blonde Live Updates - your opinions needed please.

[tikay]

blonde Live Updates are key to blonde, & they'll always exist. But we are having an internal debate about what Events we should or should not cover.

Essentially, it comes down to this.

We believe "Domestic" Updates are the most popular, & traffic figures back this up. We are slightly less decided about EPT's, not because they are less good Events - they are not - but if they don't feature "faces" or players well known, the traffic tends to be less.

As an example, the current Live Update from the Prague EPT is excellent & the Updaters - Floppy & Chili - have done a brillint job, no question about it.

But here's the Final Table Line-Up......

1Juha Lauttmaas

Kristian Kjondal

Gino Alacqua

Markus Golser

Mikael Norinder

Nedzib Suman

Dagomir Pavlovic

Johannes Strassmann

Arnaud Mattern

Marcus Golser apart, I doubt many of us have heard of any of the others. Does that make the Live Update less appealing?

And would there be more traffic if the Update were from, say, Walsall, & the Finalists were, say, Lord Wernick, el blondie, Des bling bling Jonas, Matt "Cone-Head" Tyler, Thewy, Woodley, etc?

We are just thinking out loud here & your comments would be appreciated.

We are already committed to covering the EPT's in Copenhagen, The Bahamas, & Monte Carlo, come what may, but are still undecided about the others.

Cost is also a factor, &, obviously, Live Updates are expensive to run, so all we are doing is trying to assess how best to spend our cash on Updating.

For the avoidance of doubt, our Updaters - all of them - are terrific (in my opinion) & it's nothing to do with the quality of the Updates, it's more a case of where to best do them from.

Your input would be appreciated, thanks.

[Acidmouse]

I prefer if just the Uk based ones were covered, not really bothered about the EPT, WSOP ones.

[tikay]

I prefer if just the Uk based ones were covered, not really bothered about the EPT, WSOP ones.

That's the feedback we have had from many peeps already.

May I ask what makes or attracts you to reading a (UK based) blonde Live Update?

[snoopy1239]

To be honest, the last event at Walsall had El Blondie, Wernick, Jackson and co on the final table, but our hits for that event were some of the worst throughout the whole year. If, for example, you compare the Blackpool GUKPT update hits with the Prague ones, then there really isn't that much difference. Except for the one that Floppy deleted... LOL!

[turny]

must agree with acidmouse, as fantastic as the updates are wherever they may be from i rarely look at the ept ones.

i think most people love the updates where they know most of the players playing and can associate with this.

GUKPT,s are a must of course and would love to see more uk based festivals covered (though luton last week was a washout rteally due to attendance) maybe the GBPT can be covered.

whatever direction is chosen to go with the updates im sure will be successful with such a quality team.

keep up the good work guys

[Acidmouse]

I prefer if just the Uk based ones were covered, not really bothered about the EPT, WSOP ones.

That's the feedback we have had from many peeps already.

May I ask what makes or attracts you to reading a (UK based) blonde Live Update?

I much prefer to read about players I know from the Uk, its makes it much more interesting and fun to read.

I know the history and background (poker related) of most of the players in the smaller Uk tournaments, the live updates tend to be more in depth and always full of funny stories and posts.

Most of these larger foreign events are covered by numerous websites anyway, obviously they don't update as good as blonde but it just seems everyones doing it these days. As you have already stated who cares about a final table at an EPT if you don't know any of the players?

I don't know the costs, but in my opinion you should double the Uk coverage and stop all the rest

[turny]

To be honest, the last event at Walsall had El Blondie, Wernick, Jackson and co on the final table, but our hits for that event were some of the worst throughout the whole year. If, for example, you compare the Blackpool GUKPT update hits with the Prague ones, then there really isn't that much difference. Except for the one that Floppy deleted... LOL!

snoopys just worried he gonna miss out on all the beautiful european cities!

never mind snoops theres still luton lmao 

[snoopy1239]

To be honest, the last event at Walsall had El Blondie, Wernick, Jackson and co on the final table, but our hits for that event were some of the worst throughout the whole year. If, for example, you compare the Blackpool GUKPT update hits with the Prague ones, then there really isn't that much difference. Except for the one that Floppy deleted... LOL!

snoopys just worried he gonna miss out on all the beautiful european cities!

never mind snoops theres still luton lmao 

Lol, no chance, I was assigned to the Luton Christmas Cracker and Walsall Grand Prix!

[Dewi_cool]

I think you need to include the big Irish comps as well as the British ones.

[GlasgowBandit]

I also prefer the National events too the international, in the EPT's unless a known player goes deep it becomes pretty Scandi-lous (poor pun)

9 times out of 10 in a UK event there is someone you know, or recognise and its good to get updated on them.

[TightEnd]

I think you need to include the big Irish comps as well as the British ones.

We'll be covering the blonde Ireland events next year

Beyond that is tricky due to our exclusive deal with Big SLick

[dino1980]

I'm a poker junkie so follow almost all of the blonde updates. I think covering both UK and European events have their merits. For instance Kristian Kjondal is at the final table in Prague and most Blondes know him because Blonde covered EPT Monte Carlo last year.

But I think the UK ones, as most are saying, are more appealing because of the higher % of players who are known to those following the updates. After all the beauty of the updates is that they are interactive and as such the more people asking for chip counts or having someone to follow the better.

As such I think the UK festivals and those events with a high concentration of top pros (e.g Monte Carlo EPT) are probably the more 'interesting' ones to follow

It would be a shame for blonde to stop covering events such as the Irish Open, EPT London though.

[TightEnd]

It would be a shame for blonde to stop covering events such as the Irish Open, EPT London though.

Lower cost events such as EPT London are NOT the issue, its the far flung places where travel costs mount up for only limited traffic that are the issue

EPT London is a bit like the GUKPTs in the sense that a lf of the known UK players will play it

[kinboshi]

EPTs are great if someone from the UK (or a well-known European goes deep).  Otherwise the UK events are the most interesting.  Obviously, it's impossible to know who is going to be at the final table at an EPT.

Other than that there was an EPT and the WSOPE which were interesting, as a lot of the focus was on the big players and some Scandie called Annette or something. 

[Eck]

Is there any discernable difference between any of the type of updates (GUKPT, EPT etc) and sign ups to blonde and obviously the Card room as this is generating income for these expenses?