Whats this addicition to Antes? Its a good thing Sky are different to other sites, as a recreational site antes wont make a different to numbers whatsoever Posted by alex1229
I think the reaon for antes is, this is a poker site, antes are normally involved in poker, live and online, it can affect gameplay, and create more action, will there be antes in the ukpc 6max, like any other live tounament? For people who just play sky and have no experience in live play or antes this will be a change players that arent used too it. I know skys diffrent... but why if its a common thing in tournament play.
Whats this addicition to Antes? Its a good thing Sky are different to other sites, as a recreational site antes wont make a different to numbers whatsoever Posted by alex1229
I'm all for sites being unique but you want positive selling points, not negative ones. Sky has lots off them
- Played in £'s - 6max tournaments only - UK players only (almost) - Excellent withdrawl speeds compared to elsewhere. - TV channel - SPTs - Its own forum.
'No antes' doesn't make the list. In fact it's pretty high up the list of negatives that makes this site 'unique' to others.
I guess 'no late reg', 'no auto top up' and 'no re-sizeable tables' used to be positives on here too because it made Sky 'different' ?
In Response to Re: Saturday nights on Sky Poker : I think the reaon for antes is, this is a poker site, antes are normally involved in poker, live and online, it can affect gameplay, and create more action, will there be antes in the ukpc 6max, like any other live tounament? For people who just play sky and have no experience in live play or antes this will be a change players that arent used too it. I know skys diffrent... but why if its a common thing in tournament play. Posted by Chris_Mc
Keep hearing antes are the norm across the industry.
How deep do these tourneys start,how many runners are we talking,what are the blind structures?
The only tournaments that run 4+ hours are mains & deepstacks here,so hardly marathons.
Admittedly sky's blind structure is not perfect.But if they can't get it right without antes how will antes suddenly improve game play?Just turn into a shovefest earlier.
In Response to Re: Saturday nights on Sky Poker : Keep hearing antes are the norm across the industry. How deep do these tourneys start,how many runners are we talking,what are the blind structures? The only tournaments that run 4+ hours are mains & deepstacks here,so hardly marathons. Admittedly sky's blind structure is not perfect.But if they can't get it right without antes how will antes suddenly improve game play?Just turn into a shovefest earlier. Posted by belsibub
To summarise what the blog says: Ante's basically give much more incentive for short stacks to get busy. Right now if you're a short stack with 10bb's and you go all in you're risking your stack to win a 15% chip up. But suppose ante's are in play as well you're now getting at least a 20% chip up (if not more depending on ante sizes) - in addition to this, your m size (Amount of orbits you can go before blinding out) will be much smaller which again forces you to get involved more.
What this does is get rid of the shorter stacks earlier and creates much more play for the bigger stacks (hence making skill a more predominant factor) - as it is on sky what often happens is you will get stages in a tournament where there are a lot of short stacks and only a few big stacks. This means the big stacks have no room for much play because they have to many short stacks to worry about.
Comments
- Played in £'s
- 6max tournaments only
- UK players only (almost)
- Excellent withdrawl speeds compared to elsewhere.
- TV channel
- SPTs
- Its own forum.
'No antes' doesn't make the list. In fact it's pretty high up the list of negatives that makes this site 'unique' to others.
I guess 'no late reg', 'no auto top up' and 'no re-sizeable tables' used to be positives on here too because it made Sky 'different' ?
as above leads to more bigger stacks and better end game play
Sky MTT's always end up as crapshoot's with a lot of short stack players, which means not a lot of post flop play = less skill
bring in Ante's BUT................IT STILL NEEDS TO BE A GOOD STRUCTURE
Maybe Sky should read that article