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As you know, Poker 425 ended last October, when Channel 425 ceased to be.

I had 18 very happy months with 425, & we went just about everywhere, & interviewed everyone, from regular guys in local venues, to World Champions in Vegas. (I recall interviewing Doyle Brunson, Chris Moneymaker & Greg Raymer - all in one day!). But we had the most fun - by far - on the Domestic Circuit, where the 425 Team graduallly became quite well-known & respected. (Yours truly apart....).

I am delighted to say that the old Poker 425 Team are back together again. Rhow, Gouldy, Compo, myself, a bunch of interesting "new" faces, and Steve "wormster" as Producer, Billy as Lead Cameraman, all headed up by Clive Lawrence. My role will be as before, until & unless I get rumbled, and I have committed contractually to them for 2 days a week for the rest of 2007.

The show will be called "Poker Week". It will be recorded once a week, & air first on Thursday nights on Sky Sports, & repeated 3 times on Fridays on Sky Sports. It will then show for 5 straight nights on Sky Poker, at around 8pm I believe.

The new sponsors are.....Sky Poker. There will be a Poker Week website attached to the Sky Sports Website, & I have already penned a piece for them which will appear next week.

The show format will be a little different, & much better, we hope. We will go to Venues every week, record what we think you'll find interesting - characters, faces, regular guys - all in a light-hearted & upbeat vein. The "Anchorman-Pundit" sequences will all be shot on location, not in the studio.

The rest of the show will be given over to poker tuition, strategy, that sort of thing, for which some interesting folks have already filmed footage, including Kara Scott, Casper Berry & Mark Prince Charles Banin, plus some interesting guests.

As to the Venue side of things, the Edinburgh APAT was our first Venue (together with some Monte Carlo footage with Rhow), & our next venue will be Luton, where a certain bB4 is taking place, attended by, amongst others, several Sky Poker Suits....

All of May's Venues are already secured, we are working on June already, & we have a good variety of Tourneys lined up.

The first show airs on Thursday of next week.

More details as to channels & times to follow.

I think there is a market for a Poker Magazine Show, & we hope that Poker Week will fill the bill nicely.

Happy days!

 ;letsparty; ;mexicanwave; ;letsparty;

Good luck with this, I hope it goes well for you tikay

da iawn  ;dewi;

It's not been decided yet.

sounds exciting. I always liked the old 425 stuff, some of the presenters gave it real professionalism. I maybe right in thinking that with sky behind it, the production standards can really only go up, which is good news for the viewers.

Tikay on mainstream telly, whatever next. Ainsley Harriott better watch out.

Well yes, the Production Standards have been considerably upped.

have they got you a dressing room with a big star on the door ?

Superb.
 ;applause;

gl with this can't wait.

brilliant news, there is deffo a need for this kind of show and it will be great to see the team up and running again.

I hope you have a few tricks up your sleeve for Gouldy Tony, he believe every word you say.

The Fish Gouldy is in deep trouble, believe me.......

Sounds great - really looking forward to it.  All the best to all the team and crew.

 ;applause; Excellent news Tikay

Sounds like a lot of content. Is it a one hour show?

No, half hour, but we talk fast.

how lkong is the section on trains

8 carriages.

Thats great news , i have been missing the 425 show and now looking forward to the new one  :)

;applause;

Excellent news :)  I was thinking the other day about Poker 425 and how I was quite missing it.   It's about time we had a decent poker program that keeps us up to date with goings on on again.

All the best with it guys and I look forward to being interviewed for winning bB4 :D

why are you doing my PR?

I used to really like poker 425, even though I am a really bad poker player with a tiny er...... bankroll, I still somehow felt connected to the mainstream of poker in the country through watching it.  Great news that a new proggy with a similar content is on the way!

Thursday night of NEXT week, 11pm I think, on one of the Sky Sports Channels, 3 times on the following day, all on various Sky Sports Channels, & the next 5 nights on Sky Poker.

Full details of timings & Channels will be Posted here early next week.

great news tikay.

did you get a good shot of Edinburgh train station from the castle?

Good luck guys on the new show.
Looking forward to it

No he's got one with a Big Old Fish on it ;)

Well done though Tikay, can't wait to catch the show!

Result! Good work.

No - The Fish Producer & Compo refused my request.

Great news Tony, I've missed 425 since it's demise too.

Will you be covering Nottingham's May festival ?  ;)

We have asked for permission to cover it, but that's all I can say right now. "We hope so" is the answer, I guess. The other May Venues are all signed up.

just seen this sorry bit late with the congrats fella


nice one  :)up just whats needed

Well done mate, i look forward to being publicly outed again... i always said u had a ace for radio.... x

I won't let you down Matt. You know that......Hapless, helpless & hopeless was it?

Theres definitely room for a programme such as this on mainstream TV, looking forward to it already  ;applause;

Hope you've got loads of interesting facts lined up for Gouldy Tony  :D

....about bloody time!! ;)....excellent news. Well done Sky.

Great news..... now get those cameras along to BB4 so the general public can see that poker is enjoyed by normal, sober, well behaved folk!!!


hmmmmm, then again.....  ;boltpp;

Excellent news Tikay I'm looking forward to the new show, its nice to have a show which is reporting on current events,  if you get the chance have a word with the guys at poker zone and see if they will make some new programs.

Great news Tony , and for the rest off the crew.

i have checked this weeks TV listings but can not find it anywere, is it on this week?

 Sky Sports Extra on Thursday at 11pm

according to whats on tv, on the edge is on sky sports extra at 11.00

  mmmmmm mine is still saying poker week   thursday at 11pm

according to my sky+ its on sky sports extra 11pm thursday

and skysports 1 friday 10 am

i will have to change my TV book,
i have just been on sky website and you are correct its on Thursday at 11.00
just won't to see if i am on it
thank you

some of us cannot afford sky+
 

its same price as normall sky and for £10 extra you can get sky in another room too on the same subscription (we were paying 2 subs in house for about £100) now we have 2 sky and 1 sky+ box for about £70 i might get rid of movies though they have cheated me out of about 30 movies a day since the switch over to the new organsied channels

yes i know it is the same but it costs £160 to get it instold

and since i have not won any money since November.

i think i was lucky in the early days of the APAT

thought sky ran promos every now and then to get sky+ for next to nothing

i will look out and see if i hear of any deals

 
 Always worth contacting them and seeing what deal you can get.

 A month ago a friend contacted Sky to try and get re-connected after a year...... he couldn't afford it and stop paying owing them £80 odd . They offered to cancel what was owed if he "signed up" again, which he did.

Doubt if that was a Sky offer more like a dodgy sales person if you ask me... :dontask:

Why?

The marginal cost of providing the service to one more person who already owns the kit with a viewing card is close enough to zero for it to actually be zero as far as Sky are concerned (they probably just to have tick a box or two on a screen). The ongoing marginal cost of providing the service is similarly zero, making it hardly worth the cost involved in trying to recover a month or two's unpaid charges.

If they can get you re-subscribed and get three month's subscription out of you then they're in a revenue positive situation. It's a no-brainer for them.

Consider it done. TV Coverage by Poker Week is now confirmed.

maybe a wild stab in the dark but i do work for them and we have over the past year tried to move away from offering all sorts in order to inflate the subscriber numbers. The marginal cost is minimal but when you consider the additional costs of a customer who will likely be in the bad debt cycle (calls into call centre to get viewing switched back on, letters informing of debt) then it doesn't look as worthwhile plus the loyal customers get narked as they become aware of people trying to play the system..

eck can you sort out my missing movies please

they have stolen 2 channels off me and put 2 more on half day and then they are repeats

30+ movies a day i am missing

Sure your not sitting on them?

no sky stole them

12 channels into 10 channels yes we have organised your channels better but you havent noticed that you lost 4 channels worth of films and some of them are the same films every night of the week

i havent see a decent film on sky that i wanted to watch since the reorg

ffs iron I needed a pay rise and what with all the money they are paying these guys on sky poker the only rational course of action was to rip you off.......obv.

you will also be getting a phone call shortly advising you of a one off special offer only for you of 3 less channels for an additional £20 a month, sounds fair to me really........ ;D

its bloody rip off and i am annoyed thinking of canceling my subs but as my parents are getting 2 sky subs off mine it means i can without upping my digs

i am in a condry

Sky movies are pants !!! ,we took them off of our subscription this week .

That's just reminded me to go and cancel my movies too.  Always upgrade at Xmas but forget to cancel a month later.  I also cancel everything but the basics when the football season stops.

nosey-p  Tip for getting Sky plus for nowt.

Phone them up and tell them you are going to reduce your packages.  get rid of sports or movies.

Mention you might cancel altogether

They will start trying to persuade you to stay.  Eventually a supervisor will offer you sky plus installation for free

Worked for me and at least 2 others in my local!!!

Poker Week is on again on Sky Sports 1 at 10.00am this morning.  Is there anyone that could tape this on video or DVD for me for my 30 seconds of fame.  I don't have a video or DVD recorder :(

I will pay any costs.  Please.

Can anyone record/upload this for me? I'll transfer like 20 dollars on Pokerstars for your trouble

It will be repeated every afternoon, & every evening, on Sky Poker, Chnnel 846m starting fom Saturday, for 6 days I think. Does that help Dan, Rich?

Thanks Tikay, I didnt realise  :)up

No, I still can't record it :(

Oh and thank you Tightend and Tikay for my 30 seconds of fame. :)up

LOL... my best win was £12,000 ... I think thats VERY wrong...

Enjoyed the 1st show, watched last night....well done all