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dunnyo, as long as you both got photo id on you, you will be able to join on day, takes only about 3 minutes, but may be busy close to reg time so give yourself time!!
Then you will both be able to play in any side events, but hopefully you will stay in the main SPT mate!!
I would normally say i'll see ya there, but looks like i'll have to give this one a miss!!
Shame coz i wanted to go for 3 SPT Final tables in a row!!
So see ya at another!!
If they are gonna add some new games though, I'd definitely put 7 card stud top of the list, it's great game.
you get dealt 4 cards,, 3 face down only you can see & 1 dealt face up for all to see,,,, its played same way as holdem i.e flop turn river etc but you must use 3/4 cards in your hand so you can only use a maximum of 2 community cards,,, its a great game its not well known unfortunately but nice to see someone asking
My apologies, I must have missed it.
I will reply this evening.
Once again, sorry.
Sorry I missed this. A polite "Mr Kendall", too, now I do feel bad! Tell you what, I've been called a few things today, but that's another story. Ho hum.
The answer "no", there is absolutely NO standardisation of chip colours in the UK, or the world for that matter. Every Casino/Cardroom does their own thing.
In many casinos, the chip denoms are not even marked on the chips, the dealer has to explain. Go figure.
As to the UK, it'd be kind of neat if the regulatory bodies - the GC for example - insisted on standardisation. Pretty poor, really.
The SPT uses the host Cardroom's chips, so again, no standardisation. We are considering getting our own, but there are issues with that, too, because people tend to nick them, & nicking a bunch of high-denom chips brings problems down the line. Transporting them to & from venues is problematical, too. And there has to be seperate chips (different colours etc) for side games, SNG's etc. All very awkward.
Nevada? Same thing. Every casino different. Not quite as daft as it sounds, as people would try & nick them from Venue A & weed them on in Venue B if they were all standard colours.
The Binion family, who used to own Binions, had a terrible do many years ago when one of the family - the eldest son I think - nicked a bunch of high denom chips & cashed them in. Where there is money, there are cheats & thieves, sadly.
In Aviation Club de France, in Paris, they use "plaques" for high denoms, very strange that, so do a few UK Casinos. Bit hard to riffle......
A casino in Sheffield - Napoleans - uses, in TOURNAMENTS, a 200 denom chip. Work that one out!
Hope that answers your question fully, if not satisfactorily.
On a side note,on something that was brought up regards to colour blindness. At a live event the other day the chap next to me was struggling with chips i asked if he was colour bind and he said yes. I offered to help him stack his chips with the value face up in each stack, the lad smiled and said that would be wounderful. When doing so one of the other players at the table complained that i was effecting someone elses betting because he know knew what chip was what. The guy was declareing his bets anyways so im not sure how i was effecting this at all.
But out of curiousity what is your personal view on regards to someone else on the table assisting someone who is colour blind assisting him stack his chips and nothing more.
Wicked, thanks a lot. I will see how the the multi-tabling goes
Hello TiKay, many thanks for your run-down on poker chips. It was very helpful in view of the absence of information on the subject and even included an illustration!
I was very surprised to learn that there is virtually no standardisation even presumably at casinos within the same Group. The detailed designs and logos on most casino chips must go some way towards preventing their misuse.
Chips without denoms and colours depending on the day of the week! This must result in occasional betting errors. Presumably dealers and supervisors are allowed to exercise some discretion despite the strict rules of play!
May I compliment Sky Poker on the very entertaining Live Cash Game shot in a chilly studio. It's interesting to watch the player's stacks and try to figure the denoms. In this case mostly £1 and £5 and with some purples which I think must have been £25. Mr Thew had the biggest stack!
Once again thank you for your help
Enjoy!!
A Hoonkey in Chicago...
A Drinking Den in London...
A Speak-easy in New York...
....I know this dont help tho!!! LOL!!
comon guys really lol i cant believe that nobodys heard of this, ill admit its not a well known game but someone must know it but even if we cant get billabong poker my quiestion still stands, will sky poker bring new games to this sight as they say the sights growing then could it be possible to have more games to select from, i was hoping tikay might shed some light on this subject
I have sent you an e-mail and a fb message the other day. Have you seen them?
George
I have been inundated with "incoming" stuff this week, please bear with me. I did get all 4 of your notes via Facebook, e-mail, & of course this thread.
I am aware of the game, which is a sort of version of "Spanish" or "Manila" Poker.
Sky Poker have an open mind on such things, & will introduce various new games in the longer term I imagine. "Priorities" mean that it is unlikely that "Billabong" will be considered any time soon, I'm afraid. Very vew Sites offer it, (actually, I don't know ANY that do, though that's not a problem in itself) & for good reason, it is very much a minority interest game I'm afraid.
Very few people would be interested, in my personal opinion, & ther worrry would be that very few would even understand it.
Away from Hold 'Em, Omaha is the next most popular variant, but I doubt 5% of the poker population play Omaha regularly. Then there is Stud, Razz, LowBall, HORSE, & so on so forth, so I'm afraid I can't see much prospect of "Billabong" in the foreseeable future, nor can I see that it has any commercial value. That does not mean it is a bad game, we all enjoy different things, but demand would be such that liquidity would be near to zero.
thanks for the reply much appreciated
I am sure the answer to my question maybe on the site somewhere so appolgies if I have missed it.
I notice the sky poker team at the end of each quarter has been removed, I wonderd what was the reason for this and if there any plans to replace this.
Could I also suggest that sky look at rewarding the players who do come top of each repective league if this has been removed as I know myself I have taken pride at being top of the MTT but would also be nice to get some reward for this at the end of the month or quarter.
Thanks
Jason