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On this thread we will post details of Sky Poker's offer and Promotions

Please post yourself with comments, feedback

Also post to tell us what you are playing, how you are doing..rail threads, chirps etc etc

Sign up to Sky poker via one of the banners you see on the site


Once you do so

New Player Rewards


All newly registered Sky Poker customers are eligible for a £5 Free Tournament Token when you enter promo code POKER. You will also automatically be entered into our £1000 Welcome Bonus, when you earn 75 poker points in your first 30 days with Sky Poker you'll get a £5 cash bonus. Then for every increment of 75 points you will get additional cash! This will be credited within 72 hours of earning the points.

Poker Points       Total Cash Bonus
    75                               £5
    150                             £10
    225                             £15
    300                             £20

    ...and so on, upto a maximum of:   
   
    15000                        £1000

The more poker you play the more you earn up to a maximum of £1000. There is no minimum deposit required as long as you earn the required points you will get the cash bonus.

Poker points are earned for all real-money game play, but how fast you earn poker points depends on the types of games and limits you play . You can also visit our Earning Poker Points page to find out more.

You can check your poker points balance at any time. Simply log-in and go to My Account at the top-left of your screen. Underneath "Free Stuff" you will see the link "View Poker Points" - click here and you can perform a poker points search for your First 30 days.

Yes! It's as simple as that! Your account will be credited within 72 hours of reaching the next bonus tier - remember that your poker points for the previous day will be calculated on sessions ending before midnight.

Once you are playing...a loyalty scheme...

Earning Poker Points

All new registrations will receive 500 Poker Points. Use these points to enter our regular freerolls.

Sky Poker values all of our poker players and therefore we have introduced a player reward scheme. The scheme works by rewarding every player with 'Poker Points' based on their real money gameplay. These points are rewarded every time a player plays in a Real Money Game as well as Sit 'n Go's and Multi Table Tournaments.

To get you off to a good start Sky Poker will automatically award 500 Poker Points to each new customer. Using your Poker Points will add to your fun as you will be able to use them to buy entry into selected tournaments rather than paying cash!

How to Earn Poker Points

Every time you participate in a Real Money Game you will earn valuable Sky Poker Points. This will be based on the stakes of the table below.

Game Type                  Points    Raked Hands
£1.50 / £3.00 and Above   30    20
£1.00 /£2.00                   24     20
£0.50 /£1.00                   18    20
£0.20 / £0.40 - £0.40 / £0.80   9   20
£0.10/ £0.20 - £0.15 / £0.30   5   20
£0.02 / £0.04 - £0.05 / £0.10   2   20

A raked hand is defined as any hand in which you are dealt hole cards and a minimum of 1 pence in rake is taken.

You will also earn Bonus Poker Points for buying in to any Multi and Single Table Tournament. You will earn 10 Poker Points for every £1 in entrance fees paid, for example, if you enter a £10 + £1 tournament, the £10 is your contribution to the prize fund and the additional £1 is the "fee" that you pay. This means in this example that you will earn 10 Bonus Poker Points. All loyalty points earned will be credited to your account at the end of each hand or tournament  and can be viewed by going to 'My Account'.

Cash for Points

What is Cash For Points?

We have a fantastic offer available to all Sky Poker players where you will be rewarded with a cash bonus based on the amount of ‘Poker Points’ you earn in a month.

What better way to kick start your month, all you have to do is play!

Unlimited Rewards!

The cash bonus you earn is based on the amount of Poker Points you earn, with bonuses starting from as little as 500 points. You can also earn an unlimited cash bonus. For every 4000 points you earn over 40000 points, we will award you an extra £250! Check out the table below for more details:

Please note: For every 4,000 points you earn over 40,000 points, you will earn an extra £250

Points earned in Calendar Month = Bonus Amount

40,000 points = £2,000.00

36,000 points = £1750.00

32,000 points = £1500.00

28,000 points = £1250.00

24,000 points = £1000.00

20,000 points = £750.00

16,000 points = £500.00

12,000 points = £350.00

10,000 points = £275.00 + Entry to our Priority Club (this is effective for Poker Points earned in December)

8,000 points = £200.00

7,000 points = £150.00

6,000 points = £125.00

5,000 points = £100.00

4,000 points = £75.00

3,000 points = £50.00

2,000 points = £30.00

1,000 points = £15.00

500 points = £5.00

 
How do I qualify for Cash for Points?

By doing the following:

•Click 'My Account' and go into ‘Free Bets’

•Enter the code ‘POINTS’

Please note: If you have already entered the promotional code (DECPOINTS, JANPOINTS, FEBPOINTS, MARCHPOINTS, APRILPOINTS or POINTS for all months after April) you will not need to enter the code again and will be eligible for the “Cash for Points” promotion.

 
How do I earn ‘Poker points’?

By playing in any of the following:

•Real Money Cash Games

•Paid Multi Table Tournaments (MTT’s) or paid Sit ‘n’ Go’s (STT’s)

To see how to maximise the number of poker points you can earn, click here.

 
When will my bonus be paid?

By the 5th Business Day of the Month

Your bonus amount will be paid within 5 business days following the calendar month end and is calculated based on the total number of poker points earned in the previous calendar month. You will automatically be paid the highest possible cash bonus based on the poker points you have earned, the points exchanged will also be removed from your account.

 
How do I see how many points I’ve earned?

You can view how many poker points you have earned in the current calendar month in the My Account area on the website as follows:

•Log in to Sky Poker as normal

•Click 'My Account' in the top left hand corner

•Look for ‘Current Month Poker Points’ in the ‘Free Stuff' section

 
Terms & Conditions

•This promotion runs on a calendar month basis. All poker points earned in sessions which start after 00:00:00 on the 1st day of the month and end before 23:59:59 on the last day of the month will qualify. Please note, points are credited to your account when you leave the table.

•The calendar month is completely independent, points earned in one calendar month cannot be carried over to be used in a different month.

•Accounts will be credited with the bonus and the relevant poker points will be removed by 18:00:00 on the 5th business day following the calendar month end, in accordance with the payout structure as shown on the ‘Poker Points Table’

•All bonus amounts quoted are in pounds sterling (GBP). If an account is held in an alternative currency then the bonus amount will be converted at the relevant exchange rate on the day the bonus in credited.

•If a customer is enrolled in any other "cash for points" promotion, then they will be awarded the highest single cash bonus for the points earned across all such promotions. In these instances cash bonuses will not be paid cumulatively.

•Sky Poker reserves the right to add, remove and/or amend these terms and conditions at any time provided that any such amendments shall not have a detrimental effect on any participant. •Sky Poker Management decision will be final in all cases.

•Entering this promotion makes you automatically eligible to receive News and Offers from Sky Betting and Gaming.

•Sky Poker reserves the right to withhold or withdraw a bonus from a customer where we reasonably believe that such customer is abusing or defrauding the promotion.

Priority Club



Sky Poker Priority Club

Sky Poker are proud to introduce their new VIP scheme, giving players the chance to earn extra rewards for simply playing poker.

How do I become a Sky Poker Priority Club Member?

Simply earn 10,000 Poker Points in a calendar month on Sky Poker and you will be eligible for entry into the Sky Poker Priority Club the following month.

What do I receive as a Sky Poker Priority Member?

The Sky Poker Priority Club gives you access to our VIP exclusive competitions, promotions, special offers and the chance to join us on a number of Sky Poker Tour events throughout the year.

        Cash for Points Boost As a Sky Poker Priority Member you will receive a 25% cash for points boost for every month that you are a Priority Club Member.
        Direct buy-in for any Sky Poker Tour Event If you fancy playing any of the Sky Poker Tour events simply speak to your Account Manager and he can ensure that you can buy-in directly for any Sky Poker Tour Event
        Priority Club Contact A dedicated Account Manager and Priority phone number to offer you that personal touch.
        Priority Club Promotions Win yourself entry into the top poker tournaments around the world, the latest gadgets or cash prizes as a member of the Sky Poker Priority Club.

How do I maintain my VIP status?

To remain a Priority Club Member simply continue to play and earn 10,000 or more Poker Points each month and you will continue to receive exclusive VIP rewards and services.

Your Sky Poker Priority membership will be determined based on your previous month's play. We will calculate your Poker Points for you and send you a notification email at the beginning of each month.

Viva Las Vegas

How would you like an all expenses paid trip to Las Vegas worth £10,000? Well at Sky Poker we're giving you that chance with our Viva Las Vegas promotion!

Every month till May we'll be holding a Viva Las Vegas final where 1 in 10 players will win the Viva Las Vegas package. And the best part? Well you could actually win your way there from as little as £1.45 with our daily satellites. Your prize package will include:

- Two return flights to Las Vegas
- A luxury suite at the world famous Rio Hotel for 10 days

Go to the lobby now to register for one of the many satellites, or buy directly into the final. The first final is on Sunday 30th January 2011 and 1 package is guaranteed!. This is a truly exceptional opportunity to win an amazing prize package, so good luck - we hope to see you in Vegas!

Take a look at the tournament tree below and work out which satellites you'll play to get on the fast track to Sin City...

WIN A TRIP TO VEGAS!

£10,000 PRIZE PACKAGE!


https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby/poker-promotions/viva-las-vegas?tracking=pokerrhc_viva

Summarises the structure of the Qualifying system

New Downloadable client


Download Sky Poker

Sky Poker’s new download product brings all the excitement of Sky Poker to your desktop! The software is quick and easy to use and you’ll be seated in seconds against players of all standards across the UK.

Download and install Sky poker now by clicking the 'Install Now' button on the link provided once you have signed up. If you’ve already got an account with Sky Poker, Sky Bet, Sky Vegas or Sky Bingo you will not need to register a new account.

The Cash Series: 'Master Cash: Cash 300' and 'The Big Game'

If you like your cash games and you also fancy being a star on Sky Poker TV, then look no further than our series of Cash shows.

Every Saturday night we will feature 'Master Cash' on Sky Poker TV, with the show's main focus being on either 'The Big Game' or 'Cash 300'.

These are shows that will include analysis from resident Sky Poker experts that could improve your skills, and also feature live action from the cardroom floor. They range from the low stakes to mid stakes and all the way up to the high rollers!

 

What are these shows about?

MASTER CASH

It does exactly what it says on the tin! Master Cash is the TV show that allows you to Master your Cash Game skills! The Sky Poker show started in November 2009 and has been a huge hit amongst Poker players ever since. Using our resident experts the show focuses on advising you how to improve your cash game skills. A well known figure to Sky Poker players, Tony ‘Tikay’ Kendall is one of the hosts and he is there to answer your questions and queries regarding all things cash related. As well as Tikay, other hosts of the show include Richard Orford, Trevor Harris, James Hartigan and Ed Giddins. Not only do they give you advice but they even guide you through the live cash games being played at the time of the show! If you are looking to improve your Cash Game skills and, ultimately, your bank balance, Master Cash is the show for you!! Don’t miss out and tune into channel 865 at 8pm on a Saturday!

'THE BIG GAME'

The biggest game on Sky Poker! In 'The Big Game' the high rollers go head-to-head in an epic cash game. The buy-in is £500 and the blinds are £2.50/£5! This is not the kind of game for the faint-hearted with the crème de la crème of the site pitting their wits and skill in an all out battle for supremacy! Who will rise to the top? Find out as we go live with 'Master Cash: The Big Game.'

'CASH 300'

In 'Cash 300' Sky Poker players pit themselves against one another on the £1.50/£3.00 Cash tables. The buy-in is, of course, £300 and the players have the opportunity to break from the crowd and make a real name for themselves on the baize. This is 'Master Cash: Cash 300' - where legends are made!

How do you get to appear on these shows?

Throughout the week, our poker lobby has a number of tables called 'Master Cash' 'Cash 300' and 'The Big Game'. With all limits covered, these are a perfect way for you to take your game and showcase it to the Sky Poker viewers. Lookout for the TV symbol next to the tables if you want your hands to be contenders for the show on Saturday nights.

What are you waiting for? Get to the tables!

the Poker League: Become a member of team Sky Poker

Tieing in with some exciting new developments at Sky Poker, we've reviewed the Poker League format. You can now qualify through the League to become a member of Team Sky Poker. Please note, players must opt in to the Poker League in order to earn poker league points and participate in this promotion:

   1. The Top 30 Cash, MTT and STT players over a 3 month period have a chance to win their way onto Team Sky Poker.
   2. The League will now run quartlerly. There are 3 places onto Team Sky Poker available every 3 months.
   3. The first qualifying period will run from October 1st to December 31st, then every 3 months after. The qualifying players will play in three separate tournaments (of 30 players each Cash, MTT, STT) to determine the three positions.
   4. These tournaments will be the 1st Sunday of the month after the qualifying period (i.e. the top 30 players in each poker league (Cash, MTT, STT) from October 1st to December 31st 2010 are invited to a private tournament on the second Sunday in January 2011- January 9th ).
   5. These tournaments will be the 2nd Sunday of the month after the qualifying period (i.e. the top 30 players in each poker league (Cash, MTT, STT) from October 1st to December 31st 2010 are invited to a private tournament on the 2nd Sunday in January 2011- January 9th ).
   6. The winner of each tournament will win a place on Team Sky Poker.


League Stars Freeroll

   1. The League Stars Freeroll for the top 150 Cash, STT & MTT players will still run on the 2nd Sunday every month.
   2. The top 10 players from the League Stars Freeroll will get a seat into the £8k Sky Sports Double Stack, shown live on Sky Sports every month.
   3. However, the top 450 players will now be worked out concurrently. For example - The 1st quarter runs from the 1st October 31st December 2010:
          * a) The top 450 players in October will be invited to the freeroll on the 2nd Sunday in November.
          * b) The top 450 players across October and November combined will be invited to the freeroll on the 2nd Sunday in December.
          * c) The top 450 players in October, November and December combined will be invited to the freeroll on the 2nd Sunday in January.
          * d) Then a new quarter will begin in January - March and so on

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.

tikay says:

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.

Is there mac software for download or is it still only browser based?

Yes there is a Mac client

Can we link our accounts to blonde if we are already a member?

either post or PM me your Sky username, especially if you are going to play a lot more because of the partnership with blonde

No tagging as such, you are a Sky customer already, and a blonde member. You belong to both of us (evil corporate chuckle)

However if Sky/blonde means your volume on Sky rises, Sky will be made aware by myself and tikay as it is all part of what will make the deal successful

In for tonight's 6k open. Structure's looked to have improved!

In for tonight's 6k open. Don't give a shit about the structure.

I think I signed up via a blonde banner anyway but if not I can confirm that there is not a cat in hell's chance I would've played this tonight.

I also wouldn't have been playing the plo8 tables last night.

I would like to thank Tikay for providing the entry fee for tonight's 6k btw.

Good luck on the tables everyone!!!!!!

Come and say hello

https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby?action=show_static&page=poker_community_forums&plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plckDiscussionId=Cat%3a57795ac2-1793-4377-b4cf-e124b0f555f4Forum%3adf77f82c-151f-4bea-aae1-fb423dcae1faDiscussion%3ab45f830a-61c8-4aff-9c1a-657fe5d4cca7

Sorry about the length of the link...not sure how the hyperlink works on here :o(

xx

are all tourneys 6max?

signed up via Blonde.

In the 6k tonight.

Nearly all.

well that went well. May as well start the year off with a whinge

Some superstar called whereisstu decided to call on a 443 board with Q9 when I had AQ and obv snapped my jam on the turn when the 9 pinged.

Awesome

[  ]    wp

wiiiiiiiiiiiii won my first mtt there only a 11£ fo

but 200£ isnt that bad stillin the hole from the wheel of dooooooooooooom

lol. well done

I think you might be Sky Poker's new favourite customer

sorry  already banned myself from sports betting, casino and bingo for 5 years!

He knew you were bluffing and was right.

45th for min cash.

yep. pwned

me too 33rd for just under 50bucks

WELCOME TO SKY

Mr almost pwned Leedsrhodesy sir ;o)

xx

Nicked 2nd :D

But apart from that excuse for a chirp, was delighted to see the news of Sky sponsoring Blonde. My two favourite online poker places together at last.

Well played Blondies

You did yourself proud

xx

Hello Everyone - First post on here and have decided to get involved. Occasional live player in Luton and also in Vegas when I get the chance to go over there (Ayria, Caesars etc). Have reactivated my Sky account and hope to play there some instead of loosing on the usual suspects. Anyway a question on Sky Poker, how do I block the other parts of it (Casino, Bingo etc)
gl everyone!

           :hello:;welcome;

I suspect you're not the real WPIL....

Welcome

http://help.skybet.com/al/12/2/article.aspx?aid=1210&tab=faq&bt=4&r=0.2717733 for Self Exclusion

I think there is away to exclude from casino and carry on playing Poker. Ask support and see what they say

Go in to "My Account"
On the top tabs - click on Gaming Safely
At the top again there is a 'Stop Betting' option, click on that
Go to the the Self Exclusion box
Hey Presto, block whatever format you want and press confirm :)

^ that is correct but u have to do it on their website

you can choose what u wanna get excluded from
either bingo sports casino or poker

personally i went for thefirst 3 options for 5 years hopefully it will save me from going busto

Thanks - excluded from all apart from Poker off course and 1 more question - who is the real WPIL??????????????????????

WPIL = the one and only useless Yousef Qereshi

Registered yesterday via the banner, got email today saying I have an account already. If I had an account how come it let me register another? Don’t know if Blonde will benefit or not. If someone can look into it, if I play there I wouldn’t like to think the Blonde miss out on anything.   

Yousef Qereshi? Does he have a "curtain style" haircut??????????

pm me your Sky username please (new/old)

how do i do that?

PM? you can't til you have ten posts

When you have, go to the top of the page and click on messages and go from there

Ch 865 Sky Poker tonight, first live show in 2011 will be the big Sunday night game.

We're on air from 9pm-1am tonight and we'll have full coverage of the £15K guaranteed Primo.

Also on the agenda- The Poker Clinic, cash action and phone calls with lots of Sky Poker players.

The Comp is Sky Primo £50+5 NLHE, 124 players currently registered


Let us know if you play and how you get on

At the risk of sounding like your typical whinging poker player, here's what I don't like so far.

No way of saving hand histories to disk. I appreciate that you might want to ban HUDs, and if so fair enough, but I'd still really like to upload hands into HEM and look at why I've cocked it up again later. You aren't going to get many people posting them on here either.

Why when you are in the small blind and you raise, is the total raise. E.g. my Small Blind is 2p. I adjust the slider to 16p. I press raise. My raise is now 18p. I'm pretty sure that's not what anyone wants.

I'd like to know how much is in the pot not including any action so far. So for example...

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The $2.62 figure is missing. Is that $1.25 bet a half pot bet? A quarter pot bet? On Sky, I have to do some mental arithmetic that makes me play slower.

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Is there really any need to cover up how much money someone has when they are ready to act. If I'm planning on doing a sexy squeeze with my 63o, I'm going to want to know how much AVOCET is playing. Now I have to wait for him to act, then decide. In fact I've just noticed it's worse than that- it will say "Called" for a few seconds, then show me how much he is playing. Bang goes another few seconds.

The Raise and Raise Any preset radio buttons make no sense in NL or PL poker. If you start spreading limit, then fair enough.

Other players cards are too small, and I run the risk of missing who still has cards.

The games play too slow. That's got to be  a big problem for you. Not sure how much you can do about it, but one point I've noticed is that it pauses for a few seconds after showdown unnecessarily.

If you mouse over them whilst they are thinking their balance will be shown,unless they have tweaked their town to use 2 lines.Alternatively balances are shown at all times in miniview.

lol skippy that is just the tip of the iceberg.

the software is awesome compared to what we've been putting up with for years.

In the £25k Primo

SirP

good start to my sky poker, £62 up since yesterday, really enjoying the "Double or Nothings" - have only lost a couple so far and seem to be running good, not really played this format before on the usual suspects but seem to be able to cash even when I am loosing say 40% of my stack

Look, I know. What I'm trying to suggest is things that can be easily fixed, and might encourage me to play more, especially since the play is astonishingly terrible. They've written it in Flash, so it's never going to be as good as Tilt,

P. S. You base all of your decisions on the Hot-O-Meter, you do ;bumwiggle;

In reality though, one small change can take 2 years so what you call 'easy fixes' really aren't. Not  that long ago we didn't even have the ability to see mucked cards or look at hand histories!


Also if they remove the hot o meter I will stand no chance..... :(

I love sky poker.

Found I had £10 on there I never knew I had.

Got it in with KK against KK.

I sure still have money left in my account.

If you are  raking over £4000 Sterling a month is there a rakeback scheme ?

Tightys 4th post in the thread is for you.

If you are (potentially) raking £4k per month, please drop me a PM, & we'll have a chat. ;)

TILT!!!!!!!  ;boltpp; See you in Newcastle wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

xx

i sure u will, lord help us lol ive been on ere ages dexy

Just so you know Tikay, this is a question from Peter 'I don't play online' Charalambous

Yes, I was aware of that.

Can sky not offer online sat's to DTD deepstacks? Would be quite easy I guess,  I over the month 10 seats were won then some one from sky turns up on the day and buys everyone in

Given that DTD & Sky Poker are direct competitors, I would think it unlikely that DTD would permit or approve of this.

It could be done "unofficially" of course, but I, for one, would never be party to such practice with DTD, to whom blonde owe a huge debt of gratitude, & always will. Sky Poker & DTD have an excellent business relationship, too, & we would not wish to jeopardise that.

unless i'm reading this wrong on HUSNGs

5% juice on normals - pretty standard i think, 5% juice on turbo's (should be a bit less imo but whatever) 10% juice on russian roulette's which only last 1 hand (both players automatically go all in)

why?

RR's are a point of contention because they can be grinded to get you into the upper echelons of skys league to try for Team Sky Poker membership. They are super good value for that specifically.

Rebuys are raked and there is no hand for hand! There is much to be tilted by, good games though!

Wednesday Night on Sky Poker, & below are the pick of the Tourneys available this evening. It's my PTP Evening, so I'll be playing all of them, & after that, some Omaha Hi-Lo Cash.

7pm - tikay's Sleepstack. £11, 5,000 chips, & rarely for Sky Poker, a 10 seater. Generally gets about 50 runners.

8pm - £4,000 Guaranteed Double Stack Main Event, £22. 4,000 chips, plays out nicely. Probably get about 300 runners, depending on how attractive tonight's televised football fayre is.

8.30pm - Take on tikay (TOTTY), £5.50, 2,500 starting chips. Part of the blonde-Sky Poker Added-Value League Series. Expect around 100 runners.

9pm - TSP Classic, £2,000 Guaranteed. 2k starting chips, averages just over 220 runners per night. Might get less this evening, as it has been moved forward from 10pm to 9pm, for the very first time, so many of the Regulars might miss it.

Might see a few of you later. If I don't chat at the Tables, it's either because I get flustered trying to 4-Table, & find it hard to chat & 4-Table, or because I don't like you.

Good luck all. I expect to see the blondes chalking up a few wins over there shortly. Maybe.....

yo Tikay - can you suggest sync breaks. 

It's not really practical, Mr Sov, for a whole bunch of reasons. It's not the sort of site where players play 6 or 7 Tourneys at the same time, to be honest.

Fair question though.

:(

but i had two going at the same time until some donko sucked out on my 89o with AA.  Nevermind, it would help even people playing 2/3 tournies.

I figured it would be quite easy to arrange.  I'm not much of a computer guy though.

The televised aspect gets in the way of this too. You just have to sit out to go anywhere, sitting out is also an issue in the cash games but it's never been addressed...


hand for hand would be nice too!!!

antes and preferance seats would be nice

What is a "preferance seat" please?

Most of the Tourney structures are not really suitable for antes.

you can choose what seat you wanna sit in

it helps with multi tabling

you can sit where you like, just have to adjust on each new table

It already has that.

Just press the little icon, top right, "CLICK HERE TO ROTATE YOIR SEAT".

how do u change seats?

ahhh found it thanks


didnt think that button ment change seat s

be careful in miniview. if you change seats then the graphics don't adjust properly half the time and you can't tell what size bet people have made. this may be ok in the d/l version though

What does this even mean?

busted the sleepstack.  QQ < 99.  Can you flip the switch for me please Tikay.

ssssh. he gets away with posting stuff like that on the sky forum. they believe stuff that he says

Yeah I thought I might be able to get an answer here rather than silence and nothing changing!

Exactly what it says.

I don't geddit.
 

levelling?

[  ] That went well

jesus the sleep stack is sloooooow

The clue is in the name......

really didnt know that thanks for pointing that out

delighted with this

sovietsong> gl tikay10
Claw75> gg
Tikay10> Tx Sov
sovietsong> [ ]**************8

Satellites into tonight's £15,000 Bounty Hunter are available in the lobby now so go win your seat!

http://bit.ly/Tournament_Lobby

hope you have me tagged as a blonde - playing 10 20 PLO and well up at the mo - easy game for an eejit

The 10-20 Hi-Lo currently includes the Fishies Eck & Outrageous. Happy days indeed.

oh playing PLO -- might move

waiting list joined

"binkmenow" = outrageous76

Eck = Eck

loved it - we must do it again

Agreed, how much fun was that?

We do it most nights, about 10 or 11pm, though count me oit for the next few days, as I'm up in Newcastle for the SPT.

Really enjoyed that, & amazing how well the Sky lads & the blondes get on.

Delighted.

 

Top Sky Poker Tip

If you qualify for a tournament via a satellite DO NOT unregister from the tournament unless you want to lose your buyin. If you select the "Cancel Registration" button you will not receive any warning but you will be unregistered from the tournament and no money or tournament tickets will be added to your account.

You have been warned!

PS. They did eventually reregister me after a chat on the live support thingy

enjoying Sky Poker, maybe it's a fleeting thing but it's the one site I am in profit on  :dontask:

I have been pumping lots of dead money into the site recently, must have made its way across to you.

Very good showing from blondies T-blah-blah-beanbag tonight who was dreadfully unlucky in the TSP Qualification coming 2nd for 700squids....

Also WP to blondie forumite Jackally...didn't get the place but presented himself very finely in t'TSP Qualifier final....

V UL..Still, the next qually period runs for 3 months so I'll see you in one of the top 30 for the April finals innit  ;envious;

;o)

xx

Who won the team sky poker place then?

Brief translation required there......

"Beanbag" is "beaneh" on Sky Poker, who goes by the name of tiltaniunbean on blonde.

He so nearly won one of the three TSP spots, only to come up one place shy, in 2nd place, but got £700 for 2nd, so not a total wipeout.

Three places were on offer, & they went to.....

AJS4385 won the Cash League Final. He's a pretty big cash-player, has been since day one, & lives in Barnsley.

"Solidstan1" won the MTT League.

"ROBBIEROTT" won the STT League.

The existing 5 TSP Members will, in all probability, remain on board for the current quarter, so there will now be 8 Team Sky Poker Members. Even the "smallest" player is guaranteed at least one £1,000 buy-in Live Tourney.

I'd say he's played more cash hands on Sky than any other player - he was 12 tabling when the rest of us couldn't get 4 tables up without our computers grinding to a halt.

how did people do that? jimifloyd used to 12 table dons back then. my comp didn't grind to a halt if I opened 5, it went on a mental meltdown with tables moving around the screen flashing and timing out

The next leg of the Sky Poker Tour is on the 12th March in Luton and satellites are now available: http://bit.ly/Tournament_Lobby

I don't know the exact numbers, but he's certainly up there with the Big Boys. I think, for sure, Gliterbabe would play most hands, he has been 10 & 15 Tabling £1 £2 & £1.50 £3 there for a very long time, & I know he earns a fortune in CFP.

No idea!

But many people, AJS included, bristled at the suggestion that they could not comfortably 12 & 15 Table on the browser version.

It matters not now, as the Download is out, but, you'd be surprised to know (I certainly was), that many players, including some of the Big Boys, still prefer to stick with the browser version.

I was talking with LOLUFOLD (Redmond Lee) last week, & whilst he does not play the volume that some of the lads do, he probably plays bigger than most, & is often at the £5 -10 & £10 - £20 Heads Up Tables, with as much as £10k to £15k on the Table - but he is still playing on the old browser version. He said he has no probs with it, & sees no need to convert to the Download.

But, as above, it matters not now, as players have the choice.

Personally, whether it were browser, download, upload, or any other load, I could never manage more than 4 players & still enjoy the experience. Each to their own.

I have managed to retrieve my details for my old Sky account & also used the banner to down load the poker site as I got rid of it ages ago, not sure if it is relevent to post but I will. NUNNY1

thank you

Next league game is Wednesday. Shifts permitting would love to see you in it

Will there be any other chance to join team skypoker?

Qualificaton takes place in "quarters", the current one has just begun, & lasts until Match 31st.

As far as I am aware, the Promotion is open-ended, & will continue until further notice.

Am I a member of team Sky Poker?

I understand I was the best studio guest ever.

If Sky Poker ever wants to compete my advice would be to invest in some new software.  This is the worst software I have played on.  I comfartably 22 table on PokerStars on the computer I use.  My pc was dying 2 tabling with Sky Poker.  The software needs massive investment if the company wants to expand.  That's my 2 cents anyhow.

brag post  i play 22 tables and win on pokerstars

You're wrong sir from what I understand.

The company does fine and isn't really targeting your typical multitabling grinder.

I'm not a winner.  Don't really play that much poker these days but I have played small 2 table sit and gos 22 tabling no problem with holdem manager, msn, itunes + table nina running whilst on stars.  Just playing Sky Poker with no other software running 2 tables was screwing the computer. 

Software in my opinion is incredibly important for a poker company to be a success.  Tribecca, Stars and Full Tilt were the frontrunners with their software back when I was playing seriously in 2005/2006 and look at them now.  Although Tribecca was sadly bought out Stars and FT are the frontrunners in Online Poker. 

There is no doubt that the Sky Poker software is awful and needs investment.  I'm sure for a good forum like Blonde to use it as a sponsor, Sky Poker would like to keep its members happy.  I'm not the only person to have commented on the software itt.

I am still good friends with online players who play very successfully where volume and software are key to their choice of where to play.  Yes Sky Poker has a great unique idea of having the tournament on telly as u are playing, however better software would no doubt increase numbers which in turn would result in an increased rake for the business.

All noted. The Download seems to have been extremely well-received by the player base, & new sign-ups have rocketed since it was introduced just over a month ago, with traffic at an all time high. So numbers are increasing, as is revenue.

It is not, & never will be, 'Stars, but it's very sharply focused on specific market sectors.

But it's not for everyone, obviously. 'Stars has few equals, nobody would be foolish enough to suggest otherwise. Sky Poker needs to play to it's strengths, such as they are, & I don't see major policy changes in the near term.

I wish you well, wherever you play.

That needs to be seen in context. Sure, it has some value, to some, (me for one, it provides me with an income....), but they only Televise two Live Tourneys per week, & Tournaments are the smallest slice of the revenue cake, with Cash, & STT/DYM's, providing far greater revenue.  They run, like any Online Room, hundreds of Tourneys daily, & thousands per week, so televising two out of several thousand is not the key driver by any means.

Further highlights the need for software investment.  Would definately result in increased revenue for the business imo

My aim for this post wasn't to piss anybody off.  I just think for a business to be successful surely it would want its software to be of a good quality.  And sadly Sky's is not.

I think the soft ware is fine. I was 4 tabling sky with 8 full tilt tables + itunes and msn fine yesterday.

  Maybe its ur pc

Obv there's improvments that can be made.

Yes, as I said, it's not to everyone's taste, & it never "pissed me off", I just thought, as you'd Posted, it was reasonable to reply. Be assured, however, the business is successful - very successful - I think you mean't "more succesful", which would be a perfectly fair observation.

I don't quite understand that, sorry. I don't know of any Online Room where the Tourneys generate more revenue than Cash games. Cash will always be the biggest slice of the revenue cake on a typical Online Room.

Whats the deal if someone is gonna rake $10k+ a month?

To clarify.  I was just highlighting a unique offer from the poker site.  I learned from you that actually it wasn't that important to the company.  So I concluded that to be more successfull (and that is what I meant) that it highlighted the need for software improvements

Not "not important", but you headlined "it's nice to see yourself on the Telly", or words to that effect, & I pointed out that they only Televise Two Tourneys per week - simply putting it in context. It's a fact of life that Cash will always be a bigger revenue driver than Tourneys, on all sites, but that does not mean Tourneys are not important - they are.

The business is measured in segments - Cash, STT's/DYM's, Tourneys, & further measured (daily, every single day, 365 days per year, 10am every morning, on the dot) into "small", "medium" & "High" level stakes, or buy-ins. Every segment is important.

Better software improves traffic, that's a given, but it has been considerably improved with the Download, & the increased traffic reflects that. Not many Online Rooms are recording all-time high traffic (Uniques per day, & Revenue) in the current market conditions, on the contrary, most are in decline. Sky Poker is a young site, so a steep northbound graph is expected, but it's exceeding all expectations at present. That is partly as a result of the whole platform doing well, as players tend to migrate across the various platforms at a high rate. 

We can't win them all, though. The Site is improving, but it will never appeal to all, & that's just how life is.

Will sky always be a standalone network?

Yes, absolutely!

Someone mentioned the difficulty of Multi-Tabling on Sky Poker, & yes, some peeps do struggle with it.

Never one to pass up an opportunity, I thought it worth saying that right now - at this very moment - the same 2 Players are playing Heads-Up on 7 different Tables simultaneously, 6 of them at £5-£10, 1 at £4-£8.

The user experience clearly differs from player to player. Those 2 players must have £20k on the Tables, so it must work for them - I can't imagine anyone would have that much at stake if the software's multi-Tabling set-up was such a struggle.

Just go to the Lobby & find & open the Tables if you want to watch them, there are no Rail restrictions.

Who are the two? 7 hu tables is ridic.

They don't do "rake" as such, Mr S, it's "Cash for Points".

I guess the answer is that they'd be part of the Priority Club, & be looked after accordingly.

I'm not sure we have too many generating that much action, to be honest. What stakes would you normally play? The games above £10-£20 rarely run at present, though someone like you might just change that.......

Most evenings, the "bigger" action is at £1.50-£3, with only a handful of Tables running at £2.50-£5 & the higher levels.

If you need an evening's Tuiton with me as your Mentor, it can be arranged. 

Ha :)

Its for a sng player
Whats the volume like for HU sngs?

Lol, timing is all - all 7 Tables have just "broken", & only one of the 2 players remains seated.

The 2 were "WEAREONTV" & "RosieDog", but now only the latter remains seated.

I doubt we are quite ready for you yet!

Some lads play £100 Heads Ups, but the liquidity is pretty thin at those levels.

I just checked the Lobby, & only one players is currently Reg'd for a £100 jobbie, though mid-afternoon is not the best time, & it's probably a bit "busier" in the Evenings. Busier being relative.....

its not for me dont worry- its for a very high volume hu sng player- he can easily play 200 games in a day at $100-$200 levels. So will check later tonight to see liquidity

Ahh, that makes more sense to me now!

Please note it's in £, not $.

you couldn't really rake the amount you asked about at cash in general, as SNG's you'd have no chance the volume is miniscule.

Multi tabling really isn't that hard, I play 30 cash! :)

BLAH BLAH to you too Irene!!  :P



fyp



Yup AJS has grinded a tonne on cash. I don't understand why people are asking about playing lots of tables, the ability to truly multi table came when they introduced mini view, before that you needed two screens to be able to play 8-12 tables with disgusting amounts of overlap. With the introduction of the download client they have managed to include a table focus feature so now you actually have tables popping to the front very slightly if there is overlap! win!



But how much did he lose?  ;nanana;

And being dealt into 500k hands and only playing 8% of them AJS and myself probably play more hands when dealt 200k hands!




1) They recently brought out new software

2) There is much worse software still out there somehow.

3) It's mostly to do with your PC and not sky.

4) Sky aren't looking to expand as such, it's much more likely they are trying to consolidate what they have and increase the volume played by current members.

5) It's also important to remember the overall platform choices that sky has to cater for, there are people playing through their tv, people on their computers on the download or people on a random computer on the online play version. All of which have to be able to interact with each other. The intrinsic link with the tv channel allows someone to play a £5 comp and watch the show whilst seeing their name up on the leaderboard, have some old fuddies or young sillys read out their name wrong then say well done and that's something that Stars/FTP anyone else cannot really ever have.


The current TSP promotion only benefits ie is targeted towards multai grinders.



Sky are very defensive when it comes to pointing out potential improvements! Even the 'suggestions' threads on their site are essentially pointless, once something is pointed out and multiple people agree you get explained that Sky doesn't require that or whatever and it's move on peeps time.



As someone who plays one or two tables, multi tabling hu is ofc the only way to get a proper game but I still cannot believe that Sky haven't seen a need to add a time bank option what so ever. You're sitting there playing 5/10 and have to call 1k off and you have 10 seconds to act on the river just like you had pre, on the flop and turn. That is so little time if you have other tables up aswell. It is more than possible to have been timed out before you look back to a table 3 over from the one you are concentrating on. When playing for those sort of stakes I don't see how they haven't kicked off yet. Maybe they think that provides/improves their edge somewhat if they are used to it but it's still pretty incredible.


Similarly how the hell can you play omaha hi or hi lo without more than ten seconds for each decision. that just blows my mind I probably couldn't one table Omaha. I'd have timed out before I worked out that my AKQJ double suited made AQ AK AJ QJ KJ KQ hands all of which I would love to play in hold thems!!!  :P

I agree its terrible for multitabling but I have 6 tabled on it comfortably without my machine slowing and could probs do more if they had more tourneys/I actually played regularly on there.

Hey,

The banner at the top and side only takes me to the page to JOIN skypoker

Is there a banner that takes me to the Sky log in page. So Blonde gets the credit everytime a Blonde logs into SkyPoker

No there isn't. Sorry.

Minor question/whinge. Unless I'm missing something, you can deposit from Mastercard, but not Visa Credit card. I use a Visa credit as my "gambling" card (actually cash positive at the moment, which is extraordinarily rare) and I couldn't use it on Sky. Which resulted in my wife getting an anti-fraud call at home from Mastercard this morning (my Visa always comes straight to my mobile).

"Yes dear, just loading up a new account, obviously should be the only time this will be needed"  ;whistle;

News to me Andrew. I will check

Can I change my screen name please?  I'm not liking my chosen one (Graham0573) gives away too much info about me.

As I've also just discovered, it comes up as an option when looking at the page telling you what forms of payment they accept, but is missing from the list of types of card you can register.  Just needs adding to that probs.

I'll check that out tomorrow, Claire, & Rex.

Thanks. May not need to deposit for a while. Currently romping all over a bounty comp. >£100 up top! :)

A far better solution!

Oh well. 6th for £38. Paid for the double stack :). JJ < QQ 3 handed. Went out about a second after 7th, apparently, so still 2 tables.

is there any way to use both chat and the hot-o-meter at the same time?

unfortunately not. :(

FYP

omg hero you're right!!

I must stop playing in mini view, I neeedd the hotometer!

no.  i just always keep the hot-o-meter open, obv

edit: just read other posts.  wheeeeee.

wow, life is now complete. I didn't think it was doable

i always get a bit confused when it tells me to 'check 'em' but i don't have a check button.  I usually raise instead.

Does any poker tranking softwear work on sky?

Yes pen and paper.

sigh

You can attempt something along the lines of a freedom of information or data protection act kinda shiz and request sky to give you all the 'info' they have on you. But as yet I haven't been able to get any movement from them on it and nor do I know what format they would be able to get it to you in.

On my Sky if I am doing other site on the web it does not alert me to a hand and sits me out, surely that is not right. Also when I get seated for a tournament, I have to check an option to carry on with the tourney before it even starts? On the plus side when playing cash it lets you hit 2 Queens whilst holding AQ against 2 all in players holding KK and AK (was pretty tilted from early in the day when my full house got counterfeited and I was sent home from Luton early)

Mondy is on 865....translation pleeeaseeee ;oD

edit* was

Excellent my name is sir!!

xx

he said sigh


mumble mumble

ahdjajdf ;laskdjf mumble ahasdhafhds tables


ahahahah olajksdfaksjdf a asdlfjk;a hd sigh



as;ldfkj ahahaheue[[- winih he kdkaipe  20-24

llaskdfj;lkasjf asdf
asdfasjd faslkjd sd actually 27.5 asl;dkjfasdkjf asdf

Seriously,thoroughly ashamed

All I heard was hurdy-gurdy blah mackams blah blah...thanks for filling in the gaps ;oD xx

Was that before or after 15 pints of the nectar??

xx

who cares what he said he's good at making me maneys! yay

Drinkers guna drink :)

Would it be too funny to have a translator if you are ever interviewed again!!

I pnwned you in the drinking stakes...I was soooo good it was embarrassing ;oD

xx

It seems unlikely but I guess it's possible.

Playing the £5.50 bounty hunter in 10 minutes,anyone fancy a last longer ??

You obv haven't heard the Mondatoo/Geo The Sarge story then, have you?

Someone who was there (Gatso?) needs to explain that one better than I can, I could give cliffs and thats about it.

$10 last longer?

In

Anymore for anymore ?

I need to hear this.

How do I get my table to open ?

tbh my write up of it was basically poor cliffs

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=37038.msg812866#msg812866

LOL sure am playing pokers sigh ?????????????

it's ok I regged and forgot. so I haven't been playing either... rotflfmao

LOL at this,trying to get my table up but it's not having it wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

i'll sit out till you say you are in.....

are you using browser or download?

Tried both and it's starting to piss me off now tbh I really haven't had that much too drink to not no how to load up a poker table.I try to go to my table and it just says I've already got it open,glad it's only £6 but not sure how I can support Sky with this sort of thing happening ?

do you have skype? for keyboard convos not voice obv.

LOL that I have to shutdown my computer to get the table to load,,really don't want to be negative but cmon WTF ??

I've never had this problem, you are obv being weird. The table should auto pop up.

Not got Skype on lappy and cba to download it,will pm details when I know them tmoro ish.Whats your sn on Sky ?

Well it didn't auto pop up then I tried getting the download version to make it work but it wasn't having it,sigh.

skype is same username as here.


lemme know when you are playing as i'm still sitting out  ;dingdell;

I'm playing now and down to 900 lol

I raise AK get 4 callers flop K104ss I cbet 365 call shove call I make a terrible fold,sigh.

I've got food coming so planning to be out by time it comes,what's your stars name ?

haha

ok playing now, i'm just making a sandwich. I'm beaneh on sky/stars/ftp. 1 tabling daily 40k gogogo!

You won wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Not sure I'm guna play the £220 after that carry on,really do want to support Sky with the sponsorship but christ,sat out there for like half an hour,pretty bad tbf.

it's honestly pretty reliable. it used to be soooo bad!

ty for da free monays.  ;kneelsucker;

U sure are getting paid.Tbh I got my monies worth watching the Sky show after my incred interview with the "pro" player Glitterbabe who won the Newc SPT saying a good player would expect to cash in 7 out of 10 online tournaments.Really don't mean to be a twat  ;whistle;

oh god i'm in stitches from that.

so com.

If there was ever a time to speak like mond it was then for him rotflmfao

edit OI I want paying. I need to eat!!!

MBN to run like got tbf.I'm really not the type to belittle people just coz they don't get variance but even Tikay said he was way wrong lol.

Tbf poker is a game of game selection. It doesn't matter if you're a terribad nit if people still call. You can bet fold overpairs to him regardless of texture.

the seats running hot.... you gotta stay there

What's your stars SN ?

errr as said above, beaneh, beaneh, and beaneh stars/ftp/sky.  ;whistle;

[  ] I read all your posts
[  ] I'm shipping you any $
[X] I might decide against grimming you tmoro

 ;ashamed;

pls. :(

You still in ? GLGL if so,get paid to make up for the grimm imo.

nah I misread action and jammed T6 into TT. gg me. kinda good as I wanted a break.

Too much comedy.

die tournies

Siiiiggghhhhh
(fun times though)
Geo

Blimey.  That was the start of what will be a blonde wedding in November of this year!

i fell of sofa wen i heard that aswell i consider meself medi oka mtt player no chance 7/10 tho, im on super tilt

that thread also contained the least convincing bluff Sharples has ever attempted


:D

Was giggling as I read it this morning.  But this bit meant having to clean me monitor -

 rotflmfao

Tonight's massive £15,000 Primo at 8pm is also live on Sky Poker TV ch865, you could feature! http://bit.ly/Tournament_Lobby

ok I'm in  ;D

bit of a 'duhh' moment there when I had to think 'who is she on about'!?!?

quite something isn't it - first blonde wedding? :)

Yeppers!  Load of us going over to Vegas for it.  First blonde wedding and will be my first time in Vegas too.  Should be mighty fun!

skys  tier bet is wrong it should be 6 bets not 12!

Gonna start the official blog at some point - soon.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=51494.0

Is that adam soon or APAT sooooooon


Geo

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=51494.0

Jackally in top 12 of primo wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

xx

Jackally now in top ten with above ave stack

xx

Now in 2nd place...7 left

xx

On my way - go Neil!

All skill obv    ;)

Top 5 and chip daddy

xx

Better, he's made the Final Table, & with 6 left, he has half the chips in play.

Just under £4k to the winner.

4 left - still the Daddy.

GOGOGOGO Giblin

3 left, HE the Daddy

3 left....jackally leading

xx

jakally 268713.50  
UNCLE_PAT 241024.99  
lfirk 118261.51

Blinds are 4k-8k for 10 more minutes, so this may take a while.

jakally 333613.50   
UNCLE_PAT 200124.99   
lfirk 94261.51

railing gogogogo

Heads Up!

jakally 431875.01   
UNCLE_PAT 196124.99

what's that?

KK vs Ax and it comes Kxx mbn mr Neil!  ;sark;

edit AK>QT Qxx A x


wp Neil! congrats

Ship the win wpwpwp

Winner!

jakally 628000 1 £3925 + 80 League Points
UNCLE_PAT 0 2 £2355 + 76 League Points
lfirk 0 3 £1570 + 72 League Points
mischa 0 4 £1099 + 68 League Points
saddlerboy 0 5 £942 + 64 League Points
PMG215 0 6 £785 + 60 League Points

N1 Jackally!!!!

VVWP

xx

Nice 1 Neil, well chuffed for you m8!!

That's at least 3 days food shopping sorted then :p

Thanks for the rail everyone. Really enjoyed it (obv). Typical Sky tourney with lots of good natured banter.

Highlight was about 50 out when i jammed <10BB with 34s and got looked up by AA.... outcome was never in doubt.  ;whistle;

Good read.

Shush, it took over a minute.

Nice win, wp

Well done Neil.

I was wondering why that guy was in chat anti railing you for, then when someone mentioned the 34s hand and he popped up to say he was the AA man - u just had to lol at that!! WD again m8, beers on u in Luton ;)

Earn money as you knock out players in tonight's 8pm £8000 Bounty Hunter, just £22 to register here: http://bit.ly/Tournament_Lobby

A quick update on progress so far with the Sky Poker sponsorship of blonde.

Numbers have been quite promising, to be honest.

So far, 88 players have either opened new Accounts, or reactivated.

A pleasing balance, too. By volume, most of them are small-stakes Tourney players, which is fine, as we can better do "Community stuff" with them.

But a handful or more of cash grinders, some of them at quite high levels, have come across, too. They are mostly "get it quietly" types, & it's all been done by PM etc, good stuff.

The Sky-blonde League has started well. Lessons have been learned at our end, though. We got 40 odd for the £5.50 NLHE event, 20 odd for the £22 NLHE Event, & 35 for a £5.50 Omaha affair. I think we realised that £22 is a bit of a stretch for many, which is fine, we can adjust next month.

We have Leg 4 of the League today, Wednesday, so be interesting to see if we can keep the numbers up.

A new League will run in February, details soon, & we'd like feedback for what you'd best like to see.

We are also working with a bunch of blondes who currently do their own stuff elsewhere, & who may be able to move across to Sky Poker. Fingers crossed, that would be a big thing if it happened.

Notable successes include Dawn, runner up in a Main Event for £840, & Maureen, who walked away with last night's Omaha. We cannot really "claim" Jakally, as he has always played quite big at Sky Poker, so is neither a new Client, or a reactivate, but well done him on a £4k scoop.

I'm in a bit of an awkward spot, due to the conflict of interest, but I have a Promotional budget to spend as I see fit, &, where necessary, I've allocated some to blonde, & Tighty knows if he has a special case, he only has to ask. He's been very understanding of the situation I am in.

The Luton SPT will be quite good, too, as we hope to see a good few blondes there, mixing it socially with the Sky Poker regs. The blonde - SkyPoker - G-Luton connection is quite strong.

We are also trying to see if we can stimulate any Sky Bet action. Every little helps, so it's worth a try.

So that's a grand start, really. Big thanks to all who have supported the new Sponsor, & especially for understanding my rather awkward situation.

Special thanks to Tighty, too, he's 100% on the case, & is a work-machine.

Any questions, fire away.

I knocked a ton in on a 3 legged donkey last week for you Mr K  :D

You start with 4000 chips in tonight's £4000 Double Stack at 8pm, Register now! http://bit.ly/Tournament_Lobby

That's why we loves the bopkins!

Tonight on the telly with tikay

£15k Sky Sports BH   Hold'em   NL   £33   89 registered as of now 20 Jan 20:00



who is gonig to play this then?

Might play it since I'm not doing nowt...

A few people fancy a last longer ? £20 or summit ?

Oh Dear Lord,

Please let Mondy be on a Table or hand that is Televised, so I can abuse him......

LOL,you in for the LL ?

I have Virgin at home now which is pants, do they have the sky poker channel by chance?

I wish.  But I won't be playing, I shall be co-blatherer in the Studio with James Hartigan, just back from the PCA.

Nevermind,doubt I'll last long enough for you to see me play a hand if I play,which I'm currently 90% going to.

Yep am in for this

You can go to spkr dot com homepage and click watch live for free without a sky subscription.

Ok ta, might have a gander next time I play.

Value is in

Yeah I did just reg :)

GL all.

All in on a flop of Qxxdd with AQd,villain has KK,turn Kd river the flush,wiiiiiiiiiiiii.

Are you lot having fun again whilst Cinderella here is at work.  Not jealous in the slightest.

Haha,got the show on in the background and obv the hand was on rolf.

PS I will get you back for the mackem comment,watch your back :)

LOL - that was funny

Sigh,I did a Sofa.ROFL!!

UTG+1 min raises with 10bbs,UTG+2 limps behind with 12bbs,I ship A10os with 11bbs,UTG+1 folds,UTG+2 calls with KQ,gg :(

GLGL any blondes left in.

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii I broke Sky :)

Tikay's clickers not working,gets like that when you get older I hear.

It's very peculiar when that happens Mondy - call for 2 x BB out of 12, then call the 11 x BB shove!

It was always so, of course, & I've never been able to grasp the thought process. I'll take it all day, though.

All the money went in, you with A-T, he with his interestingly played K-Q, I larged up the inevitable suckout, & was all set for max abuse - & the Console froze!

Such a letdown.

Still, you got all barrels from me when you 4-flushed with A-Q to beat that set of Kings. I enjoyed that.

I don't get all this min raising nonsense either.............

Lol, stop winding me up.

I think they read it in a book somewhere or some kid told them it was "the thing". There is a time & place to Min-Raise, but I'm not sure it's in the BB with A-3 off & 5 limpers in the pot!

It's our biggest rebuy tournament of the week tonight, the £6k Rebuy Open, Buy-in now for just £11 http://bit.ly/Tournament_Lobby

Hit the tables tonight and play in our big Bounty Hunter tournament at 8pm, with an £8000 prize pool! http://bit.ly/Tournament_Lobby

Hello
Had a few problems last 2 nights on Sky - buy in to torneys but taking a very long time to log in, getting the blue screen for 2/3 minutes at a time then get logged in a few hands into the game. Rest of Internets appears to be fine, not too concerned as rest of it has been fine (ie Winning !!!) but would prefer this not to happen, have not downloaded like most sites but playing in the web, will it improve it I use the download? I assume you keep same log ins etc  ??????????????????????
WPIL

Also does anyone know if the Luton Saturday comps still running. Bit worried about going with all the marches etc esp as my misses says I might get mistaken for one of those EDL fools

Browser-experience seems to vary from user to user, or more correctly, from PC to PC, & depending what browser you use. The Download seems to operate identically howsoever used. Some players play as many as 10 or 15 Tables vias their browser, others seem unable to manage more than 2 or three. 

Log-Ins etc are all identical, be it browser or download, as is the Common Wallet.

It may have been a Sunday thing - has been working pretty fine since Jan 1st but I am going to download. Not as upsetting as the time I was playing on FT and running deep and my fat cat sat on the battery connector and broke it and the power kept ebbing away, all in every hand but kept winning until my laptop died - probably the best poker I played

Possibly. I was not aware of any backend issues last night, the 375 runner Primo ran as smooth as silk from start to finish, & there was also a 1,000 runner Freeroll which behaved impeccably, too.

The site was extraordinarily busy last night, though, almost in record territory, the busiest Sunday I've ever seen for sure, so maybe as you say, just a "Sunday thing". If you have any more probs, I'll get a Techie to contact you direct. Apologies for any probs.

Running fine now and more importantly running good - thanks Sky Poker

Can you also tell me if the Luton Satts are still running and if yes are they at set times each day? Have seen the final satt but fancy the challenge at starting at the lowest buy in.

Not sure if this is the right place for post. But playing that 8K BH tonight got down to 7 of us left. Obviously with 6 seater FTs. I am on the table with 3 and I notice we are not playing hand for hand? Surely this can't be right!?? My table is at a massive disadvantage. Obviously I call a blind on blind shove with aq and his jacks hold. gg.

I asked the rest of the players on both tables but nobody responded. Any help on this would be appreciated.

I'm pretty sure, though not 100% certain, that tonight's (Mondays) Luton SPT Sats will be the last, at least until numbers have been tallied up. The Seats have gone like hotcakes, & the Event is pretty much sold out with 7 weeks still to go before the Event. Nice problem to have. Newcastle SPT was the same - all the Seats went in no time.

It's very much an on-message type of Event for Sky Poker, similar in many ways to APAT. To most of the players, £110 is far & away the most they have ever paid (or qualified) to play a poker Tourney, & I'm very proud to be part of it.

Even Keith Hawkins, who plays deep-pocket jobbies day & night, said he loved the atmo at Newcastle. Luton will be even better.

No, the Site has yet to introduce hand-for-hand I'm afraid. It's deffo a disadvantage to one Table, & an advantage to the other.

It's in the queue of things waiting to be introduced, as are so many things.

I hope you'll bear with us, & thanks for giving it a go.

No worries, Cheers for the clarification old boy. Obv I wouldn't have been bothered if i was on the other table. Not enough to put me off SP but look forward to it being in place.

Cya at the tables.

Thank you for being so understanding - I feared much worse, but gotta tell it as it is. We ain't 'Stars. Not yet, anyway.

It's THE most satisfying thng though, to be in at the birth of a "clean sheet of paper" stand-alone Room, & watch it slowly evolve & grow, & even be a very small part of that process. It's almost the most satisfying thing I've ever done. Time & again, we delayed the Download for strategic reasons, & the timing of the Release ended up was abs perfect in the end. Result.

It's kinda hard to bear the brickbats sometimes, but it is what it is. Luckily, it's like football supporters telling the Manager how to pick his team - I/we never lack advice as to what we are doing wrong!

I have this weird pipedream, to take, one at a time, players & show them how an intergrated platform modern Room works - it's a black art, it's really something to behold. I've been involved in some clever & complex businesses in my time, but this is just awesome to watch.

And the best way to field awkward questions - like yours, which I'be been waiting for - is just to fess up.

It's good for the character & backbone, too. I love every minute.

That's a step too far, pack it in.

They call me "Sir" these days, you know. Or one bloke does.

Junior? I could get to like that.

RAF?

I'm reading a book about RR Aero-engines right now, (or a man that helped develop them) including the Pegasus, which went into the Harrier.

Back in the day, maybe 30 years ago, R-R would NEVER supply a Civil Aviation aero engine unless the Military had bedded it in first via whatever the RAF were then flying, so to speak. Times have changed since, the RB series ensured that.

You get anywhere near the flying stuff? If so, what, & how?

Nah, not at all tbh. Believe it or not i was in intelligence.. Languages were my game. I couldn't tell you the difference between a Tornado and a Typhoon. But get me on about a MiG-29 Fulcrum then we could have a convo. Bit weird I guess. I never needed to know about our own acft as I had nothing to do with them. Know thy enemy.

Settled. Junior it is then.

Ooh, do you want me to discuss the relative merits, & engines, of the Tornado & the Typhoon?

We have just 3 seats remaining for the live SPT event in Luton, make sure you enter tonight's semi: http://bit.ly/Tournament_Lobby

sorry if wrong place to write, is there any way to get rakeback on sky?

right place

First pages of this thread at http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=51245.0 detail the player awards scheme

cash for points etc that work as a rakeback scheme under another name

Cheers.  Be nice if there was more liquidity at higher than 1/2 6 max/hu :|

totally

It's coming though, slowly and surely

If you do sign up (please), use the banners on ehre, ta

What time is the Luton Sat and is it the £20? (any Sats into that), hopefully will give it a try tonight?

9.30pm for the Online sat

5.30pm sat into that I think for £4.60 (please check)

What Levels you have in mind, Rupert?

Most afternoons & evenings, there are 5 or 6 x £1.50-£3 6 max's going, (admittedly, that not exactly high liquidity), & there is almost always someone sat at £2.50 £5, £5 £10, & £10 £20 Heads Up.

Sod's Law being what it is, there is only one player sat at £5 £10 HU today, & one at £2 £4.

There will be 7 or 8 "bigger money" HU Tables on the go, or awaiting a game, later today.

 

I've got an account from ages ago already.  Not sure if I signed up through blonde or not.  Have been scouting out the HU games and everyone bumhunts and won't play regs except for maybe rosiedog and lolufold who are both pretty good anyway.  Was more interesting in £2/4+ but from what i've seen of the £1.5/3 games they look good - although i'm on ozzie time atm so have never seen more than 2 tables going

True. There's certainly a sprinkling of what you suggest. Rosie & Lolufold are always up for a game, but as you suggest, both know the score pretty well.

The £1.50 £3 & £2 £4 look like what will best suit - they do manage anything up to 8 6-Max Tables at those Levels more nights than most.

I'm guessing this is all old news to you though, sounds to me like you've done your homework.

What you may not know is that they now have a Priority Club, & that brings some decent bits & bobs with it. I'll PM you the details if you think that may interest you.

Your support, or attempted support, is much appreciated.

PM me if I can assist in any way, or write to the Sky Poker Relations Manager. He's a good guy, I'm told. ;)

Yeah that def sounds interesting tikay!

Is there any way to get complete hand histories?

1) OK, will sort some details out & get back to you.

2) HH - yes, but not as most players know them. ;) I'll send you some links etc, bear with me, bit pulled out today.

I will need your screen-name, please - if you (understandably) prefer to keep that under-the-radar, PM it to me, please.

Well it's not a huge secret since it's ElRupert lol

Knowing Tighty as I do, he'll have whizzed that off to Sky-ville at 3.47.50pm.

Does anyone know the super 6 password on Sky Poker please?    8)

Come on blondites......sort it out!

^^^^ before anyone reports me/bans me/be littles me etc etc etc.......the above is said in total JEST!

But now I have your attention TK......have you seen my request on your thread on the 'other side' ?

.....or is cross forum jumping a no no?....if so, I apologise.....I am new here! (how long do you think I can use that one?)
 ::)

It's our classic Open tournament tonight at 8pm, with a £5000 guaranteed prize pool, register your seat: http://bit.ly/Tournament_Lobby

Wow - Satellite Full up already for the last 3 seats, last chance will be the Magazine Freeroll, gl to all those playing tonight

Last chance will be the live satellite at Luton in feb, date tba, 5 seats

Mondatoo is putting someone into the £220 Sky Sports biggie tomorrow night

Interested?

See http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=51668.msg1302346;boardseen#new

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii - finally broke my Sky MTT(cough) cherry and won a hi-lo comp!

I completely owned the other 5 registrants      .....      is I top of the League, Tighty?

6 runners, & you owned them?

Legend. No other word.

Watch it you     ....      otherwise it's 'Play Tikay' FTW - when are you up at Luton next, young sir?

Not decided, possibly/hopefully this evening, I'll commence dithering shortly. Once I'm in full dither, I'll be undecided.

I've been playing cash tonight, one of the tables had TV.   When am i going to be on the telly.

TYVM in advance.

let me know when you find out so i can sky+ it, then when my mum next visits i can show her and say 'i know that guy from the internetz'

Ctv - they won't be able to analyse the high level stuff it takes to play hands like you do so prob won't be aired.

if you win a ticket, if you un-reg do you get the £££ or do you get a ticket?

Sorry Mr Sov, I missed that Q.

"Highly unlikely".

The addition of the TV Icon on a Cash Table is to give Channel 865 the right to screen it if they so wish. They never show hands from Tables without the TV Icon, as some players may object to it.

In reality, it's only likely to be screened if, either.....

1) It's on a Saturday, when Live Cash Coverage is shown every week from 9pm until Midnight, mainly from "MasterCash" badged Tables. This coverage is in "almost"real-time, with a delay of a few minutes from "Live".

2) If it's one of the week's 5 biggest pots on a TV Badged Table, in which case it goes into "Top of the Pots".

So, in probability, no. Also, as Mr Cos says, your play would be way too sophisticated for me to hanalyse.

I'm not sure, to be honest. I am pretty sure cash is not an option. I'll ask.

Ticket to what, please?

its the primo, i will be playing it to be honest but just wanted to check.

Tonight? Win it!

£4,000 "up top", as the kids say, I believe. £15k Guaranteed, for sure, so must be about that. Expect about 300 runners.

Myself and technolog won seats and were put into tonight's Primo too.  Checked out the list earlier and there were already a few blondes registered.  All going well, will make for an excellent rail later.

good luck the lot of you tonight!

Laxie and Jack won blonde league events in Jnauary and as she says a seat into tonight';s Primo is the prize

blonde gets 25% of all winnings

25% goes to live updates of the WSOP main event

25% goes to Jack's Bolton hotel bill

30% goes to Laxie's phone bill


therefore, you are playing for -5% of yourselves. Good luck

SovSong is in tonight's Primo, too, he qualified.

Might give the Primo a blast tonight seeing as there's a few other blondes in.

The Duke playing it as well.  He's chancing the big satty atm, but has said will play regardless.

Can we reduce the share to the updates so my bill gets covered?

Good luck tonight in the Primo guys

I will be sitting and watching

bumhunting ftw

Hey 9pm

Technologs in 10th place in Primo

Go Go Go

Hey Technologs in 2nd Place  with over 10K chips

I busted 77th, technolog was 79th and AndrewT 83rd.

duke, pizzled and jakally still in.  Is TheTank ours too?  Good luck Lads!!!

Different Tank, not ours.

God, I played like a tool - calling 4 bets with 55 sure is a good idea on Sky, even if it is blind on blind where I never believe anyone.

That was fun! Dawn and I sharing a table with Ger in the chatbox :)

Tikay/Tighy      ......       I am truly shocked!

I have just had to endure a torrent of abuse whilst playing cash on your blessed Sky poker site.

Apparently I did wrong by calling a 'nice' young lady's 3 bet pre     .....      flopping the nut flush     .....     and then milking her down the streets for a few quid.

Cue      ....      the Fishwife.

Where is this warm cuddly Sky community I hear so much of?

I even tried to appease the lady with such kind words as, "is that the last of your dole money, love?"    ....      and even, "gizza kiss" in the chatbox.

But she was having none of it - her gush of abuse grew even worse    ....

I was so traumatised that I felt obliged to book an appointment with my local Counsellor/Councillor to address this mental hurt/or get my bins emptied.

This starts tonight.  Would be good to play alongside the Blonde League game.


Now, comes the ALL-ROUNDERS' LEAGUE!


These are the events you can expect to play over the next six weeks:


Monday 7th February

No Limit Hold'em  (2,500 chips / 12 min blinds)

 

Monday 14th February

Pot Limit Omaha  (2,500 chips / 12 min blinds)

 

Monday 21st February

No Limit Hold'em Rebuy  (2,000 chips / 10 min blinds)

 

Monday 28th February

No Limit Hold'em Bounty Hunter Turbo  (2,000 chips / 5 min blinds)

 

Monday 7th March

No Limit Hold'em Deepstack  (5,000 chips / 15 min blinds)

 

Monday 14th March

Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo  (2,500 chips / 12 min blinds)

 

Each tournament will start at 19:30 and will cost £10+£1 to enter (apart from the Rebuy event in Week 3 which will cost £5+£0.50).

MereNovice will be keeping score.  Each player will be assessed on his/her three best finishing positions (two from Hold’em; one from Omaha).

IMPORTANT:  You only need to enter three tournaments to qualify for inclusion in the ARL rankings, but you MUST play at least one of the Omaha events.  Otherwise, you won’t be eligible to win one of these fantastic prizes:


1st place = Free seat in a Sky Poker Tour live event

2nd place = Free entry to a Sunday-night Primo tournament

3rd place = Free entry to a Thursday-night Bounty Hunter tournament

4th place = Free entry to a Team Sky Poker Classic tournament

5th place = Free entry to a Take on Tikay tournament

Lol, thanks Leigh - proper puff, that!

Yes, I'll be playing that tonight, too, it starts at 7.30pm, & I'm registered for that, & the Sky-blonde League thingie at 8.30pm.

Hartigan, of course, is hopeless, hepless, & hapless. Talks a good game though - what a nice gig he has with 'Stars, doing all those EPT commentaries. MBN. He gets the Bahamas, I get Luton.

Deserved, you fish.

Oh, wait - you are a Client now, right? Err, great call, Sir.

I was chatting with Sicilidonk last night, trying to subtly suggest he tries to qualify for Vegas via Sky Poker. (Always an angle, eh?).

He says, "let's get this right. If I wn the VLV package with Sky Poker, you have to interview me for the Telly three times  day?"

Yup

"And be nice to me?"

As always, Dean, as always.

"And tend to my needs, fetch me coffee & sticky buns when I want them".

Well, yes, I guess I would.

"And if I'm not happy with my Rio Suite, I come & see you?".

Yes, yes, of course Boss.

"Put me down for the qualifiers then, I so wanna win that".

And so he's playing VLV Quarter-Finals tomorrow & Wednesday. I was wondering how I could bok him, ensure he fails to qualify, but Vinni told me not to worry, he has no chance.

Amazing - pretty sure bet that this will get runners despite it being Valentines Day - it's like the world stops for poker.

Will there be any special valentines type surprises or prizes? I'm only asking as I might be playing........ >:(

I am trying to track how much my volumes on Sky have increased since the Blonde link up.

I don't play massive volumes like some players on here.

I'm guessing using poker points would be a simple way to do that, assuming they haven't changed how you can earn them ?


2008 = 180 pts
2009 = 486 pts
2010 = 343 pts

2011

Jan = 524 pts
Feb = 450 pts

Based on that, I've played as much in 2011 with the Blonde link up as I did in the previous 3 years.


How will Sky decide whether the link up has been a success or not ?

I'll reply to that a little later, Leigh, as I need to get a kip before tonight's "work" starts, I'm wrecked. Very interesting question as to how the deal will be judged.

I appreciate your support, though, very much, everyone else's, too.

good question

I gather their management information is stunning

They have a list from me of every blonde player who has signed up in 2011 or played a league or posted anywhere on the forum that they are supporting us

The list says, what they are playing, Sky alias etc etc.

They'll work through the list and see if we are adding value. A lot of the blonde players are "reactivations", people who signed up a while ago and weren't active but now are.

It feels like it is going well. A few bigger players are on there through us, plenty in the leagues, over 240 SNGs played this month in the SNG league etc

Working every day to get more on board

Is it enough? Not sure. Lets hope so.

bugger, I try and give a proper answer and tikay beats me to it with a holding reply.

Must try harder. Too many cooks.

How did you get the previous months/years totals?

Your reply was better. Less detail than I planned, probably a good thing. ;)

One day I hope to be a lynchpin, like you.

Go to my account, and you can view your previous poker points where you can view your current months points.

Thanks for that, old man!

By the way, I have to go to Luton as well...

lol

See, my spam works both ways - blonde gets another new Member, one who co-commentates with little Danny, & works with the legend that is Mr Norman Chad.

I'd quite forgotten that you will be the 865 "playing" representative at SPT Luton. Expect abuse.

Abuse?

I expect nothing but!

OK, another one to put me down for

@ Mere Novice      CoffeeNcrm on sky


ty ty

I don't think I'm going to be able to play the Wednesday league games so I think I'll give these a go for this month

Welcome to blonde Mr Hartigan


Welcome to spreadsheet hell from Mr MW, Mere Novice. Hopefully.

Er, what did I do?

I'll be posting weekly updates for the ARL on the Sky forum (only) after each event.
There's no need to register for my purposes - anyone who plays the requisite tournaments is automatically included.

HoldyFoldy's Post was a little confusing, it sort of suggested, read a certain way, that you were playing. When I know full well your limitations.....

You crack me up.
You should save all this good material for TV.

You do make me smile (one all he he)        BTW ... where's my PM  ;)

Whoops. The backlog pile is about 300 now, sorry. ;)

1,2 freeroll

deadline for entries tomorrow night

How do you like the sound of a £250 freeroll with great tournament seats thrown into the mix for the top 6 finishing players, including an SPT Leeds seat for the winner? Well say hello to the 1, 2, Freeroll!

All you have to do is follow these 3 simple instructions to book your seat:

   1. Enter the code 12FREEROLL
   2. Place a £10 bet on Sky Bet at evens or above
   3. Stake £10 on any Deal or no Deal game

This will grant you the password for the freeroll which you enter when you register for the 1, 2, Freeroll. The password will appear in the Promotions section of My Account when you've fufilled the objectives so look out for it. You will also receive an email with the password in so make sure your details are up to date.

There's an SPT Leeds seat for the winner of the freeroll

The freeroll is at 7.30pm on Wednesday 9th February and you've got until 6pm the same day to qualify.

Good luck and we hope to see you in the 1, 2, Freeroll!

Like an idiot I put a £10 bet on before I put the code in, I don’t have enough to put another £10 on and play the Deal or no Deal game. Any chance you can sort this out for me or am I going to have to deposit more cash. But then again if Rotherham win, then it's sorted

Tonight, I'll be playing the £11 Take-on-tikay Freezeout, at 8.30pm.

I'll also be playing the 8.50pm £5.50 Rebuy. (Rebuys & Add-on raked).

I have a small side bet that I'll play that Rebuy tonight & tomorrow & turn a profit over the 2 nights

Me & my big gob.

Just seen this and not sure

Lets hope Rotherham win, and if not we'll go from there

I have entered the code
Put £10 bet on
Played a £10 Deal or no Deal game
But not necessarily in that order (Eric & Ernie sketch)
But no password, my own fault i know but i would be grateful if you can sort this out for me as do not have enough money left to do it all  again.

Thanks

I have fired an email off, will let you know what the reply is

Wayne you've been entered into the freeroll

Cheers

Thank you

Play in tonight's £15k Bounty Hunter at 8pm and watch your hands live on Sky Sports tonight! Click here to register: http://ow.ly/3TO2C



Tonight its tikay and LML. You win some, you lose some.

It's the £6000 Open on Sky Poker tonight, why not try and satellite your way in for as little as £1.05! http://bit.ly/Tournament_Lobby

It's the £8000 Bounty Hunter at 8pm, you can also earn money for knocking out players! http://bit.ly/Tournament_Lobby

You could win a four-figure sum tonight if you play in our £5000 guaranteed Open tournament at 8pm! http://bit.ly/Tournament_Lobby


Let us know if you play it

I am in this one for some inexplicable reason

In the open as well.

out,  flopped straight no match for flopped two pair -- obv boat on river

sky poker cash tables are abs incred

I have never seen so many people limp call and then check overjam the flop with garbage

hot-o-meter is funniest thing i ever seen online.

i dunno if its saying my hands are rubbish or its the line i took...wtf?

So, you are making shed loads of money, yeah?

Long may it last.

It was re-formulated after I watched you play.

lets say i dont play cash often, but when I do it will be on sky, and no i wont be leaving anytime soon   ;D

You the man. It ain't FT or 'Stars, no arguments there, & it's not RB competitive with the majors, but it has it's compensations.

Are Sky Poker doing promotional calls today? I received a missed call from the Harrogate base and because I've been a victim of fraud recently, I thought I'd give them a bell to check it out. A guy on the other end said he was going to check with the poker department, but then hung up on me and I couldn't be bothered to call back.

Edit. They rang back (which is nice - many will just go "oops" and move on). They were trying to pitch me a Vegas points tourney.
Not sure where I stand on sales calls like these, but I guess it was to just make me aware of an offer, so nothing too annoying.

Cash for points.

Only briefly read the t's n c's so perhaps missed it, but say you finish in the middle between bonuses, eg 4,500, you get the bonus for 4,000, but is the 500 carried forward?

In other words is it worth pushing on to hit the next bonus?

Points are not carried forward, therefore, yes, worth pushing on to the next level.

How do you get cash for your points?

How do I qualify for Cash for Points?
By doing the following:

•Click 'My Account' and go into ‘Free Bets’

•Enter the code ‘POINTS’

Cheers, bit disapointing though.

tonight is the Sky Poker biggie

£220 NLHE, capped at 60 runners

4k starting chips, 12 minute blinds, £8,000 Guaranteed

Stevie B is playing this as his blonde January League winner prize, good luck

Why is it capped at 60?

I believe the reason is its shown on Sky Sports and needs to finish in line with their scheduling

Ahhh already done this and just didnt realise it was monthly.

Coolio Neil Foolio

As Tighty has said, really, when we simulcast on Sky Sports, as we do most Thursdays, they get a bit stroppy with us if it does not finish within the scheduled show time. Like, VERY stroppy.

Also, truth to tell, liquidity for £220 Tourneys, even as well-structured as this one, is thin at the moment. We average between 50 & 55 for this. At one time it was capped at 30, then 40, then 50. As demand grows, so we are raising the cap.

At the moment, with 8 hours to go, 25 are Regged, so I fancy, going by previous renewals, 50+ is likely.

The Tourney will be covered by Channel 865, with Lisa-Marie Long as Presenter, Paul Jackson as the Pro Poker player Guest, & silly bollocks as the "analyst". And they say I can't get bluffs through......

Thanks.  If I'd thought about it, its a fairly obvious answer I suppose.

Sky down?

Got disco'd in 2 tournys can't get back in,everthing else running ok

Not that I'm aware of, the brokenomoter dial has not moved, & the Tourneys & cash Tables are all running normally from what I can see.

Has it rectified itself yet?

There has not been any software "Incident Reports", either. These come through pretty quick if there is a prob.

Let me know if the problem persists, but I don't think it is their end.

cheers, 43 regged just now.

gl Stevie!

Sigh, forgot about this :(

Im out, just under 3k chips, blinds 40/80 im utg with JJ raise to 240, folded to BB who raises to 750, I push, snap call with AK, A on the flop. Fold to rr? call, fold flop?
Sorry about that, cheers for the shot anyway.

£10 completely free when you join Sky Poker now

click

http://www.skybet.com/skybet?offer=122&aff=4042&ASSET_ID=143

and go from there

In fact, arguably, depending how you look at it, the "£10 of free Tourney Tokens" is £11.

It enables the sign-up-erer to play a £10 + £1 Tourney, or any combo of £2.20, £3.30, or £5.50 Tourneys to the value of £11.

In plain English, £10 PLUS reg fees.

I think. Probably.

I just thought i would put in this thread that i will win the £220 ds soon that is all.

Did you play it last night?

The next one is Thursday 31st March, & I'll be playing it. Still think you can win it?

Played it last night Yeh under the name noprohere_ . Yep I still fancy my chances despite ure presence. Wouldn't mind a winners interview on tv actually.

£15,000 gtd Primo tonight at 8pm, televised

£55 NLHE 15 min blinds


worth a crack surely? anyone playing it? there's a £12 sat into the £55 at 5pm too


Meanwhile the £120 Vegas Semi at 5pm feeds into the Vegas final at 9pm, where someone is winning a Sky Poker Vegas package

12 in the final so far where 1 player in 10 will win one of the £10,000 "Viva Las Vegas" packages.

Do blonde get anything for me doing some sports betting?

Sure, Bingo, Slots, betting, poker, all helps

ta

It's the Sky Poker Classic Open tonight at 8pm. £4k Guaranteed prize pool and £22 buy-in http://ow.ly/45rlf

You start with 4000 chips in tonight's £4000 Double Stack at 8pm, Register now! http://bit.ly/Tournament_Lobby

Are you a loser?

You've met Stu before, surely.... ?

By chance, I bumped into him at DTD last week - at the Bar. I was not previously aware that he was a consumer of alcoholic beverages.

Had I realised he was contributing to my annual bonus, I'd have purchased a shandy for him.

Mmm

For a change Im not spewing everywhere, especially horses.
Hope you dont get fined for my withdrawals!

It's the Sky Poker Classic Open tonight at 8pm. You can satellite your way in now from as little as £1.05: http://ow.ly/48s8a

£1.05 is all it could cost you to get your seat in tonight's £4000 Open tournament at 8pm http://bit.ly/Tournament_Lobby

Changes going through at the moment

* With immediate effect - as of now - all DYM's will be "ended" as soon as the DYM is down to 3 players.

* Satellite Tourneys will start to settle as soon as everyone has won their seat to the next Level.

* The Tourney, STT, or DYM buy-in will be shown on the top left hand corner of the Table in the light blue bar.

So, when multi-Tabling at different buy-in Levels, we can quickly see, at a glance, what Tourney is what, & which one we are currently on.

* The Tournament ID has also been added to the left hand side of the light blue bar at the top of the Table.

* It is now possible to have Rebuy Bounty Hunters, & these will start being added to the Tournament Schedule over the next few days. If they prove popular, more & a wider variety will be added.

* If you are a cash player, & need to take a break, a new "Timeout Session" has been developed.

This will, initially, be set to 12 hands. I believe it can be (by Sky Poker) made slightly less, or more, depending how it is received by players. "More" might be better, but would be subject, potentially, to misuse or abuse, so 12 hands it is for now.

Click "Sit-Out" if you need a break, & you will have 12 hands before you are removed from the Table. When you return, within 12 hands, just click "I'm Back". This will work providing you leave the Table open.

* the Lobby, which will now refresh super-fast. Soon, no more clicking on a 4/5 SNG and finiding it full, grrrr!

what does that mean?

Amen to these.

same change as the DYMs. sats that are feeders to finals etc used to be played out even once all the seats had been won. Now they will stop

ta

Good work Sky :)up

Gonna start playing a bit on Sky as I'm getting my computer back from my cousin.

Before I do, can you make sure my account is tagged up to blonde pls? ty

yes and thanks

Hi, I have just read about the sit and go league on sky poker which began on the 1st of March.

Where can I find the league table for this? Can somebody link me please  :hello:

Found it, 2 threads under this -  ;izimbra; sorry

Hello and welcome to blonde

Need to sign up to Sky Poker? Please do so via the banners on this site

Hi,
didn't realise you could tag my sky account to my blonde account, what's that involve?
Or does it just mean that when i enter my name down as doing the different comp's you know about it?

cheers..

I can only ask for Sky to take account of existing accounts that have been dormant for a whilem, and we reactivate by them playing again, to get credit for blonde

For regular players before we joined them, no, but entry into our leagues is ok for blonde posters already on Sky

Also for example if it is the case that a regular sky player says, as Mere Novice does, "I am only playing these SNGs because of the blonde promo" then that's useful

Yes, on the SNG thread please

Today is the 3rd leg of the 2010-11 Sky Poker Tour, in Luton

Play begins at 2pm and is live updated and live streamed over on the Sky forum


good luck to all the blondes playing, from memory beaneh, Claw, celtic, sicilian, British Gas, Luther, daiboot, jakally, reenot, pawprint, cia and julian

Sunday means Primo night, the £15,000 Primo at 8pm. Book your seat now. It's also live on Sky Poker TV http://bit.ly/Tournament_Lobby

Earn money as you knock out players in tonight's £8000 Bounty Hunter at 8pm. Book your seat now! http://bit.ly/Tournament_Lobby

To celebrate the Cheltenham Festival, we've got 6 Cheltenham Freerolls every day of the festival for you to enjoy! http://ow.ly/4eHVQ

This Sunday at 9pm the Viva Las Vegas Semi finals (daily quarter finals into that)

£120 NLHE with 1 player in 10 will win a seat to the Viva Las Vegas Final at 9pm on Sunday 27th March 2011

That final ( £1100 a pop) sees 1 player in 10 win a £10,000 "Viva Las Vegas" package. One package is guaranteed.

I know we had Titanium Bean and Rupert in the last final, would be great to msee a few more blondes in the field on Sunday. Try the semi?

Surely the idea of tikay fetching and carrying for you for 7-10 days is a thought that might encourage you to have a go?

Saturday night is Open night, with TV's Tony Kendall on Ch 865, and you can satellite you way into tonight's £6000 Open for just £1.05! http://bit.ly/Tournament_Lobby

Primo night tonight folks, with a whopping £15,000 prize pool! Why not try and satellite your way in? http://bit.ly/Tournament_Lobby

I noticed the VLV semi has the TV emblem next to it, do they actually show hands from this ?

they can do yes. I think at the moment they are quite likely to, as they want plenty of VLV qualifiers

Scrub that,

Earn as you knock players out in the £8k Bounty Hunter tonight at 8pm. Satellite your way to the final here: http://ow.ly/4iwjp

They often show sections of the Semi-Final on the 865, but they always cover a good bit of the Final in near-real time. The next Final is next Sunday, at 9pm. Do try to be there.

Double Stack night tonight with the £4000 Double Stack at 8pm, satellite in for just £1.05! http://bit.ly/Tournament_Lobby

Survivor Series on Sky Poker


Sky Poker "SURVIVOR" starts tomorrow.


How much to enter?

A quid. £1. That's it. No Reg fee, either. One quid, netto.

There will be SIX different Survivor Series - one each every.....
 
Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

So if you wanted to enter ALL SIX, it would cost you £6. Exactly. Not a penny more, not a penny less.

If you only want to play 1 of them, fine, the bill is 100 pence, one quid.

How does it work?

What it says on the tin, really.

You enter any (or all) of the 6 "Survivor" Tourneys.

Once HALF the field have been eliminated, the Tourney stops. And resumes on the same night one week later, when it starts again. (No further Entry Fee required, the quid is for the whole Survivor Series).

Rinse repeat, the Tourney STOPS when HALF the remaining field have gone busto.

And so on, until week 6.

By then, there will be just SIX players left in each of the Survivor Series.

And so those six players play down to ONE player.

And in week seven, the winners of EACH of the six SURVIVOR Series will meet in a Grand Final. And share out lots of money. AND Prizes on top of the money - including SPT Grand Final Seat, £220 Biggie Seat, a regular SPT Seat, da de da.

The Series has a £2,500 GUARANTEE, PLUS Added Value.

How is the money dished out?

The SIX Finalists in Week Seven will get.....

WINNER - £1,000, PLUS an SPT Grand Final Seat, Value £220.

2nd - £600, PLUS a Sky Sports Double Stack seat, value £220.

3rd - £400, PLUS a seat to Cardiff SPT, Value £110.

4th - £250, PLUS a seat to PRIMO, worth £55

5th - £150, PLUS a seat to PRIMO, worth £55

6th - £100, PLUS a seat to PRIMO, worth £55.

What if you qualify TWICE? Because you could.

Well, in the FINAL, you would get a DOUBLE starting stack.


Time?

8.30pm, every night except Thursday.

Blinds increase every 5 minutes, EXCEPT.....
 
In Week 6 (The "Weekly" Final) when Blinds will be 10 minutes.

In the GRAND FINAL, when the Blinds will increase every 15 minutes.

I reckon this looks good, with different strategies in play at different stages


Anyone going to join me in playing some of these?

How many you gonna play? I might do a teamviewer sesh where I watch you play them for a few hours and then get stuck in myself.

You are on

Tuesday, Wednesday to coincide with the final March League game, maybe Thursday

How's the PLO going on Sky that you were starting up?

Sounds a good crack,  I sure love working shifts.