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Hello @Sky__James, just wondering if you had updates on 2 particular things.

1/ has there been any developments regarding rake for spin up games after the move?
2/ do you know if there will be uk/sky only 100bb cash games after the move?

thanks

Hi Quadsy, I have proposed to ipoker we carry our current rake model across as the cap for spins would be too high if we used their standard one.

Very likely we have 100bb cash tables. I don't want to give players a reason to play elsewhere.

I appreciate and accept that these things take time. And that it necessarily involves negotiation with i-poker and others.

Turning to MTTs, we have been given no indication whatsoever as to the extent of unique MTTs. And I'm sure I am not the only 1 who wants to be given reasons to stay.

I don't expect final decisions-I do expect to be roughly at the same stage as DYM/Cash game players in terms of planning.

Our MTT schedule will be pretty similar to what it is now but with slightly lower guarantees in places with the odd MTT removed. I'm expecting a decrease in liquidity due to the bigger network MTTs so don't want to go too big on launch and then have to chop a load.

ipoker have more features and formats available such as mystery bounties we can offer so looking at options but I know the Sky base love the 75/25 PKOs so these will be the most common MTTs still. If a player only wants to play the ringfenced Sky MTTs they will have plenty to play every day.

Here's what actually happened last night.

You ran 2nd in the Rewards Freeroll & won £60. You play it every night, & rarely do well, so you can congratulate yourself. You probably got lucky along the way, & will not have noticed that - most of us only recognize BAD luck & are blind to good fortune. That's called cognitive bias, & many of us suffer from it. But well done.

What happened next though?

Well, having played 23,649 games here at an Average Buy-In of £1.10..... you then sat at a £10 + £1 Heads Up table with a fella called @johnmonty. He's played 466,111 games here at an ABI of £8.35. He's not the best player on the site, far from it, but he's a big ugly Scottish bloke who eats people like you & me at the poker table for breakfast. He's way too good for the likes of you & me to take on Heads Up. In Heads Up poker we can't hide. The best player ALWAYS wins in the long run. Play him 100 times Heads Up & we might win 5.

Then you played a £10 Turbo DYM with the likes of @TimmyRaRa & @johnmonty. We've already discussed @johmonty, & @TimmyRaRa has played almost a quarter of a million games here & won well into 6 figures. I mean really, you can't beat these guys. You finished 6th in that.

Now things got worse, as you played a £15 Heads Up affair against a fella who has made over a quarter of a million £££'s here playing Heads Up games. People like you & me have zero chance against guys like him, they are different class.

And then you blame Sky Poker for losing your money, & suggest they are corrupt. When the truth is you lost because of poor table selection.

If I could sit down with you for an hour I could teach you the essentials - such as TABLE SELECTION - & you'd then a) lose
less money & b) not get upset & c) not make threads like this or that 80%-30% thread & make a fool of yourself.

Seriously man, instead of blaming others, look at yourself. That's where the problem is. And you CAN sort it.

Go on, trust me, & try using better table selection.

VBOL fella.