Hi All, Had some problems today, my lappie fell over & died after a short illness, RIP Lappie. I've got a whole bunch of stuff to catch up on, but will reply to all the questions soonest. Thanks. Posted by Tikay10
Hi tikay
Oh dear, you know what this means, you are finaly have to ditch the steam , and how did you all go last night please?
hi tikay its theguv60 i was playing the 200.00 pound omaha gtd tournament with you tonight 24/12/2009.It was my first time that i have played omaha and i would like to say what a great game it is,i was on the same table as you until that girl took you out when you flopped the straight.The game lasted ages which was very good value for my 5.50 buy in stake and i would like to tell you that i won the game finishing in first place.total winnings 80.00.needless to say i think i will be playing more omaha games in the future,Great game just glad sky have introduced omaha as it is a more thinking game and you realy have to concentrate to work out who can have the best possible hands.Thank you anyway just wanted to say im glad i tried it out and i will be playing more and more OMAHA games in the future.theguv60 aka mark wilton
Love the forum(s), am a developer for colleagues over at SkySports and a poker afficionado [well trying to be]. Apologies, *nerd question*, why is the forum not ordered in a date descending manner (showing most recent posts on page 1)?
On a kind of poker note meets movie knowledge. Is "Rounders" with Matt Damon, Ed Norton and John Malkovic at all representative of American, underground or even main stream Texas Hold-'Em games? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128442/#comment
Love the forum(s), am a developer for colleagues over at SkySports and a poker afficionado [well trying to be]. Apologies, *nerd question*, why is the forum not ordered in a date descending manner (showing most recent posts on page 1)? On a kind of poker note meets movie knowledge. Is "Rounders" with Matt Damon, Ed Norton and John Malkovic at all representative of American, underground or even main stream Texas Hold-'Em games? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128442/#comment Season's greetings and Merry Christmas. Dan (dtm75) Posted by dtm75
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alrite tikay,i have been trying all month to get into the santas sack tourny but yet have had no luck in doing so,as ther eis only 2 days left before the tourny starts,is ther any other way of getting in the tourny or is there going to be alot more chances in the next 2 days to get in? cheers tikay and great show today by the way.i told you the heads up in the bounty hunter was abit annoying for me. cheers again,ninipoo
i just wanted to discuss my feeling towards your presenters saying you have a great community of players, who are up and coming, with lots of potential. i just wanted to highlight two key hands that completely make you guys look like fools and your site of player are a bag of donkeys.
1, i was playing in the 1000 pound velocity the other night and i had k4 in the small blind, blinds are 600/1200, guy in seat 4 calls as do i and the bb checks,
the flop come k82, i bet the pot of 3600, he calls, q on turn i push for the rest of my stack, about 5500, he calls turns qj and spikes a j on the river.
2, just played in another bounty hunter game this morning and a donkey calls me down with A10, on every street when i had pocket 5s and my hand got counterfeited.
All i ask is that your presenters dont say that you have a community of strong players when you clearly dont, all you have is a set of lucky donks who see all the tv hands you guys show on tekle and think oh il try my luck at that and maybe il be the 1 who wins.
i just wanted to discuss my feeling towards your presenters saying you have a great community of players, who are up and coming, with lots of potential. i just wanted to highlight two key hands that completely make you guys look like fools and your site of player are a bag of donkeys. 1, i was playing in the 1000 pound velocity the other night and i had k4 in the small blind, blinds are 600/1200, guy in seat 4 calls as do i and the bb checks, the flop come k82, i bet the pot of 3600, he calls, q on turn i push for the rest of my stack, about 5500, he calls turns qj and spikes a j on the river. 2, just played in another bounty hunter game this morning and a donkey calls me down with A10, on every street when i had pocket 5s and my hand got counterfeited. All i ask is that your presenters dont say that you have a community of strong players when you clearly dont, all you have is a set of lucky donks who see all the tv hands you guys show on tekle and think oh il try my luck at that and maybe il be the 1 who wins. Posted by steve628
Hi Steve, and a very warm welcome to the Sky Poker Community. I am an Analyst, not a Presenter, but I think it counts as the same thing insofar as your Post is concerned.
So, let me get this right.
You are criticising us for not understanding what "a great Community" we have here. And you are describing us as "fools" & the Players as "a bag of donkeys" & "lucky donks". I don't suppose the irony of that position has dawned upon you, has it? Have you ever read "Catch-22"?
You further go on to imply - nay, say - that the Players here are very BAD. So you'd prefer to play against GOOD players then?
I need to think about that Sir. I've spent my poker career swerving players who are better than me. And here you are, complaining about bad players......
I'm sorry, but if you come on here & describe the Sky Poker players as "a bag of donkeys" & myself & my front-of-camera colleagues as "fools", then complain that your opponents here are WORSE THAN YOU (!!) please don't expect much sympathy from me.
Maybe it's you that does not understand "Community"?
Happy & Healthy New Year to you Steve, wherever you decide to play your Poker.
hi tk how do you gain entry to the private freerolls that go on around the site? Posted by BIGLUKYTOM
Hi Tom,
By definition, you cannot enter a "Private Freeroll", players in those have pre-qualified, ir it's restricted to certain players who may have won seats, etc.
But there are plenty of open Freerolls on Sky Poker.
I'm not very "up" on info about Freerolls, but "The Shed" Board usually contains Freeroll Info.
Also, in about a week or two, a new version of TKO will begin - that was a series of Freerolls with a Value of nearly £4,000 last time. EVERYONE is free to play in that.
If you frequent the Forum, the Freeroll info is prominently promoted.
Hey Tikay, cash game question. What are the exact rules about how much a bet can be reraised by? Say I play 2p4p and raise to 8p then someone reraises to 12p. I always thought you had to double the previous bet but is it something specific to the blinds in the first round of betting that you can do this?
Also as I'm at it here is another one. Showdowns. Some sites let you see the showdown in the hand history and some don't. What are the reasons behind Skypokers descsions to allow them?
i just wanted to discuss my feeling towards your presenters saying you have a great community of players, who are up and coming, with lots of potential. i just wanted to highlight two key hands that completely make you guys look like fools and your site of player are a bag of donkeys. 1, i was playing in the 1000 pound velocity the other night and i had k4 in the small blind, blinds are 600/1200, guy in seat 4 calls as do i and the bb checks, the flop come k82, i bet the pot of 3600, he calls, q on turn i push for the rest of my stack, about 5500, he calls turns qj and spikes a j on the river. 2, just played in another bounty hunter game this morning and a donkey calls me down with A10, on every street when i had pocket 5s and my hand got counterfeited. All i ask is that your presenters dont say that you have a community of strong players when you clearly dont, all you have is a set of lucky donks who see all the tv hands you guys show on tekle and think oh il try my luck at that and maybe il be the 1 who wins. Posted by steve628
Hey Tikay, cash game question. What are the exact rules about how much a bet can be reraised by? Say I play 2p4p and raise to 8p then someone reraises to 12p. I always thought you had to double the previous bet but is it something specific to the blinds in the first round of betting that you can do this? Also as I'm at it here is another one. Showdowns. Some sites let you see the showdown in the hand history and some don't. What are the reasons behind Skypokers descsions to allow them? Cheers Merry Christmas and a happy new year Posted by Hobbes16
1. The rules of poker are sadly not standardised in this area. I'm sure that Tikay will have something to say on this! Some card rooms say that a 2nd raise must be at least the size of the first raise; others that it must be at least the size of the bet, i.e. in your example some card rooms would say that 12p is sufficient for the 2nd raise and some would say that 16p is required. In my experience all online card rooms fall into the former camp. The only common example of the latter rule being enforced (that I know of) is in TV tournaments where "Mad" Marty Wilson is Tournament Director.
2. Only cards that are shown at the time of the showdown are revealed in the hand history. This is in line with other online sites. I can recall one site where all hands were revealed in the Hand History - this was soon changed! All sites that are compatible with tools like Poker Tracker certainly include all revealed hands in the history. If they were revealed at the time what is the point of excluding them from the hand history?
The question by hobbes was interesting, if only because so few players understand exactly how the mechanics of what constitutes a Raise works. MereNovice has explained it perfectly, but I'd enlarge a little.
Let's say the Blinds are 500-1000.
To CALL it is 1,000. If a Player now makes it 4,000, what is his Raise? It is 3,000, NOT 4,000.
And from that, the confusion arises, because the subsequent action has to either match that, or bring in a Raise not less than the previous Raise.
Unfortunately, most B & M Rooms get confused by this, & the Rule is not universally or consistently applied. I would assume all Online Rooms enforce it properly.
Ho Ho Ho tourney 1. 5 players on table, seat 5 vacant.I'm seat 6 big blind hand no.217865921.Player 2 gets knocked out. Next hand no.21766053,I'm small blind and seat 5 is filled between dealer and me. Seat 5 gets dealt cards and knocks me out. Any tourney I've played, if you get seated in this position you are dealt out of the hand till the dealer button passes you. I lost the hand A J vA K thats the way it goes, but should I have had the A K if , 1) my opponent was seated in pos.2 which was vacant or,2) they wre dealt out in the first place,which could have changed the hand completely. Iether way, I feel the result was unfair. One other thing, its not the first time I've been moved to another table after paying the blinds, straight into the blinds again. I think my record is 6 in a row.
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How did you night out to Luton go with Rich and Lisa.
Oh dear, you know what this means, you are finaly have to ditch the steam
On a kind of poker note meets movie knowledge. Is "Rounders" with Matt Damon, Ed Norton and John Malkovic at all representative of American, underground or even main stream Texas Hold-'Em games? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128442/#comment
Season's greetings and Merry Christmas.
Dan (dtm75)
There are a few "stickies" at the top that always stay at the top of the list because they are deemed worthy of being highly visible.
cheers tikay and great show today by the way.i told you the heads up in the bounty hunter was abit annoying for me.
cheers again,ninipoo
1, i was playing in the 1000 pound velocity the other night and i had k4 in the small blind, blinds are 600/1200, guy in seat 4 calls as do i and the bb checks,
the flop come k82, i bet the pot of 3600, he calls, q on turn i push for the rest of my stack, about 5500, he calls turns qj and spikes a j on the river.
2, just played in another bounty hunter game this morning and a donkey calls me down with A10, on every street when i had pocket 5s and my hand got counterfeited.
All i ask is that your presenters dont say that you have a community of strong players when you clearly dont, all you have is a set of lucky donks who see all the tv hands you guys show on tekle and think oh il try my luck at that and maybe il be the 1 who wins.
So, let me get this right.
You are criticising us for not understanding what "a great Community" we have here. And you are describing us as "fools" & the Players as "a bag of donkeys" & "lucky donks". I don't suppose the irony of that position has dawned upon you, has it? Have you ever read "Catch-22"?
You further go on to imply - nay, say - that the Players here are very BAD. So you'd prefer to play against GOOD players then?
I need to think about that Sir. I've spent my poker career swerving players who are better than me. And here you are, complaining about bad players......
I'm sorry, but if you come on here & describe the Sky Poker players as "a bag of donkeys" & myself & my front-of-camera colleagues as "fools", then complain that your opponents here are WORSE THAN YOU (!!) please don't expect much sympathy from me.
Maybe it's you that does not understand "Community"?
Happy & Healthy New Year to you Steve, wherever you decide to play your Poker.
how do you gain entry to the private freerolls that go on around the site?
By definition, you cannot enter a "Private Freeroll", players in those have pre-qualified, ir it's restricted to certain players who may have won seats, etc.
But there are plenty of open Freerolls on Sky Poker.
I'm not very "up" on info about Freerolls, but "The Shed" Board usually contains Freeroll Info.
Also, in about a week or two, a new version of TKO will begin - that was a series of Freerolls with a Value of nearly £4,000 last time. EVERYONE is free to play in that.
If you frequent the Forum, the Freeroll info is prominently promoted.
hi tikay, is there freeroll on tuesday for the winners of the tko?
Yes, bcool2, there is, a £1,000 Freeroll for the WINNERS of TKO.
There is nothing for the losers, though.
If anyone is a at a loose end on Tuesday, Orford is looking for a game.
Also as I'm at it here is another one. Showdowns. Some sites let you see the showdown in the hand history and some don't. What are the reasons behind Skypokers descsions to allow them?
Cheers Merry Christmas and a happy new year
Some card rooms say that a 2nd raise must be at least the size of the first raise; others that it must be at least the size of the bet, i.e. in your example some card rooms would say that 12p is sufficient for the 2nd raise and some would say that 16p is required. In my experience all online card rooms fall into the former camp. The only common example of the latter rule being enforced (that I know of) is in TV tournaments where "Mad" Marty Wilson is Tournament Director.
2. Only cards that are shown at the time of the showdown are revealed in the hand history. This is in line with other online sites. I can recall one site where all hands were revealed in the Hand History - this was soon changed! All sites that are compatible with tools like Poker Tracker certainly include all revealed hands in the history. If they were revealed at the time what is the point of excluding them from the hand history?
The question by hobbes was interesting, if only because so few players understand exactly how the mechanics of what constitutes a Raise works. MereNovice has explained it perfectly, but I'd enlarge a little.
Let's say the Blinds are 500-1000.
To CALL it is 1,000. If a Player now makes it 4,000, what is his Raise? It is 3,000, NOT 4,000.
And from that, the confusion arises, because the subsequent action has to either match that, or bring in a Raise not less than the previous Raise.
Unfortunately, most B & M Rooms get confused by this, & the Rule is not universally or consistently applied. I would assume all Online Rooms enforce it properly.
Hi cullen,
I'll respond on Tuesday, as I'm going to be Offline for a day or so. I have sent the Question to the Suits though, & I expect a reply by then.