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Websites use unique visits in order to track how many views the have each day. I think this is what Sky should also do(or somethign relevant).
PS: Because some people are evil I am just stating an opinion here. I am not arguing or having a rant.
Nice reply, but there must be some modern technology that annoys you? Me Julee say's her touchscreen phone annoys her most.
Personally, it's the fish counter that lets salmon pass up the weir without anyone knowing except the fisheries board. They give the information to certain favoured fishermen that suddenly turn up above the weir and catch a whopper!
India and the starving nations is obviously a massive debate. It seems the availability of fresh water is the issue that modern technology and humanity has failed to apply itself to. We can pipe oil across vast continents!-- Modern technology can wander around on Mars looking for water, but if we google "global water shortage solution", we will find a website called G.W.S.S selling a waterless car cleaning system on a pyramid scheme as the solution to the whole planets water availability problems!--- That is modern technology
innit!--- Have a quick look at the website--- unbelievable!
I can't complain on the health front (thanks for asking), because I'm still here!-lol-- Normality is relative.
Although, sometimes I forget why I'm confused, then I remember, it's because I get confused when I forget.
Was just wondering if you,ve heard anymore news on the resizing of tables? Not heard it mentioned for a while
Thx
MP
as that promotion finished for if you get a royal flush???
No, I'm sorry, it is not currently running.
I cannot access the Hand History you quoted - I cannot access ANY Hand Histories that players send me - but I assumre you hit a Royal Flush? If so, I hope you got nicely paid, & you enjoyed the moment - in Texas Hold 'Em, they don't come along very often! Oddly, I play a fair bit of Omaha, 4, 5 & 6 card, & they are quite common in that game.
What a lovely game poker is, eh?!
As has been said by someone else, yes, it will be looked at.
I want to emphasise that ALL Tourneys are being reviewed as to whether Late Reg is applicable or not, nothing is cast in stone, & that review will be ongoing, & continious, for ever.
It is a fairly new thing here, & we are now nearing the time of year when Online Poker starts to get busy again, so all Tourneys will be continually reviewed as to Buy-In Levels, structures, Late Reg, etc.
Late Reg has a Marmite Factor - players either love it, or hate it, some still don't fully understand it, so the changes will continue, trying to find the right balance that suits most players, most of the time.
PS - Good start on Saturday, v Bristol City, yes? Good luck tonight, up at Huddersfield. Start the season with 2 wins, & you get momentum, & impetus, & you never know what might happen then.....
Yup, coming along nicely. We will not be giving dates though, I learned that lesson the hard way!
Hope to see you at the SPT Grand Final next month.
Why ever would you think that Sky Poker do not already do that?!
You say "not having a rant", & yes, I agree - it is a fair question, but one that surprises, to be honest. I don't mind any or all questions of that nature, because poker players often do not realise how an Online Poker Site works. Personally, the more these things are explained, the better, imo, though of course a line has to be drawn with commercially sensitive stuff.
So, unique visits. It's a prime measuring device, they know exactly how many players are on the Site, seated, at any given moment, every single day. There are Daily, Weekly, & Monthly reports, & the very first line on every one of them is "Uniques". ("Uniques" are the number of DIFFERENT players - thus "Uniques" on the site, in a given period - Day, Week, Month etc).
Uniques are are also measured by buy-in level (high, medium, low), format (cash, Tourneys, SNG), on a daily, weekly, & monthly basis.
These reports are key to the business, & the Daily Report comes through at smack on 9am every day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year. For each of the SB&G Family, "Uniques" are the very first line on the report.
Once the Uniques are known, it is the starting point for almost all analytics.
How is the Omaha coming along? I am seriously tempted to drive up to Coventry tomorrow (Wednesday) to play the GUKPT £250 Omaha Tourney. Live Omaha Tourneys are so rare in the UK, it'd be a shame to miss the opportunity. I am certain it would be a wise use of £250......
Memories like that are what poker is about.
It's a very odd thing, but I've had a few bad times at the poker table, but my memory seems to erase them, though to be fair, it erases a lot of stuff these days.....
Good memories seem to stay forever though.
I really can't bring to mind any technology that annoys me. I see people "tilt" - that's the modern word in poker, tilt - about THE most inconsequental things, which I find very odd. I think I just look at these things differently because of my age. Lifer is too short to waste being tilted about inconsequential matters. Mine is, anyway....!
I think the point you make about our seeming inability to solve the water crisis in India & other parts of the sub-continent, & yet we can pipe oil & gas right around the world, as good as any I've seen.
Water is THE most amazing thing, too. Too much, too little, it floods us, drowns us, feeds us, & kills us. Apparently, water is a sort of "closed system". The amount never changes, it just goes round & round, in ice caps, clouds, sea, rivers, lakes, aquafers, but keeping the system in balance is the thing. So often, there is too much, or too little.
We live in a very odd world. Pretty amazing though.
Water---- Solar powered desalination plants can turn sea water into fresh water--- In just a few years these plants could (in theory) solve the worlds fresh water problems--- Saudi Arabia lead the way, but, as with all technology, it will become more affordable, and (in another theory) Africa and india could end up with more fresh water than anywhere else on the planet!
My original reference to new Accounts was simply because another chap had asked a question about it, & he had made a sort of inaccurate correlation, so I tried to clear it up (and only ended up making it worse)!
Good luck with that last Exam, & let us know how you get on.
Omaha Tourneys play different to Omaha cash? Sort of, I suppose, just as Hold Em does, but for different reasons.
In Omaha, the pots get so much bigger, & so much more quickly, so yes, they play much faster in some ways. For that reason, I am very very selective as to what Pots I enter pre-flop, & I exercise a lot of pot control.
In Omaha, we very often have to get all our chips in, that is a fundamental part of the way the game plays, so its best to pick & choose your starting hands & position with great care. Of course, once we get past halfway, we are playing nice & deep, & we have sussed the opponents, sorted them into "any four", "Hold Em players " or good Omaha players, then we can get a bit more lairy, aggro, & open up a bit.
Mr Angry
Tuns of bridges and wells!
See THIS
In particular, this staggered me. (Bear in mind that the Viaduct is over 200 years old).
"....The west pier is founded on a hard wood platform 5ins (127mm) thick at a depth about 6 ft (1.8 m) below normal river level, and rests on sand, gravel and weathered bedrock. This timber is saturated but still hard...."
Which, anyway you look at it, is extraordinary. You'd think that wood would rot if underwater for 200 years. Incred.
Good find Mr Pads.
There are frequent changes to Cash 4 Points, in that there are often Promotions & the like, but I'm not aware of any change which removed points earned in Tournaments. I may have missed such a change, but I'd be surprised if I had, as I generally follow that sort of stuff in depth, as part of my job.
I will ask the question, & get back to you though, just in case.
In truth, no, I don't know.
They tinker, fiff, faff & fettle with the Tourney Schedule all the time, especially now, as the Autumn & Winter season approaches. Nothing stands still for long these days.....