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I have not received that e-Mail, probably because the addy you have is now no longer active. After the takeover, a new e-mail portal was introduced & we all have a new addy now. There was a "forwarding" service in place, but it expired yesterday, so e-Mails to the old addy won't reach me.
I'll send you a PM with my new Addy shortly.
Hope it's not going to be a nasty e-Mail....;)
(I had an underhouse, 4's full, whilst Stu had a the nut overhouse with Kings full. Cue the rivered 4 for quads).
Brutal stuff.
It's all part of what The Business calls "Transition", from the old regime to the new set up. There was an extraordinary "to do" list when SB&G tethered it's apron strings from Big Sky, hundreds of them, & so the last year has been a full time task to complete transition. Much of the data processing, accounting & HR functions (& many others) were "centrally" managed by Big Sky, so all had to be set up afresh.
Anyway, I have now received & replied to your e-Mail, & I have also actioned it.
Next case, as you were, stand by your beds, da de da.
Yeah I am having to get some things in order so I can free time up for the new VLV leaderboard.
I will probably be a brief visitor tonight, have a massive essay to write on 'modernisation' before Sunday is out... Been putting it off but I will have to bite the bullet and actually get it done sadly.
I don't know how I used to find the time to grind at the tables all day, most days.
Hopefully get a few games at least later!
Thought I was going to sneak the £5.75 bounty hunter to start the weekend well but couldnt dodge the hearts here for the chiplead with 4 left...
Note for Karan, aka Macacgirl.
Hi Karen,
I know that when you are really bored in your holiday home you sometimes pop onto this thread, so I wanted you to be aware of this, HERE
It's all so sad, & many of the PLO8 community were shocked to hear about it yesterday.
Just a quick explanation on the PM's I receive. They all get a reply, every one, but I have a little system for my work.
I keep an A5 Notebook, & every little task gets written in it, under separate days. There's usually 25 or 30 per day, & I jot them down as I go along.
First job each morning is to update that notebook, & carry forward each item that is not ticked.
Then I clear my PM's from the previous day, here & elsewhere.
Next, I address any Forum questions that have arisen overnight, such as Rose's question this morning. That often involves sending an e-Mail to the office, then later, getting the reply, acknowledging it, & then posting it on the Forum. So there's quite a bit of work to every question, no matter how trivial the q may seem.
Next up is to write any articles I need to do, & spam them, here, elsewhere, & on Twitter, prepare stuff for Meetings. I never go to a Meeting unless I am fully prepared, with bullet points & the like, then after every Meeting, I send another set of notes up.
It's a great system, & I'm a creature of habit, so it works for me, I need to be organised.
Having said that, this week I was scheduled to be on two telecon meetings, & managed to completely forget them both. That went down well.....
Think I need to include Telecon reminders in my little system.
Send new system.
I already did, about 10 days ago, after THIS
I did send a note up, but they don't seem to have the key to the Forum software clock, so I guess it's been added to the little list of jobs to be sorted.
I've also raised the subject of a weekly or bi-weekly £11 PLO8 MTT, &, in addition, maybe a £5.50 rebuy version. I suggested they should NOT offer a Guarantee at this stage, there's no need, if the players want it badly enough, they ought to support it with or without a Guarantee.
We shall see.
Hi again Brian, the Late Reg in the 8.325 tonight has been extended to 30 minutes, see HERE
Would disagree on the guaratees, even if they were tiny (5 or 10x the BI) I will support them by playing either way but it definitely helps numbers if there is some/any kind of guarantee.
Appreciate your efforts though, progress is progress
$1 rebuys are very popular on a lot of sites with similar traffic levels to Sky and seem to entice new players to give the game a try (it's cheap and they can rebuy if they bust).
Hi Mark, this topic has been thrown about for a long time on here and I have recommended on numerous occasions that a tourney that ran on here 4 years ago could be tried but nothing ever happens.
The MTT in question was a £500 GTD £5.50 rebuy which ran at 10 pm every Friday night. Now, whilst this rarely hit the guarantee it came very close most weeks and I imagine that with the increased numbers playing PLO8 on the site now compared to 2012 that it would hit it every week.
Would love to see this MTT trialled for a couple of weeks. Come on TEEKS sort it out.
Afternoon all, maybe I'm overdue for a little Update.
My little stubborn downturn - or whatever it is/was - remains a mystery to me.
Variance (probably not, too easy an excuse), the game has moved on or passed me by, failing mental dexterity, age related stuff, I've still no idea.
At the low point, I had dropped £250 from my balance on Jan 1st, & £300 from my all time high a few days later.
I pulled it all back at one point in March, but then dropped £150 again. As of right now, I'm £60 below my January 1st balance, so I'm oh-so-slowly pulling it back.
Bear in mind I've received around £200 in Rewards Payments in 2016, so really, the figures are worse than they look at first sight.
I do want to say a quick "thank you" to Markycash, who spent a lot of time helping me sort my game out with wise words. He really knows his stuff, & opened my eyes to a few things. Thanks Mark.
The games of late have certainly been really lively & much more "swingy" than previously.
We are often joined these days by a player called FILIPSEBO, who plays an extremely high variance line. Took me a while to grasp the best way to play him, but I'm happy to have him at my tables now. He raised EVERY hand, & pots EVERY flop, so as you can imagine, a plan is needed.
Markycash is very aggro, too, & the thing with Mark is his understanding of odds. If he has the right price, & DYM dynamics aside, he WILL call fairly wide. His game is pretty aggro though, & he has a very different range to most of us.
Despite whatever caused me to drop a few bob in 2016, I enjoy the game & the challenge more than I ever did, & can't wait to start my session every night. Love the game to bits, & still manage 30 games almost every night.
We are lucky to have such a great game.
I do get a little fed up with the serial moaners, the "high maintenance" guys, the teeniest little software glitch & they start a thread. Think if I ever started a thread because I missed a single hand of poker at the start of a game I'd think it was time to take a reality check. I mean, Sky Poker is not 'Stars & never will be. And thank the Lord for that in some ways. The Promos here are tremendous, I defy anyone to name an Online Poker site with a more inclusive range of Promos, & these allow for all levels of player, even Team Smallball to get involved. Team High Maintenance expect these Promos as standard, but are not prepared to accept that, you know, the occasional software funny turn causes us minor inconvenience.
Funny old game.
There was a Freeroll last night with a £6,000 overlay, & one chap wanted to know why he was expected to pay £2 to enter it. It had a "per head" value of £7. You do the math.
Interesting and informative talking oh8 with you and has helped me reconsider parts of my own game too.
Work has been quite stressful & challenging in 2016, in so many different ways, but things are getting resolved now, I'm very pleased to say. I was, & remain very keen, to see out 10 years here, but it was looking very doubtful indeed. I'm back on track now though, so maybe I'll get there yet. We shall see.
Sky Poker have not yet made it known, but they asked me to do the Vegas gig again this year, & I was chuffed to bits with that, I just love the annual Vegas work. I've done it every year for Sky Poker so far, but I don't like to assume things, so it was good to know I'd been selected again. Fingers crossed the Blogs will return this year, after a bit of a technical hiccup last year.
I will be going to Vegas on my own account, so to speak, in early June, as I do every year. I've almost finalised my playing schedule, around 20 events I think, all 4 & 5 card stuff.
Gill will be coming out to join me for 10 days in early June, so I'll not be playing or blogging too much during that period. This will be her 3rd year in Vegas with me, & she loves it to bits. We plan to head across to the Southern California coast again, & stay at Oceanside, just a couple of days. The flights from Vegas are only about $70, & then we'll catch the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner again, the train ticket is around $40 from San Diego or LA to Oceanside, so it's all very cheap.
The rest of time when she is with me we'll just do the usual Tourist stuff, go watch a Baseball game, eat out, go up the Spring Mountains, that sort of thing. She likes shopping in Vegas, so that works well, so I'll go play poker 2 or 3 days, whilst she goes shopping.
PS - 38 sleeps. Jeez, I'm excited. It really is time I grew up, but I can't help it, I get that Vegas buzz every year.
Finally, for now anyway, my health is much better than it was earlier this year.
I had piled on the weight, & as a result, it took it's toll. On Jan 16th I started hard dieting, & a daily 2 mile walk, & since then I've dropped 2.5 stones. Feel much better now, I really do.
Anyway, time to go lose some more money at the tables. oioi
Interesting read as always, really put me even more in the mood for Vegas.
Got close(ish) to a package elsewhere last night which was surprising as 91 hands into the game the best pocket cards I saw were a pair of 3s.
The quest continues...