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Sky Poker Presenters + Analysts charity bets!

Sky_JackSky_Jack
edited June 2011 in Poker Chat
Afternoon all,

The football season is just around the corner and at Sky Poker that means the season of giving! We've given our presenters and analysts a free £25 bet to use on Sky Bet. Any winnings from the bets placed are going to the Sky and WWF Rainforest Rescue charity, which aims to save 1 billions trees in the Amazon Rainforest.

Now this is all for a very good cause, but the real question is how will our presenters and analysts measure up when it comes to tipping? Who's a Paul the Octopus and who couldn't pick a winner in a one horse race?

Keep checking this page to see who they've tipped and how their bets are getting on!
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  • Sky_JackSky_Jack
    edited August 2010
    Oh and a quick question to you all, who would you put money on this season? Any sports welcome.
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  • unknown_usernameunknown_username
    edited August 2010
    shrewsbury league 2 winners!!!!
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  • J-HartiganJ-Hartigan
    edited August 2010
    When Sky_Jack told me we were marking the start of the football season, I assumed he meant AMERICAN football.  As you do.

    So, I've placed my £25 on Frank Gore of the San Francisco 49ers to have the most rushing yards of any running back in the NFL regular season - at odds of 15/1.

    (And, for the record, I'm not the only member of the Sky Poker presenter/analyst team who's mistakenly bet on a sport with an oval ball!)

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  • TrevorHTrevorH
    edited August 2010
    In Response to Sky Poker Presenters + Analysts charity bets!:
    Afternoon all, The football season is just around the corner and at Sky Poker that means the season of giving! We've given our presenters and analysts a free £25 bet to use on Sky Bet. Any winnings from the bets placed are going to the Sky and WWF Rainforest Rescue charity, which aims to save 1 billions trees in the Amazon Rainforest. Now this is all for a very good cause, but the real question is how will our presenters and analysts measure up when it comes to tipping? Who's a Paul the Octopus and who couldn't pick a winner in a one horse race? Keep checking this page to see who they've tipped and how their bets are getting on!
    Posted by Sky_Jack
    I have put my money where my mouth is - I could hardly back against the glorious Gunners now could I! So it's Arsenal to end our agonisng wait for silverware by taking the Premier League title! £25 at a more than genrous 6/1.

    I know that Greghogg in particular is going to be reminding me every time they lose - but an opening day win at Liverpool on Sunday could be the springboard for a big season...especially with World Cup winner Cesc staying where he belongs in north London!
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  • unknown_usernameunknown_username
    edited August 2010
    In Response to Re: Sky Poker Presenters + Analysts charity bets!:
    shrewsbury league 2 winners!!!!
    Posted by MICKYBLUE
     Drop the Shrews and you will have the League 2 winners Bury! :)
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  • emilyeggemilyegg
    edited August 2010
    Great cause SkyJack, hope you can all make a few-bob. Southend United are overpriced at 33/1 for league 2. If you are allowed an an e/w bet, then this should not be missed.
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  • unknown_usernameunknown_username
    edited August 2010
    Hi Sky Jack.
    Great idea, but I was just wondering. Do Sky have a reserve fund just incase the presenters and analysts don't make a return lol?

    Here are some of my predictions

    Richard Orford
    (Returns = -£25.00) I think the rain forest will be gone before this man makes any money

    Tikay
    (Returns = £25.00) A wise man this fella, but I think he will only break even

    Sky Rich
    (Returns = £30.00) I think this guy is a safe bet (Always gets it done)

    Lisa-Marie Long
    (Returns = £0.00) Her money is going on a player with the best legs (Not his ability to score first)

    Sky Claire
    (Returns = £not on your life) Might get her money back if she gets hold of the Turf Accountant round the neck lol (She can be very persuasive I think)

    Sky Jack
    (Returns = £0.00) Looks more likely to spend his winnings down the pub.

    All a bit of fun and I wish you the very best of luck guys and girls.

    PS Don't send any real money to the rain forest charity though, do you realise how many trees we would have to use to make those crisp pound notes?
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  • DP-FitzDP-Fitz
    edited August 2010
    the future is oval jimmy.
    i nearly had my money on ed giddens to win next years big brother, but after reflecting upon the needs of the wooden amazonian tree forests, and praising the gods that there is no more BB, i have placed a divinly inspired 25 big ones on Leinster to hold up the heineken.
    14:1
    how can i lose?
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  • unknown_usernameunknown_username
    edited August 2010
    In Response to Re: Sky Poker Presenters + Analysts charity bets!:
    When Sky_Jack told me we were marking the start of the football season, I assumed he meant AMERICAN football.  As you do. So, I've placed my £25 on Frank Gore of the San Francisco 49ers to have the most rushing yards of any running back in the NFL regular season - at odds of 15/1. (And, for the record, I'm not the only member of the Sky Poker presenter/analyst team who's mistakenly bet on a sport with an oval ball!)
    Posted by J-Hartigan
     I think you will find the NFL is going green this year with the Jets winning the Superbowl on the back of Shonn Greene gaining the most rushing yards of any running back. Just saying!
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  • bandinibandini
    edited August 2010
    Hibs to win The Scottish Cup @ 12/1.

    Practically a gimme.
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  • GREGHOGGGREGHOGG
    edited August 2010
    In Response to Re: Sky Poker Presenters + Analysts charity bets!:
    In Response to Sky Poker Presenters + Analysts charity bets! : I have put my money where my mouth is - I could hardly back against the glorious Gunners now could I! So it's Arsenal to end our agonisng wait for silverware by taking the Premier League title! £25 at a more than genrous 6/1. I know that Greghogg in particular is going to be reminding me every time they lose - but an opening day win at Liverpool on Sunday could be the springboard for a big season...especially with World Cup winner Cesc staying where he belongs in north London!
    Posted by TrevorH
    Correct!


    Hi Trevor, you do realise that this is for charity don't you? You actually want to win i take it!

    6/1? Your having a laugh, you'd have done better backing Spurs e/w at 50/1:)

    Oh and if, as i suspect, Arsenal are potless for a 6th season in a row, Mr Fabregas will be off next summer to his boyhood club, Barcelona, innit!:)

    Good Luck
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  • GREGHOGGGREGHOGG
    edited August 2010

    Sorry, forgot to say good luck to all the analysts and presenters with their bets...

    I wonder if Rich will stick his £25 on WBA to win the league at 5000/1...

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  • J-HartiganJ-Hartigan
    edited August 2010
    In Response to Re: Sky Poker Presenters + Analysts charity bets!:
    In Response to Re: Sky Poker Presenters + Analysts charity bets! :  I think you will find the NFL is going green this year with the Jets winning the Superbowl on the back of Shonn Greene gaining the most rushing yards of any running back. Just saying!
    Posted by Donut64
    You may well be right, but I think Gore's very good value at 15/1.  I'm not just saying this as a Niners fan - he genuinely is one of the best backs in the league!!!

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  • Lisa_MarieLisa_Marie
    edited August 2010
    Right right I'm off to Skybet to measure up the balls personally... to decide which ones are best for me..
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  • SoLackSoLack
    edited August 2010
    Berbatov @ 40/1 ew to be top prem goalscorer
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  • emilyeggemilyegg
    edited August 2010
    In Response to Re: Sky Poker Presenters + Analysts charity bets!:
    Hibs to win The Scottish Cup @ 12/1. Practically a gimme.
    Posted by bandini
    lol Bandini, there were probably NO rain forests the last time the Scottish Cup made its way to Leith. ;0)

    For the statisticians out there it was 1902, and Buffalo Bill was spotted in the crowd.

    I do hope they win it again one day though....just hope that none of the charity bets go on it.
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  • christiannchristiann
    edited August 2010
    In Response to Re: Sky Poker Presenters + Analysts charity bets!:
    In Response to Re: Sky Poker Presenters + Analysts charity bets! :  Drop the Shrews and you will have the League 2 winners Bury! :)
    Posted by Donut64
    Bradford were just giving the shrews false hope on saturday! we'll take the title!
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  • cookie83cookie83
    edited August 2010

    Not sure what the odds are but Martin O'Neil to be next Man City boss...
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  • bandinibandini
    edited August 2010
    In Response to Re: Sky Poker Presenters + Analysts charity bets!:
    In Response to Re: Sky Poker Presenters + Analysts charity bets! : lol Bandini, there were probably NO rain forests the last time the Scottish Cup made its way to Leith. ;0) For the statisticians out there it was 1902, and Buffalo Bill was spotted in the crowd. I do hope they win it again one day though....just hope that none of the charity bets go on it.
    Posted by emilyegg
    :-)

    This is our year. You read it here first.
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  • Sarah_CSarah_C
    edited August 2010
    In Response to Re: Sky Poker Presenters + Analysts charity bets!:
    Great cause SkyJack, hope you can all make a few-bob. Southend United are overpriced at 33/1 for league 2. If you are allowed an an e/w bet, then this should not be missed.
    Posted by emilyegg
    Funny you should say that.... While my head is set on placing a Blackpool for relegation bet my heart and a hell of a lot of long cold afternoons at Roots Hall is crying out for a Southend promotion....

    Up the Shrimpers!
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  • RICHORFORDRICHORFORD
    edited August 2010
    Well, I've seen some obscenely extravagant long-shots at 14 and 15-1 from Messrs Hartigan and Fitzgerald. And a bet of utter clinical insanity: Arsenal to win the Premier League? C'mon Trevor. Pull yourself together man! You've absolutely lost it, mate!

    Am I therefore the only person to remember that this for charidee and we're doing it for the kids and therefore should be looking to actually MAKE some money here?

    To that end I've gone for something that's odds-on according to Sky Bet, and rightly so. It's my beloved lifelong team West Brom to avoid relegation from the Premier League this season at 5/6.

    Dammit, I did such a good job of preparing the groundwork for announcing that bet so that it wouldn't sound as laughable. But...there it is in black and white and yes, it looks as ridiculous as it is.

    Flame away dear community, I deserve it...

    ;)
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  • emilyeggemilyegg
    edited August 2010
    It should probably be the sand-flickers + 2 others to go down....so that 5/6 looks not bad with the likes of Wigan and Sun***land sure to be touching cloth.

    Boing, Boing.
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  • acebarry10acebarry10
    edited August 2010
    In Response to Re: Sky Poker Presenters + Analysts charity bets!:
    Well, I've seen some obscenely extravagant long-shots at 14 and 15-1 from Messrs Hartigan and Fitzgerald. And a bet of utter clinical insanity: Arsenal to win the Premier League? C'mon Trevor. Pull yourself together man! You've absolutely lost it, mate! Am I therefore the only person to remember that this for charidee and we're doing it for the kids and therefore should be looking to actually MAKE some money here? To that end I've gone for something that's odds-on according to Sky Bet, and rightly so. It's my beloved lifelong team West Brom to avoid relegation form the Premier League this season at 5/6. Dammit, I did such a good job of preparing the groundwork for announcing that bet so that it wouldn't sound as laughable. But...there it is in black and white and yes, it looks as ridiculous as it is. Flame away dear community, I deserve it... ;)
    Posted by RICHORFORD
    On holiday and still cant keep away :)
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  • darichdarich
    edited August 2010
    Rich - that's probably the worst odds on bet I've ever seen. They are odds-on in most places to go down!

    Huddersfield to win league one at 8/1 - get on!! ;-)
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  • Sarah_CSarah_C
    edited August 2010
    8-1 DONE!  and before you scoff Southend beat Bristol City in the cup this week who are 2 divisions above SO I am quietly confident about the boys in blue...

    Good luck all!  I think we're gonna need it...
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  • OnlyOneCTOnlyOneCT
    edited August 2010

    Couple of T20 Cricket Finals day bets here which i think are good value if anyone wants to listen to my inane attempts of cricket bet tipping lol! (Prices taken from Skybet)

    Hampshire to win T2O - 7/2 (No side who have had home advantage on finals day have gone on to win the T20 and for me i think 7/2 is cracking value personally as Hampshire have got a great mix of experience, youth and Dominic Cork!)

    Top Batsmen:
    Mark Pettini - 16/1 (I'm hoping Essex have a howler after they got lucky against Lancashire in the Quarter-Finals at Chelmsford but was very impressed with Mark Pettini's knock of 81 and with Alastair Cook not in the best of form, i think a lot could rest on Pettini and could be a cracking bet to be top batsmen)

    Top Bowler:
    David Masters - 20/1 (Very under estimated bowler that sadly bowled awesome against Lancashire in the Quarter-Finals at Chelmsford and if the Rose Bowl produces a wicket that is slow with very little bounce in the pitch then Master's miltary-medium pace could be a big weapon in Essex possibly winning the T20!)

    I just would like to say i do not dislike Essex at all, i'm just still really peeved off that Lancashire could not defend 180+ in the QF's!

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  • darichdarich
    edited August 2010
    In Response to Re: Sky Poker Presenters + Analysts charity bets!:
    8-1 DONE!  and before you scoff Southend beat Bristol City in the cup this week who are 2 divisions above SO I am quietly confident about the boys in blue... Good luck all!  I think we're gonna need it...
    Posted by Sarah_C
    Didn't realise the price collapsed to 9/2 after we won 3-0 on Saturday...it was 8/1 before then, but will still win it anyway :-) 
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  • darichdarich
    edited August 2010
    Phew you meant 8/1 on Southend's promotion - good luck with that one Sarah! ;-)
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  • Sarah_CSarah_C
    edited August 2010
    In Response to Re: Sky Poker Presenters + Analysts charity bets!:
    Phew you meant 8/1 on Southend's promotion - good luck with that one Sarah! ;-)
    Posted by darich
    Ahem, yeah.... I think there are similar odds on Schwarzenegger for president in 2012...
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  • MadHorseMadHorse
    edited August 2010
    Arsenal to win the premier league, its pretty much a garantee

    free money, lump on!
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