timed Tournament or two.
5) Bigger Omaha tournament - There's quite a few Omaha players on the site, surely there's room for a nightly £5.50 tournament with a decent guarantee? If the £5.50 PLO8 tournament can meet the £100 guarantee every night, then surely PLO can as well.
There's no point in me moaning about something and just saying "Sort it out Sky", without saying what I think could be changed to improve it. I've put these in order of importance, so the stuff near the top is "Sort it out Sky", and the stuff at the bottom is "That sounds cool, might as well put it on this thread".
1) Antes - Can't have a "Sort it out Sky!" thread about tournaments without mentioning the lack of Antes. They've been "Coming Soon" for ages, where are they and when are they coming?
2) The lack of freezeouts above £5.50 - I'm not a huge fan of Bounty Hunters, so I looked for the biggest freezeout I could find which runs every single night. The biggest freezeout I found, which wasn't the £5k Open or the Sky Roller, was a £200 GTD, £5.50 buy-in tournament which started at 6pm. There's also a £11, £300 GTD tournament at Midnight. Everything in between is Bounty Hunters.
If people play these freezeouts (which presumably they do as these tournaments have a guarantee), then surely they'd play a similar tournament in the evening, so why isn't there at least a £11 freezeout or two, running at some point during the evening with a few hundred quid guarantee? There's the big £110 tournament every night, and a load of £1.10 - £5.50 stuff, but nothing in between.
Also, I often see people respond with "But people like Bounty Hunters" - Fair point, but there's also people that don't like Bounty Hunters, and have you ever considered that people play Bounty Hunters because of the lack of normal freezeouts with a decent buy-in and guarantee on here?
In general, I think the Hold'em section of the tournament lobby is a bit too "gimmicky". There's a lot of Timed Tournaments, Bounty Hunters, 1 Minute Roulette tournaments, which isn't a problem if people play and enjoy them, but in adding all of these fancy tournaments to the lobby, I think that Sky have overlooked the need for plain old freezeouts on the site.
3) 15% rake on Bounty Hunters up to £5.75 - A fool and his money are soon parted, I guess. If people are willing to pay 15% rake then it makes sense for Sky to charge 15% rake, but compared to other sites, it's terrible. I know quite a few players (myself included) refuse to play these because of the 15% rake. Of course, I wouldn't play Bounty Hunters much anyway, but if I wanted to play them, I would be discouraged by the 15% rake. Think this needs looking at and possibly dropping to 10%, like the rest of the industry.
4) Lack of micro stakes timed tournaments - There's two £3.30 Timed Tournaments, one at 19:05 and another a bit later. The rest are £5.50 and above. I reckon that a couple of £1.10 and £2.20 Timed Tournaments would be a welcome addition to the lobby. Also a couple of 60 minute ones with smaller buy-ins, I think the smallest 60 minute Timed Tournament is £11? Why no 60 minute, £3.30 Timed Tournaments? Can understand from Sky's point of view that only 30p rake for someone playing for an hour is rubbish, and they'd probably make more if that same person sat at a 4NL table, but at least give us a 60 minute, £5.50 Timed Tournament or two.
5) Bigger Omaha tournament - There's quite a few Omaha players on the site, surely there's room for a nightly £5.50 tournament with a decent guarantee? If the £5.50 PLO8 tournament can meet the £100 guarantee every night, then surely PLO can as well.
6) Lack of £1.10 PLO8 game in the evenings - I realise that PLO8 is never going to be as popular as Hold'em. However, there's 3 £1.10 PLO8 tournaments at 11:55, 14:55, and 16:55, but nothing when people get home from work. I've not played PLO8 for a while, so idk how many people are playing them, but another one a bit later in the evening would surely encourage more people who haven't played PLO8 before to give PLO8 a try.
Either that, or there's PLO Freerolls at weekends, maybe do a PLO8 Freeroll as well sometime?
7) NLH/Omaha Mixed tournament - We've got Hold'em and Omaha on here, so surely this would be possible? Could be fun 
If I've missed anything, add it to this thread
Comments
I would add that 20% rake on micro DYMs is a scandal.
micro DYMs for PLO8
3 min blinds for sats is too short
Other than that u got it covered.
Not holding my breath though, been down all these roads before
But other than that spot on.
Also would be nice if there was some 50 60 quid tournes, theres just a random jump from the £33 bh's to the £110 rollers and bh.
On the nights the roller or £110 bh don't run, they should have a £30-60 buy in tourne i think, even with a low gurantee, maybe 30 -50 runners.
Basically would generally like to see more £22 £33 and maybe £44 £55 and £66 buy in tournaments in general, maybe one during the day when there is nothing over £11 and maybe one later on.
I would assume that the lack of £11 freezeouts is down to Sky not wanting to impact on the Main Event numbers with another, reasonably large buy-in tournament. They would probably see them as being competing events, rather than complementary.
2. I agree. The more freezeouts the better.
I agree that Russian Roulettes are a gimic. They're basically a coin flip.
However, I disagree that Bounty Hunters and Timed Tournaments are a gimic. Perhaps there is more luck involved than in a several hundred player, several hour MTT. However, there is still proper poker to be played.
3. Yeah, I dunno what other sites get away with. But anything over 10% seems a bit of a liberty.
4. I actually think the opposite. Most are £5 like you say. But almost all the rest are split between £2 and £3. There used to be a nightly £20 which they should bring back. There also used to be a nightly £10 which still exists; but there should be a few more.
AFAIK there are loads of £2 and £3 (which should stay). They dont really need more.
5. to 7. Cannot comment.
However, with timing, it can be done without cannibilising much else. And will be.
There are scores of criteria to meet & evaluate, & it's not possible to please everyone.
As I noted above, watch this space for a very imminent change.
The schedule won't be "ripped up" though, it's working well, but it could always be better, & Sky Poker will keep trying to do that.