Sky Poker's UKOPS £150,000 gtd Online festival

[paulhouk03]

is there no antes?

[tikay]

Good series overall, clearly a lot of the player pool on Sky didn't wish to rebuy and thus the 50r played like a fo, it took the add ons to prevent an overlay and I think close to 1/3 of the field didn't take the add on so maybe that's something to think about. Think the gte's on most of the comps could be increased and even doubled and there wouldn't be a struggle to get the numbers. Thought the structure's where good for all the events. WP all involved and look forward to the next one.

Thanks Ray.

[tikay]

is there no antes?

No antes, no.

[tikay]

Thewy in the BB calls a jam from the SB, both playing similar stacks of about 20xBB.

Thewy K-2, jammer K-5.

Ship the 3-4-5-Q-6 board........

[mondatoo]

Obv one very good tweak to the structures would be to have ante's  

[tikay]

Now Thewy finds the Aces to a jammer with A-K!

Thewy now in 2nd place.

[tikay]

Obv one very good tweak to the structure would be to have ante's 

Coming soon, Ray, 100%.

[paulhouk03]

great 34th

[tikay]

Down to 14, plenty of quality players still in.....

gleesos 377667.34   
lJAMESl 298253.70   
JEisbudget 266855.73   
terrell08 240236.47   
AJW1976 174310.39   
The_Dram 146218.30   
yoyo 138162.50   
RUNITSRANN 136330.92   
ElRupert 132601.53   
sam1986 111583.70   
beaneh 97322.18   
eirrabs04 86076   
BLADES849 71360   
CenSword 51021.24

[tikay]

Playing for......

1st £15714 + 80 League Points
2nd £9021 + 76 League Points
3rd £6111 + 72 League Points
4th £4656 + 68 League Points
5th £4074 + 64 League Points
6th £3492 + 60 League Points
7th £2328 + 56 League Points
8th £1746 + 52 League Points
9th £1164 + 48 League Points
10th £582 + 44 League Points
11th £494.70 + 40 League Points
12th £494.70 + 36 League Points
13th £494.70 + 32 League Points
14th £494.70 + 28 League Points

[NigDawG]

played a couple of these, would of played the whole series if the guarantees were bigger!

[tikay]

played a couple of these, would of played the whole series if the guarantees were bigger!

Thanks Chris.

Fair point Chris, noted, & taken.

SkyPoker.com is not on a network, it's a standalone, & has grown rapidly, with the bulk of the player base being "recreational" - which we see as a good thing, but the need to engage wider is important too. But being relatively small, & independent, makes growing quite a tricky balancing act, we can't charge skins for missing Guarantees, as the networks do, for example, "subsidy" comes straiht off our bottom line.

Y-o-Y growth is strong - very strong, so we have no need to gamble too much, the balance is between holding what we have, & continuing the growth pattern. The site gets a fair degree of stick from the hardcore lads on, say, 2+2, but to achieve the incred growth it has in a market where almost every other site/network is showing huge Y-o-Y & Q-o-Q suggests we are doing something that they are not.

To get those Guarantees in context, the UKOPS Omaha, for example, was Guaranteed at £10,000. (All numbers in sterling, not dollars). The Guarantee was easily beaten, it made about £11k I think. The biggest EVER previous Omaha Tourney on Sky Poker was......£1,000! So that was a bit of a leap.....

The Bounty Hunter on Monday was far & away the biggest BH ever on the Site. The High Roller was - when played - the biggest EVER prize Pool on SkyPoker, at £44,000. That record lasted 3 days, until it was bested by the UKOPS Main Event Prize Pool of £58,200. In every case, we had to nearly break the site record to set the guarantees at the level we did - 8 times on the bounce! And yet yes, we could have set them higher, as most of the 8 UKOPS Events beat their Guarantees by 50% or more.

UKOPS will return very soon, & we will include the lessons we learned, & hopefully, be a little braver with the Guarantees. But we see no need to bet the shop, so to speak, with the organic growth going along lickity-spit, as it is.

There was some (fair) criticism as to lack of late reg, & antes, too, but we are quite comfy with that, as we have a date for when both will be available, & it's only a matter of a few months away now.

We switched off the "TV Red Button" facility 2 weeks ago, no big deal in itself (yes, peeps DID use it!), but whilst that was in place, it stopped us doing all manner of software enhancements, which we can now press on with.

Hopefully, you, & the other "faces" who came across this week, will give UKOPS 2 a go, & maybe stick around for some of our regular stuff, too. The free market is a wonderful thing.

[tikay]

Congrats to tonight's Main Event winner, too, young James Williams, now with Encore, following up his SPT Grand Final win with a facile victory tonight.

Well done to Thewy, too, who won the UKOPS Leaderboard, having won UKOPS7, & finishing 7th in tonight's Main Event. A fine effort by beaneh, too, to chase him home to the very end, missing out by the narrowest of margins.

UKOPS will return soon........deffo better, definitely a bit different, & maybe bigger.

[NigDawG]

yeh i understand this was quite a big step for sky poker, and from what i saw of it you did a lot of things well.

at the moment I'm not really your typical market so not sure how much my opinion really matters to sky anyway

[tikay]

yeh i understand this was quite a big step for Sky Poker, and from what i saw of it you did a lot of things well.

at the moment I'm not really your typical market so not sure how much my opinion really matters to sky anyway

No, you are not exactly "target", but the feedback was appreciated, & anyway, I love you a little bit.