It's the standard mini as oposed to a "UKOPS" mini. It is not a UKOPS event but counts for the bonus as far as I can make out. Presumably because the larger and smaller UKOPs events have been split to separate weeks. Next week is "mini UKOPs". I assume next week the standard mains will be on and the UKOPS minis will be the minis for bonus purposes? Posted by Phantom66
Ahhhh that makes sense then, I didn't realise there was a mini ukops next week as well.
In Response to Re: Lambert180 ----- Life After The Grind ------- : Hi Paul. The 'minis' this week are not part of UKOPS, but are included in the Jackpot deal as normal. There is a full week of MINI UKOPS coming up next week FWIW. Congrats on reaching the big three O......all down hill for you now I watched some of that FT last night. Yes, it was good to see so many good players on it. I would have liked to see Boris Becker on it but glad to see he min cashed anyway. Posted by MAXALLY
Few decent runs tonight but just felt short of making profit. I was doing well in the 7pm 22bh, got ITM with quite a few heads then had KK<AA for a pretty big stack to gg for about £55
No good in the 55 turbo bh, didn't get of to a great start and eventually gg'd with 55<AQ
Another good run in the other 22bh, that ended not far off the money with KK v QT on Q34hh Qo 2o with a few heads for £18.75
To add to the tilt, I found out afterwards from a mate that the person who bust me is actually someone who previously got banned on Sky and now shares his account with the guy who backs him. Extremely annoying when if I'd known who it was at the time it becomes an easy fold, but obv he's cheating and I have to play readless v him.
Really is infuriating when that 1 piece of information is the difference between a call or a fold at a tournament defining point.
Anyway, rant over. Birthday tomorrow, will be back some point after tomorrow.
If Paul has credible evidence that this is true, rather than hearsay, send me a PM with the details & I will ensure it is attended to by the right Suits.
We are not going to allow discussion on the Forum about alleged multi-accounting or account sharing. It's too dangerous, as it is often the case that innocent parties get their name blackened.
For all sorts of Compliance reasons, the outcome of these things cannot be discussed on the Forum, either. "Compliance" is a very serious matter these days, & Sky Poker are obliged by law to be compliant.
If you suspect any jiggery pokery, you can either;
Report it to Customer Care
Send me a PM, & I guarantee it will reach the right people for investigation.
Preferably Customer Care, but if you think they may not appreciate the gravity of it, contact me via PM please.
Any further discussion or posts about these matters on the Forum will be deleted. If you suspect foul play, you have a duty to report it, but not on the Forum please, it can so easily be misinterpreted, & innocent parties come under suspicion. 90% of such accusations are unproven or just not true, but we do need to catch the other 10%, so report it, but use the correct channels please.
I appreciate Sky has tough job here. How do you prove it with all the variuos techno gadgets , internet connections and things to hide IP addresses. . its put me off playing in the past
90% of such accusations are unproven I appreciate Sky has tough job here. How do you prove it with all the variuos techno gadgets , internet connections and things to hide IP addresses. . its put me off playing in the past Posted by MP33
Well they would not share that sort of info with you or me, as that would be self-defeating, so they are never going to come on Forum & say "this is how we detect or prove jiggery pokery". I think we can reasonably assume they have the tools to do the job though.
Some matters are simply impossible to prove. I'm not going to detail them, but it's not hard to work out that it's literally impossible to forensically prove some accusations. So in those cases, I guess they would use balance of probability, after weighing up all the available evidence, & speaking to all concerned, including the accuser & accused.
Many poker players think the accused should just be banned without any argument, but that's just ridiculous, & cannot happen in the real world. Imagine being on the wrong end of that, & being banned simply by hearsay when you are innocent?
The matters have to be thoroughly investigated, & "a mate told me" is simply not adequate evidence on it's own.
When you say it has put you off playing in the past, I think we need to keep a sense of perspective, & context. It's Online Poker, we are gambling for money, so here, & on every other gaming platform on earth there will always be a few wrong 'uns. They get banned, they get replaced, rinse repeat. Most of us could play an awful lot of poker here & never come into contact with a wrong 'un.
Every week, the number of Uniques (= different players) on this site is a tidy 5 digit number. It'd be remarkable if one or two did not try it on, but they all get caught eventually.
Hope that answers your questions, & re-assures anyone reading the thread. We do need to keep a sense of perspective here.
I'm very intrigued to see what I missed out on here... Dropped you a PM anyway Tikay. Posted by Lambert180
Hi Paul,
Well I daresay the tongues will be wagging, so you'll get to hear. Sky Poker just can't allow that sort of stuff on here, as it all gets messy & finger-pointy.
I have received the PM, & passed it on to the appropriate Suits without comment. That's the limit of my remit. I can assure you categorically that it will be properly investigated.
Had a few days off the poker cos we went out on Friday for my birthday and Saturday me and the family went out to a fireworks display but played a couple tonight and managed to get a FT under my belt. I ran pretty good from start to finish really, as we all do when we go deep in MTTs with 100s of runners, was really nice to have that feeling again of playing for decent amounts of money on a FT.
By the time we got 3 handed I managed to take the CL but it was very shallow by that point and the key hand was KJs<AQo which would have got me HU with a pretty big CL but couldn't win that last race, and bust shortly after. Ran very well to get there though so no complaints.
kalin689840001£852.80 + £235.27 Head Prizes7£66.30kawamattyz02£492 + £185.59 Head Prizes11 Lambert18003£298.48 + £101.27 Head Prizes8
I didn't really mention it on here but had a great birthday, just a quiet one with Emma but I'm an old man these days so that's how I like it. I got a new mobile phone from Emma (Samsung S6 Edge for those that care about the techy stuff), it's milesss better than my old brick, I love it, and I have been slightly hooked in by Pokemon Go (about 12 months after everyone else) now that I have a phone that can actually run it.
Emma also got me FF IX It's a game I've wanted to play for probably 15 years but never got round to buying myself. I loved FF VII and FF X, and felt a bit let down by FF XIII but yeah 9 is supposed to be one of the best by far. Only about 5hr in to it so far but really enjoying it. For anyone who knows the game, is there a character in something else that looks insanely similar to Vivi? I'm sure I recognise him/someone who looks vvv similar is in something really famous but have never played this game before.
I was at my mum's the weekend just gone, the first time I've been there since my birthday so got some belated pressies. Got lotsss of running paraphernalia as they know I've been getting in t it and probably didn't have a clue what else to get me. Amongst it all was a Garmin Forerunner 230, a very pricey activity tracker watch. It's something I don't feel like I could ever justify spending that much money on but it is really good.
Anyone else who has a Garmin feel free to add me (Paul Lambert). GaryQQQ, I took the liberty of guessing what your username might be on there after seeing you weren't on there by your real name so I've just sent you a friend request.
Request accepted. Those Garmin watches are great, the GPS tracking is very accurate in my experience, better than any smartphone. Though the built-in heart rate monitor in my Forerunner 225 is unreliable. You can see all my activities on Garmin Connect, but I use Strava as my main running diary, that's where I make all my notes. I have it set-up so that all my activities automaticly get sent from Garmin Connect to Strava.
Good to see you running well, in more ways than one
Hey Gary, how's it going? This is actually the first time I've seen your reply, I must have disappeared off the map before you had posted, and I aint been around for ages now. Yeah really loving the Garmin, tracking my sleep etc too. Emma loves all those kind of things and being able to look at stats so I got her something similar for xmas and she's really in to it.
Yeah slacked off the running over xmas tbh and did start again brielfy in the new year but the weather atm is just absolutely brutal here. I probably sound like a big girl, I don't mind going for a run when it's a bit cold, I'll get warmed up before long etc but recently it's just proper freezing and I just aint finding the 'get up and go' to brave those conditions.
Do you just power through? I reckon I must have poor circulation or something because I always suffer with really cold extremities.
Hello again everyone, hope you all had a great Christmas and new year. Anything interesting been going on while I've been away? Sky got any trips abroad planned anytime soon? Are they doing Vegas again this year?
I've been dipping my toe back in the poker waters the last few days, just a few DYMs. Otherwise things are going pretty well, still smashing it with the sports betting, things are up and down with Lily but that's nothing new really.
And Nevaeh, my daughter in Liverpool, has been asking for me to take her to an Everton game for ages so I got her some tickets for our FA Cup 3rd round game v Leicester last week - http://tinypic.com/r/fddh13/9
I'd put off taking her to a game when she was a bit younger cos I thought the idea of going might be a lot better than the reality of sitting there in the cold for 2hr watching footy, I thought she might get bored etc but she absolutely loved it and was already planning what match we were gonna go see next before this one was over. Shame her first game was us losing, and it was a pretty annoying game to lose, we battered them all first half, the ball barely left their half but we just couldn't score. We finally score early into the 2nd half and within 10 mins we're 2-1 down due to 2 bits of sloppy defending. That aside though, it was a great day out. It's been ~20 years since I've been to Goodison and back then I wasn't overly thrilled at watching a footy match but I loved it now.
It seems I won't be dropping you a PM, at least not today anyway. Sky's PM system doesn't seem to be working for me atm, it always has been a bit temperamental.
If you wanna PM me your email address I could reply to you, if not I'll give it a go sending a PM on here another day.
P.S. Cracking win for Everton today
Shame Man Utd couldn't get the full 3 points too. I think I've mentioned it in here before but possibly not. I had a bet with JJ/Dohhh I think about 2-3 games into the season that Spurs would finish above Liverpool (for a tenner) and the same bet again for another tenner but that Utd would finish above Liverpool.
I can't remember exactly when we did the bet but all 3 teams had got off to a pretty good start by the point the bet was made (although Pool had been beaten by Burnley). Obviouslyyyyy as soon as we placed the bet Liverpool started hammering teams 4-5 nil every week and Utd totally lost the ability to win a game, but thankfully Liverpool have had a few slip ups over the last couple of months and Spurs/Utd have been pretty much non stop winning so it's gone from me thinking it was gg both bets to very much in the running. So a win for Utd today would have been great for me, but a draw still keeps Spurs on top of Liverpool and keeps Utd within catching distance.
Been having a little muck about on the DYMs the last week or so. Nothing major, just sat 4tabling on the laptop while watching TV. Doing alright at them so far
While I was skoping myself for that graph, I spotted a star that I didn't even know I had. Apparently I had the 19th best average profit in the world in 2016 at DYMs over a 100 game patch. Just a smidge behind the sicko Timmy.
I agreed a good few months ago now to do a half marathon with JJ but we never set a date/specific race but tonight we agreed to do one with Pingu in his hometown of Swindon. Registration opens on 1st Feb so we're all gonna get signed up for that... I think it's in September so plenty of time to get myself sorted/ready.
Been having a little muck about on the DYMs the last week or so. Nothing major, just sat 4tabling on the laptop while watching TV. Doing alright at them so far http://tinypic.com/r/343radx/9 While I was skoping myself for that graph, I spotted a star that I didn't even know I had. Apparently I had the 19th best average profit in the world in 2016 at DYMs over a 100 game patch. Just a smidge behind the sicko Timmy. http://tinypic.com/r/i52f6a/9 I agreed a good few months ago now to do a half marathon with JJ but we never set a date/specific race but tonight we agreed to do one with Pingu in his hometown of Swindon. Registration opens on 1st Feb so we're all gonna get signed up for that... I think it's in September so plenty of time to get myself sorted/ready. Posted by Lambert180
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Really is infuriating when that 1 piece of information is the difference between a call or a fold at a tournament defining point.
If Paul has credible evidence that this is true, rather than hearsay, send me a PM with the details & I will ensure it is attended to by the right Suits.
Guys,
We are not going to allow discussion on the Forum about alleged multi-accounting or account sharing. It's too dangerous, as it is often the case that innocent parties get their name blackened.
For all sorts of Compliance reasons, the outcome of these things cannot be discussed on the Forum, either. "Compliance" is a very serious matter these days, & Sky Poker are obliged by law to be compliant.
If you suspect any jiggery pokery, you can either;
Report it to Customer Care
Send me a PM, & I guarantee it will reach the right people for investigation.
Preferably Customer Care, but if you think they may not appreciate the gravity of it, contact me via PM please.
Any further discussion or posts about these matters on the Forum will be deleted. If you suspect foul play, you have a duty to report it, but not on the Forum please, it can so easily be misinterpreted, & innocent parties come under suspicion. 90% of such accusations are unproven or just not true, but we do need to catch the other 10%, so report it, but use the correct channels please.
Thanks.
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If anyone has suspicions or allegations about foul play, please report it to Sky Poker via Customer Care. It's that simple.
Some matters are simply impossible to prove. I'm not going to detail them, but it's not hard to work out that it's literally impossible to forensically prove some accusations. So in those cases, I guess they would use balance of probability, after weighing up all the available evidence, & speaking to all concerned, including the accuser & accused.
Many poker players think the accused should just be banned without any argument, but that's just ridiculous, & cannot happen in the real world. Imagine being on the wrong end of that, & being banned simply by hearsay when you are innocent?
The matters have to be thoroughly investigated, & "a mate told me" is simply not adequate evidence on it's own.
When you say it has put you off playing in the past, I think we need to keep a sense of perspective, & context. It's Online Poker, we are gambling for money, so here, & on every other gaming platform on earth there will always be a few wrong 'uns. They get banned, they get replaced, rinse repeat. Most of us could play an awful lot of poker here & never come into contact with a wrong 'un.
Every week, the number of Uniques (= different players) on this site is a tidy 5 digit number. It'd be remarkable if one or two did not try it on, but they all get caught eventually.
Hope that answers your questions, & re-assures anyone reading the thread. We do need to keep a sense of perspective here.
Well I daresay the tongues will be wagging, so you'll get to hear. Sky Poker just can't allow that sort of stuff on here, as it all gets messy & finger-pointy.
I have received the PM, & passed it on to the appropriate Suits without comment. That's the limit of my remit. I can assure you categorically that it will be properly investigated.
I didn't really mention it on here but had a great birthday, just a quiet one with Emma but I'm an old man these days so that's how I like it. I got a new mobile phone from Emma (Samsung S6 Edge for those that care about the techy stuff), it's milesss better than my old brick, I love it, and I have been slightly hooked in by Pokemon Go (about 12 months after everyone else) now that I have a phone that can actually run it.
Yeah slacked off the running over xmas tbh and did start again brielfy in the new year but the weather atm is just absolutely brutal here. I probably sound like a big girl, I don't mind going for a run when it's a bit cold, I'll get warmed up before long etc but recently it's just proper freezing and I just aint finding the 'get up and go' to brave those conditions.
I've set Leah, our youngest, on the right path when it comes to a footy team - http://tinypic.com/r/okwufo/9
I'd put off taking her to a game when she was a bit younger cos I thought the idea of going might be a lot better than the reality of sitting there in the cold for 2hr watching footy, I thought she might get bored etc but she absolutely loved it and was already planning what match we were gonna go see next before this one was over. Shame her first game was us losing, and it was a pretty annoying game to lose, we battered them all first half, the ball barely left their half but we just couldn't score. We finally score early into the 2nd half and within 10 mins we're 2-1 down due to 2 bits of sloppy defending. That aside though, it was a great day out. It's been ~20 years since I've been to Goodison and back then I wasn't overly thrilled at watching a footy match but I loved it now.
Catch me if you can Lambert