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

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

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

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

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

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

strange that the others decided to go ahead.

Clearly they are muppets who are incapable of laying down a two outer.

Lol thats a classic

Good luck with the rest of the hearing

I would like to play at Dusk Till Dawn because it has the potential to be the best poker venue in the world

Chris Hutcheson

Edinburgh

Seat 1: Tony G, listen too his chat but far enough away to switch off

Seat 2: Barny Boatman, part of the legendary Mob

Seat 3: Antonio Esfandiari, so i can watch his chip tricks

Seat 4: Phill Laak, so when he does his press ups can feel the burn too

Seat 5: Me

Seat 6: Dave Ulliott, so he can tell me ledgendary storys, like losing his mates car playin poker

Seat 7: Ram Vaswani again part of the mob, plus i watched him take a lot of money off Gus hansen on FT(he can teach me)

Seat 8:Surinder Sunar See him and Tony go at it again!

Yea, I definatly cannot understand the plays, its not as if they were short stacked, theres no reasonable explanation!

As I am rather new to cash games, not quite sure about this, although from what I see, he has nothing to be crazy about... For sure yo ignored the A, as did he, also there is a paired board, which in my eyes is dangerous. But I definitely wouldn't mock your play there, in the end the best hand won!