In Response to spt sky poker tour brighton: where are the satellites for spt brighton? Lets get on with it please Posted by wattsy3 Hi Wattsy, Satellites for SPT Brighton start on this coming Monday, 18th September. This was announced in the Blog I penned on August 9th, HERE Full details of SPT Brighton can be seen on the Brighton Landing Page. › The Sky Poker Tour You need to be logged in to your Sky Poker account above to post discussions and comments. You might need to refresh your page afterwards.

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Last weekend, the Sky Poker Tour came to Brighton for its fourth tour stop this year – hosted by Rendezvous Casino, which sits in the heart of Brighton Marina.

With Sky Poker recently being acquired by the Stars Group within the last year, I was pleasantly surprised to see Sky announce a new tour this year and looked forward to playing the Brighton Leg.

Here are the numbers for this year’s Sky Poker Tour – Brighton:

Buy-in: £200+20
425 entries (including re-entries)
£85,000 prize pool (£50,000 Guaranteed)
Min-cash: £510
First place: £18,300

Structure

Sky Poker Tour offers a generous structure for a fairly low buy-in event. With a 40-minute clock and just 10% rake, it’s hard to find a better value poker tournament for a £220 buy-in. With starting blinds of 25/50 and a 25,000 chip starting stack, there was a wealth of deep play to be had and plenty of poker for your money.

Atmosphere

This is the second year running that I have attended the Brighton Leg of the Sky Poker Tour. Although very similar, this year the atmosphere felt a little off. A little anti-climatic.
On the face of it, Sky seemed to get it all right: great venue, great branding, great guarantee. But it all just fell a bit flat. All announcements made by Sky or tournament staff were done by voice (without the aid of a microphone) and therefore barely heard by players and screens displaying the structure of the tournament gave no indication of when the breaks would occur until it was time for a break.
Even those keen-eyed folk who had read the tournament structure beforehand weren’t helped by the omission of a level from Day 1A to Day 1B.
I know these were small issues, but when the structure isn’t clear and you can’t hear what the tournament director is saying, it really brings down the professionalism of an event.

Venue

Rendezvous Casino Brighton is blessed with space. The entire bottom floor of the casino is dedicated to poker, a rarity in British casinos these days.

With Sky Poker branding displayed around the poker room and their own branded chips and tables, this tournament had the professional set-up that you would expect from Sky.

One issue with the poker room was that, during the breaks, staff allowed players to stay in the room. Unfortunately, there just isn’t enough space in the room to have players hanging around on breaks and I felt that at times, players were a little to close to the poker tables which all still had chips on. I think that the poker room either needed closing during breaks or at least some partitioning so that players couldn’t wonder around the tables.

Staff

Overall, I was very impressed by the staff at the Rendezvous Casino. There were plenty of Valets and the Dealers were friendly, good-humoured and professional. There was some concern on our table where we had to convince the dealer to call the floor after a player blatantly got up and left the room on his big blind, but other than a few small snags, they did a great job.
While it was a Sky Poker event, Rendezvous Casino ran the show with little input from Sky staff and I couldn’t help thinking that other than it being a ‘Sky Poker’ branded event, Sky didn’t really bring anything extra to the party.

Altogether, the Sky Poker Tour was an enjoyable event but to me, it just felt like it was missing something. Maybe I’ll be able to have a better idea of what that something was when I head back to Rendezvous Brighton to play the UniBet UK Poker Tour later in the year.

The Sky Poker Tour kicked off in Nottingham as Mariusz Srok collected the top prize of £12,675 from the first leg at the Dusk Till Dawn Poker Club.

The fourth season of the Sky Poker Tour (SPT) kicked off in Nottingham as Poland’s Mariusz Srok collected the top prize of £12,675 from the first leg at the Dusk Till Dawn Poker Club.

Just five short of 200 players signed up for the £220 buy-in, but it was online qualifier Srok who outlasted the other 194 entrants to leave the English Midlands as the winner.

Starting out with 15,000 in chips and able to enjoy a blind structure that began at 25 and 50 with a 40-minute clock, rookie Mariusz Srok took down the six-handed Texas Hold’em tournament over two days after defeating Basharat Mahmood in heads-up play.

The Pole also outlasted seasoned pros such as Team Sky Poker members Darren Stanley, Julian Thew and last year’s Grand Final winner James Williams.

Srok’s success is all the more amazing as he collected his seat for leg one of the tour via a £5 satellite to mark his inaugural live poker tournament with a victory.

Not that the Pole had an easy passage to his incredible triumph as, once at the final table, he faced the likes of Grimsby’s Ben Nuttall – a regular on this tour as well as the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour – and the aggressive Mahmood.

Srok might have arrived at his heads-up clash with Englishman Mahmood – who won last month’s £150 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack event at the same venue – with a 2 to 1 chip lead after eliminating three final-table rivals, but he could not have expected to emerge victorious after only a few hands.

The final hand saw the Englishman go all-in with J-9 offsuit, to be called by Srok, who held A♠-Q♥.

The 3-9-Q flop gave both players something, but the turn provided Srok with another queen to make the Pole the opening champ of the 2011/12 SPT, while Mahmood left with £7,410 for finishing second.

Of course, as well as collecting £12,675 for his success, Srok moved into first place on the tour’s leaderboard that takes in the seven legs of the SPT as well as the Grand Final back in Nottingham next September.

The leaderboard is well worth winning as whoever does top it will be made a Team Sky Poker member, which includes a year of entries to SPT events.

The second leg of the tour arrives at Newcastle’s Aspers Casino on December 10, with a £110 buy-in on offer at the one-day event.

Sky Poker Tour Leg 1 Final Table Payouts

1. Mariusz Srok – £12,675 (approximately $20,160/€14,737)

2. Basharat Mahmood – £7,410 ($11,785/€8,615)

3. Paul Green – £4,446 ($7,071/€5,169)

4. Shaun King – £3,120 ($4,962/€3,627)

5. Ben Nuttall – £2,340 ($3,721/€2,721)

6. Richard Horton – £1,755 ($2,791/€2,040)

Sky Poker Tour schedule

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Leg 2: Aspers Casino, Newcastle, December 10, £110 buy-in, one-day event (150-player maximum).

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Leg 3: G Casino, Luton, January 28-29, 2012, £220 buy-in, two-day event (200-player maximum).

Leg 4: North – Alea Casino, Glasgow, March 10, 2012, £110 buy-in, one-day event (150-player maximum); South – Rendezvous Casino, Brighton, March 10, 2012, £110 buy-in, one-day event (130-player maximum).

Leg 5: Les Croupiers, Cardiff, April 28, 2012, £110 buy-in, one-day event (200-player maximum).

Leg 6: G Casino, Blackpool, June 23-24, 2012, Bounty Hunter Tournament, £220 buy-in, two-day event (150-player maximum).

Grand Final: Dusk Till Dawn, Nottingham, September 8-9, 2012, £330 buy-in, two-day event (250-player maximum).

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