Sky Poker Review

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Sky Poker is one of the youngest online poker sites and has managed to quickly established itself in a very competitive market. Obviously being backed by Sky TV and having Channel 846 as the Sky Poker Channel goes some way in giving themselves an advantage over some of the other competitors, especially when it comes to promotions. Understandably the traffic levels are very high even though SKY Poker being so young. This muliti language, multi currency online poker room aslo provides excellent customer service.

One of the unique selling points of Sky Poker is the fact that players can participate in live, daily televised poker tournaments on the Sky Poker Channel.

The centre piece of Sky Poker's online poker tournament schedule is a special Texas Hold'em tournament that is televised live most days of the week at 9pm on Sky Channel 865. Televised tournaments include, Monday nights Bounty Hunter , Thursday evenings Five-00 £7,500 GTD tournament, Friday and Saturday nights Open.. Not forgetting Sky Poker, £8k Super Sunday tournament yep you guessed it, it's on Sundays.

Sign Up Bonus: you will receive upon registration 500 Poker Points. Use these points to enter Sky Poker's daily Freerolls or Sky's £250 Freeroll which takes place at 8pm on Wednesday's. Only 100 Poker Points needed to enter.

Every new player is rewarded with either £1, £50 or £150 as a no deposit bonus – something completely new for Sky Poker.

Tournaments: Every Wednesday Night - WSOP Satellites, 'The Open' - Live TV Tournament with Guaranteed Prize Money, Velocity Tournament - with Guaranteed Prize Money, Bounty Hunter,

Freeroll: £250 Freeroll which takes place at 8pm on Wednesday's, Daily Freerolls

Games: Texas Hold'em, No Limit, Pot Limit, Fixed Limit

Sky Poker Points: As a part of the Sky Poker Rewards Program, Poker Points are earned by participating in raked ring games and paying tournament fees. Players receive 10 Poker Points for every £ 1 paid in tournament fees. Ring games award Poker Points by playing 20 raked hands at a particular limit. For instance, play in 20 raked hands with blinds up to £ .25/£ .50 and you'll be awarded 10 Poker Points. Blinds of £ .50/£ 1 to £ 2/£ 4 receive 20 Poker Points, while blinds of £ 2.50/£ 5 and up collect 30 Poker Points. Use these Poker Points to enter selected tournaments, including the £ 1,000 freeroll tournaments held twice a week.

Poker Place Rating:

Banking:

Laser

(note about Banking - Some times your funds maybe "Held")

What are Held Funds?

Held funds form part of your total cash balance and relate to your poker winnings in the preceding 24 hours, i.e. if you sit at a cash table at 3pm and leave the table at 4pm with winnings, those winnings will appear in your held funds total until 4pm the next day when they will automatically released. The one exception to this is where held funds are used to play poker, which is explained in more detail below. These funds are shown as held whilst Sky Poker performs routine checks to protect you/us the customers against any potential fraud such as chip dumping and/or collusion. 

Can I use Held Funds to Play Poker?

You can use your held funds to play poker. If you currently have any held funds and sit at a cash table, join a Sit 'n Go table, or join a tournament, Sky Poker will use your held funds in the first instance to fund your selected game, i.e. If you have £ 20 in held funds and you join a £ 22 tournament we will fund your entry with the £ 20 from your held funds and £ 2 from your normal cash balance.

When are Held Funds Released?

All your unused held funds are released 24 hours from the time you left the table and the winnings became held. Once these funds are released you can then withdraw or transfer these funds to other Sky products such as casino, games and sportsbook.

System Requirements:

Operating System: Windows (all), Mac and Linux.

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