Free Poker

[Stef Troll]

Register an account with skybet, and you are given 500 poker points.  These points are used to play in free roll tournaments.  Every Wenesday there is a £1000 free roll game, which costs 500 poker points.

Alternatively, tonight and every night at 10pm there is a £500 free roll that costs 300 points, or a £100 free roll at 8pm that costs 100 points.

https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby?DoLogout=Y

I played in the 500 point freeroll yesterday and came 16th- which paid out £10.  Just been playing on the cash tables with the money, and now i have £60 in my account.  There are a load of noobs using the site, so if you play resonably tight, you should be quids in

[yeo]

Ace I Registered for the £100 free roll starts at 8.00 and its playable at work (no d/load)

I already had a Skybet account and that worked fine and had the 500 points

[Stef Troll]

Sweet, i shall be playing tonight as well, so i may see you on the tables.

My dad has created 2 accounts, so has 2 accounts with 500 points on it.

[Simon Pieman]

For some silly reason SkyBet won't let me log in (ring the premium rate number it says). They keep sending me shit through the post though.

[Ben Wah Balls]

Dunno if I'll bother with the freeroll but I might go and crush the no limit tables as I have an account anyway. Took 3rd in a donkament just now, would have had a good shot at winning if it wasn't for this beat at the final table, guy who won this went on to win. Luckbox.

PokerStars Game #8454670610: Tournament #42679733,  Hold'em Pot Limit - Level XVI (1500/3000) - 2007/02/15 - 14:28:54 (ET)
Table '42679733 42' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: upper_u_s (70149 in chips)
Seat 2: jayra555 (198037 in chips)
Seat 3: evil wilko (32785 in chips)
Seat 4: boefje1111 (107752 in chips)
Seat 6: benwahballs2 (95277 in chips)
upper_u_s: posts small blind 1500
jayra555: posts big blind 3000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to benwahballs2 [Kc Ad]
evil wilko: raises 7500 to 10500
boefje1111: folds
benwahballs2: raises 25500 to 36000
upper_u_s: folds
jayra555: folds
evil wilko: calls 22285 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [5s 9s 5c]
*** TURN *** [5s 9s 5c] [2s]
*** RIVER *** [5s 9s 5c 2s] [Ts]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
evil wilko: shows [As Jh] (a flush, Ace high)
benwahballs2: shows [Kc Ad] (a pair of Fives)
jayra555 said, "ouch"
evil wilko collected 70070 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 70070 | Rake 0
Board [5s 9s 5c 2s Ts]
Seat 1: upper_u_s (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: jayra555 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: evil wilko showed [As Jh] and won (70070) with a flush, Ace high
Seat 4: boefje1111 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: benwahballs2 (button) showed [Kc Ad] and lost with a pair of Fives

[Ben Wah Balls]

Just trying it, the software is pretty bad, you can't multitable easily and it's really slow but the players are equally bad, seen some terrible play. I like the hotometer thing because the way it ranks the hole cards is way off

[yeo]

I finished 25th doing well then had full house beat with 4 ace's twice

[Ben Wah Balls]

Ouch. Built my stack up to 3/1/4 buyins on one table. I wonder how long they let you play the beginners tables for. I wish pokerstars was this soft.

[Ben Wah Balls]

Ahahah I got AA all in preflop against TT and 88 , TT had only a £3.50 stack but 88 had nearly £10 and I had him covered.

TT flopped quads but I won the side pot so made about £1 on the hand, would have been an £11 profit if not for the suckout but wow I'll take that all in every time.

The site is so slow though, probably because a lot of people don't even know how to play.

[Barry Scott]

This sounds ace. After destroying my Ultimate bet account this week ($250 - $10), with bad beats, bad moves and bad moods, this could make a refreshing change.

I love new poker rooms when my confidence is low. It either gets lower, or you feel like a seasoned pro after an hour.

[redbullzeye]

Naive question probably but how are you sure the games are legit - no bots playing etc?

[Ben Wah Balls]

If someone could make a decent bot that was actually a winning player which is very difficult, then they wouldn't bother playing the small stakes games they'd play $5000 buyin no limit and higher.

Either there are no bots that play small stakes which seems to be the case or they are all so terrible it doesn't matter.

[Simon Pieman]

Even if there were bots I'm pretty sure you could suss their play out

[Ben Wah Balls]

Just noticed they have £1 heads up sit and gos, played 1 and won it in 7 minutes.

[dogs]

*Apparently* bots will almost always fold to a re-raise, so if you see that happening a lot then maybe you're on a table with one.

My last two games have been pretty shambolic, which has come from not playing nowhere near as regular as I did last year. However, I think this needs to be fought through and i'm going to be playing a few games this weekend, rather than going out getting hammered.