Only just realised this promo is running! Assumed was just the 100 billionth hand - luckily I haven't been dealt in and folded a potential £1200-1300+ for 3bb! Was thinking if dealt into a milestone hand what do people think the best strategy is in view of no notification of the hand? I think the best plan on a cash table would be to put in a big 3 bet like 5x if raised in front, as more likely to get people to fold, the thinking being an open shove looks odd and might trigger people to check if it's a milestone and thus go all in. If unraised or utg think it's just a shove as higher chance of someone noticing is better than seeing multi way flop Probably over thinking this considering chance of hitting it! Posted by IH8UButler
Hypothetically, I reckon that you would first try and and garner as many point in the 24 hours prior as posssible. This would account for most of your profit for winning it....
With an £1,100 Championship seat available and entry to a £20,000 freeroll an additional £200 cash....
Then I don't see why or how, loading up as many 2p/4p HU tables and open shoving/calling every hand shouldn't be the most profitable option.
Only just realised this promo is running! Assumed was just the 100 billionth hand - luckily I haven't been dealt in and folded a potential £1200-1300+ for 3bb! Was thinking if dealt into a milestone hand what do people think the best strategy is in view of no notification of the hand? I think the best plan on a cash table would be to put in a big 3 bet like 5x if raised in front, as more likely to get people to fold, the thinking being an open shove looks odd and might trigger people to check if it's a milestone and thus go all in. If unraised or utg think it's just a shove as higher chance of someone noticing is better than seeing multi way flop Probably over thinking this considering chance of hitting it! Posted by IH8UButler
Hi, I8U.
Do you not receive Texts & e-Mails from Sky Poker? They push them relentlessly via those channels. It's on the Website, too, on scrolling banners, & notice is always given when approaching a Milestone Hand.
If all else fails, I generally make plenty of noise on the Community when the Milestone draws near, so maybe best to keep an eye on the Forum.
I'm not being critical, I'm, just curious how you managed to evade the incoming barrage of spam.
In Response to Re: Milestone Hand Winners : Hi, I8U. Do you not receive Texts & e-Mails from Sky Poker? They push them relentlessly via those channels. It's on the Website, too, on scrolling banners, & notice is always given when approaching a Milestone Hand. If all else fails, I generally make plenty of noise on the Community when the Milestone draws near, so maybe best to keep an eye on the Forum. I'm not being critical, I'm, just curious how you managed to evade the incoming barrage of spam. Posted by Tikay10
Would be great if you could arrange for me to get texts and Emails?
i have spoke to support 3/4 times about it and changed all the settings including my email to recieve them but never do
In Response to Re: Milestone Hand Winners :Would be great if you could arrange for me to get texts and Emails? i have spoke to support 3/4 times about it and changed all the settings including my email to recieve them but never do Posted by Itsover4u
If I could, I would, but I'm not allowed near that side of The Business, & rightly so.
What I can do is ask why you may not be receiving them, & work from there. They won't tell me the details, but that might give us some clues.
In Response to Re: Milestone Hand Winners : If I could, I would, but I'm not allowed near that side of The Business, & rightly so. What I can do is ask why you may not be receiving them, & work from there. They won't tell me the details, but that might give us some clues. Posted by Tikay10
In Response to Re: Milestone Hand Winners : Hi, I8U. Do you not receive Texts & e-Mails from Sky Poker? They push them relentlessly via those channels. It's on the Website, too, on scrolling banners, & notice is always given when approaching a Milestone Hand. If all else fails, I generally make plenty of noise on the Community when the Milestone draws near, so maybe best to keep an eye on the Forum. I'm not being critical, I'm, just curious how you managed to evade the incoming barrage of spam. Posted by Tikay10
I did see the banner in the client but didn't bother clicking it just assumed it would be the billionth hand - good job you created this thread!
Don't seem to get any emails from sky either possible that they are going to the spam folder
If I win a ukpc seat through this promo will get you a drink at DTD (wouldn't hold your breath on that though!)
Please correct me if I'm wrong (and I frequently am!!) - but if playing on a iphone I don't think you can see the hand number displayed? Posted by IrishRose
You can not see the hand number if playing in classic view or if using mini view on any of the tables. Only been around for the 993 milly one so far and I had to have one table large so I could see how close it was.
This and the double points promotions are great and are appreciated by everyone I know, so good work and thanks. I would just like to touch on something mentioned earlier though, namely the highlighting/pausing the milestone table. I think it's necessary for two reasons:
- Multi-tablers will have little chance to check the hand # either because a) they're playing too many tables and the font is too small or b) they simply don't have enough time to check the chatbox every few seconds to see if they've hit the lucky hand. Since there is no timebank, it's difficult to allocate much time to scanning through chatboxes to see if you're the chosen one (due to mass timeouts and consequently chaos) and therefore it's more likely people are going to miss it and play the situation sub-optimally.
- I think a large number of recreationals won't even be aware of the promotion, and quite a few will be aware of it but will have forgotten / not know what to do. Highlighting and/or pausing the table will build up the exitement and make it feel more special for the fun player.
Additionally, it's not always obvious to people that the milestone hand is close since these things can be forgetten easily, even if they checked the forum earlier in the day (which, of course, a vast number of players won't have)
This is a relatively special promotion, for professionals and recs alike, so it'd be a shame if someone didn't know they were dealt into such a big hand simply because they didn't browse the forum or promotions page beforehand. I don't think it'd be overly time-consuming for someone to even come to the table and act as a commentator or something, similar to Stars and their moderators/team pros - this would alert everyone. If not, a beautiful rainbow coloured message in large font right in the centre of the table would suffice.
I could be underestimating the complexity of pausing a table but I think it's worth a post anyway.
In a way it's a good thing that multi-tablers will have little time to check the hand # because it stops "abuse" of the promo. eg. A player might normally play 4 tables but decides to get as much chance possible to play 20+ (or however many feasible) in order to increase their chance of playing a milestone hand. But with how it is atm they would be silly to do this because the chance of missing out anyway by not noticing the hand would be high. May as well play less tables and be able to check the hand number as it approaches on each table.
yeah, fair point Ivano. I really should have emphasised the point from a recreationals point of view, rather than a pros, because that's what's important and the points I mentioned for the pros are debatable anway, and perhaps wouldn't hold up in argument. The argument for the multi-tablers came from experience: I was playing 5 or 6 tables last night and it was genuinely tough to keep track of hand numbers with all the bets and player actions (in the chatbox)etc. And that's me, playing 5 tables, not one of those kidz 19 tabling.
I think the recreationals case is stronger and more justified (demonstrated by all the folding in previous milestone hands)
This and the double points promotions are great and are appreciated by everyone I know, so good work and thanks. I would just like to touch on something mentioned earlier though, namely the highlighting/pausing the milestone table. I think it's necessary for two reasons: - Multi-tablers will have little chance to check the hand # either because a) they're playing too many tables and the font is too small or b) they simply don't have enough time to check the chatbox every few seconds to see if they've hit the lucky hand. Since there is no timebank, it's difficult to allocate much time to scanning through chatboxes to see if you're the chosen one (due to mass timeouts and consequently chaos) and therefore it's more likely people are going to miss it and play the situation sub-optimally. - I think a large number of recreationals won't even be aware of the promotion, and quite a few will be aware of it but will have forgotten / not know what to do. Highlighting and/or pausing the table will build up the exitement and make it feel more special for the fun player. Additionally, it's not always obvious to people that the milestone hand is close since these things can be forgetten easily, even if they checked the forum earlier in the day (which, of course, a vast number of players won't have) This is a relatively special promotion, for professionals and recs alike, so it'd be a shame if someone didn't know they were dealt into such a big hand simply because they didn't browse the forum or promotions page beforehand. I don't think it'd be overly time-consuming for someone to even come to the table and act as a commentator or something, similar to Stars and their moderators/team pros - this would alert everyone. If not, a beautiful rainbow coloured message in large font right in the centre of the table would suffice. I could be underestimating the complexity of pausing a table but I think it's worth a post anyway. Posted by percival09
100% the above....
by pausing the table and putting a little banner up across the rest of the tables it would create a great rail / promotion push for the site!
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Agree, accumulating as many poker points in the 24 hours prior is key to "value" in these.
Do you not receive Texts & e-Mails from Sky Poker? They push them relentlessly via those channels. It's on the Website, too, on scrolling banners, & notice is always given when approaching a Milestone Hand.
If all else fails, I generally make plenty of noise on the Community when the Milestone draws near, so maybe best to keep an eye on the Forum.
I'm not being critical, I'm, just curious how you managed to evade the incoming barrage of spam.
Anyway, if anyone likes to keep an eye on these things, the current hand # is 993,550,006, so no fun & games today, but it will hit tomorrow (Friday).
What I can do is ask why you may not be receiving them, & work from there. They won't tell me the details, but that might give us some clues.
This is a relatively special promotion, for professionals and recs alike, so it'd be a shame if someone didn't know they were dealt into such a big hand simply because they didn't browse the forum or promotions page beforehand. I don't think it'd be overly time-consuming for someone to even come to the table and act as a commentator or something, similar to Stars and their moderators/team pros - this would alert everyone. If not, a beautiful rainbow coloured message in large font right in the centre of the table would suffice.
I could be underestimating the complexity of pausing a table but I think it's worth a post anyway.
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Morning Percival,
Some interesting points there. I'm a little busy right now, but will reply with some DA angles a little later.
I think the recreationals case is stronger and more justified (demonstrated by all the folding in previous milestone hands)