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Sky Poker: New Sponsors of blonde Poker


As we announced in December the 2010 sponsorship of blonde Poker by DTD ended on 31st December and I am pleased to post that Sky Poker have agreed to sponsor blonde Poker, initially for the first part of 2011 but hopefully for longer.

blonde already has links to Sky Poker through tikay of course, primarily, but also myself and of course via a number of blonde players who already play there.

Thank you very much to Sky Poker for their support and I hope blonde members support this sponsorship which, if successful, will help blonde prosper. If you are not a member of Sky Poker please sign up via the banners which will shortly be on the site. If you are already signed up, and play more because of this sponsorship, then please let us know as that will reflect well on our site.

Over the next few days we will be posting further details:

- On a new Sky Poker thread , details of Sky Poker's very competitive offering to poker players, from Welcome bonuses, loyalty schemes, leagues and promotions including Viva Las Vegas.

- On another thread  details of "The Sky's the limit" the inaugural league for blonde players on Sky Poker to run through January with added value provided by Sky to league and event winners.

tikay and I will happily take questions and feedback on this thread

In the meantime, please get signing up. We'd really appreciate it!

Where are the banners?
I don't have a skypoker account so will happily sign up.
Hopefully the success of the sponsorship wont be based on the monthly leagues as I, and i'm sure plenty others, don't find them viable due to work patterns

banners on their way, I hope. Was promised them at midnight, perhaps they will pop up when the server catches up!

thanks in advance for signing up

All we hope for is that people who sign up give us some of their online play, or if you are already a Sky player you let us know you if you play a bit more because of the partnership with blonde..

Doesn't matter if the leagues don't suit you, though of course we hope they will appeal to many.

Hey presto, a banner!

Congratulations to all concerned!  ;cheerleader;

Tony, can I have your spare hat?

congrats on new sponsor.  Fairly new to Blonde, but visiting daily now really, and will defo re-launch my Sky Poker Account as part of my found friends on Blonde / Sky!

I remember playing one of the very early TV games, and was thrilled to be on TV during a hand, watching it unfold with Tikays comments was a superb thrill (Even though he pronounced my online name wrong!)

I won the hand with a nice comment too from the legend that is Tikay.

I even e-mailed into the show to say how much i enjoyed the tournament and the comments, and how to correctly pronounce my nickname...which was read out........only for Tikay to tell me off for spelling it the way I do! LOL

quality, and I look forward to coming back.

Happy new year to you all.

Warren

Like watching the cash games that they have on, and very likely to deposit and play due to the links with blonde. Is there any chance we can get some blondes on the show for some PHA as the guys are really really tilty. Just another comment, I love watching shows when LJAMESL, LOLUFOLD are in the studio as the commenting is 100000x better. You can keep lisa-marie though :)

Sky Poker tourneys are super soft - as I have proved over the last couple of weeks.

Just don't bluff, ever.

awesome
what network is sky on and what loyalty plans can u do ?


rakeback????????

will sign up when iget more info

nice one, will sign up later today when not sleep deprived.

As AndrewT said they are very soft. A friend from work plays there and wins occasionally and he is terrible at poker.

Good news, looking forward to the Jan league.

On a technical note if views are encouraged, the two things I would like to see on Sky Poker are Resizeable Tables and the facility to have more than one tourny lobby open at a time, apart from that loving this sponsorship  ;D

Well done all at blonde/skypoker, this actually has the potential to be huge. Was never a big fan of the sodtware but the recent changes have been really good. Been fortunate enough to have played one of their live events and was muchly impressed with how it was run.

Strange that I have recently played a coupla tourneys there over the last week.Count me in guys. Would love to see a permanent blonde league/tourney there.

Got to be really nosey and ask as I am a great lover of the live updates, are Sky providing funding for furture updates? if so kudos to them.

Best of luck with this

Geo

 ;booder;

Am playing some Hi-Lo Cash right now, so I'll reply to the questions & feedback a bit later, guys. And Lady.

Thanks.

Blatant 'value at Sky Poker post'

'the hi lo cash tables are also dead soft' spam imo :)

edit: dammit i'll never be as quick as Andrew T.  Few will though tbf.

He's even quicker & smarter than you think - he was sat on one of my Tables within seconds of my, err, blatant spam.

Not played on Sky for a while.
Happy to look out my crash-helmet and re-deposit.

I see dead money.

And now Holdy-Foldy is there, too. Prooper blonde jobbie already!

And Eck!

Sheesh, Eck & Andrew both doubled up already. It's like Charity night.

AndrewT departed 4 x BI up, Eck slightly less so, Holdy is doing nicely (she's playing Omaha High now) & now outrageous76 has joined the Table.

Great start, thanks to all.

This is great news,hope it works out well for both parties.

I can vouch for the softness of the Omaha Hi-low cash when tikay is playing,pretty easy money tbh :)

wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii anyone wanna buy screen name TonyKendel off me i get maxim respect when i play on sky

Shush, Plumpy.

PS - Well done on winning tonight's Main Event. How much you bink?

There goes the neighbourhood. EvilPie has landed.

Nightmare.

R u guys playing right now...want a whisky riddled.Scotsman to join u...

Opportunity for a unique screenname too

P.s.tikay, my brother has sky+ed ur commentary on his losing hand...was ages ago...n he got bluffed off the winning hand,but at least u said you would have folded too..lol

Yup, we have a couple of smalll beer Hi-Lo Tables on the go. EvilPie is binking everything, too. Get him.

Too late

Alcohol has beat me..

Couldn't get my details in correctly

Oops

Awww noooo :(

Been too embarrassed to go back there after I majorly bad beat a celeb guest which was shown on tv of course  ::)

Nice suz


Cliffs plz..lol

It was so bad that I have never recovered and fear to venture outdoors.

Cannae whack a good bad beat reverse story.....I cracked aces once with fives...live......runner runner flush...all in in the flop

That guy sure respects me years later.....not!

Man did he cry


So cmon..spill the beans

Keeping in mind it was a few years ago and hopefully i have improved a bit :)

Dont remember blinds position etc.. I have K9 and Chris Kamara is bounty on my table :)) Flop was A93? (something like that)..I bet..he raised with A3, turn K and I binked the river. Played it very bad tho...Kara Scott was commentating and was gobsmacked LOL.

I toned it down a bit...pretty sure I shoved when he reraised on the flop :/

Did win £25 bounty though :)

Totally cringing

will blonde be getting any mentions/airtime/exposure on the 865 channel at all?

TYTY, 1.6K plus some change and OFC that means nothing, it was all about keeping my 100% record v you in the LL ;D

Please see the Sky Poker thread, stickied on here for details of a loyalty scheme and cash for points. % rates vary according to volume of play

No network, stand alone site, now downlaoadable

£1,600? Very nice.

PS - FYP

PPS - Hope 2011 is a better year for you bud, & I'm delighted the job is going well.

PPS - A shame you are Welsh, because I'd like to like you.

Not currently. A few reasons for this

Sky have their own forum, on which updates of their tour events (by me) and GUKPTs (tikay and team) for their Team players take place.

This is also a "trial" sponsorship. I hope it will be successful and see reasons why it will be. If it is then it can broaden to other areas.

Live updates are a big priority for me to sort. Would be a big miss off the site and it appears, from the lack of contact, that DTD don't wish them to continue on blonde. So, in the absence of any money to do them elsewhere I am going to have to volunteer to do a few, get benefactors to rally round to fund a few and speak to some other venues to keep them going. This can then be increased if we are earning a few bob.

Hasn't been discussed but I think not. Remember Sky has its own forum, and the aim here is not to send a load of Sky posters onto here and damage their place. So we'll keep promotion of Sky on blonde, for our members and fly under the Sky forum radar

FY and TY all in one  ;) lol

As stated before, really hope this works for both sides and gl to all new Blondes who sign up to Sky Poker :)

Geo,

In addition to the answer Tighty has already given you as to Live Updates, it may - MAY - be possible to have a Live Update from the Manchester GUKPT, though that wil be subject to a lot of "permissions".

I say that because Sky Poker have something called "Team Sky Poker" (TSP), a sort of "sponsorship", & all 5 of the existing TSP Members (3 more will join next Sunday) will be playing the Manchester GUKPT at the end of January. The 3 new players MAY also be playing it, so Sky Poker will have between 5 & 8 players there playing the £1,070 Main Event. So a Live Update is not wholly out of the question.....

100% NOT - in EXACTLY the same way that I have never ever ever mentioned Sky Poker on blonde Forum.

You'll need to decode some of it, of course, sort of televisual reading between the lines.

My next Show is Sunday (tomorrow) evening, from 9pm until 1am, when we cover the £50 Sunday Night Primo (usually about £4,000 up top), & also follow the Viva Las Vegas Semi-Final, which is a £120 jobbie leading to the £1,100 VLV Monthly Final on January 30th.

I shall mention you.......have you ever done anything in your life that was noteworthy? This could be fun.

good stuff, glad this came about.
I was pretty dissapointed when the dtd thing hit, I was always expecting this to happen.
Made a lot of sense to me so im glad to see its happened in the end.

I might drag my sp account back out from behind the sofa now.

Think I will give this a go.
Just need to think of an alias.

Opened a Sky account way back when but don't use it. ..... will call them up to retrieve password and log in details. See you there sometime soon. X

Funny, ...I too have been re- playing on Sky for a few weeks, since they now have the downloadable version.

Please note blonde members are not allowed to play the "double your money" tables  ;D

Will def playing more now,... lets hope its a really successful partnership.

do sky have a big weekly tourney or a monthly one?

i cant find anything


signed up anyway :)

The Biggy at Sky is the £220 FO every Thursday at the end of the month - This is capped at 50 runners

The "Big" one on a weekly basis is the Primo, £55 FO which is a 15K GTD tournament and is on every sunday and the analyst this week is Grandad Tikay.

Hope this info helps and gl to you at the tables :)

thank you!

tikay will be able to answer better, maybe. I'm still getting up to speed but there is a monthly £220 on the TV, weekly £55s and whopping £1100 Viva Las Vegas finals (£120 semis into the€m), for WSOP packages

Well you've had two responses already Mr Paul, but bear with me, & I'll run through the "highlights" for you shortly.

Bear in mind, please, that "big" is relative. It's not like 'Stars, or FT, we don't have zillion dollar jobbies with thousands of runners, but it's all in £ sterling, not $$'s, & the player base is almost wholly UK & ROI-based.

Thank you for signing up.

A run-through of the Tourneys that may interest you willl follow shortly.

Excellent News!

Will be retrieving my password and pounding out some hands and tournies on there this year!

MrFloppy1 will be stirring soon too I suspect, maybe even tomorrow.

thanks

Tourneys.

It has a full schedule of Tourneys from £2 up, a lot of Deepstacks etc, and 4 or 5 Freerolls every day, but as to the bigger stuff......

Monthly Sky Sports Double Stack.

£220, last Thursday of the month, capped at 50 runners, televised from start to finish. Won this week by AndrewT, who cashed for £3,000 I think, to add to a £2,400 cash he binked in the £50 PRIMO (£15,000 Guaranteed) a fortnight earlier, so he's cashed for the fat end of £6k this month. I believe he Satellited into the £220 for a tenner, too. I believe this Tourney may soon become weekly, or a £110 version capped at 100 runners.

Weekly Primo

£15,000 Guaranteed, every Sunday at 8pm, Televised, (tomorrow, it's Rich Orford & myself in the Studio) with plenty of easy Satellite opportunities. Pays about 40 players, with £4k-ish up top. We take phone calls live on air from those running deep in it.

Weekly Sky Sports Bounty Hunter.

£15k Guaranteed, every Thursday at 8pm, Televised, usually simulcast on one of the Sky Sports Channels, so a big audience. Note this is a "Bounty Hunter", so it plays oiut a little different to a normal NLHE jobbie.

Nightly Main Event.

Always 8pm.

Monday & Tuesday are £20 I think (one "standard", one BH), Wednesday is a Double-Stack (4k chips), still £20, Saturday is a standard £20 NLHE. Friday is a £20 Rebuy, Thursday & Sunday, as above. They generally get 500 runners or so, give or take a few hundred depending on whether Football is on Telly, etc.

TSP Classic

Every weeknight at 10pm, £11, gets about 220 runners on average, pays about £600 to the winner. One of the TSP Members play each night. Lovely structure.

Take-on-tikay, aka "TOTTY"

These run on Monday (£2.20), Tuesday (£11), Wednesday (£5.50, & Friday (£5.50 Rebuy). They all start at 8.30pm & have 2,500 starting chips. Number of runners varies from £150 ish in the £2.20, to around 60 in the £11 version. I designed the structure, & it plays very nicely indeed. I try to play it whenever possible, though sometimes I cannot do so.

"tikay Sleepstack"

Every Wednesday at 7pm, £11, 5,000 chips & 15 minute Levels I think. This is, I think, the only "badged" 10 seater Tourney on Sky Poker, all the others are 6 seaters. The whole site is 6-max, with just a few exceptions.

Viva Las Vegas.

Tiighty has detailed these, I think. Essentially, a £10,000 package, which includes flight tickets to Vegas for TWO people, & a suite at The Rio. And all our players get VERY well looked after out there, trust me......

There are, of course, thousands of other Tournies, but I hope that asnwers your question. If not, fire away.

The Tourney types are, mainly, standard NLHE, Bounty Hunters, Velocity (FAST), "Scary" (VERY fast), Deepstacks, plus the stuff I've mentioned.

Is there mac software for download or is it still only browser based?
I asked support. They said use internet explorer and you will be fine.....LOL @ support!

Just signed up and deposited first donation.

:)

is there player 2 player xfer?

I.e can i swap someone for tilt and they ship me sky monies?

Yes there is a Mac client

Wiiiiiiiii, shame support did not know that.

Not sure what that means, sorry, I'm not very IT-ish.

If you mean is there a "regular" Download version, yes.

It was introduced about a month ago, & so far, the number of players who have downloaded it is well into 5 figures. It is not exactly 'Stars, and has a lot more development left in it (!), which will feed through during the early part of this year, but I believe it's perfectly fit for purpose, all things considered, & is very smooth compared to the Flash-based version. BOTH versions remain available, & a surprising number of players have expressed a wish to stay on the Flash Client, which is fine, as both will run permanently & in parallel.

are they late registration tourneys???

going to copy some of this Q and A across to the "Official" Sky Poker thread, just in case you are wondering why it appears twice!

Nope

Unfortunately not

fantastic, thanks

can anyone else connect to the network?

Rebuys.

It's all going so ell so far today, thank you, so now I' going to spoil it, but I may as well bite the bullet & get it out of the way.

Rebuys (& Add-ons) on Sky Poker are raked, 10%, exactly the same as Reg Fees. Not to everyone's taste, that, but it won't be changing, so if that does not meet your approval, best to swerve them, as I don't see the Policy ever changing, be it right or wrong.

Only one of the nightly Main Events is a Rebuy - Friday, at 8pm. Only one TOTTY is a Rebuy, (and it is a LIMITED Rebuy) also Friday, this one at 8.30pm. For me, it's "Rebuy Night", & I actually find it good fun, & very profitable. Except for these, all the Tourneys I listed earlier are Freezeouts.

The Sky Poker methodology for Rebuys is.....

A Rebuy can be taken as soon as a single chip has been lost. The Add-on is at the first break, & has 50% "bonus chips", so in, say, a 2,500 chip Friday night TOTTY, the Add-On is 3,750 chips, & in the Friday Night Rebuy Open, which has 2,000 starting chips, the Add-On is 3,000 chips.

What does that mean, please? Other Networks? Hell, no! It's 100% standalone.

I'll discuss liquidity in the various Formats later, but I have to go out shortly, so it'll have to wait for now.

Sky Poker trivia.

The oldest player on Sky Poker is our very own JAKALLY.

i downloaded sky poker and i cant connect to the network
so i cant paly

I just opened it up - it's fine for me.

I also get the IT Incident Reports for the whole of SB&G which reports any IT-based issues immediately, & it's greened-out today, the last one I had was 30 minutes ago, so no reported issues.

I'm afraid my IT-skills are only about 95% optimal, so I can't help further, sorry.

try customer support please. I just logged on, no problems. See if they can help

Do you have any firewall software on your computer - might need to tell it to allow Sky Poker to connect.

I tried to play a stt but the window opened showing only half the table, couldnt see the raise/fold buttons etc, couldnt find anything to change the size and ended up blinding out.
Do I need to change settings on my computermabob before opening up sky?

Report it to Customer Services and hopefully you should get your money back
I had a slight problem with "Network Error 500" popping up but it is rectified for me and a few others I know who had same problem.

Good luck in this venture.

Signed up and deposited, but every username I have ever used is taken, took a good 20 minutes to think of something new and original, I gave up in the end and chose something old and tired.

Tikay wasnt taken?

I am tired and hungover and wish I was capable of being that laterial. . . . sigh.

Can u ban urself from the casino and sports betting?

I already had an account here,but I clicked on the banner and downloaded and it works now apart from using the chat.

http://help.skybet.com/display/4/kb/article.aspx?aid=1214

Some damage has bEen done
Gg me

I have a technical question, probably the wrong place to put it but hey you can always tell me the right place.

I have a hand I want to post to the PHA from Sky Poker. Is there anyway I can get the hand history easily? they have a strange version of hand historys that don't look like the normal ones.

Any idea anyone?

The way they have the HH is the only way they have them - there's no text version.

Your options are....

go to my hh and find the hand. copy paste (using IE or firefox not other browsers or something like that) and then paste into sky forums. and it will come out layed out so you can view it just.

you can also open standard view, enlarge the chat, and copy paste the 'full detail info' it missed off information but is one of the easiest ways to get vaguely readable hand histories. you'll miss off stack sizes and other info but most hand histories dont even register most players stack sizes etc so it's about as good as you'll get.