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Sporting Odds STT Monthly Competition

elmcroft

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Sporting Odds STT Monthly Competition  

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    • It was a short handed table (as it is now)
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    • It was a 10 man single table
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    • if it was a shoot out
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    • any others (and i will update the poll)
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elmcroft

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I emailed Joe explaining that not alot of people on our forum tend to compete in the Short Handed tabled monthly competition (uber and hobbo excepted!). I said that my thoughts were if it was run as a Single Table competition they would generate more revenue and possibly gain a much greater interest from our Forum players over the month, Joe came back to me and asked if I could put this on our forum for US to come up with the most popular idea which we would use and also Sporting Odds. In Joe Legge's words 'I tournament which is designed by the players themselves is always going to be more popular than one which I simply think up on my own.' Please post any suggestions/ideas on this thread and I will pass them onto Joe. :ok

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Re: Sporting Odds STT Monthly Competition Something I was wondering about for being a different and original promo is a "Chris Jesus Fergusson" style bankroll challenge ..... but I cannot see how it could be structured - Something along the lines of who can have the largest balance at the end of the month (having played any SO games/tournies/tables) having started with less than $10 and not redeposited - if you bust out, then you can restart ..... (actually $10 wont work - needs to be higher than the minimum deposit - which is £10 - so maybe from $20)........ Maybe limit to one restart every 24 hours or something (so it isn't just the person who tries the most who wins)

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Re: Sporting Odds STT Monthly Competition

they could run "double" and "triple" shootouts like they do on Betfair. Betfair do 6 and 10 seaters. They almost always fill up. I`ll explain more later if anybody needs more info but i`ve got a job to do before the SO league game. :ok
Could Boss handle a shootout? I don't see why not - that's effectively what the HU Tourney is (but with 2 seat tables) although if they could do it, I don't know why we have never seen them......
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Re: Sporting Odds STT Monthly Competition

Something I was wondering about for being a different and original promo is a "Chris Jesus Fergusson" style bankroll challenge ..... but I cannot see how it could be structured - Something along the lines of who can have the largest balance at the end of the month (having played any SO games/tournies/tables) having started with less than $10 and not redeposited - if you bust out, then you can restart ..... (actually $10 wont work - needs to be higher than the minimum deposit - which is £10 - so maybe from $20)........ Maybe limit to one restart every 24 hours or something (so it isn't just the person who tries the most who wins)
I'm not sure SO would be too keen on a promotion that meant people only had a small amount in their accounts and played cheaper games than they might do otherwise.
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Re: Sporting Odds STT Monthly Competition I agree - can't see the point in full tables and I can't see how they can change it either - you get 1500 chips and 10 min blinds - its as good as it gets imo Damo

So you're saying 10 seat tables instead of 5 seat tables? Would they not be too slow to fill up? :unsure
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Re: Sporting Odds STT Monthly Competition

I'm not sure SO would be too keen on a promotion that meant people only had a small amount in their accounts and played cheaper games than they might do otherwise.
Yeah agreed ....... though by the same token, those players who dont play at higher stakes may be tempted to as part of the progression (afterall they're ONLY risking $10 :P) - might also be some great PR for them too if they can advertise - look we had a player last month who turned $10 into $3000!!! Are the sportsbook and poker room different in SO? Could it be dealt with by putting your money in the SportsBook rather than withdrawing, then transferring over bit by bit (for every attempt)?
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Re: Sporting Odds STT Monthly Competition

I agree - can't see the point in full tables and I can't see how they can change it either - you get 1500 chips and 10 min blinds - its as good as it gets imo Damo
the $5 ten seaters fill up pretty quick and if the incentive of $2500 at the end of the month was there they would fill up quicker and i thought the mojority of us on PL preferred the longer game rather than 5 seaters????
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Re: Sporting Odds STT Monthly Competition i think your right mate ,not a lot of our players on there and its a pretty good value tourney:ok the only suggestions i would make are. make them 10 seat $5 games instead of 5 seat,i think more people play 10 seaters than 5s so it should get in a few more people. change the name in the lobby to get more casual punters on the tables,people seem to prefer to play the $5 5 hand stts rather than the league games when there is $5000 added :eek this seems a little crazy really :loon but i think they are put of by the stt league bit, it doesnt tell them the buy-in (although they only need to look at the buy in most people just scan down the left hand side) if it was on the board as something like"$5stt with $5000 monthly stt league points added" more casual people will play ,they know the buy in then and it looks like a added bonus with the league points. the league definately needs more players as it seems like a core group of about 40 or 50 in nearly all the games,and its sometimes difficult to get a game other than in the evenings because of this .

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I would play if it were 10 seaters... :ok I hate those bloody 5 seaters... :@ I played the first 1 and won it... but it was doing my head in!!!
I hate short handers too, I think they could get the traffic if it was a $3+30... or maybe even make it $4.50+50. I know the % of rake is higher but its a flat $5 buy in then.
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Re: Sporting Odds STT Monthly Competition I cant see any reason to change or replace the format. As for 10 man tables it would just make the wait for a game longer, I dont think it would increase the interest much. At the end of the day SO gets the same rake from two five man tables as one of ten. They are giving away money with the game as it is so dont discourage them. As for shoot outs SO would never fill them their personal traffic just isnt high enough. Remember these promotions are limited to the SO skin.

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Re: Sporting Odds STT Monthly Competition maybe limit the amount of gamesyou can play a day, so everyone has a fair chance and do a points system, eg if its 5 seater 1point = 5th 2points = 4th 4points = 3rd 10 points = 2nd 20 points = 1st this way your not getting beaten by someone who plays 1 game and wins then waits till end of month, and beats someone whos been playing all month and had bad run just suggestions dunno if they would work Defo good value these though

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Re: Sporting Odds STT Monthly Competition I've decided to have a wee shot at this competition this month and I would say that during the day you would never fill a 10 man table. As it is we manage a few games because the same 3 or 4 people play in most of them. However I far prefer 10 man tables so how about having 5,10, shootouts and even heads up stt counting. Mind you the latter could be open to abuse so forget that. The champions league pays out about $5000 and probably makes SO less than $200 in rake but caters for multi table players. The STT promotion pays out $5000 and I doubt it very much if it makes that back in rake but caters for stt players. The 50 up freerolls and monthly freeroll caters for the small stake cash table. I would say that SO does far better than a lot of sites with its promotions budget.

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Re: Sporting Odds STT Monthly Competition

I've decided to have a wee shot at this competition this month and I would say that during the day you would never fill a 10 man table. As it is we manage a few games because the same 3 or 4 people play in most of them. However I far prefer 10 man tables so how about having 5,10, shootouts and even heads up stt counting. Mind you the latter could be open to abuse so forget that. The champions league pays out about $5000 and probably makes SO less than $200 in rake but caters for multi table players. The STT promotion pays out $5000 and I doubt it very much if it makes that back in rake but caters for stt players. The 50 up freerolls and monthly freeroll caters for the small stake cash table. I would say that SO does far better than a lot of sites with its promotions budget.
what a coincidence mate, I`ve email Joe Legge today suggesting double and triple shootouts for $10 and $5 tables respectively. they run 6 pak and 10 seat double and triple shootouts on Betfair so the only difference would be a triple shootout on SO would be 125 runners max on 25 tables which according to my dodgy maths would mean the winner got in the region of $180 which is still not bad imho. I`ll let you know when I get a reply.
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Re: Sporting Odds STT Monthly Competition Ok - other question regarding this - do you think they need to be SO exclusive tables? If they were to count , for example, all Boss $5 STTs (5 seat and 10 seat tables, played on the SO skin) - would that be better (and solve the problem of filling tables) - it would also give you the opportunity to play against a wider pool of players. I THINK Joe now has the functionality to report results in that way..... The main reason I don't play them much - I'm not a very good STT player and I feel that the $5 SO games are of a higher standard than the $5 Boss games - if I play an STT on Boss, I'm likely to go to a standard Boss game for the lower ability of the players. Maybe it could be within a price range - say the $5 to $20 games (or does that just benefit the higher buy in players? Could be considered as a percentage ROI rather than straight cash profit to overcome this) This allows people to play for their usual stakes/Profits (and earn Boss more rake, which I presume they'll like ;) )

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Re: Sporting Odds STT Monthly Competition So if some one won a $50 tourney that would count the same as winning a $5 tourney and would still favour those that play and win the most often. If you opened it up to all SO players on all boss tables the numbers involved would increase dramatically and spoil it for those of us trying to keep it a secret!!

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Re: Sporting Odds STT Monthly Competition Reply from Joe.

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your e-mail about ideas for the STT League and types of tourneys. I am familiar with the STT Shootouts and also the progressive STTs which other sites have too. I’m a fan of all of them as I believe variety of games is key to keeping players entertained.

The problem that I encounter is that these type of tourneys really need to be automated and this requires technical work from Boss. I have sat in on several development meetings with Boss and various other Boss partner sites and these very tourneys have been discussed along with many other suggestions to improve the poker room. All of them (from having Omaha Tourneys to progressive jackpots) get prioritized and then added to a very lengthy IT list.

So they will appear one day but when I couldn’t say. However, I am looking to maybe change around the current STT League format as I think it’s getting a bit stale and would welcome suggestions.

Sorry not to be able to sound more hopeful but unfortunately IT restraints are the bane of my life currently!

Regards,

Joe Legge

Poker Room Manager

SportingOdds.com

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