October 30, 2017
Dedicated PartyPoker TV channel will broadcast nightly on Sky Channel 468 and Freesat Channel 250. Monday October 30 is a landmark date for PartyPoker as the company’s UK television channel begins screening nightly poker shows across Sky Channel 468 and Freesat Channel 250 from 11pm. Exact content for the first screening is not yet known, […]
August 25, 2015
21-year-old Brit economics student Harry Lodge triumphed to the tune of GBP 60,000 in the Sky Poker 6-Max UK Poker Championships at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham this week, defeating Richard Hawes heads-up to claim the main prize. 475 hopefuls entered for the GBP 550 buy-in event, creating a prize pool comfortably in excess of […]
March 18, 2015
Sky Betting and Gaming has reviewed its Sky Poker TV, channel 861, following its acquisition by private equity firm CVC Capital Partners from Skylate last year, saying the change in ownership affects how the channel can be run both commercially and legally. According to a customer update, Sky Poker TV’s 24/7 channel 861 on Sky […]
March 3, 2015
This week’s GBP 1,100 buy-in Sky Poker UK Poker Championship at the Dusk Til Dawn facility in Nottingham will go into the books as a success with 813 entrants, many probably attracted by DTD owner Rob Yong’s generous million pound guarantee boost to the prize pool. Brit pro Fraser Bellamy from Sheffield ultimately took the […]
February 24, 2014
A Doncaster student emerged victorious over a field of 620 players in the 2014 Sky Poker UK Poker Championship (UKPC) Main Event which was held at the Dusk till Dawn poker club in Nottingham this past weekend. 20-year-old Alex Spencer, an accountancy and finance student at the University of York, took the title, the main […]
November 27, 2013
In a software upgrade so extensive that it could reasonably be regarded as new, Sky Poker has improved its proprietary download and browser-based software with 20 major changes. The launch of the revamped software this week followed an extensive testing program. The enhancements include redesigned and resizable tables and preferred seating options that will be […]