So iPokers only improvement is some sort of cloud thing to make iPoker a bit more facebooky, theres so much more they need to concentrate on!

Where is this expo or w/e it is you went to? Looks cool.

The square pods really make the site look terrible. They should just copy ftp pods and they would be laughing.

I dont care what the tables look like ... there are mods out there that can change themes ...

All i want is decent software ... do ipoker actually listen to what players would like ?

I question what ipoker reps actually talk about when they get together ....such a great time to do something positive with whats going on at Stars etc ....

I really wish i was a computer programmer ... i would get as many decent other programmers together and try and create our own poker room ...i mean how hard could it be ... and the rewards could be huge.

Last week there were two industry related conferences.

The one where we saw this was called 'ICE' which I assume stands for International Casino Exhibition.

As long as you're not an operator it's free to go to.

Check out: http://www.totallygaming.com/ice-2012


Agree to you completley on the seat pods. Hopefully it's something they look into - it's probably a fairly simple change.


I slightly disagree with this.

One of the major complaints I (and I assume iPoker) always saw were regarding the lack of re-themeable tables.

A lot of people said they should copy the Full Tilt tables and to be honest this appears pretty close to that.

Poker rooms with great software fail all the time. The challenge is attracting players, which costs a lot money. The average acquisition cost for a recreational player is said to be around $500 currently.

Building great software from scratch is of course achievable, but the poker networks have a much tougher job.

A good example would be if you went to a web designer and asked them how much to completely clone a website like iPokerVIP. You would probably get extremely close (depending on the designers) for $10k. Our site, however has cost many times this. We have to regularly update it, add new features and refining it is a constant process.

Building a brand new state of the art house is significantly easier than refurbishing and older one.

Sorry if it seems I'm defending iPoker - that's not the case at all. I would love to see them really take things to a new level and some of the new stuff has shown they have been listening to players. Maybe it's not as much as you would like, but some progress has been made and it's a little unfair to just point at something as complex as a piece of software that spans over 50 licenses and claim that a couple of lads could group together and crush it.

We can all agree that the network (along with all other poker networks) has a long way to go. We're coming to this thread to show you what improvements / changes are being made.

Jamie

Do you have any idea on what the deadline is for iPoker skins to update, if there even is one? I've heard SunPoker and maybe 1-2 others have updated, but the vast majority haven't. A lot of the excitement I feel over an impending update is going to deflate if I'm still using the old lobby in August.

Wouldnt mind knowing when bet most is updating. Doesn't look like they have changed a thing.

The answer is "no", and that they don't listen to what their skins want either. I know a guy that is pretty senior at one of their larger skins and he says that they're essentially too arrogant to take anything on board from anyone.

what are the currency exchange fees. Debating if I should deposit as Euro or Pound and keep it as one currency.

Winner poker has launched the new poker software. Lobby looks better, getting a seat @ cashgame table is way better, still auto post BB isn't fixed when you lose a BI.

The "upgrade" has missed the point. An aesthetic change whilst nice is not the most crucial thing.

* Being moved mid tourney and my table jumping from 1 spot on the screen to some random placement is ridiculous.
* Responsiveness of a zx81 that is being used in a bath tub.
* Buttons that work when clicked.
* Random freezes that are not lag, but just bad coding.
* Lobbies that update in real time, or at least within a few seconds.
* Synced breaks? I understand your thinking of doing this in 2012, please use your brains and implement at h:55 as I could seriously see this implemented at some other random time.
* Table to front when action is on?

There are so many little tweaks that are needed it is unreal. Yet your biggest innovation is to update the lobby, which is nice btw, but the real issues are in how the software operates NOT how it looks.

Woulda been nice, looks like ipoker have really missed a trick here.

Totally agree with these -fix these issues and it would make a huge difference.

Would love the option of having a prefered seat and sticking to it.

To easy to timeout when multi tabling, timeout of one game and by the time you have rejoined you timeout of other tables.

Its not bad software but so much could be done just to smooth the gameplay for multi table players.

For me the software has been going downhill lately and I don't know why. I tried reinstalling it to no end, even complained to player support.
The lobby is worthless, works so bad, need to click 3 times to get on a waiting list, have to wait for the table to update in the lobby to leave the queue. Bad bad lag in the lobby, my VIP stats don't show, table selection is just nerve wrecking. I wish they would solve this really bad responsiveness.
Everything else the guys noted before stands, it's so many little tweaks that could turn the software into a great one.

Any word when the bigger skins will update?

I emailed Betmost and William Hill and they wouldn't give me an answer so i opted for a skin that had upgraded

Thanks Yellow