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Unfortunately, the Sky Bet poker app has become increasingly unstable over the past the couple of updates. Until they have fixed the major bugs in their Android software.

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Currently only available in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Gibraltar, the Channel Islands and Finland
Play Texas Hold'em and Omaha games for real money.
Sit & Go tournaments can also be played on Android.
Get £10 totally free to play when you join Sky Poker.
Works on Samsung, HTC, Sony Xperia, Motorola etc.
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SKY POKER INTRODUCTION

More and more poker players are choosing to take to the poker tables while they are out and about, thanks to recent improvements in mobile devices and the reliability of 3G/4G and wireless connections. Even smartphones have screens big enough now to comfortably allow players to take in a few Hold'em hands while they are sitting on a bus or awaiting the buzz of a dentist's drill. The UK's number one commercial broadcaster, BSkyB, have jumped onto the mobile poker bandwagon by releasing a version of their poker client for Android-enabled smartphones and tablets, although Google Play's restrictions on gambling content means the “app” is a mobile-optimised version of the SkyPoker website.

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Google Play is still standing firm in not allowing gambling apps within their virtual store, which means gambling apps usually have to be installed via a downloadable .apk file, or via a browser as an HTML site. Sky have gone for the latter option. To use the mobile site, you just need to log into your Sky Poker account (or set one up if you don't already have one) via a browser on your mobile device. You will be automatically transferred to the mobile site. The site should work on all mobiles with Android 3.2 and upwards.
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

Note, the Sky Poker Android app is only available to players in the UK, Ireland, Gibraltar, the Channel Islands and Finland.
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

You can multi-table via the app, but Sky Poker currently doesn't recommend that you do, due to the lack of an audible table-notification when it comes to your turn to act. This means you have to constantly browse through your tables to keep up with the play on each of them.
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

If there's one reason for an experienced poker player to download the app and see a few hands it's the low quality of the opposition at Sky Poker. Sharks have admitted they love to chow down on the fish at the site. Expect to see some odd pocket cards being played, and high “starting hands played” percentages. It's thought that a large percentage of poker players at Sky Poker are players from Sky Bet who are trying their hand at poker while they wait for the next race to start or the big match to kick off. Noon to 2pm GMT is a good time to terrify some fish.
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.

VERDICT

It seems clear that the Sky Poker app for Android has been released before it ought to have been, with players finding bugs and even Sky admitting inadequacies. If Sky Poker is your poker room of choice, then of course you are going to want to download the app and enjoy some pre-flop raising while you're out and about. Non Sky Poker players might be better off waiting until these many bugs have been zapped before considering Sky Poker a legitimate choice in the mobile poker market.

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February 2021

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Average Players Online: 3500
Games: Texas Holdem, Omaha, Omaha Hi / Lo,
Online since: 2007
Official Website:www.skypoker.com
Network: Independent
Licensed by: UKGC
Compatible with: PC, Mac, Linux, No Download, Flash Instant Play,

New Player Bonus

Free Cash: £10
Deposit Bonus: 200% up to £500
Time Limit: 30 days
Minimum Deposit: £5
Bonus Code: None needed.
Link: Sign up here

You must enter the promo code POKER when registering your new account to qualify for the New Player Rewards as follows:

£10 Free – When you open your very first Sky Account you will be credited with 2 x £2.20 and 2 x £3.30 tournament tickets to use as entries to tournaments and sit n go’s, you can combine these tickets to enter a tournament of a higher value.

200% deposit bonus up to £500 – Your very first deposit only counts towards this bonus. For every 250 poker points you earn £10 in bonus will be released into your account. As examples:

Deposit £50 and you’ll need 2500 poker points to release the 200% bonus of £100
Deposit £250 and you’ll need 12500 poker points to release the full 200% bonus of £500

Poker points are earned as you play at real money tables at a rate of 10 poker points for every £1 paid in tournament fees and 6 poker points for every £1 contributed in rake.

Players have 30 days to release their free bonus money, if you use Neteller or Moneybookers to make your first deposit you are not eligible for this first deposit bonus. Only new accounts holders from the UK and Republic of Ireland can claim this first deposit bonus.

500 Poker Points – On registration you will be awarded 500 poker points to be used to purchase tournament tickets only. These free points do not count towards releasing the first deposit bonus.

Review

£10 Free for new accounts
Good community
Trusted, reputable brand

You’ve probably heard of Sky before as they’re a market leader in the entertainment and gaming industry and have massive offerings including bingo, sports betting and casino games. Their poker arm, launched back in 2007, has quickly become pretty popular especially within the UK. It’s an independent site (i.e. it’s not part of a poker network) and is steadily building up player traffic.

Sky Poker tables run off the Flash player and are subtly decked out in the brand’s blue and white – easy on the eye when you’re playing.There are basically two ‘views’ you can choose from – the standard size table and ‘mini view’. Mini view just strips out some of the graphics (like the table backdrop) and is ideal for multi-tabling. Which, incidentally, is well supported here as you can play up to 24 tables at once. It’s a nice looking poker client which plays well too. However, you can’t customise it other than changing your avatar.

As well as playing via the downloadable client, you can opt to use ‘Instant Play’ which gives Mac and Linux users the chance to play poker on Sky too.

One of Sky Poker’s greatest features is the player Community section. This is a dedicated part of the Sky website where you can engage with your fellow Sky Poker players. There are poker player blogs and, most importantly, a very active player discussion forum where you can trade opinions on poker hands, strategy and news. It’s great being able to ‘meet’ and get to know your opponents but also the forums are a really handy way of improving your play as you can get input from others on specific hands or games you’ve played.

The possible downside to playing on Sky Poker is that the vast majority of its player traffic is during evenings and weekend. Tables in the daytime, especially for the less popular games such as Omaha, really suffer. That said, the play at busy times is so poor it does make up for it in terms of potential profits that a good player can make.

Overall it’s a great site but does have its drawbacks. It’s mainly suitable for micro or low stakes players who want to take advantage of some really soft competition and who are most likely going to be playing at peak European hours.

There aren’t loads of freerolls at Sky, but what you do get is a daily £50 guaranteed tournament (buy-in for 25 Points). As you’d expect from freerolls, the play is terrible so they’re fairly easy to cash in.

In short, the standard of play at Sky Poker is pretty poor and offers some rich pickings to the decent poker player. As it’s not a huge poker site, the big name professionals and ‘grinders’ aren’t as likely to be on sites like this as they are with PokerStars, Full Tilt etc. Now, there’s good sides and bad sides to this – the good side being that if you can play a decent game, you can rake it in here (no pun intended!) The bad news is that you will need to expect a certain degree of frustration and bad beats as so many players here, especially at the micro-stakes level, will just call off any amount of chips with any two cards pre-flop and then chase any draw or connection post-flop.

Cash Games

Minimum Blinds: £0.02 / £0.04
Maximum Blinds: £10 / £20
Standard seats: 2 and 6.
Options: Televised, Regular, Heads Up., Action, Capped
Games: Texas Holdem, Omaha, Omaha Hi Lo

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Plenty of variety on offer with Sky’s cash games in terms of stakes; formats on offer are Hold’em, Omaha and Omaha Hi/Lo, although the latter two suffer from poor off-peak traffic.

Tournaments

Lowest entry: £0.60
Highest entry: £55
Usual starting stack: 2000
Usual level increments: 10 minutes
Buy-in fee: 10% included
Options: Timed, Televised, Bounty Hunter.
Games: Texas Holdem, Omaha, Omaha Hi Lo

Tourneys at Sky are heavily geared towards the lower stakes, with plenty of variety and volume at the micro level too. Medium and high stakes are represented, however with far less choice available.

Sit and Go’s

Lowest entry: £0.30
Highest entry: £220
Buy-in fee: 10% included
Usual starting stack: 1500
Usual level increments: 7 mins
Standard No. seats: 6
Options: Timed, Turbo, Speed, Second Chance, Double Your Money, Heads-up, All In.
Games: Texas Holdem, Omaha, Omaha Hi / Lo.

Sit and Go’s are great at Sky Poker for the low-micro stakes poker player. There is plenty of action at these levels but like most of the games on Sky it’s mainly kicking off in the evenings and weekends. There are a decent variety of stakes on offer but mainly centred towards the low-micros.

Loyalty

Sky Poker Rewards gives players cash bonuses based on the number of Poker Points earned in the month, each month starts afresh. Go to the My Account Free Bets page or click the Sky Poker Rewards link on the software, enter the code REWARDS and, that’s it, you’ve opted into the Sky Poker Rewards loyalty programme.

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Leaderboards & Leagues

Sky Poker has the great ‘Team Sky Poker League’ leaderboard. With this, it awards points to players based on their performance in cash, SNG or MTT play. The league runs on a quarterly basis and as well as entry into a freeroll, there are places on ‘Team Sky Poker’ up for grabs for the top six players.

Financial

Deposits

Minimum: £5
Maximum: £500
Options: Bank Wire, Debit Cards, Diners Club, Laser debit, Maestro, Mastercard, Moneybookers (skrill), Neteller, Paypal, Visa,

Withdrawals

Minimum: £10
Maximum: £500
Options: Bank Wire, Debit Cards, Diners Club, Laser debit, Maestro, Mastercard, Moneybookers (skrill), Neteller, Paypal, Visa,

When withdrawing funds they usually must go back to the card / e wallet you deposited with, it is possible to change the method of payment from your account with additional documentation to prevent fraud. It usually takes 2 / 5 days for your card account to be credited, within one day if you have used an e wallet.

Customer Support

Customer Service Email: email form on the site
Customer Service Telephone: 00 44 1423 533 104 UK: 08000 724 777
Registered Address: 41 Victoria Street, Alderney, Channel Islands, GY9 3TA

Before contacting Sky Poker take a look at their comprehensive Find an Answer page, you may well find out about what’s bothering you there. Still stuck for a solution? Try their live chat online, phone, email or even write to them at Sky Bet, 2 Wellington Place, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 4AP.

Countries

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Countries accepted:
UK, Republic of Ireland Only.