Last nights Freeroll

[David]

A city player who logs on at 6.30 on to 888 to play the 7.30 888pl freeroll, when he tries to register finds out that the event has topped out, would you think he will then hop in the car and go play a live venue, I think Not.

I have, and would.

[ZCain]

I'm a city player. I only play in venue one night a week.
I have however been playing most nights online.
I prefer this due to family commitments.
I simply can't get out of the house multiple nights a week.

I too would like the early game limit increased.
As I work fulltime. I need to be up at 6am every morning.
I played the 11pm game last night and didn't finish until 2am.
This is not something I will be doing regularly.

If I was to try and joining a freeroll, only to find it full, I would not then travel to an away game although there are many local to me.
I would simply not play on 888.

[AceLosesKing]

A city player who loggs on at 6.30 on to 888 to play the 7.30 888pl freeroll, when he tries to register finds out that the event has topped out, would you think he will then hop in the car and go play a live venue, I think Not.

aaron, gundog is right, i doubt people would then get in the car and head down to the local


but that is missing the point

the point is that the player made a choice that the freeroll online was more attractive for them to play than the pub game. this is what cannot happen in a league such as this, or else it will become an online league only.

Why is he right? Why wouldn't you go play at the pub if the online freeroll was full? That seems like exactly what you would do (if you had access to as many games as the city players do).

[bennymacca]

I'm a city player. I only play in venue one night a week.
I have however been playing most nights online.
I prefer this due to family commitments.
I simply can't get out of the house multiple nights a week.

I too would like the early game limit increased.
As I work fulltime. I need to be up at 6am every morning.
I played the 11pm game last night and didn't finish until 2am.
This is not something I will be doing regularly.

If I was to try and joining a freeroll, only to find it full, I would not then travel to an away game although there are many local to me.
I would simply not play on 888.

888pl cannot cater for the personal circumstances of each and every individual. if the current structure doesn't suit you, then you have no obligation to play


i personally think the structure is pretty good

[bennymacca]

Why is he right? Why wouldn't you go play at the pub if the online freeroll was full? That seems like exactly what you would do (if you had access to as many games as the city players do).

some people would do this, but lots more wouldn't

i play 888pl online because it is convenient for me to do so with my family circumstances (read wifey wouldn't let me play more than once a week at the pub )


i reckon that 80% of people wanting to play 888pl online, only to find out that the game is full would just play online on another site or another game on 888

[ZCain]

It's really not a big issue, I just make sure I register before it fills up.

Truth be told, if my circumstances suited it, I would chose to play the away games.
I much prefer live poker to online poker.

[AceLosesKing]

Why is he right? Why wouldn't you go play at the pub if the online freeroll was full? That seems like exactly what you would do (if you had access to as many games as the city players do).

some people would do this, but lots more wouldn't

i play 888pl online because it is convenient for me to do so with my family circumstances (read wifey wouldn't let me play more than once a week at the pub )


i reckon that 80% of people wanting to play 888pl online, only to find out that the game is full would just play online on another site or another game on 888

I reckon 47% of all statistics are made up.

[Dakota]

it would be most unlikely that 888pl will increase these numbers for the online games as it would blow out the leaderboard averages. if anything 888pl would look at running 2 separate games at the same time, if we continually max out.

[gundog]

This is one of those crap awful lines.

I hear what your saying But

The registration time was reduced from 24 hrs to 3 hrs to give players a chance to register before it topped out mid afternoon.

So what is best for the players reduce the registration time from 3 hrs to 1hr or increase the number of seats available.

Or have a 2nd game ?

[bennymacca]

it would most unlikely that 888pl will increase these numbers for the online games as it would blow out the leaderboard averages. if anything 888pl would look at running 2 separate games at the same time, if we continually max out.

i think this will just lead to a lot of people multitabling, so not really increasing the amount of runners


an hour registration for the early evening game isn't such a bad idea.