Huds do not work with SNG 2.0 or Jackpots

I have had a hell of a run so far with payouts including a $1,500+ table at a $5 SNG2.0. I haven't counted, but out of 20 or so tourneys only 30% or so start with red car so I am running on the better side of variance at the moment.

I've been fortunate in that I've only had three or four games where top 2 got paid. The majority of the ones I played are 3 or 4, with one game paying 6. What I have not seen is these mysterious gold cards, lol. Not a single one has hit my table and I've played more than 40 of these.

I've tracked each of the ~250 games I've played. I'm too lazy to dig into the numbers right now but I did around the 150 game mark and the numbers were exactly what you'd expect (e.g. 50% 2 pay, 25% 3 pay, etc...)

comments below after a small sample(sure some have been mentioned already)

Firstly, great job and coming up with a new take on the lottery SnG format. I also really like the way the lottery is decided with the dealing of the cards prior to the game rather than just having the spinning wheel draw the prize pool. At least for me the sweat is greater and more fun.

Now for the game itself;

1) blind structure seems solid; it could possibly be a slight bit faster but overall the games seem to be running reasonably often during peak times and I've been getting $25's to load at a fine rate even a fair bit after off peak time.

2) payout structure could be improved and I think non jackpot games should be capped at paying out 5 players max with more money added to those places. This would add more excitement to the games than adding a bunch of just over min cash payouts.

3) the software definitely needs fixed with where the prizepool is located as well as the antes. I know I read awhile back others mentioning this but this needs to be emphasized as it's very difficult to read the action sometimes even if just one tabling.

Anyway, I'm sure many others have mentioned these points already but if you fix these you are going to have a very fun and attractive format running on your site.

yeah I actually pulled a gold card in one of my games this morning. Sadly, next guy pulled a red and killed the action and only payed out the top 2.

Well, my heater finally ended and variance caught up. Still hovering around 40 Buy Ins at 5.50. Games starting to slow down and starting to see things cool down a bit. Still, going to grind it out for a bit and see what happens. Especially, when they make the update.

Regardless, still having fun and made a nice little profit considering only made a min deposit of $25 and just free rolling at the moment

Agree with the payouts needing to be changed. I actually really like the idea of capping the places paid to make more top heavy.

75% of these that you play will result in either 2 or 3 payouts. The math is simple. 50% of the time will result in only 2 payouts (first card red). It's where they make they money for the jackpots.

The only thing that worries me is that there always seems to be one person that does not draw a card. And I've noticed so far every time if that person gets to show their card they've been randomly assigned, it is red. Only played 100 of these though, so sample is small.

I grinded these for the first time for awhile yesterday afternoon.

The halfchips were marginally annoying but not the biggest issue. There were a number of times where I couldn't click to a given table because it was covered by another table, even when it was my action at that table. Often what I'd have to do if I wanted to go from table 1 to table 2 is click on table 3 then go to 2, which was pretty annoying when I'm 4 tabling and could be detrimental if I were playing more tables than that.

The structures definitely need some adjusting. Please x100 have antes from the start or at least earlier, and for any level with antes, make them at least 15% of the big blind, and definitely not less than 10%. Overall just a marginally faster structure would be more enjoyable for recs and regs alike.

Also, there's a major glitch during the ante levels in the blinds. Everyone puts out their ante then when the blinds but out their blinds, it goes on top of their antes, so the 100/200/25 level ends up having 125/225 blinds. At a minimum it looks weird and also effects the raise sizing I believe.

As far as capping payouts, I might suggest capping it at 5 or 6 places paid for games other than gold card jackpots.

Well Misk,

Got a chance to play in 11 game. Wasn't bad, much different than the 5.50. Pay out was 6 places and I plucked a gold card again. No more after that unfortunately. Bubble play was tight and annoying though. Game was little bit tighter than our 5.50 games. Still managed to cash and finish 4th.

Not a fan. but i thnk its awesome that they are expanding their software and games

Gave them a shot but really hate structure. They need to be 6max to make them jump off faster.. paying 2 or 3 places, only paying the field in jackpot situation. Are themes not working? or is it a glitch on my PC..my eyes bleed if the tables aren't all black. I understand no HUDs but there is no note or color a player a function at all?? I am not playing these flying completely blind.

any ideas on the games/hr you can get? lets say 10 tabling if its even possible

I think the new product is great. Just minor annoyance (1/2 chips, hole cards covering payout structure and lack of note-taking ability). Nice work ACR. The length of the levels are perfect IMO. Full game takes about 40 minutes.

so what happens if we don't select a card?

I also have a game stuck in the "waiting to start" space. When i try to close it says "Your request have(yes have ) been interuppted. Please contact customer support."

By default they select a red card for you.

yeah same here but it doesn't charge my account.

yeah pretty much. Every time I see someone not select a card, it always lands on them and it's red. Not surprised.

im multitabling and rarely selecting a card, so thats bad?

i will be honest, i dont really know how these games work. i dont know what a red card is, have only saw black ones spread across the felt. if its bad not selecting a card though i will have to try harder to select one but its hard when stacking + lots of tables

Selecting or not selecting is the same. If you don't pick one by the time the clock expires, one is randomly chosen for you.

The pro play is to count to 7 Mississippi's then pick a card, 7 is a lucky number

two questions that one might know(I played on Blackchip Poker skin)

1) how can I find a records of my buyins into these games? I went to the tournament section under the "my account" and "transactions" subsection in the client and where jackpot SnGs and normal tournaments appear and there was no record of my wins/losses under this section for these SnG 2.0 games.

2) I know the client is new but I think there needs to be a "new" formula to calculate the average wait time as it seems way off to me. Is it just calculate the average between the last one the ran and the following one? Today I was trying to get a $25 to run and it failed to run for over and hour and then next thing I check the client about and hour later and the average wait time was 2 min. I tried to register again and then after about 30 minutes of not being seated I unregistered. Something seems off about the way the average wait time is being calculated and I think the sample size has to be increased on how it's being calculated.

Let me know. Thanks.

I really think these games would be so much better if the non-jackpots were capped at 5 payouts max. I had a table that drew 3 gold and 6 greens yesterday leading to an 8 payout structure w/ first place getting just $3 more than you would get in a standard $10 SNG. I thought we'd hit the jackpot with the 3 gold and by making it all the way around the table without a red....what a let down (had to go back and watch the video to see the golds have to re-draw). Nobody cares about getting 9 bucks back or whatever for busting in 8th place.

Also, would be nice to change the felt color and to have a brighter card back option to aid multi-tabling.

i now have three games "stuck" in my 2.0 browser, meaning i can only reg for 7 games

I have 5 now. Have had 4 for the last two days.

Support just beyond worthless. Says there is nothing they can do. Im 99 percent sure I was not credited my buy ins for these either but I am checking my info with a report. Just a complete joke