Ask a Pro – Annie Duke – Next Week is Scott Ian
Thursday, February 12, 2009 - smokin_aces
In last week’s ‘Ask a Pro’, we announced Annie Duke would be answering this week’s question.
Blog reader ‘Ulimate Poker’ asked this great question.
“I would like to know what factors you considered when redesigning the tournament schedule at UltimateBet?”
Here is what Annie Duke had to say.
“That is an easy question to answer because the main and most overriding factor in designing the tournament schedule is the players’ wishes. I truly believe that you cannot be successful in this business if you do not give the players what they want.
When I initially started reworking the tournament schedule I reached out to both the online pros associated with UB such as Debo and P0ker H0 and the Pocket Fives community to really get a bead on what the online poker community wants in a tournament schedule (balancing that with the size of UB and what tournaments it can realistically support).
One really successful example of this is the addition last summer of the $25+2.50 tournament at 9:20 pm eastern every night. That was a tournament that was completely requested by the players. The players practically petitioned for it! We started off at a $7500 guarantee and it has grown ever since now doing over $10K per night.
Another great example is the $1K weekly event. We started that off on Thursday nights with a $100K guarantee but had trouble making that guarantee each week. A bunch of the high limit players spoke to me and told me they would much rather have the event on Wednesday. Stupid me, I thought the $80K on Wednesday would interfere with the $1K but the high limit players told me they like to play more than one tournament at once and that they also like taking Thursday and Fridays off! So I listened to them, moved the event to Wednesday and now BOTH tournaments are doing better. The $1K did a record over $200K last week and the $80K broke $100K for the very first time.
Listening to the players is definitely a win-win. The players are happier and the site is happier too!”
Join us next week when we welcome back Scott Ian to Ask a Pro. Scott Ian, guitarist of Anthrax and talented Ultimate Bet pro has answered here before. So look forward to getting a one on one dialogue with the Poker’s Rock and Roll heavyweight, Scott Ian.
To ask Scott Ian a question, enter your question directly into the comments section of this blog.
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GL
Aces
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Tags: Annie Duke, Ask A Pro, Poker Strategy, Scott Ian, tournament structure
February 13th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Good work with the schedule! Its getting back to where i like it, something to play all the time. I played the 1k the other night and it has the best structure of any online tournment offered today. Keep up the good work, and thanks for listening.
Debo
February 15th, 2009 at 4:00 am
annie, is ub going to have aruba feeders this year and if so, when will they start?
michele1024
February 16th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Annie, I am an inventor of a poker game. ( I know I know )
Could you email me Howards email addy or email me for details ??
Just asking Buzzo@yahoo.com
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