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Sky Poker Allowing Collusion?
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EasyVision EasyVision is offline
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4 Hours Ago (4/12/2015 7:45pm)
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It seems that there is trouble over at Sky Poker with some serious collusions allegations being punted around social media that for once are being backed up with not only evidence but also a confession. This was on 2+2:
Screenshots have been appearing on social media sites relating to 2 players colluding in low stakes games on Sky Poker.
Both players have admitted collusion and the chat logs relating to that collusion have been shown. One of the players, a long standing reg and the captain of the APAT Team Championships winning team, has since removed his admission. According to him, Sky Poker were informed of the said collusion a number of weeks ago. In the past 4 days the matter has been reported to Sky Poker by numerous individuals but to date both players have not been suspended and are still playing the tables.
The apparent lack of action by Sky is to say the least baffling when there appears to be overwhelming evidence to support the claims of collusion.
The OP was challenged to provide screen shots and they did:
http://tinypic.com/r/k2kzm8/8
http://tinypic.com/r/21978dh/8
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2z4z...8#.VSpyZvnF8pU
For someone who runs teams across APAT and various poker sites there hasn't been much defence of the fella apart from this:
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Well this didn't take long to get on here. How dare you post David Harveys name AND mention APAT and Team Hitsquad in the pictures. Before everyone starts jumping to conclusions and asking for his head you may want the facts:
1: David Harvey only admits colluding over the tournaments that there are screenshots of him colluding in so don't go saying he has been doing it all the time.
2: David Harvey says he told his friends at Sky weeks ago when he first found out about the screen shots so it's Sky problem now not Dave's.
3: David Harvey is a well respected member of the Sky community, he's a friend of various presenters and Sky Mods and runs his own team on Sky. He's even been on the Sky TV Channel as a guest.
4: David Harvey admitted it in a post on Sky Forum last week. Sky obviously don't feel that it warrants a ban and that it goes against their collusion rules because he is still playing there so let's just leave him alone to play in peace, he doesn't deserve this, hes a good man who in his own words is a good man who made a mistake.
5: Its Sky Pokers decision on any punishment so stay out of it please as they seem to have decided that all is ok.
6: The other person (David Dearlove) has admitted it and has said on another forum that he is expecting a ban as those are the rules so let's just ban him and leave Dave Harvey alone please.
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No idea what is going on at Sky Towers but this is a bit of a strange one and could have easily been sorted by Sky.
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2 Hours Ago (4/12/2015 10:15pm) in reply to EasyVision
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Originally Posted by EasyVision View Post
It seems that there is trouble over at Sky Poker with some serious collusions allegations being punted around social media that for once are being backed up with not only evidence but also a confession. This was on 2+2:
Screenshots have been appearing on social media sites relating to 2 players colluding in low stakes games on Sky Poker.
Both players have admitted collusion and the chat logs relating to that collusion have been shown. One of the players, a long standing reg and the captain of the APAT Team Championships winning team, has since removed his admission. According to him, Sky Poker were informed of the said collusion a number of weeks ago. In the past 4 days the matter has been reported to Sky Poker by numerous individuals but to date both players have not been suspended and are still playing the tables.
The apparent lack of action by Sky is to say the least baffling when there appears to be overwhelming evidence to support the claims of collusion.
The OP was challenged to provide screen shots and they did:
http://tinypic.com/r/k2kzm8/8
http://tinypic.com/r/21978dh/8
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2z4z...8#.VSpyZvnF8pU
For someone who runs teams across APAT and various poker sites there hasn't been much defence of the fella apart from this:
__________________________________________________ ___________________________________
Well this didn't take long to get on here. How dare you post David Harveys name AND mention APAT and Team Hitsquad in the pictures. Before everyone starts jumping to conclusions and asking for his head you may want the facts:
1: David Harvey only admits colluding over the tournaments that there are screenshots of him colluding in so don't go saying he has been doing it all the time.
2: David Harvey says he told his friends at Sky weeks ago when he first found out about the screen shots so it's Sky problem now not Dave's.
3: David Harvey is a well respected member of the Sky community, he's a friend of various presenters and Sky Mods and runs his own team on Sky. He's even been on the Sky TV Channel as a guest.
4: David Harvey admitted it in a post on Sky Forum last week. Sky obviously don't feel that it warrants a ban and that it goes against their collusion rules because he is still playing there so let's just leave him alone to play in peace, he doesn't deserve this, hes a good man who in his own words is a good man who made a mistake.
5: Its Sky Pokers decision on any punishment so stay out of it please as they seem to have decided that all is ok.
6: The other person (David Dearlove) has admitted it and has said on another forum that he is expecting a ban as those are the rules so let's just ban him and leave Dave Harvey alone please.
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No idea what is going on at Sky Towers but this is a bit of a strange one and could have easily been sorted by Sky.
The 3rd Link I posted is incorrect, here is the correct one:
http://tinypic.com/r/2z4zf29/8
Here is another set of messages from David Harvey saying that Sky knew so must have allowed collusion?
http://tinypic.com/1r54rsrq