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Originally Posted by G1lius
Making the table-cap lower at LHE would be a solution imo. Although it wouldn't solve everything.
I'm not sure how the table-cap works either. Is it the average time for every decision, or the time of a decision when playing X tables that counts?
We grant table caps based on the average time to act during the last month as well as the average number of tables a player played.
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Originally Posted by chezlaw
This is a bit depressing. These are players who have abused and almost certainly done great damage to your games. We dont need the table speed changed, you just need you to have a look at the stats you now have on players who's average time to act is far too long, and deal with them.
It may be that they dont play as many tables as NL players but that's no exucuse for letting them play more tables then they can handle.
Its not tricky, its hard to see why Stars haven't got to grips with it. You need this resolved at least as much as we do.
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Originally Posted by G1lius
Regarding the slow players. Reducing table-time wouldn't be a good solution. There do arise hard spots where you need some time to think. Unlike NL though, some actions require very little thinking, which makes LHE a fairly quick game. That's why it can be more annoying when someone plays slow on every hand.
If the impression is that players who are only playing a few tables are an issue as well as mass-multi-tablers, the only real solution as we see it is to reduce the time to act you get at the tables.
As stated, we already do look at the average time to act of players who play very slowly. However, this program is specifically to combat players who are playing slowly because they are playing more tables than they can handle.
It is a fair point that we might not be aggressive enough with lowering Table Caps, so I will look into being more harsh with our next set of Table Cap adjustments. However, please keep in mind this will still not help with those who only play one or two tables at a time.
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Originally Posted by The Nemesis
i dont undertand why you dont implement a wait list cap. even something silly like 10 max to start. and if a player doesnt take a seat when its their turn, no waiting that table for 5mins. this seems like a no brainer that wouldnt negatively effect anyone. try it, and i bet it would make the games better and player happier. then you'll be wondering why you didnt make 3 cap 20min wait.
I’ve seen a lot of people complain that waitlists are too big, but I’m not entirely sure what the negative effect of a large waitlist is or what problem capping the number of players on a waiting list would solve. A clearer explanation of the problems people see with large waitlists would be appreciated.
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Originally Posted by piranha
Steve,
How can the seat assignments on Poker Stars not be random at this point? What are you guys doing to fix this?
Also, there is a player sitting every day alone at a table from 10/20 to 1000/2000. He picks the seat so that he gets the button every time the game starts and very rarely plays more than two orbits. So what happens is he plays 12 hands on average, 1 is the big blind, 1 is the small blind, and the other 10 hands are non-blind positions. This is stealing from the other players and is hugely profitable. Is there something that can be done about this?
We’ve recently discussed methods of making the seating and table starting mechanics more fair due to concerns like these.
If you think this player is grimming, please either PM me with his screen name or report him to
Support@PokerStars.com.
I see multiple reports of specific users in the thread, but note that most of them are not exact userids. I’m happy to ensure we take a look at reports made here if the userid is correct, but suggest that it’s better to submit the names in private.
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Originally Posted by PlsFold
There are maybe 20-30 players pulling that scam. So frustrating watching them doing this every single day being top BB/100 winners without Stars doing anything.
FWIW lifeisagame is worst of the worst. Sitting 15 tables seat 1 timing out with a non-raising hand and never ever posting big blind. But there are many others obv.
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Originally Posted by Entusiowe_ucho
5. Track all the dodgers mentioned by detective Tp like jamadharma (I think he's the one Tp is talking about) who freeroll their hands when the table opens without posting the blinds.
If you see any abusive behavior, we absolutely want you to report it to us at
Support@PokerStars.com. We investigate every report and take blind abuse very seriously.
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Originally Posted by Entusiowe_ucho
1. I'm shocked no one is talking about adding 15/30 - 1/2k hu tables. It would solve the problem with regs waiting only for HU and make the lobby more clear.
We are avoiding adding new heads-up tables until we improve our heads-up lobby, hopefully later this year. There are still plenty of players trying to play HU at games/stakes for which dedicated HU tables are offered, so while the HU tables might help, I don’t think they would solve the problem.
We plan to deploy two improvements to the ring games lobby over the next few months. You can check out our initial testing of the first new feature at the $25/$50 and $50/$100 NLHE CAP tables. There is only one non-dealing table of each type there. In the next few months we also plan to remove the ability for players to sit out at non-dealing tables. I expect these changes will greatly improve lobby clarity.
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Originally Posted by Entusiowe_ucho
3. Reduce the number of 6max and FR tables you can open to, for instance, 5 for each stake (not taking into account those where at least 2 players are seated) so that regs don't open million tables and the lobby can look more friendly
As stated above, we have developed this feature and are already testing it. We expect to roll it out more widely after clients are released with more accurate messaging during table closures.
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Originally Posted by Entusiowe_ucho
4. Get rid of table starters because they work awfully plus a lot of ******ed regs haven't figured out yet that it's nonsense to use them and just litter the lobby
Could you explain exactly what you think is broken about Table Starters? We see a some complaints about them in the forums, but we haven’t seen a good list of exactly what downsides people see to having them on the site. We also see some players say that they’re pleased with them in general and at some combinations of stakes and game types they are quite frequently used.