good morning scouse red thanks 4 reply would like 2 play mondays dtd but i have work at nights. thank you 4 updating the league. In Response to Re: Ask Tikay?:
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : hi Rainman.....a fine example of the community at it's best that tourney. Ran so well by Mike (woogie), you say you find the advice useful with friendly players, could i suggest a couple of things, .... head over to the team talk section of the forum, have a look around and see if you fancy joining any of the teams, where you will get any help you need fgrom fellow teamies, if this isn't for you no worries. Also could I suggest you try the Forum DTD tournies every monday night ....iut's basically more of the same and all the regulars in the afternoon league play it, and believe me we will make you most welcome. Good Luck at the tables Posted by scouse_red
Mr K do you think you only get to be a better player by playing better players up the stakes as small stakes is pot luck ??????????????? Posted by MUTTZNUTZ
I know the general response will be win at your current level then move up,,,, but trying to be consistant at 2/4 nlh on here is more or less the same as playing zynga. The players & calls are getting loser by the day.
I find suceed more when i try the next level,,,, bu then again the hits are hard when they come
i just got a royal flush is there any competition where i can enter the hand into??? Posted by limrob10
Morning limrob.
Congratulations!
No, there are no Royal Flush "bonuses" here. You could win an £8,900 "bonus" if you won the Sky Poker JACKPOT though.
A "Royal" is pretty unusual in Hold 'Em, but much less so in Omaha.
We see them a fair bit in 4 card Omaha, simply because we are, in effect, playing 6 hands each time. In 6 card Omaha, (only played Live, not Online) where we have, I think, the equivelant of 15 "two card" hands, they are quite common.
I was playing 6 Card High Omaha recently, & I flopped a royal, & tried to trap my opponent. He eventually folded QUADS to me, because he knew that a Royal was the only hand I could have, as played.
Mr K do you think you only get to be a better player by playing better players up the stakes as small stakes is pot luck ??????????????? Posted by MUTTZNUTZ
Morning Muttz.
No, not at all. There is a skill to playing succcesful 2p/4p, just as there is a skill to playing £2/£4. It's just a different skill.
I definitely disagree that 2p/4p is "pot luck". You have to adapt to the opponents you face, & to win at 2p/4p just requires that ability to adapt.
If you move up the levels, the game changes, & you require different skills if you want to beat the game, & as such, yes, you become a better player.
What you must avoid is falling for the oft-repeated cliche that "it is impossible to win at 2p/4p because the players there will call any raise". That is nonsense, & only in poker do players complain because they perceive their opponents to be bad!
It's like Sir Alex Ferguson saying he does not want to draw, say, Yeovil Town in the FA Cup "because they are hopeless", or throwing a hissy fit because Man Utd lost to Bradford or whoever & then saying "they were SO BAD we could not beat them". He would get laughed out of a job if he said that, & rightly so.
dear Tikay could you thank everyone in the afternoon league for me . It is a very enjoyable game although i havent cashed ,the other players are very friendly and offer good advice, which is helpful as i am still a novice. thank you rainman397 Posted by rainman397
Hi Rainman,
I communicate, via e-Mail, a great deal with Mike (woogie) who runs the Afternoon League, & I will most certainly pass your comments on to him. He does a fine job.
Mike has been quite unwell for some time now, & so I take this oppurtunity to wish him well, & a speedy recovery.
We are blessed here at Sky Poker to have quite a few lads who run Community Leagues & Competitions. With apologies to those I omit (memory issues here, sorry,) they include DTWBandit, scouse red, Hitman, PokerTrev, Darntootin & others, & I tip my hat to them for their endeavours, they are, without exception, decent folks just trying to do positive things.
thank you for reply can you give my best wishes to woogie i hope he is better soon all the best rainman 397In Response to Re: Ask Tikay?:
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : Hi Rainman, I communicate, via e-Mail, a great deal with Mike (woogie) who runs the Afternoon League, & I will most certainly pass your comments on to him. He does a fine job. Mike has been quite unwell for some time now, & so I take this oppurtunity to wish him well, & a speedy recovery. We are blessed here at Sky Poker to have quite a few lads who run Community Leagues & Competitions. With apologies to those I omit (memory issues here, sorry,) they include DTWBandit, scouse red, Hitman, PokerTrev, Darntootin & others, & I tip my hat to them for their endeavours, they are, without exception, decent folks just trying to do positive things. Hope you continue to enjoy the Afternoon League. Posted by Tikay10
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay? : Hi mr Kendall. Sowi forget my silly ak vs q9 post that was just abit of fun. On a more serious note, The mind its avery interesting topic. from the age of 4 till about 16/17 i was a big watcher of the wwf/wwe as kids do lol. But afew week ago i googled "were are they now wee". I came across a interesting documentary about a wrestler who killed his wife & kid. The documentary was about why he did what he did. They came to the conclusion that because he was a wrestler(even tho its all scripted) his head as took such a poundin over the years it was like he had alzeimars(spelt wrong maybe) & the brain of a 85 yr old person so couldnt have know what he was doing. They also mentioned as it was in american the incident happened that its regular in american football. Now these were scientist speaking about this, but ive only heard of 1 incident in the uk with a rugby player taking his own life afew years back. Whats your thoughts. Posted by seppe
Just readin back i missed an important statement that i thought i put in, that was the use of steriods. Its huge in america in the sport i mentioned, or was bk in the 80s/90s
Hi Tikay Thx for the response on resixable tables - sounds like a complicated one I was just wondering - I heard you mention about the APAT series last week. I,ve started playing live myself a lot more now and have been plating the nuts league for a few weeks. I also just started playing the Redtooth leugue. I,ve never played them before but i was wondering what you thought of these leaugues and any experiences of Regional finals or National Finals and any negatives or positives about them as i,ve asked afew friends and different ppl say different things about each I,ve played in 4 SPT,s and am trying to get to Luton, but the advantage with the nuts leugue and redtooth leaugue is they are both within a mile of my flat. Do you think this is the best way to (apart from the SPT,s of course) get better and are there any other live leaugues you know of which i wouldn,t have to travel to far and is within my BR - which as you probably know i,m a micro-low stakes player. Any advice on any tours would be greatly appreciated - EDIT : esp after i,ve just flooded the bathroom floor while writing this post. whoops Thx Paul Posted by MP33
Hi Tikay
Was playing in pub last night in the Redtooh Leugue
1 player was away from the table (outside talking to his g/f). His stack was a mess - all over the place in a pile but not over the line The dealer stacked them into piles. Then one of the lads m8,s who was watching said he (the dealer) wasn,t allowed to do that and knocked them over again, claiming if it was a casino he wouldn,t be allowed to do that. Even though someone coming from out of the game and knocking a chip stack over wouldn,t be allowed either
My thoughts on this were the dealer ( also the TD , but a young lad who didn,t want any trouble) was right to do so as there were higher denomonation chips such as chips for a 1000 buried under his 100chips
It caused abit of a row and i didn,t get involved as i,d forgotten about that rule showing the higher denominationb chips , which im sure ive heard from Sky TV
Am i right and was the guy out of order knocking the chip stack back over.
I,ve got a feeling i already know the answer to this but can you pls confirm this so i can tell him nxt week.
Ps - From original post do you think i,m taking the right path to be a better live player and to play bigger live events?
only recently started playing poker (always been good with numbers so thought why not) and so far every table i play at i come away up (not always by much) am i just being lucky?
Tikay, what should you do when you lose 90% races and lose 90% time with KK and AA allin preflop. What should I do? Give up the game, the game mayn't be for me?
The Poker Clinic show has just ended and for another week it seems like there were too few hands to make up the hour. Is it now going to be the norm that the second half of the hour is going to be made up of Bounty Hunter hands? I think it's a shame as, back in the days when there were forum comments included, I thought it was probably the best show of the week. I've been sending some hands in myself because I don't want the show to go the way of chat box, but it seems like it's always the same few sending their hands in.
Any thoughts about how more people could be encouraged to send in their hands and questions?
Mr. Kendall... The Poker Clinic show has just ended and for another week it seems like there were too few hands to make up the hour. Is it now going to be the norm that the second half of the hour is going to be made up of Bounty Hunter hands? I think it's a shame as, back in the days when there were forum comments included, I thought it was probably the best show of the week. I've been sending some hands in myself because I don't want the show to go the way of chat box, but it seems like it's always the same few sending their hands in. Any thoughts about how more people could be encouraged to send in their hands and questions? Posted by BorinLoner
Very good point Borin.
I also thought the show where they displayed people's comments was great although I suspect the reason Sky stopped it is because a few people moaned about their long replies being shortened and misinterpreted, but this could be resolved by setting up a thread for live show replies. So replies are only read from this live show hand reply thread so you can post concisely and as you want it to be read out.
The other issue is there are only X amount of people who post hands in the clinic and very few of them play MEs regularly or are rolled to play mastercash tables. A fair few could play the 10NL ones but thats as low as most go. I think if they stuck a TV icon for the Forum DTD games AND made some 4NL, 8NL or even 5p/5p Mastecash tables, they would definitely get WAY more hands posted for the live show
well once again ace flush beat 3 qs beat 3 js beat beat every hand wish i had not withdrew weeks ago not won since but site is looseing players in droves people wissing up no sour grapes sites a disgrace wish i could be a new player every nite sorted even bin on 2 gamming board but sky own them waste of time
first nite bak 4 weeks first tourney player new player blitzing the table told everyone 2 watch he could not loose stay away from him but as it happens hand hole cards me kq bet is 40 player raises 160 new player calls i call flop comes kkj i hit trips player bets 160 new player calls i go allin player folds new player calls ak so skyjoker thats wy players are leaving in droves
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thanks 4 reply would like 2 play mondays dtd but i have work at nights.
thank you 4 updating the league.
In Response to Re: Ask Tikay?:
I have a horrible feeling I have forgotten to do something......
Would you care to enlighten me?
Congratulations!
No, there are no Royal Flush "bonuses" here. You could win an £8,900 "bonus" if you won the Sky Poker JACKPOT though.
A "Royal" is pretty unusual in Hold 'Em, but much less so in Omaha.
We see them a fair bit in 4 card Omaha, simply because we are, in effect, playing 6 hands each time. In 6 card Omaha, (only played Live, not Online) where we have, I think, the equivelant of 15 "two card" hands, they are quite common.
I was playing 6 Card High Omaha recently, & I flopped a royal, & tried to trap my opponent. He eventually folded QUADS to me, because he knew that a Royal was the only hand I could have, as played.
Strange things, numbers, & probability.
No, not at all. There is a skill to playing succcesful 2p/4p, just as there is a skill to playing £2/£4. It's just a different skill.
I definitely disagree that 2p/4p is "pot luck". You have to adapt to the opponents you face, & to win at 2p/4p just requires that ability to adapt.
If you move up the levels, the game changes, & you require different skills if you want to beat the game, & as such, yes, you become a better player.
What you must avoid is falling for the oft-repeated cliche that "it is impossible to win at 2p/4p because the players there will call any raise". That is nonsense, & only in poker do players complain because they perceive their opponents to be bad!
It's like Sir Alex Ferguson saying he does not want to draw, say, Yeovil Town in the FA Cup "because they are hopeless", or throwing a hissy fit because Man Utd lost to Bradford or whoever & then saying "they were SO BAD we could not beat them". He would get laughed out of a job if he said that, & rightly so.
I communicate, via e-Mail, a great deal with Mike (woogie) who runs the Afternoon League, & I will most certainly pass your comments on to him. He does a fine job.
Mike has been quite unwell for some time now, & so I take this oppurtunity to wish him well, & a speedy recovery.
We are blessed here at Sky Poker to have quite a few lads who run Community Leagues & Competitions. With apologies to those I omit (memory issues here, sorry,) they include DTWBandit, scouse red, Hitman, PokerTrev, Darntootin & others, & I tip my hat to them for their endeavours, they are, without exception, decent folks just trying to do positive things.
Hope you continue to enjoy the Afternoon League.
can you give my best wishes to woogie i hope he is better soon
all the best rainman 397In Response to Re: Ask Tikay?:
Hi Tikay
Was playing in pub last night in the Redtooh Leugue
1 player was away from the table (outside talking to his g/f). His stack was a mess - all over the place in a pile but not over the line
The dealer stacked them into piles. Then one of the lads m8,s who was watching said he (the dealer) wasn,t allowed to do that and knocked them over again, claiming if it was a casino he wouldn,t be allowed to do that. Even though someone coming from out of the game and knocking a chip stack over wouldn,t be allowed either
My thoughts on this were the dealer ( also the TD , but a young lad who didn,t want any trouble) was right to do so as there were higher denomonation chips such as chips for a 1000 buried under his 100chips
It caused abit of a row and i didn,t get involved as i,d forgotten about that rule showing the higher denominationb chips , which im sure ive heard from Sky TV
Am i right and was the guy out of order knocking the chip stack back over.
I,ve got a feeling i already know the answer to this but can you pls confirm this so i can tell him nxt week.
Ps - From original post do you think i,m taking the right path to be a better live player and to play bigger live events?
Hope you are well
Thx
Paul
The Poker Clinic show has just ended and for another week it seems like there were too few hands to make up the hour. Is it now going to be the norm that the second half of the hour is going to be made up of Bounty Hunter hands? I think it's a shame as, back in the days when there were forum comments included, I thought it was probably the best show of the week. I've been sending some hands in myself because I don't want the show to go the way of chat box, but it seems like it's always the same few sending their hands in.
Any thoughts about how more people could be encouraged to send in their hands and questions?
I also thought the show where they displayed people's comments was great although I suspect the reason Sky stopped it is because a few people moaned about their long replies being shortened and misinterpreted, but this could be resolved by setting up a thread for live show replies. So replies are only read from this live show hand reply thread so you can post concisely and as you want it to be read out.
The other issue is there are only X amount of people who post hands in the clinic and very few of them play MEs regularly or are rolled to play mastercash tables. A fair few could play the 10NL ones but thats as low as most go. I think if they stuck a TV icon for the Forum DTD games AND made some 4NL, 8NL or even 5p/5p Mastecash tables, they would definitely get WAY more hands posted for the live show
Still, it would be nice to get back to something like that.