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Insult to poker
I have just played the bounty hunter, which is the showpiece tournament of the evening and what a shambles of a game it is!
3k starting chips, Av stack of now just 12bb after 38mins (as I type) and almost half the field already eliminated.
How is Sky Poker giving its customers value for money with games such as these?
I know that none of your are true poker players but you're getting seriously short changed by the smiling faces that pretend to be your friends on here and on the screen all night.
You only have to look around the internet for a few minutes to find far better value for money games and far better VIP programmes.
I'm sure that this message won't really hit home with most of you, as you know no better having probably used the site since its conception but its flagship tournaments are insulting your collective intelligence and no amount of patronising telephone calls and condascending hand reviews are going to change that!
I challenge the presenters to read this email on air and respond on air to my accusation that the flagship tournaments on this site offer little value for money for giving a true poker experience and allow for any kind of street by street post flop play after level three!
Would the presenters play tournaments with a similar structure using their own money on a regular if they weren't contracted to Sky Poker? I appreciate that there are some time constraints to fit the tournament into the TV schedule but there are ways around that should they want to find them, such as an earlier start time by 1 hour, allowing for more time in the earlier levels and more bang for your buck.
So, Richard and Ed, address this on air, I'd be interested in hearing your justifications for hosting such crapshoot tournaments night in, night out and not giving your players a proper poker experience for their hard earned cash.
The--Don
Barrow in Furness
3k starting chips, Av stack of now just 12bb after 38mins (as I type) and almost half the field already eliminated.
How is Sky Poker giving its customers value for money with games such as these?
I know that none of your are true poker players but you're getting seriously short changed by the smiling faces that pretend to be your friends on here and on the screen all night.
You only have to look around the internet for a few minutes to find far better value for money games and far better VIP programmes.
I'm sure that this message won't really hit home with most of you, as you know no better having probably used the site since its conception but its flagship tournaments are insulting your collective intelligence and no amount of patronising telephone calls and condascending hand reviews are going to change that!
I challenge the presenters to read this email on air and respond on air to my accusation that the flagship tournaments on this site offer little value for money for giving a true poker experience and allow for any kind of street by street post flop play after level three!
Would the presenters play tournaments with a similar structure using their own money on a regular if they weren't contracted to Sky Poker? I appreciate that there are some time constraints to fit the tournament into the TV schedule but there are ways around that should they want to find them, such as an earlier start time by 1 hour, allowing for more time in the earlier levels and more bang for your buck.
So, Richard and Ed, address this on air, I'd be interested in hearing your justifications for hosting such crapshoot tournaments night in, night out and not giving your players a proper poker experience for their hard earned cash.
The--Don
Barrow in Furness
Comments
It continually attracts 700 players so sky must be doing something right.
Ive got news for you, at least 1 of the presenters/analysts play these tournaments with his own money so your thread is mis-informed.
As kirstii says if you dont like it go somewhee else.
Don't let any of us hold you back
ps.try using your real name,its pretty sad using a girls name to get chatted up online.
theres the £20 deepstack at 7.15 for those who want the longer structure.
or better stil take your moaning over to the other sites.
It's as simple as this.
If you don't like the bounty hunters DON'T PLAY THEM!
There are plenty of other things to play, and if you don't like them then don't play poker here.
I can see the point that your making but i believe it offers a bit of variety to the main tournaments. I played in tonights one. Only my second time and i came 14th, i agree to an extent that it can become shove or fold but by playing good sensible poker you can make it to the later stages inspite of the people who treat it like a shovefest. I also think there should be more variety in the main tournaments and if they could find something to replace the bounty hunter which is better then i'd gladly play it.
What do you think they could do instead of the bounty hunter?
By the way did you see you hand review tonight? I was bit annoyed about my two hand reviews as they never said my reasons for doing what I did in both hands which I put in the forum so was made to look like an idiot to be honest who does not have a clue what I am doing when in fact I aint that bad really lol!
It seems that the tourney you'd most like is the £500 deepstack, have you given it a shot? I agree you get a lot more poker played with 15 min blinds but you have to remember they are only doing a 3 hour show so that speed of blinds wouldn't really be possible. I'm trying to build my bankroll the Chris Ferguson way so if i get to 400 quid i'll try the sleepstack lol
By the way what would you advice be playing tournaments like the Bounty Hunter and The Open etc as everytime I play them just bust out early lol?
and yes i used to play at pokerstars, but you play for around 2.5 hours just to make the lower cash, to reach the final table used to take 5-6 hours. Add on an extra hour at that final table its ridiculous and draining.
If the £20 DS is out of your price range, there is another DS at 20:15 it only costs £5:50 to enter and is £300 guaranteed, it gets 50+ people most nights and has a nice atmosphere as it has a lot of the same faces most nights...
Good luck at the tables Mozza
Cheers for the advice kirstii, good luck to you too!
I do play elsewhere, I played tonight just for a bit of something different for the first time in months and won't be playing again for a very long time!
I have yet to see anyone make even a reasonable defence against the points I made in my opening post.
The fact remains that in a pure poker sense, Sky Poker regulars get very little value for money and learn practically nothing about post flop play, especially when you consider the way the presenters try their best to be inoffensive to even the dumbest of moves at the tables!
I chuckle to myself when I see Tikay lauding the general level of ability of a Sky Poker player. Face facts, the average Sky Poker player would go broke in no time if they played on a proper site with even average players, the cash games are laughable and if the software was good for serious multitabling, the sharks would soon turn up and gobble up all the dead money on here!
Take the Russian Roulette games as an example that your glorious leader Tikay advertises. Do any of you seriously believe that there is any value in those? They exist purely to take advantage of those that don't know any better and I think it is disgusting that a so called respected poker personality such as Tikay endorses them!
I can see the attraction of the site from a community point of view. The channel makes a good job of making insecure, bad poker players feel welcome and comfortable but ask yourselves why no serious players are regulars on the site and why its growth has slowed down in terms of attracting and retaining new players.
I think you will find that the answer is because the site offers poor value for money to any self respecting poker player.
Sky Poker is a wolf in sheeps clothing and the majority of the regulars are frankly too stupid to notice.
That my dears, is a sad fact.
Never mind though, you'll get an email read out from time to time and get your poor play praised live on TV by an 80's TV has been, so its not all bad.
Quality, well thought out reply.
Did you get help to write it, or was it all your own work?