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This Sunday's SUPER ROLLER" Thread
Tikay10
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Good afternoon.
The £25,000 Guaranteed "SUPER-ROLLER" is this coming Sunday, & much of it will be covered live during the Ch 861 TV Show, except for the later stages beyond Midnight. I believe the Final will be shown on Ch 861 on Tuesday of next week.
A full satellite schedule is now in progress, micro-satellites during the day will run up to a DAILY Semi-Final each evening @ 8.45pm.
This will mean some changes to the existing SPT 6-Max Satellite schedule for this week, which will still have daily micro-sats, but these will run into a Semi-Final on Sunday, & not nightly, to make room for the Super Roller sats. That Sunday evening SPT 6-Max Semi-Final is likely to generate a decent size field, as we expect the Site to be busy on Sunday, plus the micros will be running to it all week.
Any "SUPER ROLLER" questions, fire away on this thread please, & we'll try & field them.
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Super-Roller.....
Good morning.
Only 26 runners so far - this one needs 250 players to reach it's Guarantee.....
Our Super Roller looks more like this at the moment......
Registered so far, & hoping for a huge lump of overlay are......
There is a £24 1 in 5 semi-final jobbie at 20.45 tonight.
Today's micro-sat schedule is not up yet, but I'll post details as soon as it is.
As yet, I cannot estimate the winners prize for Sunday's Super Roller, but the Guarantee is £25,000, come what may.
I spoke with Dan the 861 Producer yesterday - he confirmed that the Show on Sunday WILL follow this Tourney, & that the Final will be shown on next Tuesday's Show.
He also hopes to have plenty of live phone-ins during Sunday's Show from those playing it, & a live Phone-In to the Show with the winner next Tuesday.
Today's SUPER ROLLER Satellite schedule is now up.
There are £5.30 jobbies at.....
17.40
18.40
19.10
19.40
And the nightly Semi (£24) will be at 20.45.
It is LIKELY that tonight's Semi will be covered on tonight's Show on Ch 861, or at least the sharp end of it.
When will the poker points be added? After the Tourney ends, I would asssume, so that will be around 2am or 3am on Monday.
Morning.
I'm pleased to inform you that after I started this thread on Monday, & sweated it yesterday, the effect has been startling.
Yesterday we only had 26 runners, but my efforts have resulted in the number registered shooting up to.....28. Incred.
The dynamics of these things are quite interesting if you are on this side of the table.
Ladt month, the Guarantee was £20,000, so we needed 200 runners. I don't recall the exact number, but I think that on the Saturday or Sunday morning we only had around 73.
I won't say there was not a tinsy-winsy bit of concern in the office.....
Anyway, it was sweated hard all weekend, & ended up not only getting the 200 needed - it got 262 I seem to recall, which was astonishing.
So the same MAY happen this weekend. Or may not......
If any of you can imagine swapping roles, & being THIS side of the Table sometimes, it is just as scary, exciting & exhilarating as being a player.
The business takes a view, & sticks up a Guarantee on best available market information. Get it right, & everyone's a winner. Get it wrong, & miss the Guarantee by, say, £5,000, & there is a serious post-mortem.
Say it quickly, & often enough, & "£5,000" does not sound much, especially in the world of poker. But it is real money, & it IS a lot.
I fancy Sunday will be a sweaty day in Leeds.....
Meanwhile, news follows in the next Post about more & different satellites, starting today....
Everything is going to plan. Ish. Probably.
Meanwhile, what is our SUPER ROLLER looking like today?
AWESOME.
The SUPER ROLLER sats have been changed from today. Wider wheels, flared arches, tinted windscreen, that sort of thing.
The revised Satellite schedule starts today, & will remain mostly unchanged until & including, Saturday. I wuold imagine it will change & be revved up even more on Sunday.
For now though.....
Tonight, & every night until & including Saturday, there will be.....
A SUPER ROLLER SUPER-SAT at 8.30pm.
A SUPER ROLLER SUPER-SAT @ 9.30pm.
Entry free? £6.
How many runners? CAPPED at 40.
Seats to be won? TWO.
GUARANTEED.
No matter how few runners, TWO SEATS GUARANTEED.
Entry Cost SIX QUID.
As always, T & C's apply, & if these were to only attract 4 or 5 runners, they will be discontinued.
.....but there's moreeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
8.45pm - ALL-IN SAT SUPER ROLLER SAT.
9.15pm - ALL-IN SUPER ROLLER SAT.
Cost? £6.
Seats Guaranteeed in each of these? TWO.
I like it when you insight some of your industry / behind the scenes knowledge & this is a really interesting post, it’s also very honest.. perhaps a little too honest.
I feel as a poker site it is paramount to portray solidarity and wealth in order to attract players and encourage player confidence, perhaps the best at this was FTP, albeit that this is all they were good for :-/
I mean in times of financial ruin they still managed to keep all but the skeptical players depositing at will. Right up to the point of collapse.
Not to say that Skypoker should look to copy FTP’s model, far from it, but it is important to portray a robust and stable business regardless of what is going on behind the scenes.
I’ll be honest, in reading the above, it doesn’t emit an impression of affluence within the site. However it is good to see that Skypoker are pushing to make the Skyroller a real flagship tournament, it surpassed the guarantee last time and you have increased it straight away, this is good to see sky take a gamble. Hopefully heading into the winter months they will continue to add to the guarantee, eventually offering the Primo alongside it rather than in place of.. I think the one thing sky does miss is the ability to grind mtt’s of any particular level. The WCOOP is a good example of how an mtt series can generate action all over the site, any time the wcoop is on, the cash games are 3 times as active at all levels and the buzz on the site is intense.
FWIW I think the guarantee will be surpassed in the roller again, I’m sure a lot of players just reg on the day and will be UK regs playing alongside the Sunday grind on other sites.
Looking forward to it and good to see skypoker trying to grow!