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Originally Posted by ChaseNutley26
The problems with table display are awful. It's very difficult to tell who the action is on since the timer bar tends to stick on players who've already acted. Small and big blind notifications cover up table balances. And worst of all (and this is beyond terrible) player balances don't change during the hand, so if someone starts with $18, bets $3 on the flop and $7 on the turn, it still reads $18. I mean, yeah, you can hover over the placard and get the balance, but it's impossible to play more than a couple tables without drastically slowing down your decision-making process.
All that being said, it's very nice to log in and see actual players at the tables instead of the wasteland it used to be.
It's amazing that, over a year later, none of this has been fixed. Did anyone do that survey they sent out a couple of months ago? I did, and I complained about this issue. I got an email back advising me to change the settings to revert to the way the tables looked before the software changed.
But I feel like my ability to play on this site is already so tenuous (technological issues - for instance the new software does not allow me to log on from my PC, only from my laptop) that I'm reluctant to mess around with the settings lest something else go wrong. It would be different if I played more than 2 tables at a time, but I don't, so I can put up with it. Wish they'd just fix it, though.
FWIW, I first started playing on the site in 2014. Took a break for several months when life got busy, and came back in late 2015. Since the player pools have merged, I'm seeing a little more traffic, but not nearly as much as I expected. And it seems like mostly Vegas players (they do like to put "NV" or "Vegas" in their names, don't they? You see very few people repping DE in their name). The regs I played with in 2014 seem to be 95% gone, unless they changed their names. Even that one guy who used to sit at the PLO micros all day long - and would trash talk constantly - I've seen him only once in the past few months.
Don't get me wrong, there are still enough tables that a game can always be found, but sometimes there's literally one table at the limits I like. There are some peak times, though, when there are more options than there ever were before the merge.
HAHA - as I've been typing this and playing, I got the ol' "We are having trouble validating your location". Classic. At least they let you play the hand out.