Sky Poker app download & review (October 2026)

What’s in the Sky Poker mobile app

I’d start with the search box in the Sky Poker lobby, because that’s how Sky’s help tells you to find its own games among the network’s. Tap Tournaments, then the search icon, and type £. That lists the next 15 tournaments in pounds, and the same search works under Sit&Go’s.

The app also has games the browser lobby doesn’t. While Sky works on its browser lobby, heads-up Sit & Gos and Double Your Money games above £10 are only in the app and the Windows download. So a Mac player who wants those needs the phone or tablet app. (The browser lobby does have shortcuts to the 25p to £10 ones.)

Your poker tickets, welcome ones included, are under Tickets at the top left of the lobby.

Sky Poker tournaments and freerolls

For a low-stakes tournament player, the schedule is the strongest part of Sky Poker on paper. Sky’s biggest exclusive tournament of the week is the Sunday Major (Sundays at 8pm).

I like the freeroll route into it. Every day at 6pm there’s a Sunday Major Freeroll for anyone who’s earned 20 Status Points in the 24 hours before it starts, and the top three each win a £100 seat. Weekday regulars get a second one, a Rewards Freeroll at 6.30pm Monday to Friday, if they earned 50 Status Points the previous week (tickets won in either freeroll expire after 30 days).

In one hour on 7 October 2026, Sky’s own events included the £3,000 Predator Direct (£8 + £0.80) and a £50 Omaha Hi-Lo Bounty Hunter (£0.90 + £0.20). In the same hour the network ran the €15,000 Midweek Mystery (€91 + €18) and the first step of an IPT Killarney satellite (€0.23 + €0.02). That hour had 25 tournaments, and all but three were Hold’em (two Omaha, one Omaha Hi-Lo).

For live poker, Sky says it’s the only place to qualify online for APAT live events. It runs a satellite for a £140 Players Choice seat every Friday and Sunday, with one seat guaranteed in each, and winners can use the seat at any APAT live event in 2026.

Sky Poker cash games and Sit & Gos

The Sky Exclusive games include regular cash tables, short-stacked Spin Up tables and Double Your Money Sit & Gos from 25p, which end when three players are left. Sky’s site picks out Hold’em, Omaha and Omaha Hi-Lo as three of the most popular variants you’ll find at Sky Poker (in Hi-Lo the best high and low hands split the pot).

The iPoker network adds its own cash tables, Twisters and, going by Sky’s how-to guide, Speed Poker. If Twisters are why you’re here, €15 of the welcome package comes as Twister tickets.

Sky Poker rake and rakeback

Sky Poker Rewards is the part I’d point a regular player to, because it’s straight cash rakeback. You get 20% to 40% depending on your tier, paid as Cash Points that you swap for money in the VIP section of the lobby whenever you like. You earn 10 Status Points for every €1 of rake you pay, or 12 for every £1, and 50 Cash Points are worth €1.

A tier you reach in one month is kept for the next (Platinum and Sky Elite for three months). Cash Points expire 12 months after you earn them if you don’t cash them in.

On the rake itself, Sky’s exclusive cash games take 5% of the pot, capped at £1 heads-up and £1.80 with three or more players, and Sky charges no rake when no flop is seen. If you play bigger games, compare that £1.80 with the network’s tables, which can take up to €4 a pot from €0.50/€1 to €5/€10 with three or more players.

Sky Poker deposits, the poker wallet and withdrawals

The poker wallet adds a step at each end. Sky Poker has a wallet of its own inside your Sky account, and Sky’s help is plain about it: “Poker wallet can only be spent on Poker”. You deposit into your main wallet, move money across to play (from My Account and Transfer Funds, or the Cashier in the poker lobby), and move it back before you withdraw. Any poker bonuses land in the poker wallet too.

Games on the iPoker network are played in euros, so Sky converts your pounds automatically when you play them, with no conversion fee, while Sky’s exclusive games stay in pounds.

For deposits, Sky takes debit cards (up to three on an account), Apple Pay, Pay by Bank and Revolut Pay, and says deposits appear straight away. PayPal and Google Pay are no longer accepted on any Sky brand, and credit cards can’t be used by law.

Once the money is back in your main wallet, the withdrawal times Sky states are in the table, and Sky says Pay by Bank is the quickest. You have to withdraw at least what you deposited with each method back to that method before you can withdraw to another one, which Sky calls the Net Deposit Rule.

Your Sky account, nickname and verification

There’s no separate Sky Bet poker account to open. Sky gives each customer one account across Sky Bet, Sky Vegas, Sky Casino, Sky Bingo and Sky Poker, so the username and PIN you already use will log you in to the poker app. If your Sky Poker login isn’t working, our Sky Bet app review covers login problems.

The first time you log in you’ll be asked for a poker nickname, which you can change every six months after that. Anyone who played before the iPoker move has to choose again, because Sky couldn’t keep the old nicknames (you can have yours back if nobody else has taken it).

Before you can deposit, Sky has you confirm your email address and mobile number with a six-digit code. If its automatic checks can’t confirm your age and identity, you upload photo ID as a JPEG or PNG; Sky won’t accept PDFs or screenshots for ID. It aims to review the documents within 4 hours, though it can take up to 24. Accounts work in the UK, Ireland and Gibraltar, and logging in from outside the places Sky allows can get yours suspended.

Sky Poker customer support

Live chat is the way in. Sky Poker live chat runs from 7am to 2am every day, and several Sky Poker help articles have their own chat buttons, such as Login Chat and Withdrawal Query Chat. You can also send @SkyBetHelp a private message on X or Facebook, where Sky aims to reply within 15 minutes, though not between midnight and 7am and not with ID documents. There’s no general Sky Poker contact number, and I’d like one for account problems.

For UK customers, Sky’s final response to a complaint comes within 8 weeks, and if that doesn’t settle it you can take it to IBAS, the independent adjudicator, at no cost.

Safer gambling tools on Sky Poker

The tool built for poker is the Transfer Limit, which caps how much you can move into your Sky Poker wallet per day, week, month or year. It takes effect the moment you set it; you can lower it at once, but an increase takes 7 days. You’ll find it under My Account, then Safer Gambling Tools, then Set your Transfer Limit.

You can also self-exclude from Sky Poker only, for between six months and five years, and a self-exclusion can’t be removed once it’s in place. Only an all-product self-exclusion can be permanent, and only that kind also blocks matching UK accounts at the rest of the group (Paddy Power, Betfair, PokerStars and tombola).

For a shorter break, a Cool-Off of 1 to 30 days blocks all five Sky brands and can’t be ended early. Deposit Controls let you set a daily, weekly or monthly deposit limit or net deposit limit. Sky’s My Profit and Loss page (under Gaming Activity) works out your Sky Poker figure from transfers in and out of the poker wallet. Sky also points you to GAMSTOP, which lets you self-exclude from participating online gambling companies licensed in Great Britain.

18+. Please gamble responsibly. For free, confidential help, call the National Gambling Helpline on 0808 8020 133 (Ireland: 1800 936 725) or visit BeGambleAware.org.

Sky Poker’s network, licence and owner

Sky Poker is on iPoker now, and the app changed with the move. The App Store release note of 27 May 2025 reads: “A brand new Poker experience with our new Sky Poker App built by third party provider Playtech.”

Behind the Sky name (used under licence from Sky Limited) is Bonne Terre Gaming Limited, which holds Gambling Commission account 65519 and a Gibraltar licence, and is wholly owned by Flutter Entertainment. Sky Poker is one of its active trading names on the register.

Sky’s terms ban collusion and say it uses software to analyse hands to detect it. Money to cover customer balances is kept in a separate bank account, at the Gambling Commission’s Medium level of protection.

Sky Poker and Sky’s other apps

For anything that isn’t poker, Sky has separate apps. Our Sky Bet app review covers the sportsbook and login help, and our Sky Casino app review covers slots, live casino and video poker. To compare Sky Poker with other poker rooms, see our poker apps guide.