As requested, this is going to be our thread for announcing revisions to tournament schedules, major updates on the software and other major news from Sky Poker. As mentioned in another thread, we're not able to unveils the reasoning or details behind every decision (some of the information would be considered business-sensitive), but we'll do our best to let you know of the revisions made where possible. We'll keep it locked and Sky staff and talent will post on here as and when there are bits of info for you all. Enjoy! Posted by Sky_Dave
hi Dave not sure if can help, im interested to know i would find the sng champ leader board? i want to give it a go, but i want to see what im up against ( cant do volume compared to full time players) regards carlo
With the run up to the £25k Super Roller this Sunday (30th September) at 8pm, the satellite structure has slightly changed.
The £25k Roller Semi will now run every evening up until Sunday evening (when the semi-final will be at 6pm) at 8:45pm with 1 in 5 booking their place into the grand final.
Satellites will still run throughout the day to qualify for the Semi-Final.
With this change this week, the SPT Semi-Final will run on Sunday evening instead of nightly. Satellites and micro sats will run as usual but instead of making it into a nightly semi-final, winners will book their seat for Sunday nights showdown at 8:30pm.
Just a quick note. The £4,000 Bounty Hunter (£55 buy-in) will run tonight and tomorrow at 9pm!
Also in anticipation to SPT this weekend, we will be running an additional 2 Super Sats each night which guarantee a seat into the Final and have a maximum of 40 runners
Some news on the latest release that was put on site this morning:
Blocking Rail bird chat on Cash Tables
For some cash tables, chat restrictions have now been put in place. In order to chat as an observer (Rail Chat) you will need to have the equivalent of 30 big blinds (the table minimum for 95%+ of cash tables) for that table in your account balance.
•For today, it will only be applied to cash tables of £0.50/£1.00 and above, will be reviewed in due course
•Obviously if you are seated and playing you are not affected.
•Sit and go’s and tournaments are not affected by this.
Customers who cannot rail chat because of an insufficient balance will get this message:
Please note that to chat as an observer on this table you must have at least 30 big blinds in your account balance, which is the minimum buy-in for the majority of tables.
Late Registration
If a customer has late registered and has been waiting on a waiting list for more than 3 minutes, we will automatically seat the entire waiting list at that time and shuffle the tournament accordingly to balance the tables where needed.
Again, the figure of three minutes may be reviewed and amended. We are looking to strike a balance between ensuring people on the Late Reg list aren’t waiting too long vs. making sure those in the tournament are not being moved too often.
Tournament Start Times – 1 minute increments
We can now schedule tournaments to run at 1 minute intervals if we wish, previously they had to be every 5 minutes. This means we’ll be able to add more tournaments into the schedule over time, with the most immediate beneficiaries being Satellites.
Cash Table Lobby Filters
There have been a few changes around how the Cash Table Lobby Filters now work.
•Heads up table have been removed from the ‘Regular’ filter
•Heads up tables now have their own ‘Heads up’ Filter
•The default filter will be ‘Regular’, although your personal preferences will be remembered when you return to the site
•Tables are now always grouped by the max number of seats (2, 6, 10) which will make it easier to find a free table – this is most noticeable under ‘All’ where heads up and 6 max tables are shown
•Action and Deep filters have been removed for the moment but expect these to return soon.
Here are the changes to tonight’s schedule due to tonight’s outage: ·Main Event £6,000 Open, now changed to a £5,000 Bounty Hunter (£11 buy-in)-8pm ·Mini Event £1,000 Bounty Hunter- 8:15pm ·£150 Deepstack- 7:15- now a £150 Doublestack ·£100 Deepstack- 7:45- now a £100 Doublestack ·£500 Bounty Hunter- 8:05- now has faster blind structure ·£750 Bounty Hunter- 8:30pm- now has 7 minute blinds ·£400 Bounty Hunter- 8:45pm- now has 7 minute blinds ·£250 Guaranteed- 9:05pm- now has 7 minute blinds ·£150 Deepstack- Cancelled ·£300 Bounty Hunter- 9:25pm- now has 7 minute blinds ·£2,000 Bounty Hunter- 9:30pm- Cancelled ·£1,500 Bounty Hunter- 10pm- Cancelled ·£300 Bounty Hunter- 10:05- Cancelled Note that the jackpot will still be running via the 8pm and 8:15pm tournaments.
Everything past the 10:05 will also be cancelled (with the exception of timed tournaments)
Having upped the guarantee of the £12,000 Thursday night Sky Sports Bounty Hunter to £15,000 we decided to review the tournament as a whole.
In light of this review, we have decided to make one small tweak.
We have implemented a slightly different blind structure that plays slightly slower than the older structure used in the past.
There are two reasons for this change:
-We realise that with such a large guarantee at stake, there should be more time to really play your way into the tournament, with less luck and more skill playing its part
-The new blind structure implemented is in line with all other 10 minute blind bounty hunters on the site at the moment. The old structure was very dated and had been attached to the Sky Sports Bounty Hunter for many years without review.
Hopefully you enjoy the new 10 minute blind structure, and any comments on the forum would be greatly appreciated.
We understand that the tournament is one of the most popular on the site and in no way would we want to jeopardise that, so therefore, for the time being, the new blind structure is just temporary and may be subject to change.
Comments
As the dust finally settles on the epic final from last Sunday, the next SPT begins!
The £220 buy-in £30,000 guaranteed 6 max SPT Event at Dusk til Dawn Nottingham is up in the lobby and ready to be satellited into.
Semi-Finals will run every night at £48 direct buy-in at 8:30pm, with SPT Satellites running early evening at £9.60 direct buy-in.
So get to the lobby and book your place via satellite now
Joe
With the run up to the £25k Super Roller this Sunday (30th September) at 8pm, the satellite structure has slightly changed.
The £25k Roller Semi will now run every evening up until Sunday evening (when the semi-final will be at 6pm) at 8:45pm with 1 in 5 booking their place into the grand final.
Satellites will still run throughout the day to qualify for the Semi-Final.
With this change this week, the SPT Semi-Final will run on Sunday evening instead of nightly. Satellites and micro sats will run as usual but instead of making it into a nightly semi-final, winners will book their seat for Sunday nights showdown at 8:30pm.
Thanks a lot,
Joe
Just a quick note. The £4,000 Bounty Hunter (£55 buy-in) will run tonight and tomorrow at 9pm!
Also in anticipation to SPT this weekend, we will be running an additional 2 Super Sats each night which guarantee a seat into the Final and have a maximum of 40 runners
Thanks,
Joe
Here are the changes to tonight’s schedule due to tonight’s outage:
· Main Event £6,000 Open, now changed to a £5,000 Bounty Hunter (£11 buy-in)-8pm
· Mini Event £1,000 Bounty Hunter- 8:15pm
· £150 Deepstack- 7:15- now a £150 Doublestack
· £100 Deepstack- 7:45- now a £100 Doublestack
· £500 Bounty Hunter- 8:05- now has faster blind structure
· £750 Bounty Hunter- 8:30pm- now has 7 minute blinds
· £400 Bounty Hunter- 8:45pm- now has 7 minute blinds
· £250 Guaranteed- 9:05pm- now has 7 minute blinds
· £150 Deepstack- Cancelled
· £300 Bounty Hunter- 9:25pm- now has 7 minute blinds
· £2,000 Bounty Hunter- 9:30pm- Cancelled
· £1,500 Bounty Hunter- 10pm- Cancelled
· £300 Bounty Hunter- 10:05- Cancelled
Note that the jackpot will still be running via the 8pm and 8:15pm tournaments.
Everything past the 10:05 will also be cancelled (with the exception of timed tournaments)
Thanks a lot,
Joe
We have decided that it's time we boosted up those guarantees!!!
Here is the list of all tournaments boosted, in effect as of tomorrow evening
-£150 Bounty Hunter- 10:30am- now £250 Guaranteed- remains £5.75 buy-in-£250 Bounty Hunter- 14:30- now £400 Guaranteed- remains £5.75 buy-in
-£250 Bounty Hunter- 15:30- now £400 Guaranteed- remains £5.75 buy-in
-£250 Bounty Hunter- 16:30- now £400 Guaranteed- remains £5.75 buy-in
-£250 Bounty Hunter- 17:30- now £400 Guaranteed- remains £5.75 buy-in
-£250 Bounty Hunter- 19:15- now £400 Guaranteed- remains £5.75 buy-in
-£300 Guaranteed- 00:00- now £500 Guaranteed- remains £11 buy-in
-£500 Bounty Hunter- 16:00- now £750 Guaranteed- remains £11 buy-in
-£500 Bounty Hunter- 18:45- now £750 Guaranteed- remains £5.75 buy-in
-£500 Bounty Hunter- 20:45- now £750 Guaranteed- remains £5.75 buy-in
-£500 Bounty Hunter- 21:25- now £750 Guaranteed- remains £5.75 buy-in
-£500 Bounty Hunter- 22:40- now £750 Guaranteed- remains £5.75 buy-in
-£750 Bounty Hunter- 20:30- now £1,000 Guaranteed- remains £11 buy-in
-£750 Bounty Hunter- 23:00- now £1,000 Guaranteed- remains £11 buy-in
-£750 Bounty Hunter- 00:30- now £1,000 Guaranteed- remains £11 buy-in
-£1,000 Bounty Hunter- 19:00- now £1,500 Guaranteed- remains £22 buy-in
Thanks a lot,
Joe
Having upped the guarantee of the £12,000 Thursday night Sky Sports Bounty Hunter to £15,000 we decided to review the tournament as a whole.
In light of this review, we have decided to make one small tweak.
We have implemented a slightly different blind structure that plays slightly slower than the older structure used in the past.
There are two reasons for this change:
-We realise that with such a large guarantee at stake, there should be more time to really play your way into the tournament, with less luck and more skill playing its part
-The new blind structure implemented is in line with all other 10 minute blind bounty hunters on the site at the moment. The old structure was very dated and had been attached to the Sky Sports Bounty Hunter for many years without review.
Hopefully you enjoy the new 10 minute blind structure, and any comments on the forum would be greatly appreciated.
We understand that the tournament is one of the most popular on the site and in no way would we want to jeopardise that, so therefore, for the time being, the new blind structure is just temporary and may be subject to change.
Thanks a lot,
Joe
After in-depth review of the sit n go structure and schedule, we have now implemented a new prize payout to all 6 seater tournaments in the STT lobby.
After customer feedback, from now on, a 65:35 payout structure will replace the 75:25 structure currently in use.
This change will feed into the lobby throughout the day.
Thanks a lot,
Joe