**PokerStars Software Improvement Thread***

[PokerStars Development]

Originally Posted by fozzy71

Any chance I can get some documentation on the lobby themes and how to incorporate my own custom lobby themes?

Maybe - I will ask. I have absolutely no idea how they work myself!

[The4thFilm]

if (buyin < 100BB){
bankroll-(100-buyin)=bankroll;
buyin = 100BB;
}

[GiantBuddha]

Originally Posted by Alex Scott

SNGs for all of the new games (except Badugi - coming soon) are available on the Test Site. Please let me know your feedback on the structures.

Is there an ETA on these new mixed cash games? The 8 game rotation looks awesome, btw.

[JustASpectator]

Originally Posted by Alex Scott

4. We're still working on improving the 15% payout schedule (this is the one in use in the vast majority of our tournaments, including the Million and Warm Up). We've got it so that the tournament should pay 15% of entrants +/- 0.5%, which is a massive improvement (we were all a bit sick that one week where the Million paid 17% or so). The next issue to deal with is the 'second bubble' (in which the first payout tier, usually 1.5x the buy-in or so, is thousands of players wide while the next is 27 players wide) which is caused by the fact that the smallest increment we can divide the prize pool into is 0.01%.

As always keep the feedback coming!

Alex, can you elaborate on what the limitation is that results in .01% being the smallest increment for prize pool distribution? This seems like a trivial calculation issue that is resulting in messy payouts in the big "flagship" events.

[_dave_]

Originally Posted by fozzy71

Any chance I can get some documentation on the lobby themes and how to incorporate my own custom lobby themes?

yes please, theme documentation would be nice - although plain text gx.ini would be absolutely fantastic!

seeing the potential exposed by the new black theme on both the table and the lobby, just imagine what creative 2p2ers would make given control over positioning / fonts and everything.

/end old nit remembering days gone by

[fozzy71]

Originally Posted by _dave_

yes please, theme documentation would be nice - although plain text gx.ini would be absolutely fantastic!

seeing the potential exposed by the new black theme on both the table and the lobby, just imagine what creative 2p2ers would make given control over positioning / fonts and everything.

/end old nit remembering days gone by

I would like to be able to mod the replayer as well, LDO.

Dave - How hard would it be to make the black theme BetPot compatible?? I prolly know the answer.

[PokerStars Development]

Originally Posted by _dave_

Alex, this is great that you post such a summary here - Thank you very much

You're welcome :-)

Originally Posted by The4thFilm

if (buyin < 100BB){
bankroll-(100-buyin)=bankroll;
buyin = 100BB;
}

http://www.pokerstars.com/about/careers

Originally Posted by GiantBuddha

Is there an ETA on these new mixed cash games? The 8 game rotation looks awesome, btw.

Mixed Hold'em, Mixed Omaha 8 or Better, 2-7 Lowball, 8-Game Mix and Badugi tournaments are all planned for the next build (a few weeks' time), to allow for testing before WCOOP. I would expect (but cannot guarantee) that cash games will come along at the same time.

Originally Posted by JustASpectator

Alex, can you elaborate on what the limitation is that results in .01% being the smallest increment for prize pool distribution? This seems like a trivial calculation issue that is resulting in messy payouts in the big "flagship" events.

The tournament system only supports 2 decimal places at the moment, so we can specify that positions 180-270 receive 0.01% of the prize pool (for example), but we can't specify that they get 0.001%, or 0.015%. This is already being worked on and should also be resolved in the next build.

[GrannyMae]

Originally Posted by Shibby

That instant replayer is awesome. Good job Stars!

+1,000

it is not only a replayer, but a simple last hand tool ala ftp.

i loved this at ftp. wtg stars

[SuperUberBob]

<3 Stars for adding the Turbo tabs under SnGs.

[JustASpectator]

Originally Posted by Alex Scott

The tournament system only supports 2 decimal places at the moment, so we can specify that positions 180-270 receive 0.01% of the prize pool (for example), but we can't specify that they get 0.001%, or 0.015%. This is already being worked on and should also be resolved in the next build.

Thanks Alex, glad to hear it's being worked on.

[GrannyMae]

am i the only one that can't stand the black? pokerstars classic for me.

hmm, just like windows classic. i must hate change.

[goofyballer]

Originally Posted by Alex Scott

http://www.pokerstars.com/about/careers

Hay, I fixed his code:

Originally Posted by The4thFilm

if (buyin < 100){
bankroll=bankroll-(100-buyin);
buyin = 100BB;
}

I can has top programming job @ PokerStars now? I don't see any listed on the careers page but I'm sure you can create one for me. I'll need to work out of San Francisco, hope that isn't a problem for you guys.

[Markusgc]

Originally Posted by GrannyMae

am i the only one that can't stand the black? pokerstars classic for me.

hmm, just like windows classic. i must hate change.

standard for the ancient, errr, elderly.

btw - bring back Pay Tru.

[fozzy71]

◄─ Spam for my new avatar.

[Markusgc]

^^^^^^^
I was just admiring it in a post of yours above.