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Downhill Spiral
Is it my imagination or are there more and more 'fish' players joining sky poker?!?!!!...
I have been off site for about 3 week due to a house move and waiting for internet connection. I was finally reconnected to the internet on the 24th December. On boxing day I decided to have a couple of games and play a few tournaments. I didn't recognise many of the names entering for the tournies and it seems like there are a lot of new players on site.. (no objection to that...the more the merrier). As the tounaments progressed, and not knowing players on the tables.. I tightened up my game and did a lot of 'watching'. I could not believe some of the calls being made... (this is at £11 - £22+ buy-in level where you expect a decent standard of play). In one game my 5xBB raise under the gun with AA (blinds @ 50/100) was called by 7/3 suited.... the player wasn't even a short stack.. but sat just above average stack... I lost the hand to trip 7's... with on the river.. best part of my stack gone and he doubled up..this theme has continued for the last few days..Okay I hear you all say....they lose in the long run, but the fact is.. why do they call with such rediculous starting hands in the first place... and you end up losing to inferior players...it's so frustrating... I am at a point where I am thinking of quitting 'Sky Poker'... the standard of play has dropped dramatically since joining last june... it is turning into a luckers site..no matter how you play.... ABC poker, tight aggressive, loose aggressive, passive..doesnt' work with these guys. They'd call a taxi if they thought it win them as hand....
I have been off site for about 3 week due to a house move and waiting for internet connection. I was finally reconnected to the internet on the 24th December. On boxing day I decided to have a couple of games and play a few tournaments. I didn't recognise many of the names entering for the tournies and it seems like there are a lot of new players on site.. (no objection to that...the more the merrier). As the tounaments progressed, and not knowing players on the tables.. I tightened up my game and did a lot of 'watching'. I could not believe some of the calls being made... (this is at £11 - £22+ buy-in level where you expect a decent standard of play). In one game my 5xBB raise under the gun with AA (blinds @ 50/100) was called by 7/3 suited.... the player wasn't even a short stack.. but sat just above average stack... I lost the hand to trip 7's... with on the river.. best part of my stack gone and he doubled up..this theme has continued for the last few days..Okay I hear you all say....they lose in the long run, but the fact is.. why do they call with such rediculous starting hands in the first place... and you end up losing to inferior players...it's so frustrating... I am at a point where I am thinking of quitting 'Sky Poker'... the standard of play has dropped dramatically since joining last june... it is turning into a luckers site..no matter how you play.... ABC poker, tight aggressive, loose aggressive, passive..doesnt' work with these guys. They'd call a taxi if they thought it win them as hand....
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welcome back
i quit
doesn't make sense.
OH I CAN ONLY WIN AGAINST BETTER PLAYERS.
if u have that kind of mentality, then you sir are a donk. a stark raving donk.
Now apply logic to playing poker.
Maybe you win now?
Love this ;o)
Bear in mind that at Christmas laods of people get drunk and play for fun...it'll settle down again in the new year...always does!
xx
More bad players on here is a good thing.
They make me look better...
You have based you ur logic on 2 days and a few touneys also over the christmas period where most ppl will be drinking more etc like myself and not be concentrating as much as i would normally
On your conclusion that the majority of Sky players are donks/make donk bets then you should be happy and should then win over time
To keep new players interested and on line ... get them hooked etc etc etc.... their win ratio is much higher even though their play is sub-standard.. I beleive it all part of the programing as this also happens on a lot of other sites....This ensures new players get their bonuses...and that to their ''marvelous play and WINNINGS''and you have another customer.... I made nearly £800 profit my first 6 weeks on this site.. improved my game..and not won much ,if at all, since..yet my play is a lot tighter and I work out the probabilties of particular hands and opponents hands, and then whether to check, call, raise or fold..So I am going to but my theory to the test by asking the question....
Did you at least double your original bank your first few weeks on this site?
YES NO
POTY
I spend half my time reading about how dreadfully bad Sky Poker's software is, & the other half reading how clever it is, by being able (or even having the motive) to somehow programme a special river card to favour certain players.
Clever stuff, this Sky Poker software.
PS - thank you for your kind comments.
You certainly seem to be unfamiliar with the concept of irony.
However, I feel that I need to reply because some of you appear to be suffering from some form of mass delusion.
There are 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 different possible results when you shuffle a pack of cards.
The Sky Poker RNG generates one of these numbers each time that a hand of poker is played and "selects" the appropriate deck. It then "deals" this deck starting from the player seated to the left of the dealer. This means that the cards that you are dealt are randomised, not only by the selected deck but also your position at the table and the number of people sat at the table.
The RNG does not "think" about poker hands, i.e. it does not generate action hands or hands where the river always changes the outcome of the hand or hands where the bigger stack always wins. Neither does the RNG think about balancing the percentages of different types of hands. It just picks a random number every time that a hand is dealt, i.e. each hand is an independent event.
The RNG merely produces a random number which happens to represent a sequence of cards to be dealt. This number is determined before a card is dealt or any action takes place at the table. The RNG has no concept of poker. It is a Random Number Generator - it might just as well be generating the numbers for the National Lottery draws or for Premium Bonds draws.
To suggest otherwise implies that the people that run this site are corrupt and/or incompetent.
Why should I care what you post? Well, a further implication from your posts is that anyone else that continues to play here is either corrupt and/or stupid. I do not consider myself to be either of these things. Also, the more easily influenced amongst you appear to be willing to jump on any bandwagon without being able to give the topic any rational thought yourself.
If anyone is going to reply to this post, I'd appreciate it if you would think carefully before doing so.
I don't know how Sky Poker's RNG was built but generally, to create a number that big, you'd need to combine numbers generated from several random events.
The details of how the Independent Regulator works & what they protect players against is HERE
However, a timing from a clock on its own is not sufficient to provide a random number as large as the one required for a poker RNG. That is why several random events are combined.