Sky Poker

MacGregor7

Too many unnatural bad beats happen via Sky Poker....it's a con admit it.

rainman215

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Too many unnatural bad beats happen via Sky Poker....it's a con admit it.
Posted by MacGregor7

SSSHHH dont tell everyone

scouse_red

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Too many unnatural bad beats happen via Sky Poker....it's a con admit it.
Posted by MacGregor7

Nah quite simply it's Poker it happens everywhere

NChanning

 Hi MacGregor,

 It sounds like you are quite new to poker so let me welcome you to a game that can be great fun but also immensely frustrating and to a site where some of the players really are awful, (some are excellent and play professionally).

 

There is one little bit of advice I could give you it's this: if you locate a site which is full of bad players the worst decision you could ever make is to leave it - especially if it's because you feel you are only losing to these 'fish' because of their 'bad play'. There are a lot of points in poker that are open to debate, but here is a statement that is 100% FACT: In the long run, akin to the tale of the Tortoise and the Hare - Skill will outrun luck, and the fish will eventually always lose. The waters can get pretty rough out there but if you're a captain worth your salt, you can outride the storm and find easy waters where the net will overflow.

I would warn you from the outset though, just so that we don't have a problem with it in the future. People are getting bad beats on Sky Poker every single day, just as they are on Pokerstars and Party. I'm certain the software isn't rigged but I know for a fact that 80% chances lose 20% of the time and even 99% chances lose 1% of the time.

As players we need to reach a state where these bad beats have absolutely zero effect on us. We know we are going to win in the long run and that these are just part of the game. We should be actually smiling and thinking how great it is that people put their money in so far behind. If they didn't do that and they were never allowed to win, there would certainly be no professional poker players.

It's how we react to the beats and how they effect us that matters in the long run.

Don't even think about them.

Phantom66

^^^All great advice and I know you mean it and back it up in how you approach the game.

Is it not just a tad ironic that you made your name in the game as Neil "bad beat" Channing?

Can you remember how and when the nickname came about and if you could pick a new one would you?

Goody_Ace

I would just like to add (from an average player that is slowly getting better)

It is very easy to think the software is rigged...... a few bad beats on the trot that eliminates you from a tourny where before you were in the in the top few, naturally makes you think that.

Most times, if you reflect on your play, you played badly. It hurts to critisize your own play and is much easier

to blame the site software.

I'll admit, I nearly quit poker as I was sure sometimes the cards were pre-determined.

Who hasn't shouted at the screen 'NEVER' when someone makes a hand out of nothing time and time again.

Playing poker is a little like playing golf in reverse;

In poker you remember the bad beats and forget the times you got lucky and your 2's held

In golf you remember the great shots and putts but forget the shanks and almost gimme putts you missed.

I mean, pro's get knocked out of tourneys and they know all the odds and tricks.

I'll give a 'for instance' the other day I was playing in a £5 BH. The player to my right was very aggresive

never opened with less than 4X BB. When I tried to get at him, he always caught a card.

His stratagy was working very well and at one point he was the leader.

Luckily, he didn't know when to stop the aggression and I caught him out a few times with me now catching cards.

He then tilted with all-ins every hand. I knocked him out on a flip with some of the other players commenting BOOM lol.

As you rightly said Neil, timing is everything.

Malc88

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shazzee

ive been on this site long enough now to know there is something not right with some players on here.... i dont know if they work for sky or just plain simple cheats! you just gotta look at what they call big bets with in the long run and always hit. At first i just thought it was bad players but it gets worse something dodgy here

heathy13

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ive been on this site long enough now to know there is something not right with some players on here.... i dont know if they work for sky or just plain simple cheats! you just gotta look at what they call big bets with in the long run and always hit. At first i just thought it was bad players but it gets worse something dodgy here
Posted by shazzee

As i have said on this site before , there are so many Bad players on here who think by ultra aggresive it makes them a pro or play better , but i have noticed these players dont last long in Tourneys i play ..as in there longtivity , there stay aggresive then tilt.
Sure we get beats from them but you can pick your spots and beat them just as much if not more often then you get beat !