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  • DoublemeDoubleme Member Posts: 2,267
    Allan23 said:

    What are Winnie's thoughts on this?

    well the winnis have been in deep thought regarding this

  • DoublemeDoubleme Member Posts: 2,267
    So thoughts are mixed some big questions amongst the winnis is whether sky will keep any and if so how many exclusive tournements or games. The dons will be gone I always flirted with those but never really went for them.

    Of course spin and goes been available on sky with the promos for premier league would be good but i got a feeling I wouldnt be the only one to go for them in that spot and not sure if I would want to spend days playing benc and duonross in 3 handed games. would these games be good who knows.

    I think overall the winnis agree that there is a lot of unknown info to ultimately decide right now if this is a good or bad thing but that it is likely a very bad thing.

    Eeyore chimmed in specifically to say remember the doubleme way "when in doubt assume the absolute worst case scenario"
  • kapowblamzkapowblamz Member Posts: 1,637
    edited January 28
  • daggers747daggers747 Member Posts: 193
    Patience is a virtue.
    Lets suck it and see.

    I suck on stars but my forth place for 1818 left a sweet taste.
    every cloud and all that.

    Daggers




  • tomb1793tomb1793 Member Posts: 305
    edited February 17
    I have absolutely loved Sky Poker over the years - it's been by far and away my favourite platform to play on - but have to say I fear the worst. Reading the news made me very sad. You don't know what you've got until it's gone....
  • bencbenc Member Posts: 1,063
    Thanks for providing clarity and plenty of notice in regards to the changes. Just have a couple of questions, will the sky exclusive games still be uk player pool only? when can we expect to find out more details about these games? i assume husng will just be merged into the ipoker network if they continue to exist at all, wondering if you could confirm the outcome for that yet or not? Exciting times for the site as a whole anyway i hope the transition goes well and curious to see how it all plays out.
  • roddersithroddersith Member Posts: 5
    Doubleme said:

    So thoughts are mixed some big questions amongst the winnis is whether sky will keep any and if so how many exclusive tournements or games. The dons will be gone I always flirted with those but never really went for them.

    Of course spin and goes been available on sky with the promos for premier league would be good but i got a feeling I wouldnt be the only one to go for them in that spot and not sure if I would want to spend days playing benc and duonross in 3 handed games. would these games be good who knows.

    I think overall the winnis agree that there is a lot of unknown info to ultimately decide right now if this is a good or bad thing but that it is likely a very bad thing.

    Eeyore chimmed in specifically to say remember the doubleme way "when in doubt assume the absolute worst case scenario"

  • roddersithroddersith Member Posts: 5
    I hope they keep dons i play them all the time
  • DoublemeDoubleme Member Posts: 2,267

    Can you please ask the programmers at iPoker to make sure we still can't see our hole cards during the first hand of a final table?

    There's a limit to how much change I can cope with.

    what no thats utterly ridicolous its bad enough when it happens on sky but considering with much bigger fields and super skilled bots more skilled then the worlds best poker players regulary in the player pool we are all going to make final tables a lot less often.

    when we finally do we need every chance we can get not seeing the first few hands could be a major blow.
  • JessieakJessieak Member Posts: 10
    I just hope they have stopped all the collusion, P*** J*******`s now defunct BRS for example who played as a team game using Teamviewer and other such tools, one of the reasons I left ipoker alone some time ago .My last game on there I was FT with 7 players even having "BRS" in there name. Will re-buys and re-enters also be raked now ?
  • StayOrGoStayOrGo Member Posts: 12,191
    Hi @SkyJames @Tikay10

    I already have a GROSVENOR account which I believe is on the IPoker platform. Will I end up have separate accounts for Sky and Grosvenor, or will they merge to one?

    Many thanks
  • Sky__JamesSky__James Member Posts: 470
    benc said:

    Thanks for providing clarity and plenty of notice in regards to the changes. Just have a couple of questions, will the sky exclusive games still be uk player pool only? when can we expect to find out more details about these games? i assume husng will just be merged into the ipoker network if they continue to exist at all, wondering if you could confirm the outcome for that yet or not? Exciting times for the site as a whole anyway i hope the transition goes well and curious to see how it all plays out.

    Yes UK and Ireland only same as now. Heads Up SnGs is tbd. I'll need to do some analysis on their popularity but I have a few months to nail down exactly what exclusive games we'll offer and I'll share on the forum what that looks like in advance.
  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 173,596
    Doubleme said:

    Can you please ask the programmers at iPoker to make sure we still can't see our hole cards during the first hand of a final table?

    There's a limit to how much change I can cope with.

    what no thats utterly ridicolous its bad enough when it happens on sky but considering with much bigger fields and super skilled bots more skilled then the worlds best poker players regulary in the player pool we are all going to make final tables a lot less often.

    when we finally do we need every chance we can get not seeing the first few hands could be a major blow.
    @Doubleme


    @duesenburg was being ironic.
  • roddersithroddersith Member Posts: 5

    I hope they keep dons i play them all the time

    The plan is to run exclusive DONs/DYMs as they are by far the most popular type of SnG on Sky. Streak Week on iPoker anyone?
  • roddersithroddersith Member Posts: 5
    Thanks thats great news
  • Sky__JamesSky__James Member Posts: 470
    Jessieak said:

    I just hope they have stopped all the collusion, P*** J*******`s now defunct BRS for example who played as a team game using Teamviewer and other such tools, one of the reasons I left ipoker alone some time ago .My last game on there I was FT with 7 players even having "BRS" in there name. Will re-buys and re-enters also be raked now ?

    I don't have much info on this yet but I was told iPoker have a dedicated game integrity team and sophisticated bot detection/collusion software. When did this take place?

    I don't plan on raking rebuys and re-entries on Sky MTTs. Do iPoker do this on all MTTS?
  • kapowblamzkapowblamz Member Posts: 1,637
    Call me wild for suggesting something like this but if you do bring back spin ups could you consider drastically lowering the rake?

    It's a bit silly how it is now. The status quo leads to excessive bum hunting because regs can't battle to start tables.
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