Well it looks like this has been written in the wrong thread - what's it got to do with the grand final??'
I have posted my response here where it belongs.
Anyway should I quote what you wrote to me last season to the effect that freerolls games are the main objective of 888pl. Well this seems to have changed dramatically.
In our area alone there are 3 freeroll games a week and 10 cash games. What happened to the freerolls being the main objective.
I am not knocking cash games but they aren't for everyone. Not all players can afford to play the amount of games or the amount of money that would be involved to play consistently all season for cash. A lot have enough trouble finding the money for their drink cards this many times a week. Most players have families that come first and poker a close second but they need to have a sense of responsibility and so does the organisation running these events.
I realise that 888pl is a business and it doesn't seem to have gone bankrupt by running freerolls. In fact 888pl has expanded and gained more players because of this fact. You have now expanded into NSW and Qld and at the same time reducing the number of players being able to play online freerolls. Doesn't make sense. These freerolls are what bring the players in in the first place and then they have a choice if they want to play the cash games. People should have a choice and you are taking that away from them.
Venue freerolls have now been ruined because of the cash game starting at second break. this means that players dont care how they play and if they go out they just go and play the cash game.
My suggestion (and this opinion goes for a majority in our area - so they have told me) that the cash game should be held first as players won't play stupid to go out, and the freeroll started at second break. This way both games will have some integrity. As it is most players are getting very despondent with the whole thing and as numbers show, especially on a Monday night, the numbers are dropping.
I agree that more cash games would be good, but not at the expense of the freerolls. Let us have a choice and not penalise players for not wanting or being able to play cash games.
Reducing the number of players in freeroll games is not going to force them to play cash games.
I am more for the state finals for the freerolls and venue freerolls and a state final for the challenge/cash games. This seemed to work well prevously.
Anyway this is just my opinion whether it counts or not.
Garth Kay wrote:I love the directions this thread has taken.
Here's a heads up kids:
1.) Next season I will be scrapping all FR/Rebuys from the online fixture.
2.) I will also be reducing the amount of freerolls offered daily and capping each freeroll at 100 players.
3.) Point multipliers for challenge events will be calculated based on $ entry fee.
4.) Special events will be offered with larger pts multipliers such as all Satellite events and larger buy in events.
