It is in our best interest to keep the league running as efficiently as possible in accordance with our players needs but at the same time keeping it 100% legal. The best way of doing that is by acting on feedback received from our players. We would like to thank everyone who participated in our recent feedback campaign.

Dealers

At the 2010 Grand Final we received some positive feedback from players expressing that they would be happy to pay an extra £5 to have dealers at the Quarter Finals. We asked the players what they thought:

Option 1: Yes, pay an extra £5 at each Quarter Final making the Buy-In £15 – 50%

Option 2: No, do not pay an extra £5 for dealers - 50%

Our Decision
We have decided not to introduce dealers for the Quarter Finals for the time being. Only half the venues submitted votes for this so we will be asking them to vote for this again sometime soon.

Prize-Pools

Our Yearly prize-pool currently stands at £13,000 split into 4 X Quarter Finals each worth £2000 and 1 Grand Final worth £5,000. This system seems to work just fine but recently we have had reports of players looking forward to seeing the Quarter Finals taken back to the pubs or simply lowering the Quarter Final prize-pools in favour of a larger Grand Final prize-pool.

A common question/comment we get is: "But can't we just have the £2000 Quarter Finals back in the pubs like the good old days?" No. This prize-pool would be illegal. The only way to host a Quarter Final in a pub today would be to lower the prize-pool to £100. Naturally if we did this the Grand Final prize-pool would bump up to a minimum of £12,000. We asked the players what they thought:

Option 1: £5000 Grand Final & 4 x £2000 Quarter Finals all held in Casinos - 80%

Option 2: £12,000 Grand Final (Casino) & 4 x £100 Quarter Finals held in pubs - 20%

Our Decision
We will be hosting all of this year's Quarter Finals at the Grosvenor casino, Walsall. Each will have a prizepool of £2000.

Trophies or Card Protectors

We have received some feedback requesting a branded card-protector instead of a trophies. Your votes were:

Option 1: Trophies all round - 60%

Option 2: Card Protectors all round - 30%

Option 3: Requested a choice of either (More costly at the expense of the prizepools) - 10%

Our Decision
Trophies won the day here but there is still a possibility we may introduce Card Protectors somewhere as a mark of acheivement.