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The Sunday Night Live show thread- with Rich and Reds. (+ MTT seats to be won)
Afternoon my fellow pokerers,
And here's your show:
7pm-MasterCash coverage
8pm-Analyse My Play – live coverage from the early stages of the Primo. We'll mask the hands in this hour. So please fire in as many hand requests from the main event as you can.
9pm-Live coverage of the £30K Super Roller Semi satellite, which starts @ 8:30pm
10pm-More satellite coverage- this time from the SPT London Semi, which starts @ 9:30pm
11pm- Late-stage live coverage of the £10K Primo main event
Now, last night I enjoyed a free meal for two at my local posh gastropub which I won for my team coming first in the school annual quiz night. Oh yes, bring it! Which leads me on nicely to tonight's talking point, aside from all the poker...
We have a live show for tonight starting at 7 on Channel 861 and streamed from this site- and taking you through it will be myself, Richard Orford...
And uber-pro Redmond Lee...
And here's your show:
8pm-Analyse My Play – live coverage from the early stages of the Primo. We'll mask the hands in this hour. So please fire in as many hand requests from the main event as you can.
9pm-Live coverage of the £30K Super Roller Semi satellite, which starts @ 8:30pm
10pm-More satellite coverage- this time from the SPT London Semi, which starts @ 9:30pm
11pm- Late-stage live coverage of the £10K Primo main event
Now, last night I enjoyed a free meal for two at my local posh gastropub which I won for my team coming first in the school annual quiz night. Oh yes, bring it! Which leads me on nicely to tonight's talking point, aside from all the poker...
What's the most notable thing you've ever won in a competition?
A fabulous gameshow style world-cruise? Or something really tatty and pointlless in the local jumble sale tombola? Were you crowned Scunthorpe Crossword Champion 1997 and won a book token? Or were you the only person who bothered to enter an obsure competiton and therefore took the first prize by default? etc etc etc.
Get your competition anecdotes in to us and the best 4 will, fittingly, win the competition and get freerolled into Tuesday night's mini Bounty Hunter. Let's face it, depending on your answers, it might be the best prize you've ever won :-)
And of course, even if you don't win, I'll still read out your name and story to everyone else watching at home, so please do take part and share in the show.
Get in touch by using this thread, emailing skyopen@bskyb.com, or tweeting #skypokertv
Lookig forward as ever to hearing from you all tonight and I'll see you later at 7pm sharp.
Did I mention I won the school quiz, btw..?
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Hi Rich n Reds,
As an utter pessamist i dont enter any competitions so you cant win much that way (although im a dab hand at the nigerian lottery which i never enter ....... i think the prince is entering me in it with the money ive lent him?!?) so the 2 mini entries ive won top the list (thanks orf).
Just wanted to hear Reds thoughts on the sky poker cash games first 2 episodes, does he wish he was sat at that table with Yong/Rastafish etc. Also whilst I have no problem at all with the style SKY are going for attempting to bring new ppl into the game, im not entirely sure the commentary is conducive to this, (we all know how smug James can be;) but they seem to be using alot of complicated poker terms and generally not explaining the action enough that i feel may be putting newbies off, thoughts?
Generally four was enough to win it so we only chose to phone in if we got four or better.
One day, we both knew the first answer because we had read it in a quiz book the week before. Imagine our surprise when the same applied to question two..... & three......& four ................& five........& six. I made a quick grab for the "Marks & Spencer's" Quiz Book. Lo & Behold on page one the first six questions were the ones read out. Just a minute to look up the answers at the back and we won the prize within two minutes, a record.
The following week, we were ready. We had the quiz book at our side. In fact, we had all the phone number digits rung except the last one so we could get straight through. This time we won within 30 seconds courtesy of the answers to the first six questions on page two.
This continued for about six weeks but they didn't click on. Each week they moved on to the next page of the book & asked the first six questions.
Getting the prize involved visiting Viking's studio in Hull and collecting a bag of about a dozen records and freebies. The prizes were hardly worth winning but we just loved the fact that they didn't click on how we got the answers so quickly (they were tough questions).
Imagine our surprise on about the seventh week when we were all primed with page seven open but the questions they asked didn't match the questions on page seven. We had been rumbled. For some reason, I turned over the page & there was one of the questions on page eight but only one. As I looked across the page, I saw another one on page nine...then another on page ten etc.
Someone clearly thought that this would be enough to beat us. Ok, it slowed us down a bit but moving along one page to the next was hardly a major challenge.
After that they changed the pattern each week (there were several hundred pages in this book). One week they did multiples of five, another week square numbers (4-9-16-25-36-49) and even the Fibonacci sequence (look it up if you don't know what this is). It was no longer a quiz but a game to spot the pattern. It was like some sort of phony war. They knew we had the quizbook but rather than source questions from somewhere else they tried to see if we could crack their increasingly complex patterns.
In the end they broke us. We gave up. We lost interest and stopped ringing in. In fact, the first week we didn't ring in, someone won it with two correct answers (maybe most people had given up phoning) and the station got messages asking where we were. With ten minutes to go (it was a three hour show) I felt tempted to ring but resisted. It was time to creep back into the shadows.
It still makes me smile, which is all I have to show for it. That and a pile of vinyl by a load of no hit wonders.
There was me getting on the bus dressed as a blue rabbit with my Mum! I wasnt allowed to get ready in there. Worse still they insisted on taking pics of all winners with the provost.
Which ended up in the local newspaper, so every1 got 2 see it:(
On the bright side, got some free choclate:D
This was a great prize, how long it lasts is still to be determined. (By the time u read this chances are it will have ceased to be, be a dead prize)
A researcher invited my cricket team to an audition in London.
The night before, the whole team indulged a little too much at a fancy dress party and only two of us woke up in time to catch the train to London.
With myself dressed up in the loudest Hawaiian Shirt and my friend wearing dungarees that wouldn't have been out of place on the Beverly Hill Billies the train ride was an experience!
When we eventually arrived at Shepherds Bush we walked into a room, full of hopeful contenders (freaks might have been a better description).
Spoilt kids with their mothers, grown men tap dancing, one chap dressed as a clown and several probably just escaped from the local lunatic asylum.
we didn't know whether to laugh, cry or pinch ourselves to wake up from this potential nightmare!
To cut a long story short, we won a place on the first timed show, met John Leslie (Who was a very decent bloke!) had our hair cut by Trevoe Sorbie, our make up done by a professional (Teresa Farminer) who worrked with Madonna and our clothes selected by the fashion correspondent from the Daily Mirror Ollie Picton Jones).
We still dont know whether we were selected because we were the most normal, or the biggest freaks!
The day of the show went too quickly! The crew, researchers and presenters were a delight!
The embarrassment however still lingers some 15 years later!
Have a great show guys!
8.02pm - Kings into Aces. Competition prize lasted a whole 2minutes!
I won a cinema ticket after sending in an STI sample for testing!
I never used the ticket, because it felt a little bit dirty.
Luckily I came back clean - hurrah!
Hand History #623524674 (20:47 17/02/2013)
Further to the SPCG commentary discussion i take your points and dont think it should be dumbed down to the lowest level of explaining everything i just felt at times they were saying stuff in the same way as an ept show such as "ryan is open ended" etc, im just worried that the number 1 reason ppl dont take to poker is that they find it confusing and its about striking that balance, i agree its very tough to find the happy medium.
love james really
But really it all boils down to Hartigans voice .... it suggests how proposterous it would be that anyone should not know what he means / agree with him