Reviewed by: Pokerlistings

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Promotions Summary

Sky Poker offers some very nice promotions overall. Among the promotions offered are a massive £1000 Welcome Bonus, a £10 free tournament token, regular guaranteed tournaments and a player points program. 

New players get 500 player points automatically when they sign-up and you earn points for every hand you're involved in at a cash table, tournament or sit-and-go.

New players are also invited to play in a £1000 Welcome freeroll. One-off promotions like the "Play the Nation" challenge also come up frequently.

Reload Bonus

Sky Poker doesn't currently offer any reload bonuses.

Loyalty Bonus

For Sky Poker's loyalty program, players earn points for real-money play in cash games, tournamnets or SNGs.

Points earned can be used as buy-ins for any of the many points freerolls offered and depending on your VIP level can also get you cash back.

Sky Poker offers all new players 500 points as a welcome bonus, enabling you to start playing freerolls right away.

> Sign up through a PokerListings link and receive a £500 bonus at 200% deposit match

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Tournament Traffic

Real-money player statistics at Sky Poker show 3154 real-money tournament players at peak hours, as of May 2013.

Tournaments

Sky Poker hosts quite a few tournaments. Most of the tournaments have buy-ins ranging from £10-£20.

The tournaments are well populated and have a very aggressive blind structure, something that some players do not like. Sky Poker runs a lot of small-to-medium guaranteed tournaments that offer good value.

The weekly £12,000 and daily £5,500 tournaments draw large numbers - both because of the prize pool and the fact they are aired live on Sky TV.

Also newly introduced are timed tournaments, which run like a regular multi-table tournament but with a set time limit of either 15 minutes, 30 minutes or an hour.

When the specified time limit expires, the prize money is awarded according to the finishing chip counts of each player.

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Sky Poker offers very good software. The web client is a bit resource intensive but it is also good looking, functional and secure.

A download client was also recently introduced and the feedback is good. The Sky Poker software supports play at four tables simultaneously and multi-table play runs smoothly in the web client as long as you have an internet connection that can handle it.

Statistics

Data and stats functions in the Sky Poker software allow players to take notes on the opposition during play and the lobby supplies most of the vital table statistics, like average pot size, seated-player's stack size.

Missing are hands played per hour and a few other useful stats, but they'll likely be added soon. The hand history and statistics functions are still not as developed as most would like, but it's safe to assume these are things that will grow with the poker room.

Graphics

The Sky Poker software offers clean and crisp graphics and the tables are easy to read. The lobby needs some work, but overall the impression is positive.

The avatars available are good looking and the felt is a nice "Sky Blue" that works well with the profile of the site and looks very good.

Special Features

The Sky Poker software offers the basic features expected from all poker clients, lacking only in some areas of information.

There are quite a few unique functions available, such as the ability to take another look at your folded hand, a video poker school and a fun "Hot-o-meter" that when turned on will give its "opinion" on your hole cards.

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Sky Poker offers some of the juiciest and most profitable games seen online today.

A lot of the players seem to be complete beginners, taking a shot at having their table end up as one of the televised tables.

The lobby doesn't have much information other than average pot size, so finding a particularly loose table is a little difficult. But don’t worry - stay away from the highest stakes and you will be ok.

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