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poker software
Some sites allow software like poker tracker and poker edge etc
What if any is allowed on sky poker?
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Oh well each site to their own, plenty of others that do. I like the community feel on sky, due to the smaller player base, but would like their software to be beter to play cash properly on here. Certainly dislike the lack of auto top up, as that can be an utter bind if you lose a half decent pot and then get dealt a big hand right afterwards.
On sky there isn't even a way of finding out how many hands you have played. I do it by searching my hand history every hour but if you play more than 500 hands per hour (8 or more tables at once) then you are stuffed because the hand history viewer only shows the last 500 hands. A very simple system of tracking your cash game hands would be greatly appriciated.
Sky seem to have quite a different business modle to most other poker sites though in that they try their best to attract players who are new to the game (running the sky poker school on 865 for example). This is good I supose since the last thing you want is a poker site that is infested with regs grinding the micros, when you have this all the new players lose their money quickly and the regs strugle to make money after the rake. Tried playing 6-max NL10 on stars recently?
Is there no way that sky could allow players to use poker tracker/HEM but prevent the use of the HUD feature?
The others that collect data on those you've played with are more like the stats you could collect via notes or pen and paper etc, but of course dificult/impossible to do on multiple tables. Not to mention monitoring your own stats on hands played amount won, rake payed and so on without making everything more complicated. So I guess sites that don't use them will be less attractive to serious players, but thats a choice for people to make.
JuggleGeek: Yeah sky having the poker channel and all that is good and what not, but based on the standard at micros on here compared to say poker stars you do have to wonder how many are watching it. I actually thought the best poker school of all the sites (poker stars is ok) was Fulltilts one. That had video lessons from all their pros along with goals to go and do on the table that earnt you a second pool of player reward points to earn. So say the lesson might be to float a flop in postion with nothing and then take down the pot on the turn still with no hand after being checked to.
It was excellent as the lessons went from the very basics like just raising preflop up to some far more complex lessons and achivements. And in most cases the lesson had 3-4 things you had to achieve at the table and to do it a few times to get it ticked off, which you could actively track while playing. It made playing that little bit more fun doing the challenges. My game was pretty reasonable at the time they did that, but I learned a fair few bits myself from some of the lessons, and like I said was fun.
Still, the sky channel is nice, though sometimes think they waffle far to much at times these days and teach not enough. Sometimes seems they barely look at 4 or 5 hands in an hour show. And shame they don't seem to do what they did back a coupole of years when they followed the tournaments far more closely all night. Not sure why they stopped that, but maybe lack of viewers?? Dunno.
But, if you wanted to use it you have to convert skys HH into the format of pokerstars or another site.
You could retype them manually, or if you knew how you could write something to do it for you.
Or, you could use some of the software thats already out there to do this.
Still are you saying you have to import individual sky hands in? Would be pretty tedious to do if thats the case. Still suprised it works, as sky isn't one of their supported sites, or I didn't think so?