**PokerStars Software Improvement Thread***

[MyTurn2Raise]

Originally Posted by 1p0kerboy

then what is a professional ratholer?

perhaps vehicles for good if they make pro poker players' lives more difficult

[1p0kerboy]

Originally Posted by MyTurn2Raise

perhaps vehicles for good if they make pro poker players' lives more difficult

Hahahahaha.

Professional poker players aren't hurting anybody. In fact, I specifically know more than one situation where a professional player is now able to contribute more to society because he/she now has excess money/time. This is mostly done through his/her church but also other charitable organizations.

Judging someone's character on the job he or she works is pretty shallow imo, especially in this situation because poker is a legalized, fun form of entertainment.

I'm not quite sure where all of this nonsense is being spouted off from, other than your desire to defend ratholing. But even in that case, almost all players are against shortstackers because they ruin the fun of the game. This is true for bad players, recreational players, amateur players, professional players, winning players, losing players, etc.

I mean, do you seriously only seek out tables that have professional players on them so that you can make their lives more difficult because you don't agree with what they do for a living? No. You can't. You can't because you have absolutely no way of knowing which players are professionals and which are not. But also you can't be that much against pros becuase you ARE ONE!

So if you want to defend the ethics of ratholing, please pursue a different avenue. And stop calling the kettle black.

[1p0kerboy]

Also, MTTRs arguement is kind of similar to someone saying "Cheating at poker is okay and I do it because I don't think winning players should not be able to win enough money that they don't have to work a job; that would be unethical"

OR a robber who goes around robbing home poker games for the same reason.

[fozzy71]

Nice Hi-Jack, WTF??

Re: **OFFICIAL Stars Software Improvement Thread***

[Trucero]

Custom cards in the themes so that you don't have to hack around with it to make it work.

[fozzy71]

???? They currently have more options than any other site re: cards. And it is simple to make your own and install them, or get one of many decks that others have created.

As someone who makes cards/themes - your software is much more mod friendly than FTP. Other sites might be technically easier to Hack/Mod images for - but Stars has more default theme/card options than any other site. It has the most thought out and complete method of adding new themes, and the ability to quickly change decks. It also uses better image types to prevent anti-aliasing and make a better looking final image.

I wouldn't change much about the Themes - other than the key issues already addressed - the GX.INI encryption, and the ability to remove Empty Seats from No Images Themes.


*Edit - A "Choose Custom Deck Menu" might be nice, like the "Choose Theme Menu". That way the user's custom deck isn't re-written each time Stars launches/updates - and the user can have a menu to select from his various installed custom decks.

[Austiger]

Some of this has probably already been suggested, but...

When you click on "Registered in tournaments" have it tell you how many you've got going at the top so you don't have to count.

There needs to be a "Open all tournaments" button. I'm positive this has already been suggested. My computer froze the other day and when I restarted I forgot to double-check to see if all my tables opened. I found out later 3 of them didn't so I lost those buyins. (of course this wouldn't fix the fact that I forgot to check, but it's pretty hectic when that happens so having one button to check would be very helpful.)

Can anything be done to speed up the registration process for multitablers? It takes several minutes to register for 12 or 16 tables.

[shippinit]

I second (or third) the vote for a visual hand history of some sort. A lot easier when multi-tabling to see missed action rather than sorting through a wall of text.

[Mcbrag]

I don't think a players hand should be automatically folded when connected and time runs out when there hasn't been any action. It should be a check until someone is able to bet. I have been last to act with the nuts or very strong hand with the intention of betting but was unable to act due to distractions such as kids, phone, connection lag, action on another table, etc. A man shouldn't lose an entire pot when unable to act on the river when there is no action and he is last to act.

[TheJubilantMale]

Rebuy tourney's

If I call preflop, fold flop and there are still players in the hand I can't rebuy untill the hand is over. It's annoying.

[Wraths Unanimous]

Opt out option for VIP freerolls in place of something else.

[CharlieDontSurf]

deep tables

[backwards029]

Some kind of "60 sec piss break" option so you don't have to sit out on all your tables every 2 hours

[AJackson]

I'd like to see the sit out on next BB button. It's a pain trying to shut down 12 tables with the mix of fast and non fast tables. I always seem to miss at least one.

I don't see any reason to show cards on all-ins. Well, good reason. It would only been done to satisfy someone who can't wait a few second for the board to be dealt.

I'd like to have some sort of color code in the lobby for tables I'm already playing or on the wait list.

As far as short stacking/rat holing goes, I don't think it's much of a problem. Raising the buyin would shut out more bad players and end up with a net negative effect. In the future this might not be case, so I hope Stars will keep an open mind. Increasing the time to return to two hours would be a positive change.

[MicroBob]

almost all players are against shortstackers

People complain that there are too many shortstackers infesting the games.
Yet people also claim that almost all players are against shortstackers.

Seems pretty contradictory to me.
The players who actually are shortstacking somehow don't count in this 'almost all players' criteria or something?


No idea if there are more full-buyin players multi-tabling or short-stackers. But I seem to see plenty of short-stackers who I believe are only on one table and are 'taking their shot', possibly with their almost all of their remaining bankroll, or whatever....whereas I believe many of the full-buyin players are the types to multi-table.
Thus, I believe that it's an even higher percentage of the total number of players playing short than what glancing at just one table would indicate.


Even if that's not the case, I think the fact that there is SOME percentage of players who are short-stacking contradicts the idea that 'almost everybody is against short-stackers'.

I'm not even coming in and saying to keep the buy-in low or not allow deep-stack tables or whatever.
I would love for there to be some deep-stack tables for some of you nits to go running too. Could make the regular tables really spetacularly awesome. I find it hard to believe that you guys would actually want these tables that I don't believe would attract any fish at all and would just be a bunch of 2+2'er deep-stack types playing against each other. But if that's your preference then I'm all for it.

All I'm really saying is that the idea that 'almost everybody' is against them is probably not correct otherwise far fewer players would be doing it in the first place.

I really don't think this should be yet another thread about how much some of you guys hate short-stackers. But it keeps getting brought up and I really disagreed with that claim so I thought I would address it.