Correct Dyl. He lives in the Shetlands, & departs on Wednesday, & arrives on Saturday. For a 1 day Event. He then sets off home on Sunday, & arrives back in the Shetlands on Wednesday!
He has a lovely Daughter, too. Or it may be his wife.....either way, very beautiful.
I was studying the Wiki Page on the Shetlands recently, see....
Correct Dyl. He lives in the Shetlands, & departs on Wednesday, & arrives on Saturday. For a 1 day Event. He then sets off home on Sunday, & arrives back in the Shetlands on Wednesday! He has a lovely Daughter, too. Or it may be his wife.....either way, very beautiful. I was studying the Wiki Page on the Shetlands recently, see.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shetland_Isles This is interesting, too.... http://sumburgh.airport-information.co.uk/ Posted by Tikay10
Thanks Tony.....been a long time since I felt able to play poker with conviction due to the lose of some very close family members, poker is more than play as you see....you have to feel relaxed and able to concentrate.
Daughter says thanks.....lol
A lot of valuable friends on SKY that we have not been able to say "Hi" to for far to long....see you all soon.
Just started on this site but have noticed people are donk betting in to me alot ie the feeler bet out of position. I thought this play was dead but seems to be very common. Should the feeler bet be consigned to history or does it have a place in the game. Puffyt
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : Thanks Tony.....been a long time since I felt able to play poker with conviction due to the lose of some very close family members, poker is more than play as you see....you have to feel relaxed and able to concentrate. Daughter says thanks.....lol A lot of valuable friends on SKY that we have not been able to say "Hi" to for far to long....see you all soon. Cheers Tony Posted by Hjaltland
That's terrible, & explains your absence. Very sorry to hear of your losses, Colin.
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay?: [QUOTE]Just started on this site but have noticed people are donk betting in to me alot ie the feeler bet out of position. I thought this play was dead but seems to be very common. Should the feeler bet be consigned to history or does it have a place in the game. Puffyt Posted by puffyt1
Poker is one of those things where styles of play come & go, are sort of fashionable.
There is no good reason why any form of bet should or should not be used, whatever floats peeps boat is fine.
Sadly, youngsters are very impressionable, & they see the Hotpots 4 & 5 betting, or triple range merging & all that stuff & nonsense, & so they follow. Trouble is, they have no idea what they are doing. Players should do what they know best, not follow others. I really don't have any issues with what you call "donk betting", though I admit to loathing the very name.
One year we lead with our big hands, the next year we trap. What goes round comes round.....
Marcel Luske sort of invented 2 things - "checking in the dark", & upside down shades. Within months, erveryone was copying him. I doubt as single one of them understood the reason for either.....kids just like to be dedicated followers of fashion.
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : Yes, it does. I think that's a little unfair on the call Centre staff, to be honest. They have a very wide brief, with demanding targets & KPI's, (which they meet or exceed regularly), & they DO know & understand poker. Be it in poker, or any other line of busines, Call-Centre staff are an easy target for peeps to complain about, & they seem about as popular as Traffic Wardens, Estate Agents, & even Accountants..... Pretty unfair, imo, but a reflection on our current society & attitudes I guess. Many congrats on winning the seat. Is it just you, or are the rest of the band playing, too? MMMBop, that was a Post from The Middle of Nowhere....... More excitingly, I suppose, Hanson also own these people. Fascinating stuff, any questions, fire away..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_London_Brick_Company Posted by Tikay10
hi again firstly my apologies about the call center staff there was no intention to put them down was haveing bad day and could not seem to get them to understand what it was i wanted to know ty for confirming my ? while i got your attention on a lighter note when i signed up to sky poker and was asked for player name the first name i thought off was written on a lorry at a building site HANSON LTD oh how i now regret it lol once again sry
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : hi again firstly my apologies about the call center staff there was no intention to put them down was haveing bad day and could not seem to get them to understand what it was i wanted to know ty for confirming my ? while i got your attention on a lighter note when i signed up to sky poker and was asked for player name the first name i thought off was written on a lorry at a building site HANSON LTD oh how i now regret it lol once again sry Posted by HANSON
Yer Hanson ! leave call centre staff olone (as I am one) .... can't wait for the weekend C'MON!
I just thought i would post a valedictory message, that after the glorious total of 2 months on skypoker i have blown my entire bankroll. I stand as an exampole to others not to play above your means, i was duking it out on tables with lots of great players and huge pots, despite some initial successes the general trend was downward, and finally tonight i was all in and the cards fell for the other bloke. I've managed to lose a considerable amount of money (for me anyway) by playing a game that ienjoy and thought was just a laugh, i played it too much and and too hard, and i have paid the consequences, none of thsi is anyones fault but my own, i just wanted to put this message up as a cautionary tale for other people who enjoy playing poker, please don't let yourself get carried away by it, and end up broke like i did, play it for affordable amounts, dont run before you walk, and above all play it so you can enjoy it. Sorry this is a bit of a down post but i thought it was a worthwhile one. Andrew
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : Yer Hanson ! leave call centre staff olone (as I am one) .... can't wait for the weekend C'MON! Posted by grantos888
hi grantos did u get booked in the travel lodge i mentioned if so i will be there about 5ish on friday 28th i will buy u a beer at the bar im going to DTD that evening for the £50 tourney if your interested we could share taxi there if not theres a beer for u as a appology i already no theres a spelling mistake lol
hi tikay , i am wanting to join team 51 and dont no how, players have told me to come on the forum page but cant seem to find it, anychance of sorting out for me,, i am a pritty good player, i mostly ply in sit n gos, and win alot of the time, so think mite be good enoght for the teamm ,, be nice to hear back thanks craig47In Response to Re: Ask Tikay?:
Oooh! No, in fact, I never did - I clean forgot. If you direct me to what Thread it was on, I'll be happy to continue with my "discrete" reply. I was enjoying that Thread, but I do get a bit busy & forget things. I'll not be able to reply until Monday though, as I'm at SPT all day tomorrow, & through to the early hours of Sunday, then I gotta drive down to London, groan. An "Ask tikay" Thread? I suppose I should not say this, but I'd actually love that, as long as it was not restricted solely to Poker, & could be about anything. Posted by Tikay10
hi tikay , i am wanting to join team 51 and dont no how, players have told me to come on the forum page but cant seem to find it, anychance of sorting out for me,, i am a pritty good player, i mostly ply in sit n gos, and win alot of the time, so think mite be good enoght for the teamm ,, be nice to hear back thanks craig47In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : Posted by craig47
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : hi again firstly my apologies about the call center staff there was no intention to put them down was haveing bad day and could not seem to get them to understand what it was i wanted to know ty for confirming my ? while i got your attention on a lighter note when i signed up to sky poker and was asked for player name the first name i thought off was written on a lorry at a building site HANSON LTD oh how i now regret it lol once again sry Posted by HANSON[/QUOTE]
No worries, Sir, my mini-rant was not aimed at you as such, I just have a bee in my bonnet about all the stick that Call-Centre staff get the world over.
I'm not just talking Sky Poker, which is in fact a SB&G Call Centre, so far more than Poker is involved. The Staff have to learn so much stuff, all of which is fast-moving, & changes from time to time, & dealing with poker players or punters who are all het up & impatient can't be easy. A poker player will happily make a marginal call for 6xBB, but if he discons for 30 seconds, you'd think the world had ended.
It's ALL Call-centre staff, in all companies, they are such an easy target for the moaning whinnies, who have the cheek & temerity to Post up on Forums & Blogs complete C & P conversations with Call Centre Staff which are intended to be PRIVATE, & to which the Call-Centre Staff are defenceless, & can't defend themselves. Imagine if the boot were on the other foot, & the Call-Centres published convos with angry, shouty, irrational punters.....
I went & "inspected" a Call-centre last week, & it took me back a few years, because I set my own Call-Centre up 25 years or more ago, & the similarities were amazing.
The job pays barely minimym wage, & is mostly kids starting out in their working life, youngsters, wet behind the ears, trying to please. It's not easy, but they get universally slated. It's just wrong. People seem to have so little tolerance to the problems of others, are happy to accuse, but slow to apologise.
And...breathe!
Named after a Hanson Industries Brick Lorry? Nothing wrong with that, mate! Hanson was founded by two guys, Lord Hanson, & Gordon White, in the early sixties, & truly changed the face of British Industry, painfully for some, but wholly for the better. They also owned what is now Imperial Tobacco.
The neatest trick they ever did though was with what used to be called "London Brick Company, or "LBC". They traded under the brand name "Phorpes Bricks".
Bricks are made mainly of clay, & fletton bricks, which LBC did, of a special sort of clay found mainly in Bedfordshire & the Fens. It was cheap, effectively, just buy some land with the right sort of clay, & excavate the clay to make the bricks. Easy-peasy. Dig the clay, form it into a brick shaped mould, bake it in a furnace, deliver it in a lovely lorry, get paid for the bricks, job done.
Except, do that long enough, & you have a MONSTA hole in the ground. Many of these monsta holes can still be seen from the East Coast Main Line around Peterborough & Sandy.
So, Hanson came up with a whizz breeze for making money. London was runing out of "Landfill" sites, where domestic rubbish needed to be dumped. (This was pre the big incinerators).
So he allowed Councils to deposit domestic rubbish into his monsta & useless holes in the ground, & charged them £40 or £50 per lorry load to tip their waste into his empty holes. MBN. Within a few years, his hole was full, & he has earned £50 or £60 milion by charging Councils to fill it for him. So now he has earned money TWICE out of the same plot of land. Neat trick that, eh?
But now comes the really clever bit. Now he sells the freshly reclaimed land for housing developments.......some provision had to be made for methane venting - rubbish degrades & produces methane - but he made that the buyers burden. Now he has earned money from that plot of land THREE times.
And from that sort of stroke, Hanson Industries was built. The name Hanson? Be proud!
dont you think sky poker is like a fruit machine. i dont think you will. i have played a lot of sites but sky is the worst. Posted by lookiriver
Sorry to hear you don't enjoy it here looki, but we all have the freedom to play anywhere we so wish, & that includes you, & nobody is forced to play here.
Up until a few weeks ago, under the description for the Thursday, Saturday and Sunday shows it also listed who was hosting them. That practice appears to have stopped.
Is there a reason why, and, do Sky intend to reintroduce it?
Hi Tikay Hope you are keeping well. There is a page just off the home page of sky poker, that lists this weeks shows. I think its here https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby/tv-schedule?tracking=pokertosp_sched Up until a few weeks ago, under the description for the Thursday, Saturday and Sunday shows it also listed who was hosting them. That practice appears to have stopped. Is there a reason why, and, do Sky intend to reintroduce it? Thanks in advance Pen Fifteen Posted by PenFifteen
Hi
No idea why this has stopped, but I chase the relevant department. The information can also be found on the TV section of the forum under Sky Poker TV - See what's on!
i have been playing on sky poker for a while now and cant help but see how many times the river hits the winning hand. now i know this does happen as i have been playing at the casino for a few years BUT this happens nearly every hand at sky. i have spoken to other players on here and they agree that this is the case. poker on sky is little more than bingo. i suspect that the randomiser on sky is geared up to pull in as much rake as they can from the cash games. i have got together with other players on here to look into taking this to the governing body to investigate sky and its misleading so called POKER site
i have been playing on sky poker for a while now and cant help but see how many times the river hits the winning hand. now i know this does happen as i have been playing at the casino for a few years BUT this happens nearly every hand at sky. i have spoken to other players on here and they agree that this is the case. poker on sky is little more than bingo. i suspect that the randomiser on sky is geared up to pull in as much rake as they can from the cash games. i have got together with other players on here to look into taking this to the governing body to investigate sky and its misleading so called POKER site Posted by darvy
Hi Darvy, good afternoon.
I would imagine that the River changes the winning hand at least 20% of the time - there being 5 Community cards, & all that, plus add-in the amount of times people are "drawing", so yes, the river changes the final result quite a lot. It does not - categorically NOT, happen "nearly every hand", which you state as a fact, so I'm afraid you'll need to come up with better, & more truthful evidence than that, because it is clearly untrue.
I'm not quite sure how you think the software is so clever that it could deliberaterly change the river card, or how you think it affects the amount of rake the site generates. There is a winner every single hand, one way or the other, so the rake gets generated whoever wins or loses.
Congrats, by the way, on winning those 3 DYM's yesterday & today. Can we assuume that the River Cards were kind to you on those occasions?
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : Hi Darvy, good afternoon. I would imagine that the River changes the winning hand at least 20% of the time - there being 5 Community cards, & all that, plus add-in the amount of times people are "drawing", so yes, the river changes the final result quite a lot . It does not - categorically NOT, happen "nearly every hand ", which you state as a fact, so I'm afraid you'll need to come up with better, & more truthful evidence than that, because it is clearly untrue. I'm not quite sure how you think the software is so clever that it could deliberaterly change the river card, or how you think it affects the amount of rake the site generates. There is a winner every single hand, one way or the other, so the rake gets generated whoever wins or loses. Congrats, by the way, on winning those 3 DYM's yesterday & today. Can we assuume that the River Cards were kind to you on those occasions? Posted by Tikay10
if the site encourages people to stay in the hand til the river obviously the rake gets bigger and yes the rivers were good to me in those DYM'S
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : if the site encourages people to stay in the hand til the river obviously the rake gets bigger and yes the rivers were good to me in those DYM'S Posted by darvy
Hi darvy
If you are talking about DYM,s, or MTT,s, then, no, the rake does not get bigger, if you are talking about cash, then people do call with wider holdings, and there are players who will not fold if they are on a draw either flush str8, or indeed both (depends how good players are), its just the way poker is, both live, and online, if you think of how many hands are dealt online, then there will be what seems to be more outdraws.
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Correct Dyl. He lives in the Shetlands, & departs on Wednesday, & arrives on Saturday. For a 1 day Event. He then sets off home on Sunday, & arrives back in the Shetlands on Wednesday!
He has a lovely Daughter, too. Or it may be his wife.....either way, very beautiful.
I was studying the Wiki Page on the Shetlands recently, see....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shetland_Isles
This is interesting, too....
http://sumburgh.airport-information.co.uk/
Daughter says thanks.....lol
A lot of valuable friends on SKY that we have not been able to say "Hi" to for far to long....see you all soon.
Cheers Tony
I thought this play was dead but seems to be very common. Should the feeler bet be consigned to history or does it have a place in the game.
Puffyt
Look forward to seeing you both soon, I hope.
[QUOTE]Just started on this site but have noticed people are donk betting in to me alot ie the feeler bet out of position. I thought this play was dead but seems to be very common. Should the feeler bet be consigned to history or does it have a place in the game. Puffyt
Posted by puffyt1
Poker is one of those things where styles of play come & go, are sort of fashionable.
There is no good reason why any form of bet should or should not be used, whatever floats peeps boat is fine.
Sadly, youngsters are very impressionable, & they see the Hotpots 4 & 5 betting, or triple range merging & all that stuff & nonsense, & so they follow. Trouble is, they have no idea what they are doing. Players should do what they know best, not follow others. I really don't have any issues with what you call "donk betting", though I admit to loathing the very name.
One year we lead with our big hands, the next year we trap. What goes round comes round.....
Marcel Luske sort of invented 2 things - "checking in the dark", & upside down shades. Within months, erveryone was copying him. I doubt as single one of them understood the reason for either.....kids just like to be dedicated followers of fashion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQAR-nx4w88
I do hope you are enjoying yourself back here at Sky Poker. We don't follow fashion here, fair to say.....
Andrew
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I wish you well, wherever you play.
Hope you are keeping well.
There is a page just off the home page of sky poker, that lists this weeks shows.
I think its here https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby/tv-schedule?tracking=pokertosp_sched
Up until a few weeks ago, under the description for the Thursday, Saturday and Sunday shows it also listed who was hosting them. That practice appears to have stopped.
Is there a reason why, and, do Sky intend to reintroduce it?
Thanks in advance
Pen Fifteen
No idea why this has stopped, but I chase the relevant department. The information can also be found on the TV section of the forum under Sky Poker TV - See what's on!
Thanks
I would imagine that the River changes the winning hand at least 20% of the time - there being 5 Community cards, & all that, plus add-in the amount of times people are "drawing", so yes, the river changes the final result quite a lot. It does not - categorically NOT, happen "nearly every hand", which you state as a fact, so I'm afraid you'll need to come up with better, & more truthful evidence than that, because it is clearly untrue.
I'm not quite sure how you think the software is so clever that it could deliberaterly change the river card, or how you think it affects the amount of rake the site generates. There is a winner every single hand, one way or the other, so the rake gets generated whoever wins or loses.
Congrats, by the way, on winning those 3 DYM's yesterday & today. Can we assuume that the River Cards were kind to you on those occasions?
If you are talking about DYM,s, or MTT,s, then, no, the rake does not get bigger, if you are talking about cash, then people do call with wider holdings, and there are players who will not fold if they are on a draw either flush str8, or indeed both (depends how good players are), its just the way poker is, both live, and online, if you think of how many hands are dealt online, then there will be what seems to be more outdraws.