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Tonight's Turbo Tuesday Show - slight change of plan.
Good morning.
Tonight's Show will be exactly as advertised.
Except.....
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Richard Orford is a little under the weather - he has a chill - so will not be Presenting as had been planned.
Hopefully, he will soon be as right as rein.
Get well soon Rich.
So, in his place....
....Jules Sowa has stepped in at short notice to coverr for Rich as Presenter tonight.
This will be Jules second Show, & she was well received last time, so I hope the Community will be as warm towards her as they were last time. It's a nerve-racking thing to do when you are new to the role.
She runs pretty bad, too, because.....
Scotty77, aka Ryan, was scheduled to do tonight's Show as Analyst, or "Expert", or whatever adjective you so choose.
However, some shifts have been swapped, & Ryan will now be doing Thursday (originally my shift) of next week instead of tonight's Show.
Unfortunately, that means there are no Experts available, & so I shall be doing tonight's Show.
How bad does Jules run? Two Shows on 861, both with me?
Orford will be getting jealous.
So the Show is exactly as advertised, except that the Presenter has changed, ditto the Analyst or Expert.
Oh, & there is one more change.....
As many of you know, the annual Cheltenham Festival takes place from Tuesday to Friday inclusive of next week.
So, between 8pm & 9pm this everning, we have a Guest, Michael Shinners, who is a big cheese at Sky Bet, & we will be discussing the Festival, & hopefully Michael will give us some pointers for next week.
If the horses don't interest you, we hope you will still enjoy it. It will not be "I fancy this to win that", we are hoping to make it lighthearted, fun, & informative, with some anecdotes & stories as we go along.
If it comes across OK, & is well-received, we will do more of these sort of things, before, for example, The Grand National, the US Masters Golf, Wimbledon, the Champions League Final, da de da.
Still not interested?
....well there wll be a few FREE BETS for Cheltenham on offer as prizes, as Sky Bet have kindly donated these.
So send in your questions about Cheltenham, Racing generally, or your own fancies for Cheltenham (& explain WHY), & we will dish out some FREE BETS tonight to the best of them.
Questions can be....
On this Show Thread
Via e-Mail to skyopen@bskyb.com
Via Twitter, to @SkyPoker, @skybet_Shinners or even to myself @Tony_Kendall
I cannot promise you will enjoy it, but it won't be just boring race previews, we will try & make it fun & enjoyable for everyone.
Details of the Prizes will be on thread later today.
If you can answer this question, AND the story behind of how, what & why, you may win one of the FREE BETS on offer tonight.....
What has this Coach got to do with the Cheltenham Festival?
Probably best by e-Mail Shaun, or everyone will see your answer & copy it!
skyopen@bskyb.com
The devil is in the detail Shaun. The more the better. Quite a story, one way & another.
have a great show guys, p.s what does Tikay fancy at the festival.
Great question ms-tree, EXACTLY what I was hoping for.
Incidentally.....
Sky Bet are now non-runner, money back at all races at the Cheltenham Festival.
See....
http://www.skybet.com/horse-racing/cheltenham-festival
Hoping it's not well received, then.
I like poker on Sky Poker. Tennis, 'orses and golf not so much. They have their own shows and what not.
It does beg the question of whether the poker side of Sky B&G is struggling... Or is the idea of this to encourage poker players to have a bit more of a gamble on sports betting? Obviously all poker players are degen gamblers, so why not, eh?
(I'm just playing devil's advocate really. I'll find something else to do between 8-9 so it's no bother to me)
5 consecutive wins between 1932 - 1936
Fred Varney a bricklayer, founder of Golden Miller Coaches bought a ticket in the Irish sweepstakes and was lucky enough to draw Golden Miller. A well known book maker bought a half share in Fred's ticket for £3000. When Golden Miller won, he won the top prize of £30,000 which he had to give the book makers £15,000, this left Fred with £18,000. With the winnings he gained from the sweepstake Fred and his son-in-law founded a coach company and named it after the horse Golden Miller. Many of the firm's coaches have a portrait of the horse on the front or side of the vehicle.
We are just trying to freshen up Channel 861, & there are lots of plans in train at present to do a lot of different & new things on Ch 861.
The Show has been going for over 6 years now, essentially unchanged, incredible really, but nothing can stay the same for ever, & we think we need to shake the tree from time to time, & find some new angles.
None of them will find favour with everyone, it's the nature of the beast, & no doubt we'll get a bit of stick, but it goes with the territory.
You have to ask yourself, repeatedly, can we justify the cost of the channel, & why don't other sites run a TV Channel? So we have to keep doing stuff which tries to ensure we are around as long as possible.
Better to try & fail, than not to try, & all that.
Good try Mr Vespa, but you have just copied that from Mr Wiki!
I could write a whole book about Golden Miller & stories about him & his connections, so we need a bit more really.....
1) Hoping it's not well received, then.
2) Looking forward to this, good idea
And there you have it!
Try wearing these shoes, some days comfortable, some days they hurt something shocking......;)
As alluded to, a Grand National hour would be another good addition, I can think of one SkyPoker related story that would be well worth a mention in that show.
For me annything that adds to the build up to the US Masters would be a massive plus, it's one of my favourite weeks of the year, US Masters build up on 861 equals win win!
I'm sure with a bit of foresight there could be promotions and interactions for the likes of GrandNational themed SkyPoker tournaments / completions, US Master themed Sky pooker tournaments / competitions etc. etc.
Funny you should mention the 1901 Grand National, won by Grudon, & ridden by the legendary Arthur Nightingall.
The thing was, it was trained by the Owner, the splendidly named Bernard Bletsoe. Now Bernard was a bit of a character, ZZZZ, zzzz, .........
Glad you are enjoying a bit of punting Alan. Good fun.
That is exactly the germ of the idea. Whether it happens remains to be seen, but that is, approximately, the idea.
Who is your fancy for The Masters?
Well now that you ask, I am feeling rather smug about my ante post bet on Brandt Snedeker at 66/1.
As long as his sore ribs don't turn out to be something more sinister, I'm at least happy that I have found a 'value bet'.
My other ante post bet is Dustin Johnson at 40/1, which for a while was also looking like great value.
How about you Tikay?
On a channel named "Sky Poker" you don't expect horse racing hours. To coin a phrase; it doesn't do exactly what it says on the tin.
Rebrand the channel as "Sky Poker & Betting" and there would be no such incongruence between the name of the channel and its content.
As I say, I'm not really fussed. It just seems a bit silly.
There will be quite a lot of fresh & different stuff coming up, almost all of it poker-related. My Nan used to say "a little of what is no good for you does you good".
To this day, I still don't know what she meant, but Nan's are never wrong, eh?
A "bit silly". Nailed me on that one.
I should have just drawn comparison to Tesco's value "beef" burgers. Can't believe I missed that one... Never mind.
I'm off to watch the football on Sky Cricket HD.
Have a great show Tikay and Jules.