i was at least expecting to get a wooden spoon for best worst effort in the main
Also even though live stream wasnt working i saw the updates that were on here and they did a great job for people to follow it. Theres even a picy of me when i had chips lol
actualy come to think of it im glad they didnt have any comentary or people would of noticed my exit whereas i was able to creep away to the bar
I thought sky done a great job at the weekend, Rich doing a bad impression of a dealer on the Friday night in a silly sit n go lol and the usual sky regulars getting a good drink a laugh and a few good games of poker, on the other hand Dusk till Dawn are pretty bad, on the Friday the DTD website said they were opening at 18.30 to accomodate sky players they didn`t say the bar wouldn`t open till 19.30 (no point opening at 18.30 then eh!!) Also thought the bar over the weekend was under staffed with pretty ignorant staff who really didn`t want to be there, opening times each day were pretty bad too loads of players waiting outside a locked door half an hour before day 2 wasn`t very good IMO, but as I said this was nothing to do with sky and all in all the weekend was brilliant and good to meet some more of the players I see day in day out on the table`s.
I have no idea what you expected. I thought it was a well run tourney, the Sky Guys all worked exceptionally hard despite uncontrollable problems with the stream and I had a lovely time despite playing like a muppet. Did you put yourself out there and introduce yourself to many of the other Regs? That's what really makes these things. I don't remember seeing you (although if I saw you after ten on either Friday or Saturday then I may have, ahem, forgotten it due to a dodgey pint).
On celebs and freebies, IMO Skypoker is in a different place now than it was when it started or was up and coming. Back then maybe to get the punters in for a one day crapshoot tourney (which was still a lot of fun, see meeting regs as above) you'd have a few celebs turn up on a day when there were no envelopes to open. As a person who was sat on the same table as a famous horce racing tic tac man, you've missed nothing. Now celebs turn up because they want to play the event and they are very welcome (Bill Maynard, Darren Campbell etc), not because they have been prompted to make an appearance for free or a fee (I have no idea on the last part of that statement, but not every celeb were there for the poker IMO).
As for freebies, if you're quite desperate PM me your address, I'll send you one of my hoodies I won for winning stuff, not for just turning up.
SPT Rich, the plethora of Dans, Anna, Tikay and many more whose name starts with Sky worked their backsides off there. Original Poster, I believe you owe them all an apology for your badly thought out post. My opinion of course.
OP I have no idea what you expected. I thought it was a well run tourney, the Sky Guys all worked exceptionally hard despite uncontrollable problems with the stream and I had a lovely time despite playing like a muppet. Did you put yourself out there and introduce yourself to many of the other Regs? That's what really makes these things. I don't remember seeing you (although if I saw you after ten on either Friday or Saturday then I may have, ahem, forgotten it due to a dodgey pint). On celebs and freebies, IMO Skypoker is in a different place now than it was when it started or was up and coming. Back then maybe to get the punters in for a one day crapshoot tourney (which was still a lot of fun, see meeting regs as above) you'd have a few celebs turn up on a day when there were no envelopes to open. As a person who was sat on the same table as a famous horce racing tic tac man, you've missed nothing. Now celebs turn up because they want to play the event and they are very welcome (Bill Maynard, Darren Campbell etc), not because they have been prompted to make an appearance for free or a fee (I have no idea on the last part of that statement, but not every celeb were there for the poker IMO). As for freebies, if you're quite desperate PM me your address, I'll send you one of my hoodies I won for winning stuff, not for just turning up. SPT Rich, the plethora of Dans, Anna, Tikay and many more whose name starts with Sky worked their backsides off there. Original Poster, I believe you owe them all an apology for your badly thought out post. My opinion of course. Posted by TommyD
LOL Tommy was the Dodgy pint the 14th or 15 just asking!!!!! thats all!!!!! ;p
In ! Posted by SPT ok shambles was a bit harsh, But i think that some of you are missing the point, like some of the posts on here says it was just like a big dusk tilll dawn comp when really as sky build it up to be their highlight event of the year and sky being such a big company i just thought that they would make at bit more of a occasion for their sky players who play and qualify for this final and not just another dtd comp.
ps If my memory serves me right the camera crew turned up half a day late last year !
Biggest disappointment for me was the live feed not being available for punters who couldn't make DTD to rail I may be sad! but I was glued to the thread in General Poker Chat to find out how the regulars were doing. I can understand what OP was saying but as the family grows i'm sure it's very difficult to meet everybody's expectations! And like him or loathe him Rich Orfords presence would probably have made a difference for at least 15 minutes! Trevor Harris at least 2 minutes! Had Iceborg cashed would this post be on here?
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Also even though live stream wasnt working i saw the updates that were on here and they did a great job for people to follow it. Theres even a picy of me when i had chips lol
actualy come to think of it im glad they didnt have any comentary or people would of noticed my exit whereas i was able to creep away to the bar
I have no idea what you expected. I thought it was a well run tourney, the Sky Guys all worked exceptionally hard despite uncontrollable problems with the stream and I had a lovely time despite playing like a muppet. Did you put yourself out there and introduce yourself to many of the other Regs? That's what really makes these things. I don't remember seeing you (although if I saw you after ten on either Friday or Saturday then I may have, ahem, forgotten it due to a dodgey pint).
On celebs and freebies, IMO Skypoker is in a different place now than it was when it started or was up and coming. Back then maybe to get the punters in for a one day crapshoot tourney (which was still a lot of fun, see meeting regs as above) you'd have a few celebs turn up on a day when there were no envelopes to open. As a person who was sat on the same table as a famous horce racing tic tac man, you've missed nothing. Now celebs turn up because they want to play the event and they are very welcome (Bill Maynard, Darren Campbell etc), not because they have been prompted to make an appearance for free or a fee (I have no idea on the last part of that statement, but not every celeb were there for the poker IMO).
As for freebies, if you're quite desperate PM me your address, I'll send you one of my hoodies I won for winning stuff, not for just turning up.
SPT Rich, the plethora of Dans, Anna, Tikay and many more whose name starts with Sky worked their backsides off there. Original Poster, I believe you owe them all an apology for your badly thought out post. My opinion of course.
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ok shambles was a bit harsh,
But i think that some of you are missing the point, like some of the posts on here says it was just like a big dusk tilll dawn comp when really as sky build it up to be their highlight event of the year and sky being such a big company i just thought that they would make at bit more of a occasion for their sky players who play and qualify for this final and not just another dtd comp.
ps If my memory serves me right the camera crew turned up half a day late last year !
I may be sad! but I was glued to the thread in General Poker Chat to find out how the regulars were doing.
I can understand what OP was saying but as the family grows i'm sure it's very difficult to meet everybody's expectations!
And like him or loathe him Rich Orfords presence would probably have made a difference for at least 15 minutes! Trevor Harris at least 2 minutes!
Had Iceborg cashed would this post be on here?