Skypoker
- Completing the Sky Poker poker room download isn’t very hard. However, for poker players who are new to using computers, the following instructions will help begin and finish the download successfully. The Sky Poker download starts at their homepage. At the homepage, players should click the pink “DOWNLOAD NOW” button.
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Sky Poker is a UK based gambling site offering poker and a host of other gambling games played in GBP. In 2015 the Sky Poker site was bought by the Stars Group - these are the same people who.
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| Deposit bonus | 200% до 500GBP |
| Rakeback | up to 30% |
| Cashier | direct |
| Payments | |
| Platforms |
- british pool
- mid-hi stakes up to NL2k
- cashouts in 24 hours
- mtt-action
- up to 30% rakeback
Sky Poker is an Independent British operator that belongs to the Sky Broadcasting company. The poker room is governed by British law and is mainly aimed at its residents. As of January 2016, Sky Poker takes only the 27th position in the general Pokerscout rating, however, due to effective marketing on TV (broadcasts of the biggest tournaments on Sky TV), the room does not lack amateur players at its tables.
The peak times fall on evenings CET. The number of players is rather moderate — about 800, sometimes 1,000 people. Nevertheless, the TV ads, the integration with the casino and bets plus comfy web- and mobile apps create excellent conditions for the inflow of recreational players. The games are played only in British Pounds (GBP), and regular action can be found up to NL2K, which is almost incredible for such a small pool of players.
The NLHE micro-stakes offer 20+ tables of NL4–NL30, 7–8 tables of NL50, 5 tables of NL100, and 3–4 tables of NL200. At the stakes of NL300–NL2K, the action is unpredictable. In general, one can expect 1–2 tables at each of these stakes.
The traffic in PLO is less substantial. One can count on 2–3 tables at the stakes up to PLO200 and sometimes 1–2 tables of PLO500–PLO2K. The SNG traffic is fine to nonexistent, except perhaps the micro-stakes DoN's. The МТТ section, on the contrary, is excellent: the weekly “Magnificent seven” series boasts a guarantee of 200,000 GBP and the buy-ins from 5 to 110 GBP. Besides that, the room holds other series with a prize pool of up to 1KK GBP that are held more for the purpose of its advertisement rather than attracting new players.
On the whole, the Sky Poker software is quite decent. It's sometimes slow and not always correct, for example, when resizing the tables. The running out time-bank is hard to be noticed and, consequently, it's easy to go sit-out involuntarily. Mass-tabling is impossible anyway — the maximum number of tables allowed by the room is 4. So, it takes the issue of possible multi-tabling options off the table. According to the rules, the HUD, the Poker Tracker and the Holdem Manager are also prohibited. There is no such thing as a hand converter for Sky Poker.
The speed of withdrawals is one of the main trump cards of Sky Poker: 1–2 days for the e-wallets and 2–3 days for the bank cards. Skrill, Neteller, Visa and PayPal are available.
Sky Poker is a small reliable operator aimed at the European market. The software is humble and limited to 4 open tables. Nevertheless, the traffic is weak, the withdrawals are fast and the rake at the middle and high stakes is acceptable. The terms for MTT players are more profitable + the room holds several nice series. The poker room might be a good option for those who are looking for a new field of NL20+ cash games and low-middle МТТs up to 100 GBP, as well as those who are the residents of one of the countries that provide access to this poker room.
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SKY POKER INTRODUCTION
DOWNLOAD & WELOME BONUS
If you're new to Sky Poker there's an exclusive “newbies” deal just for you - £10 free and a 200 percent first deposit matched bonus up to a maximum of £500. As always, such deals come complete with conditions. The £10 actually consists of four Sit & Go tournament tickets: 2 x £2.20 tickets and 2 x £3.30 tickets. The tickets can be combined to provide entry to more expensive tournaments if you so wish. Your deposit bonus is released in £10 chunks every time you amass 250 poker points while playing at Sky Poker. You earn six points for every £1 earned playing ring games, and ten points for every £1 you spend in tournament fees – both MTTs and Sit & Gos. You have 30 days from being awarded the bonus to claim as much of it as you can.
INTERFACE & FEATURES
When you've logged into the website, you can pick from three poker variants, namely Hold'em, Omaha (Hi) and Omaha Hi-Lo. Oddly, there are no tables with more than six places available – indeed you can only play 6max or Heads-Up. Players looking for 9max or greater will need to play on the desktop site.
You have two ways of finding a suitable table at which to play. You can find your way into the Sky Poker lobby and browse around the tables that are available. The browser function within the app is actually pretty neat. Alternatively, you can just set up your game type, table type (6max or HU) and stakes (Micro, Low, Medium or High) then press the large pink “Play Now” button. The app will then find a free table for you which matches your chosen criteria, and you can choose to be seated if the table is to your liking.
The app still has some issues – the biggest being that the whole poker experience via mobile is conducted in complete silence. This is a bit of an issue if you want to play poker while doing something else as well, as you need to alerted when it's your turn to act. Additionally, the poker client is not yet optimised for tablets, and players have complained that once you enter a MTT or Sit & Go via the app it can be hard to actually get to and sit down at the table.
Sky say they are working on these issues, but you can't help but feeling they would have been better placed to make a more functional app before releasing it to the poker playing public.
TABLE MODE & COMPETITION
The table display is fine, and the fact there are only 6max and HU tables available means that the table display never becomes cluttered. The cards are easy to see and if you are playing on a smaller mobile screen you can switch to a four-colour deck. The interface is less easy to use on smaller mobiles, particularly if you want to micro-manage your bets down to the exact cent. Players on mobile screens may have to be content with the default options of ½ pot, ¾ pot, pot and all-in as even small fingers have difficulty in using the bet-size slider, which can lead to random bet values being played.
The game play is pretty slick, although there is just a hint that the players are a little slow to react. Some players have complained of more bugs, such as the first round of betting started without the cards being dealt, and the app freezing completely at times. Again, a little more beta-testing might have been a good idea from Sky before the app was released.
One other point – once you're seated at a table you cannot “nip back” into the lobby without quitting the current table you are playing at.
COMPETITION
On the other side of the coin while the Hold'em ring games at Sky have plenty of players, the MTTs, Sit and Gos and Omaha variants do not. If you are looking for anything other than ring games, then you'll probably find Sky Poker a little frustrating.
