Well not quite. Bubbled the seat for the main tonight but got £26.40 so it's a start. Took the cash after pre regging it as I'm thinking of drinking plenty tonight. Still crapp at Dyms though. Won 1 out of 3
Thinking I might quit for the night £1.30 up plus rake
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Slightly more importantly, Ireland is a definite YES now. I've been sweating it for a while. Kept being told by work it wouldn't be a problem moving my days off around but can never be sure with them. Big bossman said 'yes' today which is nice considering that I've already paid for my flights and accommodation
Sorry Sky but the new tablet app is not good right now. I'm sure it will be improved but at the moment it's about as unuser friendly as you can get. After a session I like to look in on who's doing well in the main etc. 10 times harder to do it on the iPad than it was before.
On the plus side I've drunk plenty tonight and feel a little tipsy.
Played the £12 sat into the £55BH tonight, was a very good standard I felt especially late and on the bubble. GELDY was unluckly at the end a couple of times, then threw his last few chips from the SB with 77 into my AA. However he cashed for £22 there and I took £18.75 from the seat a couple of hours later, so who's the winner there?!
Only tried the app once, took myself to the pub in the work lunch break and played some cash. Poor connection timed me out of a 3-bet pot in which I had the betting lead, saved me a few quid as I was about to barrel off into Lambert's set lol. Where there are swings you normally find roundabouts.
Slightly more importantly, Ireland is a definite YES now. I've been sweating it for a while. Kept being told by work it wouldn't be a problem moving my days off around but can never be sure with them. Big bossman said 'yes' today which is nice considering that I've already paid for my flights and accommodation Posted by Jac35
Poker is so much sweeter when the rungood arrives in the most useful spots... much better than rearing it's head in a few small buy in DYMs.
Played the £12 sat into the £55BH tonight, was a very good standard I felt especially late and on the bubble. GELDY was unluckly at the end a couple of times, then threw his last few chips from the SB with 77 into my AA. However he cashed for £22 there and I took £18.75 from the seat a couple of hours later, so who's the winner there?! Only tried the app once, took myself to the pub in the work lunch break and played some cash. Poor connection timed me out of a 3-bet pot in which I had the betting lead, saved me a few quid as I was about to barrel off into Lambert's set lol. Where there are swings you normally find roundabouts. Posted by bbMike
only cracked AA once last night - wish it could have been then - nothing personal ofc and as you say at least it was cash!
agree with difficulty playing on mobile Jac. with the browser you can't see how many prizes there are & you can't ask anyone on chat :-(
There might even more blathering than usual in this post. May break it up a little as it's hard to be bothered to read a complete wall of text. It'll all meander along getting nowhere in particular.
There is another poker forum that I read as well as this one. It used to be wonderful. It's run by a prominent, very well respected chap in poker. There were some great diaries written by people who had started at the bottom and moved up and were now making a living from the game. That I'd played with a few of them made it even more interesting to read as I felt that I kind of knew them, even though I didn't.
The diaries have now mostly disappeared and now I can go onto the main page of the forum and on occasions there has only been 3 or 4 posts in the whole day. There are still 2 diaries on there that I absolutely love reading. One is written by a guy who 4 years ago was lacking a little in confidence and decided to name his new diary "The best in the business" No doubt people cringed when they saw this but he didn't just talk the talk. He's now rated no1 on pocketfives and his journey has been fascinating to read. His drive in incredible. The other diary I enjoy is totally different. Poker is occasionally mentioned but the stories and observations are what makes it great reading. It's highly popular and some very sharp people post on there. I'm not the smartest and I need to look up half the words that they use. On this diary the other day it was said that there may be some truth in that forums/blogs are now dying with Facebook and Twitter taking over.
Is this the case? Sadly, I think that might be the case with the other forum. But here?
I don't think so. There are some poor periods, I think we're just coming through one, when there's trolling, everyone seeming to be angry etc but I think this forum has and will continue to come back strongly. In my opinion we're very lucky to have this forum. Sky don't need it. I spoke to one of the Sky guys at Newcastle and I can't remember the exact number but it was an incredibly small % of players who use the forum.
I try now to comment on new diaries when they start up. From personal experience it can be disheartening when there aren't many replies or interaction. I still get a buzz everytime I see that someone has posted on this thread. (well, nearly everytime, not too fussed when I see it's Maxally) I'm certainly guilty on the other forum of reading but not posting. I've read it pretty much every day for a few years and think I've posted about 50 times in total. I guess I'm probably too open about things and others may not be comfortable writing about anything other than poker. I like to write about non poker stuff and hopefully it's interesting to others. I also do this as I'm hopeless when it comes to writing about poker and just make myself look silly I'm pretty basic and get confused easily when I see how hands are dissected on other threads. I also do it because I think it's good to kind of know the person writing the thread. At the Spts I went to, it was amazing that no one surprised me. Having been virtual friends for some time you get a feel for how people will be when you do actually meet them.
Not going to bang on about Spts again, well not too much, but the forum is brilliant for making new poker and real friends. Before I started writing on here I was a bit of a poker loner. People knew my face and said hello but that was about it. After meeting up with people at Spts I can now go up to Burnley and watch football with good friends or go to Ireland and meet up with great people and have top weekend. I'm sure there must be an upsurge in forum posts after Spts and I do hope they return.
I'd change the forum a bit as well. I'd definitely get rid of bb@v. Can't see the point at all. So many of the threads on there just end in rows. The idea of breaking up the clinic into sections hasn't worked for me. I think when I last looked at the tournament advice section there hadn't been a post in 10 days. Don't make it a hassle for people, make it easy. Just call it the clinic once more and encourage people to start posts with "Dym hand" or "Nl50 cash hand" etc
More 'well' stuff as well would be good. it would be fascinating to find out how people like Dtm started out and got to where he is now. Noticed the other day that Tikay didn't correct the person who credited him with the idea of starting it up again
Something like a thread "Your poker story" would be great as well. I'm nosy. I'd love to know how others got into the game and so on.
Unlikely to happen I guess but diaries from some of the high stake players on here would be a huge hit. Is there anything that could be done to encourage them? It's great seeing people playing similar stakes to me doing well and completing challenges but having for example Style talking through his thought processes in £2k+ pots would be really interesting.
Finally I think that to encourage people to post more then maybe Sky should pay out larges sums to people when they have completed a certain amount of posts. I don't know, maybe after something like 2237 posts?
Great stuff Paul, will reply properly tomorrow, bit busy right now.
For now.....
You have made 52 Posts on that other Forum. All of them excellent, obv.
I don't recall the Post that credited me with the revival of "In The Well", & I don't recall who is responsible. But I do intend to start more of them. It just seemed a good idea to try & get them going again, so whoever first did that, well done them.
I've got similar views on those Strategy Boards, too, one "Clinic" seems to be enough, as the sub-boards are stagnant.
% of Sky Poker players who use the Forum? Think it's around 3% or somesuch.
it was a nice idea to try to develop specific threads but there doesn't seem to be the volume for it. put it all together and as you say promote some good thread naming.
In Response to Re: Ramblings of an old man : Well done Alan, & you deserve the credit for it. I had not realised that I had, quite unintentionally, stolen your thunder, apologies. Posted by Tikay10
Errr, absolutely no need to apologise Tikay. You do all the hard work behind the scenes getting the players to agree to take part in them plus start them all up. So, thank you for all you do.
PS. I nominate Jac35 for the next one....#sortitout
Great stuff Paul, will reply properly tomorrow, bit busy right now. For now..... You have made 52 Posts on that other Forum. All of them excellent, obv. I don't recall the Post that credited me with the revival of "In The Well", & I don't recall who is responsible. But I do intend to start more of them. It just seemed a good idea to try & get them going again, so whoever first did that, well done them. I've got similar views on those Strategy Boards, too, one "Clinic" seems to be enough, as the sub-boards are stagnant. % of Sky Poker players who use the Forum? Think it's around 3% or somesuch. BB&V? It blows me away, in so many ways..... More later, 2 excellent Posts if I may say so. Posted by Tikay10
Apologies, but I'm up in Leeds today, all a bit busy with stuff & things, so will have to defer my proper reply until tomorrow.
There were some really interesting points in your Posts as to how Forums work, & how we can & should help them be better, & where some are getting better or worse.
I always think Forums are "living things", with moods & ups & downs, & need tending, just as you would a garden, a flower bed, or a young lady.
You were right on the money with reference the recent aggro & trolling on here, but, thankfully, it's a little better now.
Stephen Fry - yes, THE Stephen Fry - who has suffered as much as most from trolls & haters, sent a Tweet yesterday which linked to an incredibly fascinating article about trolls & what goes on inside there heads. I may post it somewhere tomorrow.
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Root canal, 2 crowns and some fillings
I used to do really well at sats but over the last few months they've been awful
Well not quite. Bubbled the seat for the main tonight but got £26.40 so it's a start. Took the cash after pre regging it as I'm thinking of drinking plenty tonight.
Still crapp at Dyms though. Won 1 out of 3
Thinking I might quit for the night £1.30 up plus rake
....
Slightly more importantly, Ireland is a definite YES now. I've been sweating it for a while. Kept being told by work it wouldn't be a problem moving my days off around but can never be sure with them. Big bossman said 'yes' today which is nice considering that I've already paid for my flights and accommodation
Only tried the app once, took myself to the pub in the work lunch break and played some cash. Poor connection timed me out of a 3-bet pot in which I had the betting lead, saved me a few quid as I was about to barrel off into Lambert's set lol. Where there are swings you normally find roundabouts.
There is another poker forum that I read as well as this one. It used to be wonderful. It's run by a prominent, very well respected chap in poker. There were some great diaries written by people who had started at the bottom and moved up and were now making a living from the game. That I'd played with a few of them made it even more interesting to read as I felt that I kind of knew them, even though I didn't.
The diaries have now mostly disappeared and now I can go onto the main page of the forum and on occasions there has only been 3 or 4 posts in the whole day. There are still 2 diaries on there that I absolutely love reading. One is written by a guy who 4 years ago was lacking a little in confidence and decided to name his new diary "The best in the business"
No doubt people cringed when they saw this but he didn't just talk the talk. He's now rated no1 on pocketfives and his journey has been fascinating to read. His drive in incredible.
The other diary I enjoy is totally different. Poker is occasionally mentioned but the stories and observations are what makes it great reading. It's highly popular and some very sharp people post on there. I'm not the smartest and I need to look up half the words that they use. On this diary the other day it was said that there may be some truth in that forums/blogs are now dying with Facebook and Twitter taking over.
Is this the case?
Sadly, I think that might be the case with the other forum. But here?
I don't think so. There are some poor periods, I think we're just coming through one, when there's trolling, everyone seeming to be angry etc but I think this forum has and will continue to come back strongly.
In my opinion we're very lucky to have this forum. Sky don't need it. I spoke to one of the Sky guys at Newcastle and I can't remember the exact number but it was an incredibly small % of players who use the forum.
I'm certainly guilty on the other forum of reading but not posting. I've read it pretty much every day for a few years and think I've posted about 50 times in total.
I guess I'm probably too open about things and others may not be comfortable writing about anything other than poker. I like to write about non poker stuff and hopefully it's interesting to others. I also do this as I'm hopeless when it comes to writing about poker and just make myself look silly
Not going to bang on about Spts again, well not too much, but the forum is brilliant for making new poker and real friends. Before I started writing on here I was a bit of a poker loner. People knew my face and said hello but that was about it. After meeting up with people at Spts I can now go up to Burnley and watch football with good friends or go to Ireland and meet up with great people and have top weekend. I'm sure there must be an upsurge in forum posts after Spts and I do hope they return.
I'd change the forum a bit as well. I'd definitely get rid of bb@v. Can't see the point at all. So many of the threads on there just end in rows. The idea of breaking up the clinic into sections hasn't worked for me. I think when I last looked at the tournament advice section there hadn't been a post in 10 days. Don't make it a hassle for people, make it easy. Just call it the clinic once more and encourage people to start posts with "Dym hand" or "Nl50 cash hand" etc
More 'well' stuff as well would be good. it would be fascinating to find out how people like Dtm started out and got to where he is now. Noticed the other day that Tikay didn't correct the person who credited him with the idea of starting it up again
Something like a thread "Your poker story" would be great as well. I'm nosy. I'd love to know how others got into the game and so on.
Unlikely to happen I guess but diaries from some of the high stake players on here would be a huge hit. Is there anything that could be done to encourage them? It's great seeing people playing similar stakes to me doing well and completing challenges but having for example Style talking through his thought processes in £2k+ pots would be really interesting.
Finally I think that to encourage people to post more then maybe Sky should pay out larges sums to people when they have completed a certain amount of posts. I don't know, maybe after something like 2237 posts?
Great stuff Paul, will reply properly tomorrow, bit busy right now.
For now.....
You have made 52 Posts on that other Forum. All of them excellent, obv.
I don't recall the Post that credited me with the revival of "In The Well", & I don't recall who is responsible. But I do intend to start more of them. It just seemed a good idea to try & get them going again, so whoever first did that, well done them.
I've got similar views on those Strategy Boards, too, one "Clinic" seems to be enough, as the sub-boards are stagnant.
% of Sky Poker players who use the Forum? Think it's around 3% or somesuch.
BB&V? It blows me away, in so many ways.....
More later, 2 excellent Posts if I may say so.
I read every new post from the previous night,comment on some,ignore some and marvel at others.
Long live the Forum !
There were some really interesting points in your Posts as to how Forums work, & how we can & should help them be better, & where some are getting better or worse.
I always think Forums are "living things", with moods & ups & downs, & need tending, just as you would a garden, a flower bed, or a young lady.
You were right on the money with reference the recent aggro & trolling on here, but, thankfully, it's a little better now.
Stephen Fry - yes, THE Stephen Fry - who has suffered as much as most from trolls & haters, sent a Tweet yesterday which linked to an incredibly fascinating article about trolls & what goes on inside there heads. I may post it somewhere tomorrow.
OK, gotta go.