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So goodbye is coming
Doubleme
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So I the issues with freezing tables has been too much now for to long. I know I dont have the best records in poker but I aspire to achieve good wins and make a decent amount. Unfortunately Sky cannot offer a huge amount in and of itself. To almost anyone simply because just not the games going for it.
Ideally what i wanted to do was multi table on sky and on other sites as well. This is completely not doable with sky. tables have been freezing for a long time now and the fix is always promised round the corner but it doesnt happen. The main real reason I moved away from heads up hypers here is how can I play such a turbo format when i cant rely on the tables to open properly consistently or not freeze? I have not given up on these play on another site now.
Ultimately though other sites offer more potential income then sky does and ultimately because of the issues with SKY, sky is not a site you can play in conjunction with others. I recently benefited in an mtt due to a play sitting out several days ago. today it cost me a tourney where I had a good stack, and prospect. at the time of writing this a player is sitting out on my penultimate table of the night likely due to table freezing I will try tag him to give him a chance @paulo999 likely they wont see this forums and will miss the tourney. Many names I once knew are no longer on the site I dont know these people in real life so cant ask but I would guess at least some have left because of the issues with the site. It takes time to build a bank roll on a site and I really dont feel comfy making large deposits on a site because of UKGC etc and dont want to have to provide my bank details credit score and rigorous affordability checks. So I deposit small amounts and grind it up rather then large amounts. I am seeing good progress on another site It is only a matter of time before my bankroll their exceeds here and they become my new poker home. I would have liked to remain on both sites but this is no longer a realistic option because of these issues.
my exams are coming up hence the drop in activity and it will drop further I will likely be continue to play here sometimes for the time being but will likely leave this site entirely some time between July-August.
It is a shame I have really liked this site its community feel its character and the stability that small stakes mtts offer over larger fields. I say this not to have a go or go on the attack but rather because I dont want to see this site die and I think that is ultimately the direction things will head in if this continues with the site been so unstable I dont want to see this site die. . two more players sitting out in last table now.
Ideally what i wanted to do was multi table on sky and on other sites as well. This is completely not doable with sky. tables have been freezing for a long time now and the fix is always promised round the corner but it doesnt happen. The main real reason I moved away from heads up hypers here is how can I play such a turbo format when i cant rely on the tables to open properly consistently or not freeze? I have not given up on these play on another site now.
Ultimately though other sites offer more potential income then sky does and ultimately because of the issues with SKY, sky is not a site you can play in conjunction with others. I recently benefited in an mtt due to a play sitting out several days ago. today it cost me a tourney where I had a good stack, and prospect. at the time of writing this a player is sitting out on my penultimate table of the night likely due to table freezing I will try tag him to give him a chance @paulo999 likely they wont see this forums and will miss the tourney. Many names I once knew are no longer on the site I dont know these people in real life so cant ask but I would guess at least some have left because of the issues with the site. It takes time to build a bank roll on a site and I really dont feel comfy making large deposits on a site because of UKGC etc and dont want to have to provide my bank details credit score and rigorous affordability checks. So I deposit small amounts and grind it up rather then large amounts. I am seeing good progress on another site It is only a matter of time before my bankroll their exceeds here and they become my new poker home. I would have liked to remain on both sites but this is no longer a realistic option because of these issues.
my exams are coming up hence the drop in activity and it will drop further I will likely be continue to play here sometimes for the time being but will likely leave this site entirely some time between July-August.
It is a shame I have really liked this site its community feel its character and the stability that small stakes mtts offer over larger fields. I say this not to have a go or go on the attack but rather because I dont want to see this site die and I think that is ultimately the direction things will head in if this continues with the site been so unstable I dont want to see this site die. . two more players sitting out in last table now.
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It happened last week too when i had kk , i know i wasn't guaranteed to win but anybody would be frustrated in that situation
I'm not one for moaning it doesn't happen very much with me but i can understand the regs frustration this should not be happening and is bad for the Sky brand
Hopefully it gets fixed before customers begin to leave
Getting fed up with it now and that's over a year and still not been fixed.
It's possible that the flash changed effected things more than everyone expected and the software, at it's core, needed it to run properly, or something along those lines. AIR has also stopped being supported by Adobe, so basically the software can only become defunct and the head honchos are going to have serious issues putting any cash into fixing a platform that has no future.
Does anyone else get this ? And if you dont enter your details quickly it refreshes and you need to try again
Site is an utter farce now and if its not going to be fixed you should atleast have the baws to tell us that @sky workers (James, Sam and whoever else) . Your silence on these these threads is pitiful and spineless. What is it you fuds actually do all day apart from come up with **** promos one day a month. I ask because on other sites I get the impression a good percentage of my rake goes on software development, advertising etc but here you don't pay out for any of that but expect us to pay up to 5% more rake for a sng than the decent sites charge.
I see the site address m.skypoker.com , if you played through skypoker.com , I reckon your problem would disappear.
I'll see how this goes
For me sky poker is good for low variance income, I find I can achieve good results on other sites too but due to larger fields this results in much higher variance.
The way I see it is Sky poker in the past has always been a great site for the aspiring professional poker player, or the professional player who just wants a stable living wage. However for someone who wants to make a very good wage from poker Sky just is not the site They simply dont have the game volume. I thought I could combine with other sites but this now looks doubtful.
I have heard that stars is now softer then Party poker and Ipoker not sure if that is true have not played properly on stars in some time so that could be complete nonsense heard it from poker channels on youtube. I am profitable on both Ipoker and party so if true could do well on Stars.
if stars brought back the old VIP program, linked their poker sites across all platforms so you could transfer funds between the sites easily and fixed the issues with sky, I would be delighted.
This would mean I would be exclusively with flutter sites have everything and I think it would make them much more competitive in the poker world with GG rising up as a threat this would be a great move for them to do.
Of course one can dream we know they never will.
Instead they buy up whatever poker sites they can not to improve sites or link platforms in some way but rather create zombie sites that can never rise as competition. Well this model no longer works as GG are taking over and they are not able to buy out GG. I hate GG btw but that is another topic I would love to see flutter own GG though.
When I log in to skypoker.com then click tournaments it auto takes me to the mobile site with the m on the address
Once summer hits and social distancing ends with everything back open I can see the number of players on sky being an all time low especially if this isn't fixed which it doesn't look like it will. Guarantees will get cut in half and then cut again and we could see the closure of the site come later this year.
1) Why do people expect a response from Sky employees on a Saturday?
2) I play on 'Stars a little and have far more software crashes on there than at Sky (admittedly I never play poker on a mobile)
What I would like to say is, that anyone who likes playing on Sky and cares about its future should try forgiving the glitches as much as they can. Even if that is by reducing volume significantly and playing elsewhere at times. Otherwise, if most players leave permanently, the bosses, new owners or whomever will have reason to shut up shop, so to speak, if push ever comes to shove further down the line.
For the time being the best us players can do is continue to log in and play some hands to essentially at least maintain/increasing the active player numbers and report any issues to assist the technies in resolving them.