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I have been toying with the idea of running sats for live festival events on our poker room, and prompted by a post from Suzanne on another thread I though I would run it past you guys.

Its not as easy as it may sound.

Now obviously we wouldnt be able to advertise these as "Satellite to xxxx event at xxxx festival" but we could  work out the price for an event and set the prizes accordingly.

The only downside is that we wouldnt be able to award a seat as a prize, just the cash amount.... and it would then be up to the winner to decide whether he wants to enter the comp or not. So in reality it would just be a blonde comp (see what I mean when i say it isnt easy)

what I would love to do is run a sat for a festival main event where the winner gets the seat and the other 9 finalists get a % of the winner in the comp.

so 10th would get 1%
9th 2%
8th 3%
7th 4%
6th 5%
5th 6%
4th 7%
3rd 8%
2nd 10%

so the winner is playing for 54% of himself in the event and 46% goes to the 9 other finalists in the sat.

Obviously this would need plenty of runners in the sat to make it cost effective ... could we do it ?

Its YOUR card room guys, tell me what sort of things you want on there.

We have the 2k Gtd comps twice monthly , and the sats for these, but without the interest and support from you guys, we will lose them quickly. So over to you lot, what do YOU want from the card room in respect to blonde exclusive comps.

Sounds good to me. I am presuming the share out will be based on trust? How would the pay out be made for 2-10, would this be by transfer via Blonde?

Transfer by Blonde would be the best bet.

Sounds like a laugh, and would certainly get some interest and support from those who have a 'piece' of the winner.  Would these be added value comps?

Dont focus on the % comp, because this would require a big field at a decent buy in level ... its the interest that we need to determine.

Payment would involve the winner paying over the required % either to me or into his/her blonde account and then the moneys would be transferred via the poker room into the other players accounts.


Im more interested in what would get people motivated to join in with the blonde comps, we seem to have a hardcore of 20/25 players who support most things we do, so what would get those numbers up ?

i would be well up for this when i start playing seriously again.

I think what would get the number up is just what is being advertised. The fact a seat at a live festival really should encourage the numbers, dont see what else you can really do.

I dont quite know obviously the money that could be totalled from this but say for a 250 or 500 quid seat in a fezzie (use 500 as its easier to make sense of) how many runners would we need and at what price should the satellite buy in be set for???

yes yes yes and more yes's


when im not at work and available I'll certainly play any sats u guys have

as long as there is plenty of notice to hand into my boss when i take down the sat to play whatever main event i win into...confidence is all...appararantly


lol

The Blonde tournies are always a laugh.  Just need to make sure there's value (KP, Kev, Tikay, etc.) and the hordes will flock in...

Not entirely on the festival topic but anyhow...

I would love to see some kind of league system, perhaps one tourny a week. Running over say 3-6 months. Entry money for each game is pooled and distributed at league end.
Winner could maybe get a private lesson as an additional prize (if wanted) in either tourny play or cash game of their liking (there is a lot of resources avail with the blonde/dtd combo for doing this).

To make it more fun, maybe a different game each week - making it something like a  HORSE league. (not sure if the clients supports the variants, but anyway). Would be fun, and force us to learn the basics of other stuff than just nlth.

Buy in pr. game should be no more than 5-10$ to cater for most peeps.

Cheers.

Agree that the Blonde comps are good fun and also good value. As noted, a lot of us are more recreational and I for one seldom play above $20 tourneys.

Would be happy to splash out at maybe $30-$40 once in a while for the chance of a seat in a decent tourney.

That's one of the reasons the APAT tourneys are so enticing to us lower stakes players.

Count me in.

Geo

Fantastic idea  ;). You won't be surprised i imagine to find this already happens. But it is about time for another i reckon eh skinny?   ;whistle;

http://blondepoker.com/index.php?q=taxonomy/term/68


As for the satellites will depend on what is on offer - buy in etc but if i'm about i will always try to play most blonde games. where else can you find that calibre of mug on a reliable basis?  ;nana;

Anyway back to watching Vicky C talking balderdash and piffle on BBC2, must be due to sitting next to the old fella at the tables i reckon.

excellent idea. I would be up for sats for comps that are relatively near my home unless you're adding expenses as well like Blue Square.

You will need to think about rules about if deals are allowed (I personally think they should be) what happens about extras like winning seats in a grand final or watches or whatever. What happens if someone wins like 100K and says stuff you lot I'm keeping the money etc etc. I'm not trying to be negative I love the idea but I can see some ways that you could get a huge ;popcorn; thread out of this.

I take it you mean festival main events? I prob wouldn't bother with a sat to a £250 comp and I'm not sure how much interest they'd be cos where ever it is it's gonna be a long way away for most people. Well up for sats to GUKPT etc.


I am looking forward to getting my lesson from DC for winning BPL 2  :)

great feedback guys

I am pretty sure that one of the initiatives for the next few months (in additon to this idea) is another league

Lots of other things at various degrees of progress too.


 

The reason I brought this up on another thread is because there is a £250 freezeout in Cardiff on 3rd of June and as much as I would love to give it a go its a bit out of my budget as I am sure it is for quite a few of us. I know there are sats in the casino but its not near enough to pop in and try my luck so winning a seat online would be my only option.

I think having Blonde sats is a great idea and I like the idea of sharing the prize money though it sounds a bit complicated but I would definately be up for supporting this.

Personally I would only be interested in playing in sats to games that are resonably near me but for this to work there would have to be continual support and also hopefully by word of mouth others would hear about it  who live in the local area and would play too.

BTW If the poker fairy was tickling my shingles one night and I was to win a game I couldnt play I would be happy with a 32/32 % split ;-)

Another HU game pleez pleez pleez...though I think this might be difficult without the tribeca lobby.

actually it is easier as we can set private tournaments in ipoker

no need for a,lobby and we can in thoery do a HU comp on one night

 ;yippee; ;sark; ;yippee; ;sark; ;applause; ;applause; ;sark; ;yippee; ;sark; ;yippee;

Done it yet?

I fear Tighty may have spoken too soon, i will look into the possibilities of a heads up tourny ... will let you know after weekend.

suzanne the problem with the 3rd of june sat is will it get enough runners with many blondites in ireland from the 1st to the 3rd of june it would need about 20 runners at $25 ahead to work
is the blonde cardroom ready for these comps?

I think suzanne thinks the 250 quid comp in cardiff is a one off but it occurs every 4th sunday as old man tk knows as he is a regular in it.

I am with byron on what he said and would love an opportunity to play in the GUKPT!!!

Would be willing to pay anything up to £1.50 to get a seat, nah i would be happy to pay 50 dollars maybe double that if there is gd value.

Edit, would love the idea of a proper league running over a number of months, thats where i shine lol and basically anything anyone suggests i will probably be up for aswell!!!!

Like King Poker I'd love to play in a league - I'm up for a $10-$20 MTT every night - unless I've got other things on. But whatever, I'd just like to play against you lot that keep me amused, informed and entertained and continue to improve my game. Get it sorted Kev!

but your a muppet ;D only messing

oh and breakfast is still on you

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You'll be okay if it's liquidised as you'll be drinking it through a straw  ;nemesis;

Agree with Tech, however couldn't afford much more than $5 a night until my game improves. Maybe 2/3 tourneys per week for the league?

If these were done nightly, us lesser mortals wouldn't have the money to play in enough tourneys to compete on a league basis.

Geo

Dohhhh...of course. I watched this on poker weekly so it makes sense its on every month.

Okay I agree that we would probably be hard pushed to find 20 runners on Blonde who are localish to Cardiff but I know just the man to ask ;-)

I like the idea of a Blonde comp for one of the bigger ones though.

Im going to start actively trying to qualify for some main festival events via sats, so would deffo be interested.

Like i said before, we cant offer direct sats to live events due to casinos agreements with other cardrooms.

what you can think about though is the fortnightly blonde comp with a 2k gtd prizepool (next one on Thursday 24th) with 3x $5 sats to the main comp.

what is to stop you all playing this and should you cop for the first prize, buy yourself into a festival event.

we got 26 runners for the last one, so there was an overlay of $700 ....

Next sat is a $5 rebuy tomorrow (sunday) at 8.30pm.   

then a $5 freezeout on Wednesday at 8.30pm

if we are struggling to get players for these, what difference would it make to the numbers just by calling it another name ??


Im sure if the winner of the comp told us what event he/she was going to buy into with his winnings, we could get him/her a T-shirt to wear at the event.

The cardroom can only continue with the support of the members, so its down to you guys.

Sincere apologies if I'm being thick here, was it not you Kev that started this thread asking for feedback?

Or have I totally misread the last post?

Geo

Sounds good kev.

LOL no mate you are not being thick, i just need to gauge the support for the events that we put on for the membership.

I use the 2k Gtd events and the sats as benchmarks for the interest we can expect if we ran festival sats... (comps where the winner could choose to use the winnings to buy into an event)

What I am saying is that IF i changed the name of the 2k Gtd to say sat for ..xxxx event and still offered a 2k gtee would we suddenly get more runners ?

Cheers mate, with you now. it's my jockanese translation, never quite got to grips with the Queens English.

See you at the table tomorrow.

geo

so making the 2k gaurentee 4 seats guarneteed to cardiff with pay outs in 500$ chunks you mean?

nah i think you would get more leaving it the way it is at present

I agree. Changing it would put off more people who couldn't/wouldn't go to Cardiff than it would attract.

Part of the attraction of satellite packages generally is all that it offers over and above paying for everything yourself. With a WSOP seat, whilst I know that I won a prize which could just as easily have been $15,000 in cash, it was the extras which made it special. The fact I didn't have to buy myself in, or book the hotel. That there were parties and extra tournaments etc.

For me, the best idea to get people playing regularly is league/leaderboard type things. We're a competitive bunch of arseholes here and generally can't resist a chance to lay down savage bad beats on each other.

Now we aren't.  Heads up match to determine who's right.  Winner takes all.

Agree with Andrew here, increase the frequency of games offered and don't burden yourself with gauranteed comps if there is likely to be large overlays. Can't speak for anyone other than myself obviously but i don't look to get any more value out of a blonde comp other than perhaps you, kinboshi and a few welsh at my table  ;letsparty;

I appreciate you are trying to build up the players on blonde and think a league is the most likely way to get new sign ups. One off comps are fine but I can't see too many registering for one comp. That was my reason for downloading blonde i had been lurking for a while and decided to join in the league (here comes the chirp) played only my 2nd omaha tourney and spanked the lot of you!!!

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=11878.30


Sure kev tried to tell me at bb3 he won that tourney  ;carlocitrone;

i want in on this deal with you 2 fish playing

I like the idea of a league with top 10 results counting for your final score. $3-$10 buying sounds good, not arsed about sats tbh.

Same as for me.