Sky Poker Tour Brighton 2019
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The excellent Sky Poker Tour had a little twist this weekend in that they ran two events, 100s of miles apart may we add, at the same time! Whilst the tour was down in sunny Brighton there was another leg of the tour running concurrently in bonny Glasgow!
A total of 145 players turned up to each event though the payouts were slightly different as the decision was made to pay the top 14 at the Rendezvous Casino in Brighton but the top 15 at the Alea Casino in Glasgow.
Sky Poker Tour Brighton
In Brighton Sam Shackleton spoiled the party by somehow managing to turn around a six-to-one chip deficit to beat the Sky Poker sponsored Julian Thew. Had Thew finished off the job he would have won back-to-back titles having won the Luton leg the last time out. According to the extensive Hendon Mob database this was Shackleton's first major cash and what a way to do it, by staging an epic comeback against a former EPT champion and the only player to have won three GUKPT Main Events.
Sky Poker Brighton results
| Position | Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam Shackleton | £4,444 |
| 2 | Julian Thew | £2,600 |
| 3 | Dean Smith | £1,800 |
| 4 | Nick Pryce | £1,406 |
| 5 | Dave Harvey | £1,050 |
| 6 | Ray Burrows | £830 |
| 7 | Carlo Hassan | £640 |
| 8 | Gareth Lewis | £500 |
| 9 | Dean Olivant | £360 |
| 10 | David Price | £220 |
| 11 | Sam Razavi | £190 |
| 12 | Graham Nicholson | £170 |
| 13 | Stephen Eames | £150 |
| 14 | Ian Smith | £140 |
Sky Poker Tour Glasgow
Up in Glasgow it was third time lucky for Jamie Rhind (pictured) who already had two cashes on this season's Sky Poker Tour and now he has a win to his name too. Along with the £3,500 he picked up for winning the Glasgow leg, Rhind also picks up a Sky Poker Tour Grand Final seat just as Shackleton does for his victory in Brighton.
Sky Poker Brighton 2019
Sky Poker Tour Glasgow results
| Position | Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jamie Rhind | £3,500 |
| 2 | Gary Porteous | £2,600 |
| 3 | Alex McLuckie | £1,600 |
| 4 | William Langa | £1,300 |
| 5 | Colin MacInnes | £1,160 |
| 6 | Mark Hicks | £1,040 |
| 7 | David Blair | £800 |
| 8 | Graham Phipps | £650 |
| 9 | William McLuckie | £510 |
| 10 | Alistair Findlay | £360 |
| 11 | David Shaw | £220 |
| 12 | David Blacklaw | £220 |
| 13 | David Robb | £220 |
| 14 | Robert Stewart | £220 |
| 15 | Iain McMillan | £100 |
There are just three stops left on this season's calendar and you can next play in its fifth leg in Cardiff. The Cardiff stop is a one day event to be held at the Les Croupiers Casino on Saturday 28th April. Satellites for this event will appear on Sky Poker in the coming days.
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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.
Sky Poker Tour Brighton 2019 2020
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.