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Season Seven Seat Reservation
Des:
--- Quote from: Chipaccrual on June 11, 2013, 20:04:36 PM ---
Let"s look at the Blue Thing Above Us Poker Tour.
I would very much like to play the £200 + £20 Six Max event at DTD next month, but the only way I can guarantee a seat is by winning a satellite, as they do not accept direct buyins until much closer to the event.
I just want to be able to buyin direct (blatant brag, I know)
So it"s a £48+£4 (1 in 5 get a seat)
Or a £10+£1 into the above satellite
Either option is generating more rake for the aforementioned online site, and although I could bink a seat on the cheap, based on the hands I have just got called down with, it"s like treading through a minefield.
Enforcing satellite entry only is just another way for the site to generate fees as they collect rake throughout the whole satellite process. Again, I"m not trying to defend any additional charges, but comparing and contrasting the current options in the market.
Rant over. ;D
--- End quote ---
Sky! :)
I love that company but can confirm they are very deeply entrenched in the making money business. I should know, I was Head of Commercial for Betting and Gaming and Head of Poker for five years.
Happy days with lots of profits.
Oh, and my last annual bonus at Sky was ridiculously large - driven by the performance of players.
Yep, big big profits being made at Sky.
TheSnapper:
--- Quote from: Chipaccrual on June 11, 2013, 20:04:36 PM ---
Let"s look at the Blue Thing Above Us Poker Tour.
I would very much like to play the £200 + £20 Six Max event at DTD next month, but the only way I can guarantee a seat is by winning a satellite, as they do not accept direct buyins until much closer to the event.
I just want to be able to buyin direct (blatant brag, I know)
So it"s a £48+£4 (1 in 5 get a seat)
Or a £10+£1 into the above satellite
Either option is generating more rake for the aforementioned online site, and although I could bink a seat on the cheap, based on the hands I have just got called down with, it"s like treading through a minefield.
Enforcing satellite entry only is just another way for the site to generate fees as they collect rake throughout the whole satellite process. Again, I"m not trying to defend any additional charges, but comparing and contrasting the current options in the market.
Rant over. ;D
--- End quote ---
Thankfully there are lots of opinions shared on this topic and my personal position on the "fee" is that it could be useful sometime and save me some monies via confident advance booking of travel and accommodation, I may never have to avail of the option but I"m happy to have the option.
Your example above Leigh does fairly compare fees, it also highlights the power of supply and demand. I suspect "the Blue Thing Above Us Poker Tour" ;D charge those fees because they can, because demand dictates that their events sell-out.
We have somehow slipped in that respect and it"s difficult to discern why. Maybe the opposition simply appear new and shiny to the non dedicated Apat"er?
Whilst us dyed in the wool Apat"ers wait with bated breath, into the month of June, for season seven Announcement.
Does this ever later delay effect our appeal and hence the Demand for Apat events?
s4ooter:
Whens direct buyin go up, i just wanna pay and get it done with!
Des:
--- Quote from: TheSnapper on June 11, 2013, 21:14:53 PM ---
--- Quote from: Chipaccrual on June 11, 2013, 20:04:36 PM ---
Let"s look at the Blue Thing Above Us Poker Tour.
I would very much like to play the £200 + £20 Six Max event at DTD next month, but the only way I can guarantee a seat is by winning a satellite, as they do not accept direct buyins until much closer to the event.
I just want to be able to buyin direct (blatant brag, I know)
So it"s a £48+£4 (1 in 5 get a seat)
Or a £10+£1 into the above satellite
Either option is generating more rake for the aforementioned online site, and although I could bink a seat on the cheap, based on the hands I have just got called down with, it"s like treading through a minefield.
Enforcing satellite entry only is just another way for the site to generate fees as they collect rake throughout the whole satellite process. Again, I"m not trying to defend any additional charges, but comparing and contrasting the current options in the market.
Rant over. ;D
--- End quote ---
Thankfully there are lots of opinions shared on this topic and my personal position on the "fee" is that it could be useful sometime and save me some monies via confident advance booking of travel and accommodation, I may never have to avail of the option but I"m happy to have the option.
Your example above Leigh does fairly compare fees, it also highlights the power of supply and demand. I suspect "the Blue Thing Above Us Poker Tour" ;D charge those fees because they can, because demand dictates that their events sell-out.
We have somehow slipped in that respect and it"s difficult to discern why. Maybe the opposition simply appear new and shiny to the non dedicated Apat"er?
Whilst us dyed in the wool Apat"ers wait with bated breath, into the month of June, for season seven Announcement.
Does this ever later delay effect our appeal and hence the Demand for Apat events?
--- End quote ---
It certainly doesn"t help that"s for sure Brendan. We don"t delay by design, right now the market is waiting to find out when in April PokerStars are planning to run their £1m UKIPT. However, we"ll be out with dates this week, with an event at the end of this month, and an event at the start of August and another at the end of August. We"ll be all promotion and action shortly and I for one can"t wait.
Ant1966:
Will direct buy in be available before Friday for Coventry?
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