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Originally Posted by PS Walmsley
If anyone has any specific promotional ideas for Heads-up Sit & Gos, by all means suggest them in this thread. Bear in mind that one of the major reasons for any promotion is to encourage new players to play Sit & Gos, although they have to make business sense as well. So while “Free money for all SNG players!” would no doubt boost the player pool, we probably wouldn’t go for that
The reason we haven’t had a heads-up leaderboard in the past is that with two-entrant tournaments, collusion between players to achieve a high score is much more tempting. Any promotional ideas should take this issue into consideration and avoid a format that could be exploitable through collusion.
Promotions should aim to attract completely new players rather than just moving a player from one game to another. Also consider the possibility of promotional ideas that might not benefit you immediately, but would indirectly benefit you in the longer term by boosting the player pool and making games more attractive.
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Originally Posted by TakeHerOnACruise
Okay I have an idea that is kind of a merge of stuff other sites have done in the past and will attract new players to the site imo. Would also increase interest in husng's and capture the imagination of recreational players who want to spin up a small deposit and have fun/some glory.
When i started out on iPoker they had a really sick promo. You had to win like 7 sng's in a row to scoop a big bonus of $20k or something maybe even bigger. The prizes were relevant to the buy ins so like
win 7 $6 sng's in a row and you get 3k
win 7 $100 sng's and you get 30k
cant remember exactly how much you won or how many you had to win but something similar to this would be cool.
I was thinking like a challenger kind of format and make it similar to the steps they had on FTP to satty into the WSOP. And instead of a WSOP package you could have X amount of cash or an idea i like would be to play a 5k husng vs a pro.
So you start out at $1.5 step one you win that your progress to step 2 at $6 games and so on. If you manage to win the penultimate game at $2k then you get to play the 5k husng vs a big name pro like isildur.
And once you progress in the steps you can't use the money in other games you're only allowed to use it in the steps format.
Picture it like Mortal Kombat.
Imo the above can be combined rather well.
In some countries (ie Belgium) regulators are not very keen about giving cash bonus as reward for the FPP.
Now instead of first deposit bonus / recharge bonus / HUSNG leaderboard bonus (in form of FPP or cash); it is imo not that hard to calculate an equivalent "Free HUSNG tournament ticket system".
i.e. with every % you play free of your deposit or with every place at the leaderboard, you earn a ticket that can only be used to enter a HUSNG tournament.
This way you actually reward a free ticket that 'can' result in $. If regulators ask about where the money comes you can just honestly answer that this is precalculated seperated butgetted money (catched by rake) on purpose invested in free HUSNG for players who deserve it / for players to reward / for players to give a better taste of what you have to offer (like in every other free sample promotion campaign).
The moment you allow people to deposit; they have to choose for which buyin they are going to earn tickets.
First ticket (or every ten/20 or ...) has to be a free HUMTT in a stepping stone untill hitting a Stars Pro like explained above. You can also use historical 'giving up bonus farming' to place the 2nd HUMTT tickets just behind that % to increase motivation.
Colluding is not really an issue imo; you just have to make sure that when 2 players chop and exactly win 50% it is impossible to make money (although I have to admit that I am not known with the Supernova and such bonus systems such I have not really an idea where the current equilibrium is laying ... ) and such the deposit and redeposit bonus system is safe for collusion.
By making first ticket the HUMTT, collusion does not make sense as everyone can achieve the first ticket.
Regarding leaderboards, you can either choose between +1 -1 0 and only last score counts or to either choose between +1 -1 0 (first match) +1/4 -1/4 0 (2nd match) +1/9 -1/9 0 (3rd match) ... both methods can be proved mathematically that it does not make sense to play over and over again the same opponent. The first system can result in players declining when hitting a score but they keep registering and such playing and can also result in players keep chasing a win when losing which is not present in the 2nd system. For professional players, the likelyhood of an opponent chasing is higher then of him quitting imo. And beginning players are imo attracted by binking a win and moving on.
The tickets ensures players stay in HUSNG a decent long time enough and such increase the HUSNG trafic.
The HUMTT entry tickets systems ensures players can chase the dream of just playing once a high stakes poker player which is imo not that hard to advertise/ work out more deeply and to focus on while advertising.
Although I can understand the concern of not really wanting to move players from one game to another. I think you can agree that the amount of games/hour in HUSNG is always higher than the games with more people at a table. Knowing that most players available hours are capped a week / you will see more played games a week and the profit you can make is increased per week imo. I cannot imagine that the cost of 1 game is not proportional to the amount of players in a game. Meaning that the cost of running 1 game is fixed, is imo unlikely.
Last edited by Emus; 02-20-2012 at 05:43 PM.