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*** PokerStars 7 Software Improvement Thread *** *** PokerStars 7 Software Improvement Thread ***

01-22-2015 , 11:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Anderson Paixao
Is there any way to see how many hands I've played today? I feel like that would a cool feature to add.
I will forward your suggestion to the relevant team. Meanwhile, you can request Hand History for a day or a week through Tools > History & Stats > Get Hand History:

01-22-2015 , 12:02 PM
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Originally Posted by P0k3Y
Is the login time faster when you start the client on a different tab like Zoom or SnG's (something other than Tourney tab)
I'll try that once i end up with my session
01-22-2015 , 12:56 PM
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Originally Posted by adzo7777
playing on ipad - the tourney details should be displayed on the table permanently , its annoying to keep pressing info all the time! which covers half of the table as well! (position/average etc)
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Originally Posted by slinkie
Is there any way to make the border around the active table clearer for hotkeys. I play fairly far back from my monitor using a joypad to play and 2-3 table zoom so the tables are quite big but the border stays the same width no matter how big the table it. Is there anyway of making the width wider or making it more obvious which window has focus (eg change the colour of the felt of the table that has focus) I don't want to buy table ninja just for this option
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Originally Posted by ezdonkey
x-posted on Software Improvement thread as well, but I doubt the PS rep who is following that thread took the bait. I don't see a reason why someone would object this:

Could PokerStars (+FullTilt) implement "Sit out next orbit" tickbox for HU tables and remove both "Sit out next hand" & "Sit out next big blind" tickboxes?

Players would have to play equal amount of big blinds IF they have >$0 on table. (Obv if they go bust in the first hand they're allowed to leave without reloading.)

It's still massively common to get grimstarred or delay-grimmed if software awards button for the player who is sitting already. They play like 5 buttons and 4 big blinds and sit out after realizing it wasn't 100% fish who sat down.

EDIT: Not playing equal amount of big blinds is the equivalent of two soccer teams getting unequal amount of attempts in a penalty shootout. If attempts were 5/4, the other has a significant advantage. With 101/100 that advantage would be much slimmer percentage wise, but still unfair. With 1/0 (straight out grimstarring) it's impossible for other player (big blind) to win. This happens often on FTP where the already sitting player starts with button.
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Originally Posted by krazykarter
Can you please add a button on the Tournament Tickets screen to register to the selected tournament, rather than having to open the tournament lobby?
Thanks to all for these suggestions, I will forward to the relevant teams.

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Originally Posted by Pastore
In PS7 I notice that the most lag when playing on mac is in tourneys(also sit&go hu etc) and cards are being dealt to a new hand. When I play 6 max cash game it works without any lag for me. Why is this?
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Originally Posted by senser86
I have the same problem! I multi tabled +- 10 mtt's and it was a disaster. A lot of lag made it unplayable.
I made a revert to PS6, and everything was fine there...
So I'm a bit scared when you can't play on ps6 after the next update, hope the lag is gone then or I can't play anymore.
We expect to have performance improvements in the Mac client with the next updates coming this week and next week.

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Originally Posted by Hetsis
Every time I open PS7 I get a prompt "An unexpected error occurred. Please retry your action."

When I click OK it disappears and I can login normally.

Any idea what's causing this?

OS: Win 7 Professional installed on Mac Mini via Bootcamp.
I’ve never seen or heard of that with PS7, but have forwarded your report to QA for further investigation, thanks.

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Originally Posted by grant121
Any news on this one? It's been a month now and the tech support team are aware of it.
Recap - After hand has finished, it does not show in 'Instant hand history' and also does not save to the local Hand History folder. Seems to be losing roughly 10% of hands played, so quite a significant amount. Thanks.
This issue was fixed last month. It’s possible that either you haven’t updated your client, or that the solution hasn’t been deployed on all clients (though if that’s the case it will be with the updates coming this week and next week). Please let me know which build number you are using (Help > About PokerStars).

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Originally Posted by adzo7777
ps6 is just much smoother/responsive lobby more than ps7
Thanks for your comments. We are constantly working to improve the performance of PS7, both overall and relative to PS6. Each client update over the next few months should see progressive improvement in this area.

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Originally Posted by callme
Sorry but i call BS on that theory... I havent changed anything nor did i update anything - never had a problem, although i was aware of it since some friends had problems. Today, all of a sudden, first table i play freezes up while the second table keeps playing... Now how can that have to do with 3rd party software after it worked for all that time. The last time i updated 3rd party software was like 3 weeks or so ago....

I use PS7 client btw, only play Spins, other friends i know have this happen in HUSNGs as well..

The only time i experienced those freezes in the past were, when massiv allinshoot outs started... then my tables regullary froze, yet continued when the situation got normal again... maybe you wanna look into that, since you run those shootouts all the time atm if that might correlate....

OR... Stars is under a DDOS attack ...
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Originally Posted by roctill7
I just tested and played 20 minutes without any 3rd party tool and can confirm I had 0 freezes, but however I experienced 2 lags, which fortunately unlagged . Compared to when I played with PT4, I had 3 frozen tables in 10 minutes.

Yes 3rd party tools make it freeze, but when my latest PT4 update was on December 3rd officially ( updated ~ December 15th), and my first frozen table issue occurred 13th or 14th January, and between these dates I have played approx 3000 sng tournaments, I don't believe issue is 100% 3rd party tools, but given these facts I believe it underlies in Pokerstars.
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Originally Posted by krazykarter
They said it was something to do with the latest server restart, so it doesn't matter what version of PT4 you were using, it was going to happen.
That’s correct. After our server restart last week, some third-party tools started malfunctioning. PokerStars does not test its software against any third-party tools, so neither we nor the vendors were aware of the incompatibility until users of the tools reported a problem.

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Originally Posted by SANTACE
I'm playing 18 tables and 2 tables, the tables are frozen (as if the player were thinking their action) but in reality the SNG is still playing, while in the other normal game continues. If I realize I have to close the table and put "take your seat" in the tournament lobby if I do not realize I stay sit out the tournament and lose the buy in. ¿Somebody Have the same trouble too?
Many players have reported table-freezing due to problems with PokerTracker or Hold’em Manager. To solve them, you will need to follow the instructions from those vendors. Here is a note from PT:

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Originally Posted by PokerTracker
ATTENTION POKERTRACKER 4 USERS:

A new update for PokerStars ZOOM compatibility and improved stability has just been pushed out to all PokerTracker 4 users. If you are currently using PokerTracker 4 while playing on ZOOM tables we advise taking these steps:
  1. Quit the PokerStars and PokerTracker 4 clients.
  2. Restart PokerTracker 4
  3. Once you see the PokerTracker 4 client window, you can now restart PokerStars.

We are sorry for this inconvenience, but are happy to report that all Zoom issues should be resolved once these steps have occurred.

PS: All PokerTracker 4 users should be using 4.12.1 at this stage. If you are not using PokerTracker 4.12.1, we advise updating ASAP at https://www.pokertracker.com/products/PT4/download.php
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Originally Posted by G3K0
please may you add an option to remove country flag in the software and replace it with a 3 letter country abbreviations?
Thanks for your suggestion. It is already in our plans to offer the country code as an alternative, but at this time I don’t have a date for deployment.

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Originally Posted by G3K0
PS.UK Mac 7.9244 Client

MTT Lobby > Home > Next Payout Featurette

Expected: shows placement for next payout jump & $ value
Actual: shows payout for next person to bust i.e. field size & payout
Thanks – this has been reported to developers.

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01-22-2015 , 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by P0k3Y
Is the login time faster when you start the client on a different tab like Zoom or SnG's (something other than Tourney tab)
Yes when I started the client on a zoom tab, it was much faster infact as quick as it takes with other poker clients but it was not consistent(tried 4-5 times) but much faster with zoom tab but not with sng or tourney tab.

Also PS Keith if this helps, when I use a faster internet connection(3g internet), client loads up quickly even with the tourney tab. My primary internet connection(wifi broadband) has got 4mbps speed and gets reduced to 512 kbps after I consume 8 gb. But then even with my slow internet speed(512 kbps) full tilt , 888 poker and other poker clients doesn't take long but pokerstars7 does take very long as I showed in that video.
01-22-2015 , 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted by anuj22
Yes when I started the client on a zoom tab, it was much faster infact as quick as it takes with other poker clients but it was not consistent(tried 4-5 times) but much faster with zoom tab but not with sng or tourney tab.

Also PS Keith if this helps, when I use a faster internet connection(3g internet), client loads up quickly even with the tourney tab. My primary internet connection(wifi broadband) has got 4mbps speed and gets reduced to 512 kbps after I consume 8 gb. But then even with my slow internet speed(512 kbps) full tilt , 888 poker and other poker clients doesn't take long but pokerstars7 does take very long as I showed in that video.
Yes, this is helpful information - thank you. I'm not sure if this has any bearing, but compared to those other sites PokerStars has many more tournaments and tables running at any one time, so updating the lobby transfers a lot of information and this may be contributing to the delay. We are working on the client to speed things up and will continue to improve the performance with each update.
01-23-2015 , 03:49 AM
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Originally Posted by grant121 View Post
Any news on this one? It's been a month now and the tech support team are aware of it.
Recap - After hand has finished, it does not show in 'Instant hand history' and also does not save to the local Hand History folder. Seems to be losing roughly 10% of hands played, so quite a significant amount. Thanks.
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This issue was fixed last month. It’s possible that either you haven’t updated your client, or that the solution hasn’t been deployed on all clients (though if that’s the case it will be with the updates coming this week and next week). Please let me know which build number you are using (Help > About PokerStars).
Thanks for your reply Keith, the client updates automatically doesn't it?
I'm currently running build number 9159, is that the latest version?
01-23-2015 , 03:25 PM
same here had some tables not open up at all, and thats tough esp when 20 tables + . You dont really got the time to go back and check out which have popped which havent. Ergo

ps6>ps7

IMO dont make people change over until everything is 100.1% ready to go otherwise it will be catastrophic
01-24-2015 , 09:39 AM
FFS DO NOT DISCONTINUE PS6
01-26-2015 , 02:24 PM
It tilts me that the balance amount on the client is always wrong and it takes a long time and/or a few attempts to open the cashier.
01-26-2015 , 03:10 PM


When using favourites it is not possible to use the min players enrolled filter. Please can you fix this? I wish to have 3+ players enrolled favourite games showing only.
01-26-2015 , 03:37 PM
Hi Keith

With Stars 7 update with Fixed Limit no more 1st of choice of game the Limit game are slowly dying as planned : I think maybe loose 30-40% of traffic. Any chance Stars make something to reverse that? Like make Lobby display PokerStars 6 as default for example.

Thanks

ps: I don"t have any records of Limit traffic but almost sure a loose of 30-40% of traffic is correct number
01-26-2015 , 03:57 PM
+1 put Limit Holdem the first game type tab like it used to be
01-26-2015 , 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by BRpokah
It tilts me that the balance amount on the client is always wrong and it takes a long time and/or a few attempts to open the cashier.
Sorry for this – we expect improvement in the lobby balance display and cashier opening with the client updates happening this week.

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Originally Posted by TheMegsDregs


When using favourites it is not possible to use the min players enrolled filter. Please can you fix this? I wish to have 3+ players enrolled favourite games showing only.
Just to be clear on what you are reporting - the 'Min Players Enrolled' filter does work, but it is missing the value '3' from the list. I will discuss with the relevant team - I don't think it was intentionally left out and may be a bug.

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Originally Posted by dudu
With Stars 7 update with Fixed Limit no more 1st of choice of game the Limit game are slowly dying as planned : I think maybe loose 30-40% of traffic. Any chance Stars make something to reverse that? Like make Lobby display PokerStars 6 as default for example.
Thanks for your comments – I will forward to the relevant team for review.

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01-26-2015 , 10:01 PM
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Originally Posted by PokerStars Keith
Just to be clear on what you are reporting - the 'Min Players Enrolled' filter does work, but it is missing the value '3' from the list. I will discuss with the relevant team - I don't think it was intentionally left out and may be a bug.
No - it does not work at all.

I select 4 and it still shows 0/1/2/3 player registered games. This may only be when I am viewing my Favourites, I didn't check if it works in the normal lobby view.

It was missing 3 on PS6 also, not sure why, but don't mind since you can still manually type 3 in I think. No big deal.
01-26-2015 , 11:15 PM
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Originally Posted by TheMegsDregs
No - it does not work at all.

I select 4 and it still shows 0/1/2/3 player registered games. This may only be when I am viewing my Favourites, I didn't check if it works in the normal lobby view.

It was missing 3 on PS6 also, not sure why, but don't mind since you can still manually type 3 in I think. No big deal.
Okay - I'll report the bug, with these further details. Thank you!
01-27-2015 , 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by dudu
Hi Keith

With Stars 7 update with Fixed Limit no more 1st of choice of game the Limit game are slowly dying as planned : I think maybe loose 30-40% of traffic. Any chance Stars make something to reverse that? Like make Lobby display PokerStars 6 as default for example.

Thanks

ps: I don"t have any records of Limit traffic but almost sure a loose of 30-40% of traffic is correct number
+1
The Limit Holdem lobby seems like the sahara.. everything is dying there...

it is not like limit holdem is pokerstars worst game, it likely belongs to the highest raking games even, so it should be in both parties best interest
01-28-2015 , 02:17 AM
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Originally Posted by toquinho
+1
The Limit Holdem lobby seems like the sahara.. everything is dying there...

it is not like limit holdem is pokerstars worst game
For cash games at least, it is the worst game by a mile. It supports a crazy amount of regs compared to the overall player pool size. How can that be?

1. A reg with a hud has a huge advantage over a recreational w/o hud, and in an almost solved game with low variance the casual player has virtually no chance of winning. Especially if its a regular rec whose style of play is well known. I dont believe there are any games in the world where a casual player has less chance of winning than todays PS LHE offering, including every kind of pit games.

2. Cheating/angling in various forms is very easy as well.

Stars and LHE would be much better off offering fewer stakes, lowering rake at the micros and make all games 6max zoom. That would clean out bad/never playing regs and cheaters.

I remember PS Steve declined offering OF Chinese once because the game is solved/too easy but you still offer now completely solved HU LHE where a ton of never playing regs sit all day never in a million years giving action to other than unknowns or recs. You have mid/highstakes "players" who are chromestars. Why are you offering these games?
01-28-2015 , 07:29 AM
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Originally Posted by PlsFold
For cash games at least, it is the worst game by a mile. It supports a crazy amount of regs compared to the overall player pool size. How can that be?

1. A reg with a hud has a huge advantage over a recreational w/o hud, and in an almost solved game with low variance the casual player has virtually no chance of winning. Especially if its a regular rec whose style of play is well known. I dont believe there are any games in the world where a casual player has less chance of winning than todays PS LHE offering, including every kind of pit games.

2. Cheating/angling in various forms is very easy as well.

Stars and LHE would be much better off offering fewer stakes, lowering rake at the micros and make all games 6max zoom. That would clean out bad/never playing regs and cheaters.

I remember PS Steve declined offering OF Chinese once because the game is solved/too easy but you still offer now completely solved HU LHE where a ton of never playing regs sit all day never in a million years giving action to other than unknowns or recs. You have mid/highstakes "players" who are chromestars. Why are you offering these games?
So much nonsense in this post. Even the best LHE players have winrates far lower than mediocre NL players.

Stars, please restore LHE in the lobby to the way it was. The usual response is that you can't take action that benefits one specific game yet you do stuff like this which is clearly to the detriment of one specific game.
01-28-2015 , 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Nihility77
So much nonsense in this post. Even the best LHE players have winrates far lower than mediocre NL players.

Stars, please restore LHE in the lobby to the way it was. The usual response is that you can't take action that benefits one specific game yet you do stuff like this which is clearly to the detriment of one specific game.
+1
01-28-2015 , 11:53 AM
my notes don't save correctly, must be a bug but its fruystrating colour coding the same player a hundred times
01-28-2015 , 12:40 PM
PS.UK Mac 7.9244 Client

SNG Lobby 3 Column View, Unegister Icon in Column 1 not functional

Expected:
To be able to register/unregister via the icon/shortcut in Column 1

Actual:
You can register via the Icon in Column 1 but unregistration does not seem to be functional
01-28-2015 , 01:56 PM


We really need to see when the target MTT is starting, it's critical information in deciding whether to play the SNG.
01-28-2015 , 02:50 PM
why does the update keep freezing on the log in? anyone got this problem? cant even load the site
01-29-2015 , 04:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Nihility77
So much nonsense in this post. Even the best LHE players have winrates far lower than mediocre NL players.
Oh yeah? Then why do you keep playing LHE along with a ton of other regs?
Because its the easiest way for you to make a profit of course.

If you call out my post as nonsense try using arguments.
01-29-2015 , 09:22 AM
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Originally Posted by PlsFold
Oh yeah? Then why do you keep playing LHE along with a ton of other regs?
Because its the easiest way for you to make a profit of course.

If you call out my post as nonsense try using arguments.
It's the easiest game for ME to make a profit at, I'm sure that applies for regs in any game. All games/formats are reg infested nowadays so it's not a shock that those who can win at a particular game stay there.

Your whole post was nonsense hence why I didn't get into specifics. Please don't derail the thread further.

      
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