The Good Old Days?

unknown_username

 I'm only saying it as I see it, no grey areas just black and white !!
Sky  'mod's'  can we please get  blogs  on "Sky Vegas  " and "Sky Bingo"   as well as Sky Dale's Skybet one..? (joke)  
It's all so interesting what Sky Dale has to say ? (on a poker forum, oh really) 
 Also maybe James Hartigan can be persuaded to take over the Bingo callers job, he'd be good at that !! As a film critic and interviewer he's good,  as a poker analyst I dont think so !!
 
Please come back Michelle and Compo, the TV show is going down faster than  ~~it off a shovel !!

All the wonderful changes supposed to be coming to SKPOKER since when  ....
 "well before the old king died".?
All I'm seeing is a downward spiral,  I don't know if it's the producers or the suite's or more probably  cut-backs because of the recession , but it's showing  like a lantern going out in the night !!

Bring back 'the good old days',  the banter between Richard Orford and Michelle and I miss Sir Barraclough (star)

 chat and forum ban coming  for  benny  ( doh) 
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namesb0nd

yeah,where is michelle anyway?

personally,i cant wait for these "changes" to come into effect.Everyone from sky seems very positive about them and hopefully they will improve the site.I dont think the site is going down hill,i think the forum alone has improved it dramatically!And there are plenty of fresh new tourneys to get your teeth into and the new "master cash" thing looks to be a great edition.

at the moment,i am happy to be part of the sky poker communtiy

acebarry10

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yeah,where is michelle anyway? personally,i cant wait for these "changes" to come into effect.Everyone from sky seems very positive about them and hopefully they will improve the site.I dont think the site is going down hill,i think the forum alone has improved it dramatically!And there are plenty of fresh new tourneys to get your teeth into and the new "master cash" thing looks to be a great edition. at the moment,i am happy to be part of the sky poker communtiy
Posted by namesb0nd

Hi

Michelle is now presenting the EPT

Torryladd

Only been here since Jan and used to luv watching 865 but never look at it now, mainly due to the change in who's in front of camera and every time I switch on its primo repeat, such a shame as sky have this market sown up.

Change sometimes isnt in the interest of the mass in the short term but we have got to trust them.  If they are tightening their belts its for our long term good.

Buistyboy

Hi all

tuned in to the channel last night and found that it was a repeat of the bounty hunter from the previous thursday.  Must admit, i was a bit disappointed as i thought there'd be live coverage of the main tournaments every night.

I think one of the problems is that the channel is basically designed to promote and attract new players to the tables on sky poker, while a lot of viewers are tuning in to be educated and entertained.  the two dont fit together too well.

loonytoons

Used to love watching channel 865 before it was turned off in Northern Ireland - yes i know we can get it online but it aint the same. The thing i liked most was 9pm every night was a live show, right down to the winner, now it seems to be repeats after repeats. Its getting like that channel 166 that shows cash poker on a weekend, the same 5 or 6 shows, over and over again for months, i could play the hands by now lol. One more point though, i dont think its fair to blame the presenters, it horses for courses, some you like some you dont, i quite like the current crop personally

big_mick12

The channel certainly has gone down hill but when sky do a new show like master cash on sat ,it was a good informative show and i think it worked very well. But these repeats have been on for far to long now and surely sky could come out and say what they are working on.

The presenter are doing a good job for the little time we see them live now, byt where is Lisa-Marie not seen here at all i dont think. Such a shame lol

diablo_pez

Ahh the good old days when Hi-De-Hi and Terry n June seemed funny

scrumdown

wheres    noman   pace   gone  not  seen  him  foe  ages

Kiwini4u

I have to admit disappointment at the TV schedule too,  I know the channel is an extra to this excellent site but its the reason that I and I expect a lot of others started using SkyPoker.  We used to get a nightly game that was always shown live plus regular weekly shows now we get maybe 3 live shows a week which are repeated over and over again.  As others have said we hear a LOT about the new exciting schedule, well how about actually STARTING it or at least tell us WHEN its coming, but I know all we will get is the usual "We cant tell you when"

Even the adverts for the show are STILL showing the old presenters, saw Michelle yesterday and thought she was back on the show.

Urdadi

I concur. Two many repeats on Sky Poker. There are enough games on so there is no need for so many repeats. Run some more of the poker school shows and if they don't want to screen the same tournaments every day, then vary it up with some of the different smaller tournaments. It would be interesting to see the difference in play.

phil12uk

I miss the club...........

Very expensive but the nightly show when it first started with £11 Open shown every night worked best.

dav1964

yeah i gotta agree with what most are saying,repeats are very tedious.at the least i think they could record some other tournys and show these instead. 

ACESOVER8s

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I miss the club........... Very expensive but the nightly show when it first started with £11 Open shown every night worked best.
Posted by phil12uk

have to agree, this was my fav time. (but i'm probably a bit biased as i can't stand the bounty hunters)


Unfortunatly all these things require a revenue. We have to accept just how expensive these shows are (orfords £9.50 a week is already a drain on profits) and see that they can only do what makes financial sense i'm afraid

The_Don90

id say personally i think Sky should make some good investments. Have a number of differnt tournament nights, and schedule a live show covering 7 differnt types over 7 days. I know the Information channel or at night the European poker channel shows a lot of differnt types of online games and a lot of people will suck over to this channel taking sky poker channel 865 down hill.

Sky its time to up the ante again.

unknown_username

I thought this was going to be a nice thread about fancy costumes and singing ''roll out the barrell'' where Tikay and myself could reminisce.

Misrepresentation Benny )

barnsie

i can understand cutbacks of live shows in the current climate


however why do the promos still feature presenters/pundits who no longer work for the channel? is this just a case of laziness?

why dont as suggested above just play out the final few tables from different tournaments with no analysis, give the players enough credit now to be able to read a game themselves.

ACESOVER8s

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i can understand cutbacks of live shows in the current climate however why do the promos still feature presenters/pundits who no longer work for the channel? is this just a case of laziness? why dont as suggested above just play out the final few tables from different tournaments with no analysis, give the players enough credit now to be able to read a game themselves.
Posted by barnsie

Have you ever watched the poker heaven ones they show doing that? a computer voice going FOLD, FOLD , FOLD, CHECK, BET, RAISE, FOLD lol my god it's like watching paint dry lol

darich

7 live shows a week - a velocity every Tuesday. Chamberlain, Musselle, Sambrook, Berry, Smith, Pace, Scott etc etc etc.

Two live guests every night.

Clearly it couldn't go on in the current economic climate, but do agree they ought to be honest, rather than making out it's better now and improvements coming 

loonytoons

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In Response to Re: The Good Old Days? : Have you ever watched the poker heaven ones they show doing that? a computer voice going FOLD, FOLD , FOLD, CHECK, BET, RAISE, FOLD lol my god it's like watching paint dry lol
Posted by ACESOVER8s

But what a sexy voice lol

Tikay10

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7 live shows a week - a velocity every Tuesday. Chamberlain, Musselle, Sambrook, Berry, Smith, Pace, Scott etc etc etc. Two live guests every night. Clearly it couldn't go on in the current economic climate, but do agree they ought to be honest, rather than making out it's better now and improvements coming 
Posted by darich

Eh?

Who has been dishonest, please?

Any2Suited

I agree thre are to many repeats,when one tourney has finished they shouldn't repeat it as the next show.I suggest all the tables on cash that they say maybe on tv and maybe add some of the £200+ guarenteed tourneys and just show the random live feed from the tables in place of the repeats.

darich

Sorry Tikay - wrong word.

I enjoyed Master Cash, but you mentioned a few weeks ago that a live show would be returning on Friday nights - is that still the plan? No signs

J-Hartigan

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Also maybe James Hartigan can be persuaded to take over the Bingo callers job, he'd be good at that !! As a film critic and interviewer he's good,  as a poker analyst I dont think so !! 
Posted by bennydip2

Great - another hater!

[Removes Benny from Christmas card list :-)]

Tikay10

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Sorry Tikay - wrong word. I enjoyed Master Cash, but you mentioned a few weeks ago that a live show would be returning on Friday nights - is that still the plan? No signs
Posted by darich

No - a SECOND Live Show will be on SATURDAY nights - so there will be Master Cash AND the other new Show, both on Saturday nights. And the other Show is an absolute stonker - like nothing you have EVER seen before in Poker.

No signs? Yes, there are. We've been working incredibly hard on it for some time now. All those involved have now been organised.

As I said previously, there were clues galore to it at the SPT in Manchester, but everyone missed them.

I'm not going to give Dates or more details at this moment, as someone will just use it as a stick to beat us with.

It's in late-stage pre-Production though, & those apperaring in it are Booked.

darich

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In Response to Re: The Good Old Days? : No - a SECOND Live Show will be on SATURDAY nights - so there will be Master Cash AND the other new Show, both on Saturday nights. And the other Show is an absolute stonker - like nothing you have EVER seen before in Poker. No signs? Yes, there are. We've been working incredibly hard on it for some time now. All those involved have now been organised. As I said previously, there were clues galore to it at the SPT in Manchester, but everyone missed them. I'm not going to give Dates or more details at this moment, as someone will just use it as a stick to beat us with. It's in late-stage pre-Production though, & those apperaring in it are Booked.
Posted by Tikay10

Is there a link with snooker then??

Sorry I wasn't implying you weren't doing anything. Just love 865 and I suppose I get frustrated watching the 4th repeat of Primo to the extent that I now know what James is going to say before he says it ! :-)

namesb0nd

In Response to Re: The Good Old Days?:

In Response to Re: The Good Old Days? : No - a SECOND Live Show will be on SATURDAY nights - so there will be Master Cash AND the other new Show, both on Saturday nights. And the other Show is an absolute stonker - like nothing you have EVER seen before in Poker. No signs? Yes, there are. We've been working incredibly hard on it for some time now. All those involved have now been organised. As I said previously, there were clues galore to it at the SPT in Manchester, but everyone missed them. I'm not going to give Dates or more details at this moment, as someone will just use it as a stick to beat us with. It's in late-stage pre-Production though, & those apperaring in it are Booked.
Posted by Tikay10

i'm all exited now,you cant leave it at that!

unknown_username

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In Response to The Good Old Days? : Great - another hater! [Removes Benny from Christmas card list :-)]
Posted by J-Hartigan

LOL  no James I love your Interviews in Vegas they were great , fantastic !! 

It's just well .....  "Ya can have to much of a good thing"  )

Hale72

Where is The Club or Poker Week.

What happened to the televised Velocity games? Stacked up? The league final?

Yet we still get those god awful repeats of some bloke who 'loves a good pair in his hands' or that fella that 'would love to give Phil Helmuth a really bad beat'

And if I hear that woman who says 'I would love to play Daniel Negraneau, But I Know I could never beat him!' I will scream. How does she know that????? She may be dealt aces every hand and whip the boys bum.

Even the poker ettiquette stuff was fun at first but even they started to grind.

It ultimately made me turn over.

Torryladd

I wonder what the viewing figures were on Sat when they had the 865 and cash as, compared to the average of rest of week.

Bet it tells a story