Sky Poker- The Black Hole of Greed !

[bennythedip2]

If you look into deep space via the observations that the Hubble Space Telescope have provided, you find the best evidence to date that super-massive black holes exist. However if you search 'google to find who was the founder of the Internet you're likely to find the name of 'Bill Gates' ...
Now I believe the true founder was 'Nikola Tesla', who was in my mind a true genius, so much so that ................... oh but that's another story!

Back to the future so to speak, and what of 'Black Holes' that befall the poker players on the Internet online poker sites .?

More to the point what has 'SkyPoker' got to do with the game of Poker ! ...... Short answer now..Nothing!
SkyPoker appears now to have abandoned it's original 'blueprint' that had a good concept to what the players wanted....
: IE, an old-fashioned game of poker that all other sites still retain !
It is now looking for fast turnover with some games having only 500 starting chips, abandoning virtually all 10 seat-er games, and now including re-buy roulette ??
On the Sit' n'Go, if you want to play a low stake 'Double your Money' game, say £1 then there's a rake charge of 15p?
Other sites charge 10p!

So why and what is happening there ?
The 'Why' is not so easy to understand, however it's becoming obvious that whoever is running the Poker site, have started to panic for turnover figures ! (trying to show the bosses a profit on turnover = greed)

'What' is happening there? Well, the forum for the site speaks for itself, discontent about what I've said above, along with if you appear to protest about what is happening on that forum two things either happen, the thread gets deleted or the person instigating the thread gets banned. Go back 6 months and the community there was thriving, today it's becoming a ghost site..

Ultimately the conclusion will be that SkyPoker has already started to show the signs of imploding upon it's self, with guaranteed tournaments becoming halved or non-existent , then deleted... Live Television schedules already halved and now showing old shows from it's archives ...

Yes as with all dying stars, it's started sucking in the last dust particles of cash it can get it's greedy hands on as fast as it can.

Can it be saved as a poker site ?

One thing could possibly reverse whats happening, and that is go the way of a down-loadable site and give the players what they want !! ( a decent lobby of varied games)

However that wont happen, it's one of the major complaints since day One after the launch and it still runs off the server , so multi- accounting is far easier to get trapped by ......

What else .. ?.... Get rid of the people who run the current programme of greed that is turning SkyPoker into a 'Black Hole' !!

Benny

[bennythedip2]

Plot or Plan ....The Skypoker site is reeling from the changes of taking off their so called 'popular' freezeout tournaments and replacing them with re-buy tournaments ..However they have been sussed out by the players for charging rake on the re-buys
It appears that has now been stopped but what a joke and what a liberty !!
Also Tony Kendall , who in one of his previous posts said,
"Never own a forum or run a poker site" ?
So, is Mr Kendall the mystery forum owner and person who runs Skypoker ?

Now as we all know with summer months and world cup football, numbers are down on most poker sites, well that's what he's telling people on there, hence the reason for reduced guarantees !( fair enough)
However he is now saying,

"If, in doing so, they have inadvertently removed popular Freeze-outs, just tell me what ones they are, I am pretty sure I can get them reinstated almost immediately".

"There is NO grand plan to remove popular freeze outs, & replace them with Re buys". ???

Really Tony ? So when you say, 'They' or, 'The Suit's', your passing the blame for changes to some mystery persons who can change things for the good or bad of the site .. but in the same breath , you say,
" I am pretty sure I can get them reinstated almost immediately".

As the old saying goes,
"You can shear a sheep many times, but only skin it once" !!

Keep being sarcastic to YOUR customers , their not being fooled by what your saying.
Keep spreading the word how you wont play at "The Vic" because of it's customer care, which by the way I've found to be the best in the UK, but not to worry .. "The Vic" speaks highly of you as well !!

Benny

[bennythedip2]

Still the exodus of poker players leaving "Sky Poker" now seems faster than the English footballers can get home from South Africa from the World Cup.
So what success can be gleaned from the relics of the doomed site .
One girl who saw the light and got out before the lights were going out is Michelle Orfe..
The star attraction Michelle lost by Skypoker is currently working & playing for www.pokerstars.com

Michelle is a recognised face on the poker scene and has been involved in the industry for 5 years now. She learnt poker whilst presenting the cult TV show Poker Night Live and found she had a natural flare for the game. If you have watched poker on the TV it is most likely Michelle was involved somehow.
She loves playing the game live and proved she could hold her own at the tables when she won her first ever sponsored poker tournament, a qualifier into the European Poker Tour in London at the Victoria Casino. She won her seat out of a field of over 200 players. Since then she has signed a years sponsorship deal to Purple Lounge, with whom she used to work for as an Affiliate Manager, giving her an insight into the world of poker behind the scenes as well.

She is an adaptable player who is not intimidated by the large male dominance at the tables, if anything she knows how to use this to her advantage.

In previous posts I've told how SkyPoker is being so badly run, this is a prime example of how to score an own goal ..

Good luck Michelle .. The new face of the live EPT tour ..

[bennythedip2]

Oh yes - back in the day before it all changed