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Happy Birthday to Sky Poker! - 6 x iPad Minis up for grabs!

Sky_SamSky_Sam Member Posts: 738
edited February 2013 in Poker Chat
We've turned SIX YEARS OLD today!

We're flipping tradition on it's head and handing out presents to YOU instead!

6 x iPad Minis to be precise. Take down then mini and you'll take one home.


Birthday comp:
Share with us your favourite memory that you've had on Sky Poker over the last 6 years (or however long you've been with us.)

Winner will win a main event seat for tonight! Check back in this thread around half 7 to see who the winner is.

Here's to the number 7...

Bottoms up!
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  • BUFCBUFC Member Posts: 328
    edited February 2013
    In the very early days of Sky Poker, I was only 18 myself and final tabled the then daily main event the £11 Open. I think I had satellited in as even now I don't like paying an £11 entry! This was in my early days of poker and I would definately say I am a better player now but we were down to 5, I cannot remember what chip position I was in but I was not leader. I was also playing on the TV as we only had dial up internet at the time which we paid for per minute and my Mum would only let me use it for half hour a day (due to the cost and the fact it blocked the phone line)! Playing on the TV was me going behind her back.

    Anyway I was buzzing, sat in bed playing on the TV, had a couple of mates who were watching the show, this was again when the show would follow the tournament all night. I made a genuine misclick call with 22 out of the small blind after a jam in the cut off. My mates who were watching at the jam were straight on the phone asking what I was doing, I said it was a genuine misclick but obviously they didn't believe me! Anyway the jam turned over QQ, unfortunately for me the 2 never came so I bust in 5th for just under £300. I couldn't sleep for a while after this despite it being pretty late anyway. I remember withdrawing a majority of the money straight away (once it had come out of poker held funds!) and having recently passed my driving test I spent it on upgrading the sound system and stereo in my old Fiesta, just as you'd expect a typical 18 year old to do!

    Definetly my favourite memory from a single tournament on Sky! I genuinely didn't come down from the high at least for a few days.
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  • ckdckd Member Posts: 1,386
    edited February 2013


    my best memory was when i 1st started playing on sky through the tv

    i took down the £11 midnight game and then another £11 game straight after winning over £400...those where the good old days....

    playing  sky through the tv was brilliant "LOUD APPLAUSE"


    maybe sky can put together a comedy real of the funniest moments from shows.. would be good to watch

    anyway happy birthday and please check your account at the end of the night as will play 10 £11dym to give you a birthday rake of £10

    here's to another 6 years

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  • samboram45samboram45 Member Posts: 232
    edited February 2013
    not really a poker moment , but it highlighted why i think everyon loves sky and the fantastic opportunity it gives people to interact with newpeople! basically i was sat plying a cash game and one of the players noticed she used to live in the same place i live now ! she was much older than me and she ttook me on a journey back to what it was like wen she used to live there , it was really fascinting , se was so surprised wen i told her hw extremly different the place is today! anyway we had a loong old chat whilst plying some poker ! this is wht sky is all about !

                                               HAPPY BIRTHDAY !
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  • TINTINTINTIN Member Posts: 1,612
    edited February 2013
    i remember playing in the nightly televised open when you used to have 3 "celeb" guests in the studio. each one of them had a prize on their head. well i played it as often as i could.

    i was fortunate to be on some of their tables and i remember knocking a couple of them out of the tourney. but the best one was when i played a certain page 3 girl, i think it was Leilani Dowding, well the nxt day she was on page 3 of the sun and i took great pleasure in boasting to my mates at work that i was playing poker with her the night before. most of them didnt believe a word i said but a couple knew of the channel and the format and believed me. happy days.

    happy birthday
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  • cenachavcenachav Member Posts: 2,682
    edited February 2013
    My favourite moment is when I was on analyse my play one Sunday last June.  what made it so special for me was that I had my girls over for the night and my eldest was up when I got the call from the show.  After about 20 seconds of talking she turned to me and said in a very loud voice "Shhh Daddy, I'm trying to listen to you on the television!" Oh and I managed to come seventh in the primo for £300, which was nice.

    Apart from that, seeing Orford getting his hand caught in the desk was quality telly.

    Happy birthday
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  • JAEGERBOMBJAEGERBOMB Member Posts: 1,516
    edited February 2013
    My best moment was being the "home" player during a mastercash night. 

    Tikay and LML were the presenters, and there was some diddy game of football going on (i think USA deserved to win).

    Was playing at my sisters house, as my connection at home is always dodgy and they asked me what the score was in the football.

    I swear, to this day, that i put the phone on the table before gently calling my sister, "Jeanette" ;)

    My worst memory, actually i dont really remember it, was an incident at Leeds SPT


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  • RyTyCrispRyTyCrisp Member Posts: 4
    edited February 2013

    Simply summing up poker for me was a hand in a freeroll.
     The guy represented a royal flush from the off
    i called it all the way down and by the river even i wanted him to have it.
    When he turned over the royal i think i was more excited than him!

    I may never have had one myself but at least i have seen one!
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  • craigcu12craigcu12 Member Posts: 3,962
    edited February 2013
    my best moments was last december when a fellow sky player give me the  link to improving my poker because ever since i read what the linked web had i've been able to play poker without having to make any deposits as i basically don't  suffer such heavy losses.
    i tried lots of things before that but what was differant about that one was it showed how to do best on the micro stakes and and included some play itself too.
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  • crgAAcrgAA Member Posts: 8
    edited February 2013
    I'm new to sky poker and to poker in general. I signed up to sky poker on the recommendation of my better half. He told me a few basics and i started playing. Loved the site and software and felt really safe with it.

    Signed up to the £10k new player freeroll with no belief in myself whatsoever and just didnt want to embarass myself. 1500 people in the tournament who i imagined were all seasoned pro's sitting behind their computers in sunglasses flicking casino chips in the air and here was little me jumping up and down every time I hit a pair lol

    Anyway started playing and won a few hands before I knew it someone at the table said we'd all reached the money. Was so excited to be wiinning 50p or whatever and so proud of my achievement. Then i won a few more hands and started phoning my better half "there's only 60 people left i've won a pound now", "there's only 30 left..., there's only 20 left...., I'm at the final table!!!

    Anyway to end the story i ended up finishing 3rd walking away with £350 for my troubles. My husband has starting calling me "Phil" after Phil Hellmuth (a famous poker player he tells me lol)

    I've told the world about it!!
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  • ckdckd Member Posts: 1,386
    edited February 2013
    In Response to Re: Happy Birthday to Sky Poker! - 6 x iPad Minis up for grabs!:
    my best moments was last december when a fellow sky player give me the  link to improving my poker because ever since i read what the linked web had i've been able to play poker without having to make any deposits as i basically don't  suffer such heavy losses. i tried lots of things before that but what was differant about that one was it showed how to do best on the micro stakes and and included some play itself too.
    Posted by craigcu12
    lol whats the link please ?
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  • Banterpit1Banterpit1 Member Posts: 14
    edited February 2013
    Knocked someone out after 3 all in hands with 99,88,99 to go heads up in a live comp and he told everyone he was gonna cut my throat in the break!!
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  • NoseyBonkNoseyBonk Member Posts: 6,186
    edited February 2013
    Best thing was Spornybol's phone-in to Orford's Disarrrster Mind. Sky Poker need to dig out the vid!
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  • craigcu12craigcu12 Member Posts: 3,962
    edited February 2013
    In Response to Re: Happy Birthday to Sky Poker! - 6 x iPad Minis up for grabs!:
    In Response to Re: Happy Birthday to Sky Poker! - 6 x iPad Minis up for grabs! : lol whats the link please ?
    Posted by ckd
    this was the link he had
    basically it had three steps and focused on these tables in perticular as microstakes are nothing like most tables due to the amount of loose passive and callingstations their are
    https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby/poker-school/beat-small-stakes-cash-games-1?tracking=pokersleftnav
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  • shaun09shaun09 Member Posts: 1,606
    edited February 2013
    I remeber when you was running a football freeroll. (was in2009/2012 i believe)I think it was when England was playing. Top 6 got prizes. 1st was an ipad and it worked its way down in prizes to 6th which got "tikay for the night" I was pretty new to poker and found it funny that i came 6th out of 500 odd. I wasnt to sure what to do, 

    So i emailed sky and just asked if i could swap the prize for entry into the thursday night BH, As i dint know what i would do if Tikay came over to mine! Im not the most confident guy, 

    So Sky let me swapped it and i think Sky Dan/Dave cant remeber which one, Said Goodluck, Take it down! And i only went and took it down for £1900. Felt so good as my first MTT win and my biggest cash still to date. What a swap!
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  • Lambert180Lambert180 Member Posts: 12,197
    edited February 2013
    I'd have to say my favourite memory was going to SPT Cardiff. It was only my 2nd ever SPT (after going to Brighton a few months earlier) and I managed to come 12th out of abuot 180. Was a great day all round, got to sit with some people I'd always wanted to meet like TommyD, came away with a few quid too and met some other great people like Tikay.

    Great atmosphere and great fun, and I've been hooked since then. I've barely missed a single SPT since my first one and always try to get to them all.
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  • ckdckd Member Posts: 1,386
    edited February 2013
    In Response to Re: Happy Birthday to Sky Poker! - 6 x iPad Minis up for grabs!:
    I remeber when you was running a football freeroll. (was in2009/2012 i believe)I think it was when England was playing. Top 6 got prizes. 1st was an ipad and it worked its way down in prizes to 6th which got "tikay for the night" I was pretty new to poker and found it funny that i came 6th out of 500 odd. I wasnt to sure what to do,  So i emailed sky and just asked if i could swap the prize for entry into the thursday night BH, As i dint know what i would do if Tikay came over to mine! Im not the most confident guy,  So Sky let me swapped it and i think Sky Dan/Dave cant remeber which one, Said Goodluck, Take it down! And i only went and took it down for £1900. Felt so good as my first MTT win and my bigest cash still to date. What a swap!
    Posted by shaun09
    how rude of you shaun thought you was better than that
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  • ckdckd Member Posts: 1,386
    edited February 2013
    In Response to Re: Happy Birthday to Sky Poker! - 6 x iPad Minis up for grabs!:
    In Response to Re: Happy Birthday to Sky Poker! - 6 x iPad Minis up for grabs! : how rude of you shaun thought you was better than that
    Posted by ckd
    saying that tikay is worth less than £1900 you should be ashamed lol

    well done thought nice cash 
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  • shaun09shaun09 Member Posts: 1,606
    edited February 2013
    In Response to Re: Happy Birthday to Sky Poker! - 6 x iPad Minis up for grabs!:
    In Response to Re: Happy Birthday to Sky Poker! - 6 x iPad Minis up for grabs! : how rude of you shaun thought you was better than that
    Posted by ckd
    How is it rude? I was 18, If i won it now i would of thought different At the time I was living with my GF and it was a bit bumpy, Its also along way for Tikay to come. I wasnt ready for somebody to come over and help me with poker. Or go look at trains, bridges and Planes lol. Dont Judge me on that comment..

    EDIT: Thanks :P
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  • shakinacesshakinaces Member Posts: 1,590
    edited February 2013
    At the risk of throwing someone the opportunity for a brag post, one of the earliest things I can remember from soon after I discovered the Sky Poker channel was when one Tony Kendall successfully won The Open back in the days when the whole tournament was followed until a conclusion... think Helen Chamberlain was still one of the presenters it was that long ago... there was a fair amount of modesty shown, Tikay almost seemed embarrassed to have taken it down!

    On a personal basis, from my brief efforts playing MTTs on the site around that time, I somehow found myself playing poker in front of Sky cameras for some show that was meant to be given noobs a first taste of live poker. Probably for the best that I think it only got shown once as I made a shocking move that I'll remember forever... very much taught me the lesson to ALWAYS look at the stack of other players before making daft bluffs with junk against someone who had no choice but to be shoving their chips in to pretty much any bets... DOH!

    Can't believe it is only 6 years of Sky... seems to have been around forever since I first got into poker!!
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  • ckdckd Member Posts: 1,386
    edited February 2013


    best moment on sky for me did not happen as sky sam didnt have the guts to do it for me but would of been so so so so so so so so funny

    i asked him if he could post a fake list on the final day of the cash promo thats just gone and have all unknown names in the top 50 just to see the posts that would be put on by all in it 

    now that would of topped it all 

    would of been so funny to see
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