Everything is pretty cool from the outside however once i joined i can't see myself depositing with the current software.Why is everything 6 handed?I presume so table can fit better on tv. I like all the promos and tv aspect i really think a drastic software change is in need and i would definately play here then. Look at some other networks their software and choice of games is far superior. Posted by paul2475
Hi Paul,
Everything is not 6-handed - though most is, at present.
There are 10 handed Cash Tables, (see Poker Lobby) but they are currently far less popular than the 6 handed cash Tables.
The Tournament balance is also now different. The TV Show uses 6 handed Tables for technical reasons, but new 10 handed Tourneys are being introduced - every week there is a 10 handed £5 Mick Jenn Deepstack Tourney, & a £10 10 handed tikay Deepstack Tourney. These are both very popular. The Tourneys that is, not Mick Jenn & tikay.
And I'm about to start a Thread to lobby for a nightly 10-handed Tourney. Why not add your voice to it?
If the players want it, Sky Poker will schedule it. But they need to now what players want.
i really dont get this too be honest we talk of this or that to improve the site but if the tourney pays out past8 places u cant see them weird like cause theres a wasted bit of page at the bottom i did send to sky poker support they said we know and are dealing with it (ages ago) but the set up for chip leader is the reason i,ll be leaving soon example hes got 13k i got 1.9k i raise 4xbb (sb50/bb100)with AJ he calls with a 92 os now why did he call with 92 flop J25 i go all in now should he call here wi btm pair no ooo but he knows the system o yeah the higher on the leugue table more likly to do it too so anywayJ25 of course he calls turn 9 rvr2 any of his calls were wrong he played badly and got lucky but no we know better it ruins the game i see it too often at this and other sites too massive stack has A10 wee stack AKsuited now 3 outs yup u guessed i play alot like alot of plyrs am i the only one who notices this Posted by kevywevy17
i totally agree with kev some of the calls made on sky poker would never happen in a million years on alive poker table if a player is on a two outer you just no its goin to come especially if your up against the chip leader,began to think it was just me!!
I would add a preferred seat option: The game flow will be exactly the same, but just shown on your screen relatively to the seat, where You prefer to sit. Give me a default preferred seat at sign up. Let me be able to change the default on my account, and let me be able to chose another seat when playing (eg a Preferred Seat box, where I can select the preferred seat number). I would add a HH to text converter:It should convert my HH into a standard HH text format, but replacing my name with HERO and the other names with VILLAIN1,…., VILLAIN5 (on the 6 player tables) plus of course set the codes for S, H, C and D, so the cards are shown correctly on the forums.This format would imo be much better for analyzes, discussions etc here on the forums, and there will be no outing of any players involved. I would lower the fees in the DyMs.You need to win better than 60% of the DyMs to be a winner on the lowest level because of the very high fee (20% on .25+.05 and 0.50+.10). The stupid thing is, it delays players with sound BRM to go up in levels, and Sky Poker would get much more fee, if these players played eg the 1+.15 Dyms and not stayed on the 0.25+.05 DyMs level because of the high fee. I would set the fee to 5% for all DyMs with a cap on the higher stakes DyMs. I would drop SharkScope, as players using SharkScope are using data, they do not collect them selves. Data mining and sharing should never be allowed in online poker imo. It is wrong, that SharkScope use data about you without getting your permission first. Yes, I have blocked my nick, but still a player should sign up him/her self, before SharkScope were allowed to show any data of that specific player. I really do not understand, why Sky Poker are allowing this. And I would add a Forum FAQ area to the forum, so new players can read there, how they get a HH shown correctly in this forum etc. With my best wishesTouscouru
Dunno if it's been mentioned before, but a set of emoticons would be quite handy. Just give certain posts more impact, all the good forums have them LOL.
Dunno if it's been mentioned before, but a set of emoticons would be quite handy. Just give certain posts more impact, all the good forums have them LOL. Posted by Dudeskin8
we are re-introducing these (hopefully) in the next week or so. they did exist but we had a slight problem with them so had to remove the option.
but ,i have one gripe at moment,the community is a great idea,and i am enjoying reading blogs and so on,the only problem is i am finding it really hard to keep up on posts and topics...everyone has been so active and vocal,it seems that most of the topics and sub catagories are starting to overlap....i am not sure where i should be posting any more!!!!
is only a fact of the success of the community that has made it so busy....so i am not moaning just finding it hard to find to keep track of the discussions........maybe we could simplify it in some way?
is only because im starting to feel the symptoms of senility brought on by my 4 unruly children.....
Without trawling through the whole thread, may I suggest the following areas which sky could change:
1. Re sizeable tables - I often like to play more than one table and only having the option of the normal tables overlapping or the mini view (no chat and a tad too small) is not ideal. On most of the big sites (stars, party etc) you can re size the tables to suit your needs.
2. A more comprehensive HH system.
3. A shop where players can spend their earned points on stuff like t shirts, fleeces, books, gadgets etc. This could be an ideal marketing opportunity for sky if they have sky poker branded clothing, card protectors, caps etc. Again, most of the big sites do this and I have to admit to showing some site loyalty to collect points for purchases.
The software needs to be downloadable and more CPU / Bandwidth friendly. I can play on Stars and I see tables refresh in the software browser in real time. When I join a 5/6 player table on Sky it is invariably full by the time the browser opens! Very frustrating.
Need to be able to resize mini tables. It's just the wrong size to get 4 tables in tile config on a laptop with 1024x768 screen.
When playing with firefox I don't need to be told about issues with more than 4 tables every time I open an extra table.
A comprehensive hand history needs to be downloadable if the site is to grow and able to see oponents cards at showdown.
You can either make this site appealing to more professional / good amateur players or keep it where it is near the bottom of the poker networks.
I'm not having a dig as I actually like playing here but it can be very frustrating at times.
Oh and when you have some spare time "TURN OFF THE BAD BEAT SWITCH FOR A FEW DAYS"
tikey improvment on sky i would like to see well i dont know if it is an improvment is that all players have there own aviator the u get to pick from are a bit cheese and sky can cheek them to make sure there are alright to use other sites do it any chance of sky doing
think i would like to see a sat sit n gos for the open every night ,6 seater scary 2 pound entry,also for the primos too ,if like me u finsh work l8 every day ,spending 1and a half hours sating through takes up 2 much of my time ,especially when every 1 slows down near the bubble ,just a thought wat do u guys think?
think i would like to see a sat sit n gos for the open every night ,6 seater scary 2 pound entry,also for the primos too ,if like me u finsh work l8 every day ,spending 1and a half hours sating through takes up 2 much of my time ,especially when every 1 slows down near the bubble ,just a thought wat do u guys think? Posted by TENOFSPADE
think i would like to see a sat sit n gos for the open every night ,6 seater scary 2 pound entry,also for the primos too ,if like me u finsh work l8 every day ,spending 1and a half hours sating through takes up 2 much of my time ,especially when every 1 slows down near the bubble ,just a thought wat do u guys think? Posted by TENOFSPADE
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Everything is not 6-handed - though most is, at present.
There are 10 handed Cash Tables, (see Poker Lobby) but they are currently far less popular than the 6 handed cash Tables.
The Tournament balance is also now different. The TV Show uses 6 handed Tables for technical reasons, but new 10 handed Tourneys are being introduced - every week there is a 10 handed £5 Mick Jenn Deepstack Tourney, & a £10 10 handed tikay Deepstack Tourney. These are both very popular. The Tourneys that is, not Mick Jenn & tikay.
And I'm about to start a Thread to lobby for a nightly 10-handed Tourney. Why not add your voice to it?
If the players want it, Sky Poker will schedule it. But they need to now what players want.
Enjoy your poker.
The game flow will be exactly the same, but just shown on your screen relatively to the seat, where You prefer to sit. Give me a default preferred seat at sign up. Let me be able to change the default on my account, and let me be able to chose another seat when playing (eg a Preferred Seat box, where I can select the preferred seat number).
I would add a HH to text converter:It should convert my HH into a standard HH text format, but replacing my name with HERO and the other names with VILLAIN1,…., VILLAIN5 (on the 6 player tables) plus of course set the codes for S, H, C and D, so the cards are shown correctly on the forums.This format would imo be much better for analyzes, discussions etc here on the forums, and there will be no outing of any players involved.
I would lower the fees in the DyMs.You need to win better than 60% of the DyMs to be a winner on the lowest level because of the very high fee (20% on .25+.05 and 0.50+.10). The stupid thing is, it delays players with sound BRM to go up in levels, and Sky Poker would get much more fee, if these players played eg the 1+.15 Dyms and not stayed on the 0.25+.05 DyMs level because of the high fee. I would set the fee to 5% for all DyMs with a cap on the higher stakes DyMs.
I would drop SharkScope, as players using SharkScope are using data, they do not collect them selves. Data mining and sharing should never be allowed in online poker imo. It is wrong, that SharkScope use data about you without getting your permission first. Yes, I have blocked my nick, but still a player should sign up him/her self, before SharkScope were allowed to show any data of that specific player. I really do not understand, why Sky Poker are allowing this.
And I would add a Forum FAQ area to the forum, so new players can read there, how they get a HH shown correctly in this forum etc.
With my best wishesTouscouru
Dunno if it's been mentioned before, but a set of emoticons would be quite handy. Just give certain posts more impact, all the good forums have them LOL.
cheers,
Rich
Just two things that i'd like to see change.
1. TIMEBANK longer for non TV tournies. (deepstack and cash i need more time to think sometimes) up to 1 min would be good.
2. Slider Bar. I would like more betting intervals available on the slider itself.
Thanks
Greg
1. Re sizeable tables - I often like to play more than one table and only having the option of the normal tables overlapping or the mini view (no chat and a tad too small) is not ideal. On most of the big sites (stars, party etc) you can re size the tables to suit your needs.
2. A more comprehensive HH system.
3. A shop where players can spend their earned points on stuff like t shirts, fleeces, books, gadgets etc. This could be an ideal marketing opportunity for sky if they have sky poker branded clothing, card protectors, caps etc. Again, most of the big sites do this and I have to admit to showing some site loyalty to collect points for purchases.
Apologies if these suggestions already made!
Edited once for bed spalling
I can play on Stars and I see tables refresh in the software browser in real time. When I join a 5/6 player table on Sky it is invariably full by the time the browser opens! Very frustrating.
Need to be able to resize mini tables. It's just the wrong size to get 4 tables in tile config on a laptop with 1024x768 screen.
When playing with firefox I don't need to be told about issues with more than 4 tables every time I open an extra table.
A comprehensive hand history needs to be downloadable if the site is to grow and able to see oponents cards at showdown.
You can either make this site appealing to more professional / good amateur players or keep it where it is near the bottom of the poker networks.
I'm not having a dig as I actually like playing here but it can be very frustrating at times.
Oh and when you have some spare time "TURN OFF THE BAD BEAT SWITCH FOR A FEW DAYS"
Ta
I play 12 tables on Stars and don't see those odds. C'mon get a grip on the RNG.
I will call inside straight draws to river knowing I have more chance of hitting them than an outside up and down draw with the current software..