Thanks, much appreciated.

Eck - I checked this morning and things are in hand. You should get a call about installation next week

won one about 2 weeks ago

Ahem....

What?

Eck, what's your Sky Bet user ID, please, and I'll check it out.....

The account will be closed as it was the staff trial. the username it was "won" under was .......................................


wait for it


Eck 

won one about 2 weeks ago

Ahem....

Some people they get on the telly and goes straight to their head, next he'll be telling everyone he won it ...sigh   

Eck, I'll check it out with our operations team when I'm back in the office in the morning. I'm sure it will have been ordered, but sounds like you haven't had a call about an installation - apologies. We'll get in touch in the morning.

won one about 2 weeks ago

Ahem....

What?

Eck, what's your Sky Bet user ID, please, and I'll check it out.....

Forgive my ignorance....did you win one, or have you ordered one??

Not that we're aware of.........can't access the page, or can't log on?

So we got 276 entries tonight....some marketing started today, and the site is a bit busier, though only with low stakes cash games at present.

Will be interesting to see how 3 hours goes with 276 players......may be a little quicker tonight in terms of blinds towards the end. Bear with us - as the numbers grow, we're gonna have to tweak that, together with entry fees, start times etc etc to suit different needs and tastes

I just noticed the point about phone charges for TV play. All of Sky Bet's services are charged at a local rate on connection via the TV. This has never really been much of an issue before as when you are having a football bet, you're only online for a few minutes. However, we have had quite a bit of feedback from our TV players about the potential charges, and we're looking at alternatives (there is actually a charge to Sky for the incoming connections from TV players at home, but we are thinking about whether we can offset this depending on levels of play)

Thanks again

Did any of you see Helen Chamberlain and Norman Pace hosting last night? We thought it was the best evening so far, but would like to hear what you thought. I know there were the competing matters of Valentines Day, the Brits (Live) and Bolton against Arsenal, so you're forgiven if you didn't look in!!

Good evening all.

Thanks again for all your feedback. We've had a big review today and will be making some further changes over the weekend.

On the requests for some players to provide passport details etc, I wanted to explain what's happening. We are licenced in Alderney which, believe it or not, is one of the foremost jurisdictions for gaming in the World. They do a lot to ensure consumers are protected, to ensure operators like Sky are socially responsible etc. As part of licensing conditions, we are required to verify customers so that we can be sure that you are who you say you are, and to be sure you are over 18. For most people, we are able to conduct this check from the information you enter upon registration, but for about 20% of the UK public we need further details to check this (because the data our verification software has may not be sufficient in individual cases to verify a customer) - that is what has been happening to a few respondants here.

As the UK introduces the Gambling Act later this year, you'll see more of this, I'm afraid (i.e. from a much wider range of companies). However, if you haven't moved address in the last 3 years and you are registered on the electoral role, then your chances of being required to provide details are quite low.

It is a good thing, really, that we verify customers. It ensures that we can prevent children playing, and ensures we can also prevent money laundering (which al companies will be required to do from this year).

Hope this helps, and sorry for any inconenience caused.

Enjoy the tables tonight.

The 'hotness' thing is a nice idea but won't work in the long term in the sense that the value of your hand will obviously dramatically change both with the increasing blinds, action in front of you, your position and relative skill of the other players. So if you're holding on the button and the action goes raise, reraise, all-in, call, the hotness rating should change to 'bag o' poo' with a picture of a parent holding a used nappy.

Elsewhere, the levels really need to be a little longer, there's no 150/300 level and tonight when I looked at the leaderboard, the guy in position 20 from the 100 or so left had about 4.8k when the blinds hit 200/400, so 12 BB's, which is not enough for this tournament to regularly be won by the better players.

I also agree with comments made last night that an earlier start would be better since you could have some hand histories all ready for when the program starts. Alternating between 6-handed and 9-handed would also be a nice change now and then too.

The Hotometer was my idea, and I know it isn't perfect. It is designed to give a helping hand to beginners - not you guys. We aimed Sky Poker at a "softer" group of people than simply existing poker players, and we wanted to involve and educate them and make it easy for them to take part (so you guys can take their money if you want!).

Inevitably, we will likely begin to attract lower stakes players, but we expect this to build over time as we improve and as we market the hell out of it.

The reason for tables of 6 is very simple. As well as being able to play online, you can play on iDTV. The iDTV technology cannot comfortably handle more than 6 players (as it would look too small on a screen you are watching from your sofa for example), and so where online and TV players are combined (as in The Open), we need to limit it to 6 per table. We have tried to balance the need for skill (which you guys prize dearly) with the ability for a newbie to get a run for their money and perhaps to win something with a bit of luck in their favour. We'll keep tweaking till you're happy.
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Your feedback is excellent and with tikay helping us to understand it (LOLOL), we'll bring you the next level in TV poker over the next few months.

As for varying table sizes and speeds of play and start times, we'll mess around with this to suit beginners on some nightd and online-only experienced players on other nights.

Bear with us. We love you!

Murdoch is a bot

Goodnight

Hello Sky Suit. Some decorum at last.

Creep.

LOL

gn all - off to dream of poker presenters (I'll leave you to abuse me as to which ones!)

By the way - I couldn't be arsed to put a spell check on mizogernisht (sorry!)

Nah - tikay's da man

He's been excellent. We've even cured him (on screen live at least) of his misogenist tendancies :0

Thought Carlo did well tonight, but he needs to take a cold shower

Evening all

Thought seeing as tikay had been going on about the "silent observers" that I'd better own up

Thanks for all your feedback - really helping us to improve