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I'm leaving
Well, it is Autumn.
Seriously, what's with all the hissy fits and toys-out-pram syndrome this week? I've been away from the forums for a bit but has something happened that I've missed?
Is it that Sky Poker team thing? Considering myself a considerably better player than Dan, lolufold, ljamesl and gliterbabe and in possession of more sex appeal than LML I'm a tad peeved at being overlooked myself but the injustice will just make me try harder.
Or have bad people being calling other people names?! Jeez, sticks and stones and all that. Not everybody's going to like you whatever you do. The most cheek I ever get is from my best friends and I wouldn't have it any other way. The truth is out there.
Or is it bad beats? I've just had the most expensive poker week of my life (by far). Half bad luck, half my own stupidity. C'est la vie. Someone famous once said, "Poker is like life, most people don't learn from their mistakes, they only recognize them." I forget who, but touche. Some people, alas, can't even recognize them.
In saying that, if I don't win the free Primo entry for that avatar competition I'm off too! ;-)
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The voice of reason!
How come no one is leaving over putting out passwords for freerolls on the Devils plaything called Facebook
That's what I'm wondering.
It better not have been abuse towards me Dohlicious!
Or I'm leaving :-)
"That the customer is always right even when they are wrong"
LOL
When you win its your skill when you lose its a little Sky Mod picking on ya hee hee
I have had to delete a post in this thread as it broke the Forum rules.
Thank you for your understanding
Sky Mod
I only really decided to play on sky as my PC blew up and being lazy about building a new one I picked it as a good time to take a couple of months off of serious playing of poker, but I missed it a bit so I signed up and played via the set top box and sky remote. I ony stuck on a £100 just so I could check out how the tables played. Even though I normally play 100nl or 200nl depending on the amount of tables I decided it would be fun to play to normal bankroll rules and see how it went. I quickly made the 100 into 200 and then took a nasty run of 12 buyin drop all or which I was 80% or better when the money went in (including 2 one outer outdraws). Still, that sucked but it was just a bad run, and so I just carried on and currently I'm at £330, which is pretty reasonable as I've only played about 2 hours here and there on odd days, stuck to playing 10nl and been limited to only playing one table at a time due to playing on the set top box (boy did that feel slow compared to multi-tabling. lol).
That said, I will agree with you a little. The RNG on Sky does seem a little off. It's not rigged of course, as Sky just aren't that dumb. But my gut is telling me based on the last month and a half that it might be dealing a little to many suited flops, and paired boards compared to what you might statistically expect. However without being able to use PT 3 or Holdem manager to really see if what I think I'm seeing is fact or just usual eyes playing tricks on me, which can happen over small sample sizes of cards, To get a true reading you'd need 50,000-100,000 as a sample size to take into account all the possible variances. Lets face it, Fulltilt has its own very big, long thread on the forums where the rigged crowd rant and rave that FT is not legit either. Always the case though that their evidence is a few bad beats over a small time period and sample size of cards, which is just never going to prove anything.
Still, I'm not claiming it is wrong, as over small samples things can appear to be wrong when they aren't at all. Maybe when Sky gets downloadable software we will be able to get the answers, though I think I heard on one of the programs they might not allow things like PT3 or holdem manager anyway.Tgis may not be right, so excuse me if its posted somewhere on the forum, as not had chance to look over it all yet due to the above mention of my PC,
Last thing I will say is if you think a site is rigged or an RNG is so bad you don't want to play there, then don't. If you don't think any site is any good then go and play live. If after you find you get sick beats there as well, then give up poker and take up a different game.
I've commented on these threads often and I do have my doubts, here's 4 hands from last night
QQ x 3, all flopped sets
won one v AK brd AQxAx
lost two
xxQAx v AA - To add insult to injury he slow rolled my turn shove.
AxQTx v KJ
And I thought it was hard to make a big hand? Bigger than QQQ!!
I did win JJ v KK when I hit 4 spades on the r, boy did I get some abuse for that, all money in pf.
Flopped quads twice and made quads one other time, these used to be rare.
5 hours playing 3 tables.
It does appear that huge hands clash too often, if your on the right side of it its great but get on the wrong side and its a nightmare trying to overcome the stacks your losing. Who's not getting it in with QQQ on a xxQA brd when the villain bets into you again on the turn?
Maybe I'm just unlucky, I cant hit a draw anywhere near expectation but villains keep hitting 2/4 outers for huge pots. The RNG is certified, but I see this all too often.
do they do season tickets for travel out of area 51?
are doing this............
" the algorthyms can be manipulated and it is my opinion that they are being"
for a few grand rake
no way in my opinon !
( WHICH IS IN THOUSANDS NOT MILLIONS )
WOULD BE WISELY REINVESTED BACK IN TOO THE POKER SITE & SKY T.V CHANNEL &
MAYBE A LITTLE GETS SKIMPED OFF,
JUST LIKE IN ALL GOOD BUSINESS MODELS .
HERE IS A TRIPLE BARREL QUESTION FOR YOU ,
AT A GUESS HOW MUCH PROFIT DO YOU THINK THIS SITE MAKES &
WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE SKY BRAND PROFITS IS THAT &
IF YOUR NAME WAS RUPERT MURDOCH WOULD YOU ALLOW THIS ?
KEY FIGURES HIGHLIGHTED BELOW .........
British Satellite Broadcasting
Jeremy Darroch (CEO)
Andrew Griffith (CFO)
P.S I DONT THINK EVEN RUPERT BEAR WOULD !