Where's Monday's £4K BH?

TheDart

I played in the £4K BH last Monday after qualifying through the satellite, it made its guarantee, with room to spare.
 
I can't find tonight satellites or main tourney in the lobby, am I mistaken or has it been cancelled?

aussie09

hi dart.. it was in the lobby earlier but now looks cancelled.  pity.

Tikay10

Hi Guys,

Yes, you are correct, tonight's renewal of the 9pm £4,000 Guarantteed BH has been cancelled.

I had a note to this effect from Head Office earlier today, & I intended to mention it on Forum, my apologies.

I don't actually know why it has been cancelled, but I would hazard a guess that it is a standard seasonal schedule tweak, & it will return in due course.

 

TheDart

In Response to Re: Where's Monday's £4K BH?:

Hi Guys, Yes, you are correct, tonight's renewal of the 9pm £4,000 Guarantteed BH has been cancelled. I had a note to this effect from Head Office earlier today, & I intended to mention it on Forum, my apologies. I don't actually know why it has been cancelled, but I would hazard a guess that it is a standard seasonal schedule tweak, & it will return in due course.  
Posted by Tikay10

Hi Tikay, thanks for the reply.

I had guessed it may well have been due to seasonal trends.

I will certainly be away from the site for parts of August, but there are days / weeks I would still like to play on the site with a decent choice and tournaments I can aspire to play in.

Cancelling the £4KBH is all well and good, but not replacing it with a suitable alternative is the real shame here.

Why not a £2K - £3K mtt with a £55 buy-in and £12 one in five sats or something similar?

I have to confess I won't play in these higher buy-in mtt's unless I satellite through, but having the opportunity to qualify for these mtt's each week on Sky, keeps me interested in the site as a whole.

Or perhaps I should take the hint and take a complete break for a month

rosjim1

credit where credit is due sky has improved the b hunter scedual the £33 6pm game was great altough 6.30 might work better with people getting home from work. shame the £110 has been cancled was looking forward to playing the sat

In Response to Re: Where's Monday's £4K BH?:

Hi Guys, Yes, you are correct, tonight's renewal of the 9pm £4,000 Guarantteed BH has been cancelled. I had a note to this effect from Head Office earlier today, & I intended to mention it on Forum, my apologies. I don't actually know why it has been cancelled, but I would hazard a guess that it is a standard seasonal schedule tweak, & it will return in due course.  
Posted by Tikay10

shaun09

I still wish they would make smaller sats for them. 7,20 a pop is a bit to much for us micro players:D

Tikay10

In Response to Re: Where's Monday's £4K BH?:

In Response to Re: Where's Monday's £4K BH? : Hi Tikay, thanks for the reply. I had guessed it may well have been due to seasonal trends. I will certainly be away from the site for parts of August, but there are days / weeks I would still like to play on the site with a decent choice and tournaments I can aspire to play in. Cancelling the £4KBH is all well and good, but not replacing it with a suitable alternative is the real shame here. Why not a £2K - £3K mtt with a £55 buy-in and £12 one in five sats or something similar? I have to confess I won't play in these higher buy-in mtt's unless I satellite through, but having the opportunity to qualify for these mtt's each week on Sky, keeps me interested in the site as a whole. Or perhaps I should take the hint and take a complete break for a month
Posted by TheDart

Morning Darty.

I'll pitch that up to the Suits in this morning's weekly MM, but my gut reaction is that it won't work.

In terms of "affordability", I think £50 or so is one of several "tipping points", & those who can regularly afford to play a £50 Tourney are almost identical to those who can regularly play £100-ers - it's much the same group of players.

I may be wrong, it just feels that way to me, though that is my personal view, not the Company's one.

We could do what Charlie Munger used to do if you like, & turn the problem upside down, do the obverse trick. A prolonged period of snow in the next few weeks, maybe even a little meterological tempest or something, would definitely aid a swift return of the Monday night £110 9pm jobbie.   

Tikay10

In Response to Re: Where's Monday's £4K BH?:

I still wish they would make smaller sats for them. 7,20 a pop is a bit to much for us micro players:D
Posted by shaun09

I take your point, Shaun, & see where you are going, & why, but it does not really work like that, or I don't think it does.

If they made, say, the £7.20 sats into £3.60 ones, they would be half the price (& thus twice as affordable) but twice as hard to qualify by.

TheDart

In Response to Re: Where's Monday's £4K BH?:

In Response to Re: Where's Monday's £4K BH? : Morning Darty. I'll pitch that up to the Suits in this morning's weekly MM, but my gut reaction is that it won't work. In terms of "affordability", I think £50 or so is one of several "tipping points", & those who can regularly afford to play a £50 Tourney are almost identical to those who can regularly play £100-ers - it's much the same group of players. I may be wrong, it just feels that way to me, though that is my personal view, not the Company's one. We could do what Charlie Munger used to do if you like, & turn the problem upside down, do the obverse trick. A prolonged period of snow in the next few weeks, maybe even a little meterological tempest or something, would definitely aid a swift return of the Monday night £110 9pm jobbie.    
Posted by Tikay10

Having googled Charlie Munger, it seams he may be a little wiser than me!
 
So if Charlie Munger would recommend giving the higher stakes mtt's a complete rest I will bow to his superior knowledge and experience!

I have noticed there is a tendency to kill / withdraw events on Sky and then bring them back bigger and stronger, I guess that's a business model that works in the poker world, it seems to mirror the life of a lot of the more serious poker players; big build ups, adrenalin rushes, mighty highs, somber lows, reality checks, followed by a gentle pick me up and here we go again!

Tikay10

So many things to say off the back of that Charlie Munger thing, Darty.

He got to be one of THE world's richest men simply by using that "obverse" thing, trying to understand what the OTHER person, or party, is thinking.

No different to what a good chess player does, or Sir Alex, when he picks his team. Or a poker player, trying to think what Villain has, & will do.

What is HE thinking?

Charlie is the greatest. For real saddos, here is his Wiki page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Munger

Tikay10

"....I have noticed there is a tendency to kill / withdraw events on Sky and then bring them back bigger and stronger...."

Sort of, partly, yes.

Keeping the recipe fresh, mixing it up, freshening things up, yes, all good businesses do that, all the time. Tinkering, fettling, improving, sometimes getting it wrong, too.

Sometimes, though, market forces have to be addressed. In a day or two, the Olympics begin, & that is a massive thing, & will defo affect all Poker Sites, without a doubt, so it has to be faced. Good weather, too, that changes everything as to Online Poker, people wanna go down the pub, or whatever.

Big sporting Events - Olympics, Euro12, Champions League nights, any big televised sporting event impacts traffic levels, adversely for poker, positively for, say, Sky Bet.
 
Weather, too.

Good weather = bad for Poker, good for Sky bet.

Bad weather = good for Poker, bad for Sky Bet.

Swings & swongs.