SkyPoker - Sign Up Bonuses and Promotion Codes

Sky poker is a brand new and exciting online poker room started by BSKYB.

British Sky Broadcasting is the operator of the UK's largest digital pay television platform and a leading broadcaster of sports, movies, entertainment and news. 

They have recently started their own online poker site, Sky Poker.  It is one of the newest major venture poker sites on the internet and not just another skin like many of its competitors.

Having originally launched the site with only the UK in mind, they have started to open their doors to players from many other countries. In addition Sky Poker hold "The Open" tournament every night that is broadcast on Sky channel 846, so you can get famous too. Sky Poker is a great place to learn and hone your Texas Hold'em skills.

Sky Poker had a difficult job of creating a player base from scratch, but they've seemed to acquire a relative wealth of player in a short amount of time. This acquisition has mainly been down to some great tournament offers and the fact that you can appear playing on the Sky Poker Channel 846. Every poker player wants to be a pro and in having this channel it means having a greater feeling that you have made it!

The traffic is predominantly tournament players, though there are cash games running throughout the day. At non peak times there are cash games ranging from microstakes to £2.50/£5. At peak times there are many more tables and higher stakes available. Many of the games are 6 max, however there are full ring games available too.

Sky Poker has a wide mix of ability, many are beginner players, therefore good players should make consistent money at Sky Poker. This should only get better as more beginner players sign up thanks to countless TV promotions.

At present Sky Poker only offers a variety of limits for Texas Holdem however will be adding more games in the future.

Sky Open Tournament

The centrepiece of Sky Poker's daily schedule is The Open - a special Texas Hold'em tournament that is televised live every night at 9pm on Sky channel 846.

The Open gives you a unique proposition; get the chance to become an instant TV star by seeing your hands replayed in the studio, appearing in the leaderboards and see your details brought to life with our statistical and graphical player profiles. You may also win the opportunity to be invited to the studio to take part in The Open!

Freerolls

These tournaments require no cash buy-in but may require you to use Poker Points to enter or have no entry criteria. The prize pool is sponsored by Sky Poker and may consist of anything from cash to prizes such as Sky HD Boxes and subscriptions to Sky TV.

Poker Project FreeRoll Tournament

The Poker Project in partnership with SKY Poker will be holding a weekly online FreeRoll Tournament. This tournament will be free to enter for any Poker Project member.

How to Enter:
The Freeroll tournaments are exclusively available online at Sky Poker and to take part, you must be a Poker Project member with a registered Sky Poker account.

The tournament takes place EVERY FRIDAY at 7.30pm and with the blinds set to increase every 5 minutes, it will be a fast and furious race to the money! The tournament will be available in the Sky Poker lobby on Thursday before the tournament starts, and you will be able to find “Poker Project FR” under the Special Events tab in the Multi-Table tournament section.

These tournaments require no cash buy-in but may require you to use Poker Points to enter or have no entry criteria. The prize pool is sponsored by Sky Poker and may consist of anything from cash to prizes such as Sky HD Boxes and subscriptions to Sky TV.

Sky Poker has developed their own software platform and even offers a flash version of their games meaning that you do not have to download anything to play on their website.

The Sky Poker lobby has a very simple design which makes it easy for the user to find what they want quickly. The lobby is also quick to update which is essential for a good poker room. There's a good "buddy" list available too, though unfortunately there's no table stats such as average pot size and flop percentages. A good feature is that all games are played in pounds.

The poker tables have a really fresh design which are easy on the eye and make them fun to play at. Each player can choose his or her own 2D avatars, which don't interfere with the gameplays. There's also a good hand history function which shows what players mucked at showdown.

The software has some neat features, much of it targeted at the beginner player. There's the Hot-O-Meter which gives an opinion on your holdings pre-flop and offers advice like "fold-em" or "on fire".

There are also good online poker video tutorials which are designed to give beginners an introduction to Texas Hold'em.

e-mail - help@skypoker.com
telephone - 08000 725185

Security
Sky Poker is a VeriSing protected Website. This Web site can secure your private information using a VeriSign SSL Certificate. Information exchanged with any address beginning with https is encrypted using SSL before transmission.

Sky Poker accept the following cards: Mastercard, Visa, Visa Electron, Solo, Maestro, Delta, Laser

They accept the following currencies: UK Pound Sterling, Euro, Australian Dollar, American Dollar, Canadian Dollar, Singapore Dollar, Hong Kong Dollar