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Is the show still gettin shown on sky?

No it was only contracted to run till christmas.

Negotiations are continuing with potential new Sponsors. We need a) to find a Sponsor, & b) to find a "slot" that's good value to the would-be sponsor.

Not an easy do.

I thought it was a good show but sky always aired it at silly times different slots every week so i never knew what time it was on

I really hope it does come back. There are loads of poker shows out there these days, but poker week was unique. It had a sort of "Home grown, you and me" type feel about it.

As well as keeping me up to speed with the movers and shakers, the "Poker elite" as it were, it also found time for the footsoldiers, the players I know personally, and venues I frequent.

I loved poker week..it's proper poker-telly.

We are on the case, trudging round sponsors, knocking on doors to sell our wares. I may have to drop my trousers to get a deal.

Eeek no chance then  rotflmfao

Not again!!

Much, much better & entertaining than 'the club' IMO.

The Club is truly, truly awful. I understand Sky is going for a different poker audience but "The club" is just about the worst poker show I have ever seen anywhere. It's all packaging and no substance.

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i agree you can see the club is done on the cheap nothing in the show except for the interviews some of which i have liked,no reason for the show to be more than 15min though,i have been thinking of sending sky an email about how they treat poker players who have sky, you would think they would give us some sort of benifit £55 a month full package for years and not even a added tournament just for sky users ,just shows how they dont want to spend that much on poker.

Well I enjoy the club, if only cos it reminds me of the good old days of Poker Night Live. I think they actually should revive PNL to run after the open has finshed.

Plus it must be self financing now with all the juice on tournies and the rake in cash games. It would be v.interesting to see what they are raking off the top. In fact if you add all the extra roulette / casino games / quiz programmes that the punters are spending their coffers it must add up to millions.

If I know one thing about Sky...and I do (know one thing, that is)..it's that it's not a charity and will never be run as one...Sky (and the entire Murdoch empire) will always squeeze a pound out of a penny if they can. They sure didn't start up Skypoker because they thought they could breakeven..of course they saw it as a license to print money, and they are doing it very cleverly. They are a good money making business over there at BSkyB (and deserve some respect for that) so you can be pretty sure they are making good money off of this.

Otherwise they wouldn't be able to pay me the pennies and keep Boldie happy!

i agree rupert murdoch is a very clever ruthless business man, i think its the thrill of seeing your play and hand analysed on the telly which makes the open so popular, thats fine and it will succeed but making as much money from sky poker should not be his number 1 consideration, yes make a profit but show a bit of goodwill to sky customers, at present we get nothing, its not good for customer satisfaction, its no good him saying we value you as a customer when he doesn't prove it by giving us something to make us feel special. its just another thing which makes me look at sky in a bad light ,this just adds to me thinking is it worth the money having sky. £55+£10 for setanta,

Yeah but where will you take your business? You could go to Virgin but you'd have to change your phoneline and miss Sky1 and all that. There is no competition for Sky and there won't be so they don't really have to do a lot for customer satisfaction (though they will publically of course always claim they are "continuing to strive to meet and exceed their customers expectations" or some bollox like that)

yes thats it in a nutshell, they think you will moan but what will you do about it,well as i say its just another thing to make you look at sky in a bad light which would influence you if and when you decided to get rid of sky

'The Club'

Interesting idea, but crucially without the personalities poker shows can be very dull.

The thought of having to watch people analyze players hands (which always seem to be bad beats, what do they expect with crap shoot structures!) is beyond dull.

The guests are not really guests but people from the same studio who happen to be presenting that nights Sky (http://www.skypoker.com/poker/sky_lobby?aff=1062) Poker (http://www.skypoker.com/poker/sky_lobby?aff=1062), sounds fun right?

Bring me Poker week any day, the banter, the on location reports and a real in depth coverage of proper poker.

How can you base any poker show (which claims to provide tips and information to improve your game) around Sky (http://www.skypoker.com/poker/sky_lobby?aff=1062) Poker (http://www.skypoker.com/poker/sky_lobby?aff=1062) that has possibly the worst structures online, designed to encourage bad play. Hey if its aimed at people who don't want to play fine.

Scrap "The Club"

Start  "Poker Week" sponsored by Sky Poker.

I thought it was a SP program anyway?

Scrap them all, film a Blonde Poker week and have it as an internet program only.

Only  happy to help :)

Tikay and Compo can host for free and I have a camcorder thing that I can use - what more can you need?

i think for the show to work live on tv it has to be a fast structure,the only way to change this is for the tournament to start a few hours before the show goes on air ,but it wouldnt be live which is the whole point i suppose, a lot of players have learnt a lot from the show and know they should play a different type of game in another structure,and yeah you do get very bad players but they will improve by watching the show just like everyone else does when they are learning,sky poker is for amateurs and i thought poker week did show the poker scene in the uk for amateurs who play and want to play in the next level in the uk poker scene.except for the odd guest the club is no different to the open show on every night to me.

I have to agree with this, the standard on the site is so bad, I dont know why I still play on there been sucked out on twice today and it just leaves me thinking why the hell are you calling preflop with that junk, people on sky love any ace and suited cards.

Do you want them to call with the best hand or the worst hand?

I dont want to give bad beat stories but the amount of outdraws is ridiclous, and its the same old story whenever I need to gamble and push with something marginal I never outdraw.

I think you will probably find that on average you will outdraw someone between 25% and 40% of the time, if not then you need to increase your sample size.

First off - I must declare an interest by the fact that i work for Sky.

However - i think  some of you are missing a huge opportunity..

 You KNOW that sky suits pay attention to the Blonde poker community - so in effect you have the possibility to influence new poker programming that you would like to watch. Instead of constructive criticism however it becomes a really negative thread about "The Club" and Sky as a business. What is the point in moaning? If you're desperate for a poker show that is "credible" to a discerning poker palate - verbalise the future rather than rose tint the past - name those elements that you desire and you may be surprised at who listens.


This is not meant as an attack - rather an encouragement for constructive critique rather than negativity. The palate of a poker player is difficult and varied to cater for - but one that we strive to delight rather than satisfy.

I hope that this is received in the spirit I write  and look forward to hearing some of your ideas...

ok, here's my idea.

Dump the wooden tops that do the wooden show 'the club' its poop!!! Get a big bloke in a dodgy suite and an old guy with a blonde hairpiece and get them to do a half hour slot every week following REAL poker and REAL people in REAL tourneys. Real life interviews with the chaacters of the game. People that can give advise rather than advise from someone who has just luckboxed his way through 600 people in a £5 comp and scooped £300 or something like that.It's boring.

Thanks.

as i have posted ,sky poker is for amateur players,i think poker week was a show for amateur players who wanted to know what was going on in the uk poker scene which i enjoyed watching, i have made a lot of comments about how i feel sky customers have been let down by sky poker,i dont think this being negative and feel it is a fair comment,i pay a lot of money every month to sky and it would not cost sky very much to put something special on for sky customers as a goodwill gesture,

What other companies give away something for nothing ? Not many that i can think of...  If it ain't broke, don't fix it..

What you're paying for is the Sky Channel Package that those who don't use Sky Poker pay for - so I'm confused as to how the poker side has let you down or owes you something.

However - to be honest I'm not interested in that side of the affairs... If you are up for giving constructive criticism on what you would like to see on a poker show then I will always give you my time and attention.

Thanks

Exactly as Celtic says...the production costs saved on The Club are put towards producing Poker Week...OK, Sky might need to add a bit for Tikays superstar pay rate, but they put their money where their mouth is... and then "we" dont need to go searching for a new sponsor?

Hi all,

thanks for all the positive posts for "Poker Week". Let's hope we can find a new sponsor & a new channel (possibly more difficult than finding a new sponsor!).  We had so much fun doing the show last year, it would be a shame if we didn't all get back together again in the near future.

Cheers,

Steve

I think you should get the Dancing with the X factor slot on ITV on Sunday nights.

content for a new poker show hum lets see!!!!!!!!!


we could have a comedy and follow a disabled handsome (ex army is a must) young chap from the north or maybe norway has he travels the country looking for a game

or we could have a serious drama as a yound disabled chap plays in casinos and clubs around the globe taking on and beating the best the poker world has to offer

or a musical as a young disable guy from scotland sings his way round the poker curcuit

or something a little more adult as a young scottish guy in a wheelchair plays a little poker and combines his travels with trip (where possible so no blackpool) to lapdance clubs


or how about the slow death of a disabled guy who travels alone to vegas to play the WSOP neglecting his health as his wins 3 braclets including the ME in 1 year


well they are a few ideas for you to mull over all very different i have thousands more but they will do for free

if you want some more i am available for consultation and my rate are likely to be less than tikays wardrobe budget

 rotflmfao and FYP.

I have had a gripe with sky poker from the begining to be honest. Most likely due to the begining of it coincided with the end of PNL, thats where I shall begin.

PNL was pretty much the reason why I started properly getting into poker, really wanting to learn about the game, it was a great show(IMO).The show taught me a lot, was fun to watch, and great to participate in. I don't know the in's and out's of its decline, but i'm 90%+ sure its not ever coming back, which is a real shame.
PNL showed a complete mixture of MTT's, SNG's and cash games, obviously apart from the MTT long periods of play with the same players was shown, allowing players to really get into the game, building up pictures of players, adding to the whole learning experience. The show had nights for beginers as well as more advanced player, one thing I feel sky poker unfortunatly lacks.

Now im not going to be 100% bitter, sky poker has obviously brought in a massive amount of new players to the game, and for that I thank them. And the programing is good enough for the newer players, not to serious and quite light, to say the least, on poker theory. But for those of us who know that a flush beats a straight, there isn't really much to tickle our poker brain. Now there are 650 players that play the "live" MTT's every night, so they must be doing somthing right, but lets be honest they are all massive crapshoots. Again that won't really matter to newbies but to those that enjoy playing "real poker" with a slow structure are left out in the cold. I understand the structure is in place to ensure the tournament is finished by the time the show finishes, but surely even once a week or fortnightly you could have a "slow" (normal) structure starting earlier and you could still be sure to finish before 12:30. I understand poker is still not properly mainstream, but I don't think it ever will be if things aren't attempted. I am aware that cash games are now being shown, which I think is great, I have to admit to having not seen much of it at all, but it is a start.

Another thing is the software, lets be honest, its not the best really. I think one thing that would make it a whole lot better is speeding up the dealing process, does it have to be so slow, this frustrates me as the blind levels are so short as it is but waiting for the cards to be dealt steals a hand a level IMO. Again I understand Sky Poker is geared towards beginers, but the hand strength guide is really annoying. I probably shouldn't moan as it makes players play bad cards, but when it causes seemingly continuous bad beats, all be cause the Hand strength rater says keep em.

There is obviously a lot of things that can/need to be improved and addressed, but I really do hope Sky poker succeeds.

That's a well-constructed critique Hutchy, & I shall give it the full reply it deserves shortly. Though it's on a thread headed "Poker Week", and it's really aimed at Sky Poker, but that's fine, I'll reply fully later.

Thanks for making such a well-costructed Post. We see so many "it's shite" Posts, but it's kinda tough to reply to such stuff - each to their own, & all that, but if a sensible reaction is wanted, a sensible question or comment is needed.

I''ll be back........

Thank tikay, I did kind of post it in the wrong thread, but I kind of went off on one and forgot to say that I thought that poker week added a lot to sky poker. That was the point I originally had in my mind, so I thought this was the correct thread.