You need to be logged in to your Sky Poker account above to post discussions and comments.
You might need to refresh your page afterwards.
You need to be logged in to your Sky Poker account above to post discussions and comments.
You might need to refresh your page afterwards.
Comments
I may have put a bad beat on you. It was generally the other way round tonight.
...
I listened to Ivan and kept going tonight. I'm probably deluded but I genuinely think I was playing ok for the majority of the time. I will stop grumbling one day, honest! I had some horrific beats over the night and was down $194 after about 40 games. Where I was very lucky was that when I did the chase your losses thing and regged for a couple of £50's alongside my other games, I ran a lot better.
I won 6 out of the last 8 and somehow ended up a mighty £11.19 up. I won a buy in at the one table of cash I played for a while. Came off there with £62.
So a profit of £40ish is nothing to write home about but considering how much I could have ended up losing, I'm delighted.
Plus many many points for 4 and a bit hours work. I make 1t 1657 for the night
...
Shopped around a bit today and got my car insurance for £242 which was £45 less than i'd been quoted by my current insurer. I was quite happy at £287 to be honest and so that's a real bonus.
...
Busy weekend lined up.
Gotta work tomorrow morning and then off to the match. Many pints then planned for the evening. No poker tomorrow.
Sunday, I have a pass out to golf in the morning and then we have another party for Harry, Load of family coming round. I know, 2 parties? Keeps her happy though so i'll go along with it. Hopefully get a good amount of poker in on Sunday evening.
....
Have a nice weekend everyone
Be the bigger man, do the right thing.
If friendships are broken, they don't fix themselves.
Proper bloke.
The Riddler v The Penquin :-)
Absolutely agree that Pingu should be allowed back in.
Hi Paul,
On the face of it, yes, I agree.
There are a whole lot of stuff there that deserves a reply.
For starters, & to use an old expression, Sky Poker don't know if they are best burnt or scolded.
Ban people? They get stick for it.
Don't ban people? Ditto.
Of late, & after a lot of pressure from me (such as my view counts for a thing), the Business have been a lot more tolerant towards non-compliant Posts, & closing threads willy-nilly.
It's not an easy line to tread.
I'm prepping for tonight's Show, so won't be able to reply properly or fully tonight, but your Post is a bit unbalanced, imo.
I'll reply properly in the next day or two though.
For the record, I like & respect Andy a great deal, & he posts on another Forum I'm involved in, where I make him very welcome. Personally, I have no problem with Andy at all.
But you don't have all the facts at your disposal.
I have made numerous attempts - 4 I think - to get Andy reinstated here. Andy knows this, & will confirm that to you or anyone else.
I wrote to him at 3am (3am!) or somesuch after he made that original fateful Post, & begged him to withdraw it. It was guaranteed to get him banned - & he knew that. Andy will confirm all this.
At SPT Stratford 3 or 4 years ago (?), I introduced him to two Senior Suits, & put in a really good word for him, in an attempt to resolve the situation. Unforch, it never did the trick.
Around 3 months ago (give or take), Andy sent a very very helpful note to Sky Poker, which, because it was a sort of general poker matter, came to my attention.
So I sent another plea to Head Office - "he's a decent lad, he's served his time, can you please reconsider his chat ban? - I think he'll be OK now".
It seems my timing was bad, as, reading between the lines, another "robust" note had been just sent by Andy to the Business. I never saw it, but I gather it was "a bit rude".
This Community is owned & managed by Sky Poker. If you were in their spot, would you REALLY be happy for people to generally abuse you, AND still continue posting?
It's not anything like as straightforward as you may think.
I will continue to try & get Andy reinstated here. I will. But he has to do his bit, too. It's not a one way street.
He won his seat fair & square.
I'll welcome him at UKPC with open arms, & rail him every yard. I'd LOVE him to win.
It's all well & good pointing out the anomoly, but the solution is not as easy as you think.
Do you remember the last Viva Las Vegas that Sky Poker did?
A lad named Marc Wright qualified, & I spent a very uncomfy few weeks in Las Vegas bering battered by haters left right & centre, because Marc has "history".
But he won his seat fair & square, & in Vegas, as far as it affected me, he conducted himself properly. Would you have DISQUALIFIED him because he had history? Can you begin to imagine the negative noise if Sky Poker banned someone who qualified fair & square, as Marc & Andy did?
There are no easy, straightforward, answers to these little dilemmas.
"Strange"?
Yes, on the face of it.
Not quite as straightforward as you seem to think, though.
I gotta go, an evening with Miss Fowler awaits.
Please, all of you, remember that, sometimes, there are more to these things than meets the eye.
And to reiterate, I hope Andy does really well @ UKPC - nobody will rail & cheer him harder than me. And if his name pops up on one of tonight's televised Tables, I'll say the same thing again - "good luck Andy". And mean it.
Update.....
Overnight, Andy sent me a lengthy PM elsewhere, which I now need to reply to.
He clarified certain things, & made his views known to me.
And so it goes on.........
I shall continue to try & get his chat reinstated, & I think it best if I leave it like that. The whole sorry episode began with a "rant" (that was Andy's word for it, not mine) against the Business. Such things are always going to end badly, & end up causing all sorts of ill-feeling. It's better if we don't "rant" publically, & if we do, there is generally going to be a bill to pay.
I understand the warmth towards Andy, which I share, & I shall continue to see if I can assist him. But I think it is wrong that the blame for this episode is being laid at the door of Sky Poker by those who don't know the whole story.
On a more cheerful note, in last night's £3,500 Guaranteed Bounty Hunter.....
Very well done & congrats to Paul NTTP Jackson.