Wanted to try and catch you over the weekend in person but never saw you on any the breaks last night and will not be back at the casino. Shared a table with you last night but the seating arrangements did not allow us to chat.
The hard work you do on the forum speaks for itself with the advice, daily updates and the live updates at the SPT's.
Its been a pleasure to share tables with you at SPT's over the last few years. Yourself and the rest of the Sky team at the events are a credit to Sky.
Hope you enjoy your retirement and keep flopping those straight flushes.
Good Luck in the future @Tikay10 you deserve it. From running the forum to helping new players like myself many years ago with tips and advice. cheers for everything.
As usual, I’m very late to the party! I have barely looked at a poker table for more than a couple of years so all these announcements have passed me by! It was Sky where I started playing poker, I joined in the late summer of 2007, so I guess that I am one of the very early members.
I have many reasons to have fond feelings for Sky Poker but wanted to highlight just two.
I met my husband via this site! We have been together over 17 years, married for almost 15. Who would have thought a little chat box on a poker table could change my life so much!
Secondly, I have known @Tikay10 for a very long time and wanted to say thank you for your friendship and support. We both worked in roughly the same vicinity and would often meet for a coffee and gossip. As I said, I haven’t been on the site for a long time as I have been busy dealing with ‘stuff’ to the point that we haven’t been in touch as much as in the past but I wanted to wish you well with your forthcoming retirement Tony.
Darren and I have been living the dream since he joined me by taking a much earlier retirement than you are about to finally embark upon but you seem to be about to do as we do, travel as much as possible. Good luck to you and Gill, you will have a blast and thank you once again for everything.
I knew this day would come, and I hope you enjoy your retirement.
As you've seen first hand recently, I take my poker pretty seriously these days. I am slowly improving as a player each month and I don't know where its going to take me yet. I do have aspirations to win a WSOP bracelet one day, but we'll see what happens.
This drive and passion I have for the game, was almost completely inspired by you - and Sky Poker. The TV channel days, especially the moments of banter between yourself and Anna Fowler - are some of my fondest memories.
I hope you realise that whatever successes I go on to have in the game, part of that is down to the inspiration you've given me - and can't be the only one who feels this way.
I'm fortunate enough to be friends with many well known personalities within the F1 paddock - that's totally natural for me at this point. However, when ever I get the opportunity to talk to you at the tables, there's always a small part of me which is still slightly starstuck!
Without getting too soppy, I have the utmost respect for you and everything you've done for the British poker scene. I'm sure I will still see you at DTD, but your presence online will be sorely missed.
Wishing you all the best in your retirement. I found you to be fair, reliable, honest, and humorous. I do not know another person who would spend so much time attending to detail and accuracy, whilst acting diplomatically.
I kind of assumed you would be retiring when the change happened. All the best in your retirement, sounds like you have got plenty planned to keep you busy, so enjoy.
I've been here pretty much from the start, the TV channel was brilliant and you helped me and many others with the fundamentals of the game. (I always think if you can do the basics at anything you will be ok, just a bit harder to build on sometimes).
Your patience on the forum with moaners and groaners is a lesson to anyone in customer service, you will try and help and advise anyone, even though you probably know some of them are never going to take it on board.
The biggest compliment i can give you Tikay, and this is a lesson for anyone, is your humanity. In a world where the media portray, and borderline glorify, hate for other humans of whatever label, you always manage to consider the big picture and the fact that behind all of these labels is a beautiful human being.
To you, a muslim is always a human first . To you, a gay is always a human first. To you, a woman is always a human first.
It's that mentality that is, somehow, so rare in this day and age. Even if i never see you again it's that mentality that i will always remember you for.
We salute you sir on a job very well done, sky poker would not have been the same without you and I always thought you brought more of a personal touch to the brand. Have a great retirement!
I'm 77, & have worked non-stop since I was 16, so 61 years, the last 18 here at Sky Poker. I have a Bucket List that needs attending to, & if I don't attend to it now.... well, you can work that out.
Come on Elon Musk, get a move on so we can send Tikay to Mars and have him tick that off his Bucket List.
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Wanted to try and catch you over the weekend in person but never saw you on any the breaks last night and will not be back at the casino. Shared a table with you last night but the seating arrangements did not allow us to chat.
The hard work you do on the forum speaks for itself with the advice, daily updates and the live updates at the SPT's.
Its been a pleasure to share tables with you at SPT's over the last few years. Yourself and the rest of the Sky team at the events are a credit to Sky.
Hope you enjoy your retirement and keep flopping those straight flushes.
All the Best
Mark
I have many reasons to have fond feelings for Sky Poker but wanted to highlight just two.
I met my husband via this site! We have been together over 17 years, married for almost 15. Who would have thought a little chat box on a poker table could change my life so much!
Secondly, I have known @Tikay10 for a very long time and wanted to say thank you for your friendship and support. We both worked in roughly the same vicinity and would often meet for a coffee and gossip. As I said, I haven’t been on the site for a long time as I have been busy dealing with ‘stuff’ to the point that we haven’t been in touch as much as in the past but I wanted to wish you well with your forthcoming retirement Tony.
Darren and I have been living the dream since he joined me by taking a much earlier retirement than you are about to finally embark upon but you seem to be about to do as we do, travel as much as possible. Good luck to you and Gill, you will have a blast and thank you once again for everything.
Sue
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As you've seen first hand recently, I take my poker pretty seriously these days. I am slowly improving as a player each month and I don't know where its going to take me yet. I do have aspirations to win a WSOP bracelet one day, but we'll see what happens.
This drive and passion I have for the game, was almost completely inspired by you - and Sky Poker. The TV channel days, especially the moments of banter between yourself and Anna Fowler - are some of my fondest memories.
I hope you realise that whatever successes I go on to have in the game, part of that is down to the inspiration you've given me - and can't be the only one who feels this way.
I'm fortunate enough to be friends with many well known personalities within the F1 paddock - that's totally natural for me at this point. However, when ever I get the opportunity to talk to you at the tables, there's always a small part of me which is still slightly starstuck!
Without getting too soppy, I have the utmost respect for you and everything you've done for the British poker scene. I'm sure I will still see you at DTD, but your presence online will be sorely missed.
I found you to be fair, reliable, honest, and humorous.
I do not know another person who would spend so much time attending to detail and accuracy, whilst acting diplomatically.
The forum and everything you brought to it will be sorely missed, except for perhaps the concrete and train chat.
Have a blast ticking off the bucket list, well deserved.
Sky Poker will always be different to other sites. But it will be a whole lot less different without you. You will be greatly missed.
It's a shame this Forum is going. But that is a whole lot less important than you going.
Wishing you a long and enjoyable Retirement. You deserve it.
**** enjoy yourself.
I've been here pretty much from the start, the TV channel was brilliant and you helped me and many others with the fundamentals of the game. (I always think if you can do the basics at anything you will be ok, just a bit harder to build on sometimes).
Your patience on the forum with moaners and groaners is a lesson to anyone in customer service, you will try and help and advise anyone, even though you probably know some of them are never going to take it on board.
Thanks for everything you have done for Skypoker.
Greg.
To you, a muslim is always a human first . To you, a gay is always a human first. To you, a woman is always a human first.
It's that mentality that is, somehow, so rare in this day and age. Even if i never see you again it's that mentality that i will always remember you for.
You are without question a good man.
You will obviously be sorely missed!
Thanks for all the hard work and patience over the years