A fun competition for you where we'll pick a winner and give them a £55 Primo Seat. We will also look at implementing the idea! So what do you need to do?
Basically, the challenge is to design your own loyalty promotion!
What do we mean by that?
Well here you will see some of the promotions that are running on Sky Poker at the moment (with things like Cash for Points etc being regular fixtures). We've done others in the past, you may remember things like -'Poker Premiership', 'TKO', 'Freeroll Festival', 'Play the Nation', 'Easter Bounty Hunter' etc.
These promotions are meant to be fun, intersting and add a twist to playing at Sky Poker. They are also aimed at giving things away and rewarding loyalty, the same as any customer promotion for any other product. We want you to design one of your own.
We want you to be creative and different but to help and to make them realistic and practical, here's a few 'guidelines' to help:
1) Please give it a name 2) Explain the promotion 3) Explain the rewards / prizes (up to £500)* 4) Explain how people qualify or earn the prizes
* We've said up to £500 just so that people dont say unrealistic numbers and so that they are all consistent with each other.
You have until noon on Friday 3rd August to submit your idea on this thread and we will announce the winner soon after!
Feel free to comment on each others ideas too.
Thanks Sky Poker Team
Hint - remember, it's important that you can easily explain the promotion so that people understand it quickly and easily. Make it exciting too.
Half priority . People who have played on the site for over a year, or over 2 years. Should receive a loyalty bonus -
A) if they play on the site for a certain amount of time 5 + days a week.
If they have made over 5000 points every month for the last yearr.
From a personal point of view, i have probably made over 5000 points for the last 2 and a half years + (over 16000 points several times) Due to priority +3 month rate change, after one month where i was unable to make 10k points, due to work and other commitments, there is now absolutely no point in me trying to re-gain the priority status, as it would take 4 months of getting over 10k points, to get me back at the bonus level i was getting for all of 2010, 2011. The priority freerolls are always on a tuesday , which is a night i am unable to play. Although the vegas freeroll package was without question a great reward for TommyD, it is again absolutely no advantage to people under 21, and people who have no intention of spending 2 weeks in vegas, due to work , family etc...
So now sadly i choose to play alot of my poker elsewhere.
In summary, i've made over 5000 points on the c4p scheme, for 2 + years. I play probably 5 - 6 days a week, some weeks everyday. I feel i am "looked after" no better than someone who joined the site last month , plays one day a week, and makes 1000 points.
1. The Birthday Bonus. 2. & 3. You get free entry into the main & mini on the day of your birthday. 4. Everyone is eligible. I think? ;-) Posted by Glenelg
It would be just my luck to have this one chosen, as I only have a birthday every 4 years! :P
In Response to Re: Competition - Win a Primo Seat : It would be just my luck to have this one chosen, as I only have a birthday every 4 years! :P Posted by Donut64
LOL Should you be even playing on here? You're probably only 12? You'd get a roller entry every 4 x years! ;-)
1. The Birthday Bonus. 2. & 3. You get free entry into the main & mini on the day of your birthday. 4. Everyone is eligible. I think? ;-) Posted by Glenelg
I believbe we currently get a fiver for our birthdays as it stands, i got a bonus on my birthday anyways.
Ill be back with my own idea later need time to think
I'd like a chance to play more main events but prefer to play and enjoy smaller events to get more experience and progress to the later stages more often. What about a Mini Max promo? If you play in the mini event three times or more a week, you qualify for a free roll where seats are available for main events the following week. Or if you want it to run alongside C4P you could make it 12 mini's a month to qualify for the free roll.
For the high rollers you could have a similar qualification using main event entries and have a monthly freeroll for players who have entered 12 main events or more offering an SPT seat as the prize.
Mine is quite simply inspired by my love of the 4 card variants and tikays great run in the wsop.
1) Name: HiLo HiLo its off to cash we go 2) It will be based around a series of PLO8 tournaments run twice daily. During the afternoon and the evening at either the 1-10 or 2-20 buyin level.This will make it fine for most peoples bankrolls and not discourage new players.
3) the prize of 500 will be in a freeroll for participants in these tournaments.
4) Qualification is simple. For everyone of the tournaments that a player enters( up to a max of 1 per day) they receive 100chips in the freeroll. This means you will have players with anything from 100 chips up to the maximum of 3000/3100.
With any luck this would also increase the traffic in this beautiful variant of poker.
How about a "sky players championship"make it a 10 month promotion for players with 1.000 points or more. Each month we have a play-off,chip allocation = the points players accumalated over the period maxing out at 5.000 chips.
League fomat top ten finishers get 10 pts win and so forth.
Prize for the players champion is representing sky at vegas as champion,now i know this exceeds the limit but with promotion and tv coverage it should be a winner.
I don't know if this is too much work for Sky or if it's do-able, I don't know what kinda data Sky have access to in regards to people's results.
But a good reward scheme would be based on people's win-rate/ROI. If the system work out ROI, surely your system could say 'this person has played 129 DYMs this month and won 74 of them' or something of the like?
Call it, 'The ROI King'... so break it down into say 4 categories so the most possible people have the chance to benefit from it...
DYMs <£5.50 DYMs />£5.50
HU SnGs <£5.50 HU SnGs />£5.50
Run it every month, best ROI (or win percentage) for each category gets £90, 2nd best for each category gets £35. Say you would have to play a minimum of 200 HU SnGs and a minimum of 100 DYMs to qualify.
It means it isn't only available to high rollers, it means you don't have to put MASS volume in to be the best, but at the same time, people who put in MASS volume are at no disadvantage.
Over a month, the top 5 players who generate the most rake on each cash level (NL4 to NL-nosebleed) receive a bonus of X bigblinds for the level.
Gives frequent small stakes player the chance of better rewards where larger stake players would normally dominate, but still gives a larger bonus to those players at higher stakes generating more rake.
This is a challenge which runs for a month and as it extends to all MTT’s at all levels it should reward the most loyal players.
If you win a hand with 72 offsuit- then post up the hand ID and number of chips won on the challenge thread. At the end of the month the nine players with the highest total chips counts win a cash prize- £10 £20 £30 £40 £50 £60 £75 £90 and £125 for 1st place.
2)Timed Trial
This week long event can be a marathon or seven 15min sprints- it’s up to you, and it will definitely get people playing the timed tournaments and reward loyalty!
It’s basically a 24 hour, 7 day version of Rich’s challenge. For each 24 hour period people post their top return on investment from a timed tournament on the challenge thread, and whoever has the highest average ROI over the seven days- wins free entry to every main event for a week!
3)DYM Decathlon
A simple challenge to reward sit and go players of all levels.
The first 10 players to string together 10 (back to back) double your money wins are rewarded with free entry to the Saturday main event.
2: Play the main and mini every night of 1 week in august i.e 6th-12th. Have a league to see top 6, but must play in at least 2 mains and 2 minis in that week, with league points for both. Then the top 6 of league at end of week, plus all winners of main and mini get automatic entry into the freeroll final, so 20 players play for the £500 prizepool, with prizes awarded for the top 5.
3: Top 6 in the league and the 14 winners of the main and mini (get automatic places) to the final freeroll.
4: To qualify must enter at least 2 mains and 2 minis in the week, and finish in top 6 of league for that week or win any of the main or mini events for that week.
Hope you understand what i am trying to come up with here, as i think great idea to boost numbers in the nights main and mini events over the summers weeks. And i hope SKY or the FORUM would do this for the future too.
If above seems to much over 7 days, then could try over a weekend or maybe weeknights only.
Or possible to play over the week and best 2 score from each main or mini count for league points. So only need to play in 2 of each, but more if needed to get better league postion.
What about increasing the C4p when tournaments exceed the guarantee by more than 20% Sky would benefit from the greater than expected rake. Players would benefit from incresed prizepool and inflated C4P. Instead of shall I enter, players will be thinking how fast can I enter when they see tournaments over subscribed.
GO4GOLD player's play in Tournament named after Olympic Events the top 3 get medals gold silver bronzemedals equals chips gold=3000 silver=2000 bronze=1000 you can win more then one medals G+S+B+B=7000 chips for the BIG final (up to £500)
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A) if they play on the site for a certain amount of time 5 + days a week.
From a personal point of view, i have probably made over 5000 points for the last 2 and a half years + (over 16000 points several times)
Due to priority +3 month rate change, after one month where i was unable to make 10k points, due to work and other commitments, there is now absolutely no point in me trying to re-gain the priority status, as it would take 4 months of getting over 10k points, to get me back at the bonus level i was getting for all of 2010, 2011.
The priority freerolls are always on a tuesday , which is a night i am unable to play. Although the vegas freeroll package was without question a great reward for TommyD, it is again absolutely no advantage to people under 21, and people who have no intention of spending 2 weeks in vegas, due to work , family etc...
So now sadly i choose to play alot of my poker elsewhere.
I feel i am "looked after" no better than someone who joined the site last month , plays one day a week, and makes 1000 points.
monthly loyalty freeroll
qualification entry requirement = play on site at least 10 days in the month
starting stack = number of hands played in the month
prize structure applied to top 10% of players
Ill be back with my own idea later need time to think
What about a Mini Max promo?
If you play in the mini event three times or more a week, you qualify for a free roll where seats are available for main events the following week.
Or if you want it to run alongside C4P you could make it 12 mini's a month to qualify for the free roll.
For the high rollers you could have a similar qualification using main event entries and have a monthly freeroll for players who have entered 12 main events or more offering an SPT seat as the prize.
1) Name: HiLo HiLo its off to cash we go
2) It will be based around a series of PLO8 tournaments run twice daily. During the afternoon and the evening at either the 1-10 or 2-20 buyin level.This will make it fine for most peoples bankrolls and not discourage new players.
3) the prize of 500 will be in a freeroll for participants in these tournaments.
4) Qualification is simple. For everyone of the tournaments that a player enters( up to a max of 1 per day) they receive 100chips in the freeroll. This means you will have players with anything from 100 chips up to the maximum of 3000/3100.
With any luck this would also increase the traffic in this beautiful variant of poker.
For every 100 S&G's you play at one level, eg. 100 @ £2.25 / 100 @ £11 etc, you get a free entry for that level.
Simples.
*Edit - maybe make it 200 games for Heads Up.
How about a "sky players championship"make it a 10 month promotion for players with 1.000 points or more.
Each month we have a play-off,chip allocation = the points players accumalated over the period maxing out at 5.000 chips.
League fomat top ten finishers get 10 pts win and so forth.
Prize for the players champion is representing sky at vegas as champion,now i know this exceeds the limit but with promotion and tv coverage it should be a winner.
lenny:)
But a good reward scheme would be based on people's win-rate/ROI. If the system work out ROI, surely your system could say 'this person has played 129 DYMs this month and won 74 of them' or something of the like?
Call it, 'The ROI King'... so break it down into say 4 categories so the most possible people have the chance to benefit from it...
DYMs <£5.50
DYMs />£5.50
HU SnGs <£5.50
HU SnGs />£5.50
Run it every month, best ROI (or win percentage) for each category gets £90, 2nd best for each category gets £35. Say you would have to play a minimum of 200 HU SnGs and a minimum of 100 DYMs to qualify.
It means it isn't only available to high rollers, it means you don't have to put MASS volume in to be the best, but at the same time, people who put in MASS volume are at no disadvantage.
Here’s a few ideas,
1) MegaBluff Month
This is a challenge which runs for a month and as it extends to all MTT’s at all levels it should reward the most loyal players.
If you win a hand with 72 offsuit- then post up the hand ID and number of chips won on the challenge thread. At the end of the month the nine players with the highest total chips counts win a cash prize- £10 £20 £30 £40 £50 £60 £75 £90 and £125 for 1st place.
2) Timed Trial
This week long event can be a marathon or seven 15min sprints- it’s up to you, and it will definitely get people playing the timed tournaments and reward loyalty!
It’s basically a 24 hour, 7 day version of Rich’s challenge. For each 24 hour period people post their top return on investment from a timed tournament on the challenge thread, and whoever has the highest average ROI over the seven days- wins free entry to every main event for a week!
3) DYM Decathlon
A simple challenge to reward sit and go players of all levels.
The first 10 players to string together 10 (back to back) double your money wins are rewarded with free entry to the Saturday main event.
2: Play the main and mini every night of 1 week in august i.e 6th-12th. Have a league to see top 6, but must play in at least 2 mains and 2 minis in that week, with league points for both. Then the top 6 of league at end of week, plus all winners of main and mini get automatic entry into the freeroll final, so 20 players play for the £500 prizepool, with prizes awarded for the top 5.
3: Top 6 in the league and the 14 winners of the main and mini (get automatic places) to the final freeroll.
4: To qualify must enter at least 2 mains and 2 minis in the week, and finish in top 6 of league for that week or win any of the main or mini events for that week.
Hope you understand what i am trying to come up with here, as i think great idea to boost numbers in the nights main and mini events over the summers weeks.
And i hope SKY or the FORUM would do this for the future too.
GL all at the tables.
Or possible to play over the week and best 2 score from each main or mini count for league points.
So only need to play in 2 of each, but more if needed to get better league postion.
What about increasing the C4p when tournaments exceed the guarantee by more than 20%
Sky would benefit from the greater than expected rake. Players would benefit from incresed prizepool and inflated C4P.
Instead of shall I enter, players will be thinking how fast can I enter when they see tournaments over subscribed.
player's play in Tournament named after Olympic Events the top 3 get medals gold silver bronze medals equals chips gold=3000 silver=2000 bronze=1000 you can win more then one medals G+S+B+B=7000 chips for the BIG final (up to £500)
to play the final tournament people need a medal