Broadway is a poorly run venue. I live in Birmingham and Im ashamed of it. I have without a doubt had the worst levels of customer service from there than any other UK casino. Also the poker room or 'area' is tiny.
Star city would of been a better choice for Birmingham. Although its a bit in the middle of nowhere.
does anybody know when the six max will be on the sky poker channel, I really wanted to go but missed it because of work? Posted by adnjay
Posted by Sky_Louis:
Hi all!
I thought I'd give you a heads up that the highlights from the recent SPT 6 Max event @ DTD Nottingham will be shown first at 7pm on Friday 26th October!
Obviously everyone would like to have events local to them but it just isn't that easy. Some of the venues in the UK just aren't upto standard to be holding a large poker event. It's only worthwhile as a tournament if they have the capacity to hold 150-200 runners and most casinos just don't have a poker room to deal with that. And even if they have the capacity, it doesn't mean that Sky should go there. I have played a lot of live poker in the last couple of years, and tbh there was one venue where the organisation of the room just wasn't that great....of course the event went along fine and everyone had a good time but it could have been better! When people are spening a large amount of money to buy-in/travel and hotels, they deserve a certain level of experience from the casino that is hosting. It would be poor form for Sky to just put on a leg at a sub-standard venue just because it is in a good location. Then there are issues like disabled access/catering/location/hotels/car parking which a lot of people who pop down to their local card room forget about. Also there may have been scheduling issues where the venues just couldn't host Sky during the dates that were free. Rich Prew is the number 1 guy in the UK when it comes to knowing live venues and their suitability to hosting large poker events. I look forward to the new tour and also hearing the new plans for 2013. Posted by scotty77
Its a digrace that there is no event again in Scotland. This has now happened twice in the last 4 years. The SPT tour is a 3rd rate event, and the Alea in Glasgow has no problems in hosting it. I have been there, and had no problems at all with it. I see Sky have dropped the UK part of the Sky Poker Tour, DUBLIN!!!!!!!!!!! A smack in the face to all the Scots who have no doubt deposited untold thousands into the Sky coffers. I play rarely on this 3rd rate site, I do like other parts of sky, but poker on here is a bit of a Joke. ALSO DUBLIN!!!!!!!!!! SKY POKER TOUR UK !!!!!!!!!!! Dont even have the same currency!!!!! What a fekkin joke.
It's not an anti Scottish, or anti Welsh thing (as Cardiff/Swansea is not on the rota this year either) at all
The Scottish market has been extremely tricky to hold third party events. Indeed some tours hire hotels, using casino licences, to host their Scottish legs, but that is not a cost effective option for the SPT. I know of a venue that is not suitable because of disabled access. I know of another venue which is 100% self deal and couldn't bring in dealers at acceptable cost to Sky for an SPT event
As for the Alea, where I have now done four events, lovely casino, good staff (dealers and Cardrom manager good) but both the SPT events were not to the standards we wanted. The first event encounted significant problems and delays in running over two floors, the second had lighting that was way below what was required for a major poker tournament
There are only 5 or 6 SPT legs a year
Its not the SP"UK"T either, not while I've been doing it and Dublin ( Sky Poker operates and is licensed in in the ROI) has been on the list to visit for some time and Sky Poker has many Irish clients too
As to the Coventry or Broadway choice, both would have been fine. The Broadway now holds 200 in one area.
So this year it is Newcastle, Birmingham, London, Dublin and Nottingham
2014 I am sure will see some new venues, and certainly a different mix, assuming the SPT goes well in 2013.
For a venue to be right for Sky
- the venue has to be willing to host (some aren't in the market for external tours) - to host at an acceptable cost to SkyPoker - to be geographically suitable for qualifiers to access easily - to have acceptable facilities (size of venue, and quality, plus catering, car parking etc etc) - to have sufficient experience (management and staff) of running large third party events - schedules have to work
Broadway is a poorly run venue. I live in Birmingham and Im ashamed of it. I have without a doubt had the worst levels of customer service from there than any other UK casino. Also the poker room or 'area' is tiny. Star city would of been a better choice for Birmingham. Although its a bit in the middle of nowhere. Posted by BrownnDog
In Response to Re: Sky Poker Tour 2013 : Its a digrace that there is no event again in Scotland. This has now happened twice in the last 4 years. The SPT tour is a 3rd rate event, and the Alea in Glasgow has no problems in hosting it. I have been there, and had no problems at all with it. I see Sky have dropped the UK part of the Sky Poker Tour, DUBLIN!!!!!!!!!!! A smack in the face to all the Scots who have no doubt deposited untold thousands into the Sky coffers. I play rarely on this 3rd rate site, I do like other parts of sky, but poker on here is a bit of a Joke. ALSO DUBLIN!!!!!!!!!! SKY POKER TOUR UK !!!!!!!!!!! Dont even have the same currency!!!!! What a fekkin joke. Posted by decodave
Yeh it's Scotland though.. like who in their right mind would ever want to go there.. have you not seen Trainspotting
literally just read about the tour coming to dublin, fantastic news. i qualified for one of the first tours in Newcastle but was during the really bad winter weather and couldnt travel over was gutted. and never bothered tried to qualify again since. 2 and a half hour drive up from belfast ill hope to make it this time.
as stated the nightlife is wonderful and it wouldnt be the worst thing to get knocked out early for those never over before cos youll be assured of great craic if you are to venture outside of the casino!!!
in temple bar expect pints etc to hinge around the 5 euro mark
For a venue to be right for Sky - the venue has to be willing to host (some aren't in the market for external tours) - to host at an acceptable cost to SkyPoker - to be geographically suitable for qualifiers to access easily - to have acceptable facilities (size of venue, and quality, plus catering, car parking etc etc) - to have sufficient experience (management and staff) of running large third party events - schedules have to work Posted by SPT
The Refurbed Grosvenor Cardroom is a bit small and Les Croups signalled that they were not so keen on hosting us, going forward (down to resourcing and their costs, not down to a dislike of Sky Poker)
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does anybody know when the six max will be on the sky poker channel, I really wanted to go but missed it because of work?
I thought I'd give you a heads up that the highlights from the recent SPT 6 Max event @ DTD Nottingham will be shown first at 7pm on Friday 26th October!
It's not an anti Scottish, or anti Welsh thing (as Cardiff/Swansea is not on the rota this year either) at all
The Scottish market has been extremely tricky to hold third party events. Indeed some tours hire hotels, using casino licences, to host their Scottish legs, but that is not a cost effective option for the SPT. I know of a venue that is not suitable because of disabled access. I know of another venue which is 100% self deal and couldn't bring in dealers at acceptable cost to Sky for an SPT event
As for the Alea, where I have now done four events, lovely casino, good staff (dealers and Cardrom manager good) but both the SPT events were not to the standards we wanted. The first event encounted significant problems and delays in running over two floors, the second had lighting that was way below what was required for a major poker tournament
There are only 5 or 6 SPT legs a year
Its not the SP"UK"T either, not while I've been doing it and Dublin ( Sky Poker operates and is licensed in in the ROI) has been on the list to visit for some time and Sky Poker has many Irish clients too
As to the Coventry or Broadway choice, both would have been fine. The Broadway now holds 200 in one area.
So this year it is Newcastle, Birmingham, London, Dublin and Nottingham
2014 I am sure will see some new venues, and certainly a different mix, assuming the SPT goes well in 2013.
For a venue to be right for Sky
- the venue has to be willing to host (some aren't in the market for external tours)
- to host at an acceptable cost to SkyPoker
- to be geographically suitable for qualifiers to access easily
- to have acceptable facilities (size of venue, and quality, plus catering, car parking etc etc)
- to have sufficient experience (management and staff) of running large third party events
- schedules have to work
literally just read about the tour coming to dublin, fantastic news. i qualified for one of the first tours in Newcastle but was during the really bad winter weather and couldnt travel over was gutted. and never bothered tried to qualify again since. 2 and a half hour drive up from belfast ill hope to make it this time.
as stated the nightlife is wonderful and it wouldnt be the worst thing to get knocked out early for those never over before cos youll be assured of great craic if you are to venture outside of the casino!!!
in temple bar expect pints etc to hinge around the 5 euro mark
The Refurbed Grosvenor Cardroom is a bit small and Les Croups signalled that they were not so keen on hosting us, going forward (down to resourcing and their costs, not down to a dislike of Sky Poker)
So, it can be trickier than it seems....
As soon as I have a release date will let you know
I've heard that it is about £7 a pint in Ireland.
Is that true!