The last time I played that tournament I'm sad to say a deal was done to chop the money up eight ways. We each took £550 because the chip leader had 13BB and the shorty had 9BB... I think it's a signal of a poor structure if that's possible. With so much money on the line, it was a shame to have the skill removed from the final table. I always run well, even when my AA is cracked by 95o as it was last night. lol To be fair, I binked a second in the Take on Tikay last night and have trebled my Sky Poker roll in the last three days. No complaints from me. I would like to thank you for your kind words last Tuesday on the show. I hope you're running well too. Posted by BorinLoner
Hmmmm here's a Q, Obv the venues would have the structure aimed to fit a certain time period, but if the players wanted would any venues ever roll back a few blind levels for customer satisfaction???
Being a blue, i couldn't watch last night so taped the progs and must say that Redmund and Neil Channing were brilliant and had such a good rapport...there's so much to learn from them in nice bite-size chunks too. loved the shove stuff. Anyway, the reason i couldn't watch was because Everton were in FA cup quarter V Sunderland. I thought i'd have a go at a BH before and was doig quite well until my KK ran into AA ai. C'est la vie. So i concentrated o the match which was lovely jubbly and then had another BH. Can you guess.... Yessss!! I was dealt KK with a chap at the table who had gone AI on each of the last three hands being called on one with 56c and sucking out(not short-stacked...maybe he had somewhere to go?) As you've no doubt guessed he had AA and won. Funnily, i was so high from Everton's win i just laughed and thought to myself that i was owed a coupleof suck outs by the poker gods/variance now...wished everyone well in the rest of the T and bade my farewell. I felt good and my cup was certainly half full....not half empty. Poker can make you laugh even at a bad beat. Take my word for it....All the best Tikay. ive watched the whole nightssky poker tv now and they were all great ...ive noted those tips down on a diagram to scan ten mins before playing. Top tip in my book was not looking for the min cash...give yourself a chance to win it! Love it!
For Mr Borin. In case you missed last night's shambles of a Show (lucky you....) the details on that Omaha book, which I showed to camera, are as follows...... "Pot Limit Omaha Poker" ("The Big Play Strategy") Author - Jeff Hwang. Published by KensingtonBooks.com ISBN # -13:978-0-8184--0726-0 ISBN # 10:0-8184-0726-3 Posted by Tikay10
Thank you Mr. Kendall, I did see the show and I've already ordered the book from a rainforest based online bookstore. It'll be nice to be able to donk off money in an entirely new game.
The show was hardly a shambles. Shame those work experience lads you had with you on the sofa were so quiet...
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : Thank you Mr. Kendall, I did see the show and I've already ordered the book from a rainforest based online bookstore. It'll be nice to be able to donk off money in an entirely new game. The show was hardly a shambles. Shame those work experience lads you had with you on the sofa were so quiet... Posted by BorinLoner
Me too, get it tomorrow. Thanks for the info, Tikay.
The 2 finalists in the HU comp this time round are Poker_Fail and IDONKCALLU. The latter of these has told me he won't be able to play the Thews @ Ten for a few weeks, so I guess I'll just have to let you know when they tell me they are able to play.
So I can give hyou plenty of notice, is there particular days of the week you check this thread and how early would you need to know to get them in for the Tuesday?
I check it several times every day, if anything time-sensitive is on it, I try to deal with it immediately, otherwise I just cruise the forum damping down & trying to extinguish fires.....
If you let me know before Noon on most days, the Free Entries can usually be sorted for that evening, unless, (very rarely), I am offline that day.
I check it several times every day, if anything time-sensitive is on it, I try to deal with it immediately, otherwise I just cruise the forum damping down & trying to extinguish fires..... If you let me know before Noon on most days, the Free Entries can usually be sorted for that evening, unless, (very rarely), I am offline that day. Afternoons, not so much. Posted by Tikay10
Cheers for the speedy response Tikay.
So yeah, I just missed out on a cash in the Thews @ Ten but I won free entry to the 12k BH on 865 the other night, so that's the one I'm gonna bink
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : If you want to be a long-term success it as absolutely paramount. To put it in simple terms, imagine you were Phil Ivey (arguably the best player in the world), if he chooses to play 100NL and only has 10 Buy-ins, he might get off to a good start build up his roll a bit and never look back, but on the other hand, he could VERY easily have a bad day and lose his entire roll in 1 session, and he's the best player in the world (arguably). No matter how good you are, no-one can beat plain old variance all the time, so if you don't give yourself enough of a BR to take the downswings, you will go busto, FACT. EDIT: If you can't beat 10NL, then there's something major missing in your game that will hold you back at 50NL (regardless of how your short term results are). All the regs who make a living at 50NL+ would completely crush 4NL - 10NL, so if you can't there's something missing, you're not adapting enough etc. Posted by Lambert180
its not that i cant beat 10nl its just too slow for me why play at a level where il make x amount of money or play at another level i can also beat and make upto 5 times that amount thats what i think your missing.
hi there tikay how u doing hope your well just a quick question i`m sure someone on forum has already asked this question but the question is.
if the tsp qualifier for top 30 each format stts,mtts and cash have been put on hold what is in place if anything gets put in place is it goin back to the old ways money for what position u finish in the league etc
also i`m only asking not moaning about this at all because I know sky do offer a lot of promotions which are great but if you dont ask you dont get lol.
hi there tikay how u doing hope your well just a quick question i`m sure someone on forum has already asked this question but the question is. if the tsp qualifier for top 30 each format stts,mtts and cash have been put on hold what is in place if anything gets put in place is it goin back to the old ways money for what position u finish in the league etc also i`m only asking not moaning about this at all because I know sky do offer a lot of promotions which are great but if you dont ask you dont get lol. Posted by liamboi11
Morning Liam.
Yes, I'm abso grand thank you, all is good, hope it is the same with you.
As to your main question.....
Yes, TSP is being rested for a quarter or two, for a variety of reasons really. It became very resource heavy, & more & more difficult for the small staff here to support all the Guys at the various Live Events they played. We were not happy with that, we want that the Members get full support & really make the most of their 3 months in the Team.
We did it properly for the last "outing" at Walssall - Live Updates, photos, filmed interviews, a TV Show, and that was, we believe, exactly as it should be, all the chaps had a grand time.
Now it's nearly Summer. Traffic dips a bit, various staff have holidays, some may go to Vegas to support the Viva Las Vegas qualifiers etc, so resources are even thinner.
Plans are in hand to do something similar to TSP in the Autumn. It will not be the same, but the same sort of thing, if you get my drift.....
We also liked the "mass outing" of all the TSP-ers at Walsall, so we wil be working along those lines in future, so we can support & report on the players better.
It's unlikely however - VERY unlikely - that we will be entering our players in the GUKPT Series any more. We have something different, & better, in mind, & at venue(s) where we can better support our players, & where they get better playing conditions & ambience.
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : Morning Liam. Yes, I'm abso grand thank you, all is good, hope it is the same with you. As to your main question..... Yes, TSP is being rested for a quarter or two, for a variety of reasons really. It became very resource heavy, & more & more difficult for the small staff here to support all the Guys at the various Live Events they played. We were not happy with that, we want that the Members get full support & really make the most of their 3 months in the Team. We did it properly for the last "outing" at Walssall - Live Updates, photos, filmed interviews, a TV Show, and that was, we believe, exactly as it should be, all the chaps had a grand time. Now it's nearly Summer. Traffic dips a bit, various staff have holidays, some may go to Vegas to support the Viva Las Vegas qualifiers etc, so resources are even thinner. Plans are in hand to do something similar to TSP in the Autumn. It will not be the same, but the same sort of thing, if you get my drift..... We also liked the "mass outing" of all the TSP-ers at Walsall, so we wil be working along those lines in future, so we can support & report on the players better. It's unlikely however - VERY unlikely - that we will be entering our players in the GUKPT Series any more. We have something different, & better, in mind, & at venue(s) where we can better support our players, & where they get better playing conditions & ambience. Posted by Tikay10
thanks for replying back to me tikay and just to give an idea instead of entering players in the gukpt`s for tsp or what yous do decide to change it promotion to in autumm what about the ukipt`s instead not as exspensive probably bigger fields and also ukipts are huge now and on tv every week so good way of advertising sky also not taking anything away from gukpt just imo ukipts are bigger now.
If you look on the previous page of this thread Donk, you'll see mine and Tikay's conversation where he set out the timelines he'd need to be able to get you and basically, unless he says otherwise very shortly, it's too short notice to get you in tonight, so if you're available next week (10th April) then I'm sure he can get you in for that one.
Thanks for the advice last night on the Q9 hand it has all been taken on board and TY.
I hate to say it but the show was great and James was first class.i will pop along to Cardiff to see you chaps. should be a great weekend. off to play DTD 150 on Friday and APAT Saturday.
Thanks for the advice last night on the Q9 hand it has all been taken on board and TY. I hate to say it but the show was great and James was first class.i will pop along to Cardiff to see you chaps. should be a great weekend. off to play DTD 150 on Friday and APAT Saturday. keep up the good work and keep well Dai Posted by DAIBOOT
Thanks Dai.
Fluushy seems to be able to explain things so well, I thought he was an incredible Guest.
The Q-9 hand was such an excellent example, too, proving that the first, & initial play (the pre-flop call, oop) was the REAL mistake. After that, everything played out correctly, "what will be will be" sorta thing.
I've always strongly believed that too - almost everything that goes wrong - in life, as well as poker, starts with an innocuous looking minor mistake.
Sadly, in many cases, especially when a player loses a hand, they look for excuses - the other player was an "idiot", the software caused it, Sky Poker are to blame, da de da.
There is no better way of learning than...
a) Losing
b) Looking at ourselves, not others, for the reason.
Hope to see you in Cardiff, big man. Fingers crossed Dyl will be there, too. I will have lost 2 stone (since SPT Brighton) by then, I'm so gonna stand next to Dylan to "large him up"......
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : For you, him, or both of you? Posted by Tikay10
IDONK definitely wants to play next Tuesday (10th April) and I'm still trying to chase down Poker_Fail about when he wants to play. So if you could put IDONK in for next weeks Thews @ Ten and I'll get back to you as soon as I know more about Poker_Fail
Ty for the advice the other day and i agree with both you and diaboot that james was a very good guest and very good at getting his point across.
Just to let you know that i have now discovered mini view and have been playing 6-7 tables today with relative ease although i have dropped down to 10p/20p and 15p/30p tables until i get used to it altogether as sitting v the likes of scotty and tommyd etc etc didnt seem a very good idea while trying to get used to multitabling at the same time
I am in general though a very fast learner and expect to be on those tables again within a week or 2 although i dont expect to be as successful as those 2 for a long time to come.
Spent alot of my time today making notes and watching some of the good players in action and even entered the main event until 1 major mistake by me led to my exit but its all a learning process and hopefully i wont be making the same mistake again
I remember some time ago the channel used to televise a tournament every week called the TSP classic or something like that and i was looking through the lobby but couldnt see it and was wondering does it still run ?
Btw i didnt get back to you when you asked why i had named myself ARAZI but James got the answer mostly right that i had a bet on it when it won the breeders cup juvenile of 1991 but that wasnt the full reason and if you watch the race itself on youtube you will prob realise that the other part of the reason it stuck in my mind for so long was the absolutely astounding way that it won the race, in 25 years of betting on horses i have never and prob will never see a horse beat a field of grade 1 opposition in the way ARAZI did then.
Anyways thanks again for the advice and i will no doubt be asking you for some more in future
Comments
Just a feel good thread as requested....
Being a blue, i couldn't watch last night so taped the progs and must say that Redmund and Neil Channing were brilliant and had such a good rapport...there's so much to learn from them in nice bite-size chunks too. loved the shove stuff.
Anyway, the reason i couldn't watch was because Everton were in FA cup quarter V Sunderland. I thought i'd have a go at a BH before and was doig quite well until my KK ran into AA ai. C'est la vie. So i concentrated o the match which was lovely jubbly and then had another BH. Can you guess....
Yessss!! I was dealt KK with a chap at the table who had gone AI on each of the last three hands being called on one with 56c and sucking out(not short-stacked...maybe he had somewhere to go?) As you've no doubt guessed he had AA and won. Funnily, i was so high from Everton's win i just laughed and thought to myself that i was owed a coupleof suck outs by the poker gods/variance now...wished everyone well in the rest of the T and bade my farewell.
I felt good and my cup was certainly half full....not half empty. Poker can make you laugh even at a bad beat. Take my word for it....All the best Tikay. ive watched the whole nightssky poker tv now and they were all great ...ive noted those tips down on a diagram to scan ten mins before playing.
Top tip in my book was not looking for the min cash...give yourself a chance to win it! Love it!
The show was hardly a shambles. Shame those work experience lads you had with you on the sofa were so quiet...
The 2 finalists in the HU comp this time round are Poker_Fail and IDONKCALLU. The latter of these has told me he won't be able to play the Thews @ Ten for a few weeks, so I guess I'll just have to let you know when they tell me they are able to play.
So I can give hyou plenty of notice, is there particular days of the week you check this thread and how early would you need to know to get them in for the Tuesday?
I check it several times every day, if anything time-sensitive is on it, I try to deal with it immediately, otherwise I just cruise the forum damping down & trying to extinguish fires.....
If you let me know before Noon on most days, the Free Entries can usually be sorted for that evening, unless, (very rarely), I am offline that day.
Afternoons, not so much.
So yeah, I just missed out on a cash in the Thews @ Ten but I won free entry to the 12k BH on 865 the other night, so that's the one I'm gonna bink
if the tsp qualifier for top 30 each format stts,mtts and cash have been put on hold what is in place if anything gets put in place is it goin back to the old ways money for what position u finish in the league etc
also i`m only asking not moaning about this at all because I know sky do offer a lot of promotions which are great but if you dont ask you dont get lol.
Yes, I'm abso grand thank you, all is good, hope it is the same with you.
As to your main question.....
Yes, TSP is being rested for a quarter or two, for a variety of reasons really. It became very resource heavy, & more & more difficult for the small staff here to support all the Guys at the various Live Events they played. We were not happy with that, we want that the Members get full support & really make the most of their 3 months in the Team.
We did it properly for the last "outing" at Walssall - Live Updates, photos, filmed interviews, a TV Show, and that was, we believe, exactly as it should be, all the chaps had a grand time.
Now it's nearly Summer. Traffic dips a bit, various staff have holidays, some may go to Vegas to support the Viva Las Vegas qualifiers etc, so resources are even thinner.
Plans are in hand to do something similar to TSP in the Autumn. It will not be the same, but the same sort of thing, if you get my drift.....
We also liked the "mass outing" of all the TSP-ers at Walsall, so we wil be working along those lines in future, so we can support & report on the players better.
It's unlikely however - VERY unlikely - that we will be entering our players in the GUKPT Series any more. We have something different, & better, in mind, & at venue(s) where we can better support our players, & where they get better playing conditions & ambience.
but just an idea take care
liamboi11
I have been offline all afternoon, and am now prepping for tonight's Show, so the "free" Thews @ Ten entries will NOT be tonight, I'm afraid.
As I stated yesterday, as long as I know by Midday any day, I can arrange something for the same evening. After midday, not so much.
If you both let me know in time (before Midday NEXT Tuesday, or ANY Tuesday), I will arrange for your Free Entries as appropriate.
Fluushy seems to be able to explain things so well, I thought he was an incredible Guest.
The Q-9 hand was such an excellent example, too, proving that the first, & initial play (the pre-flop call, oop) was the REAL mistake. After that, everything played out correctly, "what will be will be" sorta thing.
I've always strongly believed that too - almost everything that goes wrong - in life, as well as poker, starts with an innocuous looking minor mistake.
Sadly, in many cases, especially when a player loses a hand, they look for excuses - the other player was an "idiot", the software caused it, Sky Poker are to blame, da de da.
There is no better way of learning than...
a) Losing
b) Looking at ourselves, not others, for the reason.
Hope to see you in Cardiff, big man. Fingers crossed Dyl will be there, too. I will have lost 2 stone (since SPT Brighton) by then, I'm so gonna stand next to Dylan to "large him up"......
Ty for the advice the other day and i agree with both you and diaboot that james was a very good guest and very good at getting his point across.
Just to let you know that i have now discovered mini view and have been playing 6-7 tables today with relative ease although i have dropped down to 10p/20p and 15p/30p tables until i get used to it altogether as sitting v the likes of scotty and tommyd etc etc didnt seem a very good idea while trying to get used to multitabling at the same time
I am in general though a very fast learner and expect to be on those tables again within a week or 2 although i dont expect to be as successful as those 2 for a long time to come.
Spent alot of my time today making notes and watching some of the good players in action and even entered the main event until 1 major mistake by me led to my exit but its all a learning process and hopefully i wont be making the same mistake again
I remember some time ago the channel used to televise a tournament every week called the TSP classic or something like that and i was looking through the lobby but couldnt see it and was wondering does it still run ?
Btw i didnt get back to you when you asked why i had named myself ARAZI but James got the answer mostly right that i had a bet on it when it won the breeders cup juvenile of 1991 but that wasnt the full reason and if you watch the race itself on youtube you will prob realise that the other part of the reason it stuck in my mind for so long was the absolutely astounding way that it won the race, in 25 years of betting on horses i have never and prob will never see a horse beat a field of grade 1 opposition in the way ARAZI did then.
Anyways thanks again for the advice and i will no doubt be asking you for some more in future
Daz.
Blah blah now found answer here thanks
https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby?action=show_static&page=poker_community_forums&plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plckDiscussionId=Cat%3a57795ac2-1793-4377-b4cf-e124b0f555f4Forum%3adf77f82c-151f-4bea-aae1-fb423dcae1faDiscussion%3a7f1ae9ec-39bf-4946-acaa-655aa1ae9caa
Thanks
Solack
How on earth do you keep up with this thread?