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10-24-2015
, 11:07 AM
Here's the list of skins having the new client as of now:
William Hill
Ladbrokes
bet365
Titan Poker
Coral
Paddy Power
There seem to be very few new features*, just it's more pleasant to the eye (has better decks in particular) and written in Qt instead of the archaic Java; most importantly, hopefully it's stabler in the future because its development and bug-fixing process is claimed to be faster than with the previous software provider.
* Such as the ability to unregister from a Twister after seeing one potential opponent in his/her exact seat relatively to Hero. The ability exists only if Hero is the first or second player to be sat in. It's useful pretty only at the €10 limit or at offpeak hours because otherwise games fill up too fast for Hero to react promptly.
A digression about PKR.com jackpots:
Another Twister / turbo SnG related improvement is that the 'act urgently' sound and focus steal (that can both be turned off) happen 5 seconds (out of 15) into the thinking time, not after 2 seconds (lolfail) like it is in the old client. Speaking of, the default sound theme in general is more pleasant in the new client.
William Hill
Ladbrokes
bet365
Titan Poker
Coral
Paddy Power
There seem to be very few new features*, just it's more pleasant to the eye (has better decks in particular) and written in Qt instead of the archaic Java; most importantly, hopefully it's stabler in the future because its development and bug-fixing process is claimed to be faster than with the previous software provider.
* Such as the ability to unregister from a Twister after seeing one potential opponent in his/her exact seat relatively to Hero. The ability exists only if Hero is the first or second player to be sat in. It's useful pretty only at the €10 limit or at offpeak hours because otherwise games fill up too fast for Hero to react promptly.
A digression about PKR.com jackpots:
Spoiler:
that exists in PKR's jackpot SnGs and has caused a backlash from recreationals on its forums. It might be a necessary evil for the sake of beatability of the $12 jackpots, though, as otherwise 2-minute blind levels on slower software are no good.
Last edited by coon74; 10-24-2015 at 11:29 AM.
10-25-2015
, 04:31 PM
10-26-2015
, 01:30 AM
10-27-2015
, 01:44 AM
10-27-2015
, 02:36 PM
I've included all the jackpots, especially because each of the top two multipliers is hit once in 20K games (and won once in 50K-55K games), which is only a few months of play for a grinder.
And getting them less often than average wouldn't have a big impact on the longterm ROI anyway - merely 1.67% of each BI is taken out for the top jackpot tier, plus 1.75% - for all the 20x-200x tiers combined. This is the key difference between Twister and MTTs where the final table luck accounts for a huge portion of the overall ROI. It's hardly possible to gather an MTT with 20K runners giving 800BIs to the winner on iPoker, whereas the jackpots can be set almost arbitrarily rare/large without a big field
I believe the main reason why top iPoker jackpots are merely 1K BIs is that it's a network and a lot of bank fees would be lost if winners' rooms had to take turns requesting funds from other rooms of the network to pay out the jackpot winnings; whereas, as it is, every room on the network can pay €10K out instantly by its own cash reserves and then recover it when reconciliation payments from its network partners go through.
(WPN is a network too, but there are way fewer (only 3, I think) independent cashiers there (skins are clustered in groups having the same cashier), and each of them has enough reserves to pay out $100K more or less promptly.)
Jackpots are excluded from calculations in other threads because 1) they're far less frequent at Stars / Winamax / WPN, 2) those people are too risk-averse
And getting them less often than average wouldn't have a big impact on the longterm ROI anyway - merely 1.67% of each BI is taken out for the top jackpot tier, plus 1.75% - for all the 20x-200x tiers combined. This is the key difference between Twister and MTTs where the final table luck accounts for a huge portion of the overall ROI. It's hardly possible to gather an MTT with 20K runners giving 800BIs to the winner on iPoker, whereas the jackpots can be set almost arbitrarily rare/large without a big field
I believe the main reason why top iPoker jackpots are merely 1K BIs is that it's a network and a lot of bank fees would be lost if winners' rooms had to take turns requesting funds from other rooms of the network to pay out the jackpot winnings; whereas, as it is, every room on the network can pay €10K out instantly by its own cash reserves and then recover it when reconciliation payments from its network partners go through.
(WPN is a network too, but there are way fewer (only 3, I think) independent cashiers there (skins are clustered in groups having the same cashier), and each of them has enough reserves to pay out $100K more or less promptly.)
Jackpots are excluded from calculations in other threads because 1) they're far less frequent at Stars / Winamax / WPN, 2) those people are too risk-averse
Last edited by coon74; 10-27-2015 at 03:02 PM.
10-27-2015
, 04:09 PM
10-27-2015
, 10:54 PM
10-28-2015
, 05:30 PM
10-28-2015
, 07:45 PM
Yes completely removed from lobby i do not see it either 
10-29-2015
, 11:00 AM
10-29-2015
, 11:38 PM
10-30-2015
, 09:19 PM
10-31-2015
, 08:42 AM
If you look into the log files that the beta client produces, you'll discover that some of the function names contain misspelled English words, like HandleNotificationSynchonized or command_sequense (but another variable is spelled right - action_sequence).
It's easy to keep the notation unified, though, because if someone attempted to invoke 'command_sequence', the debugger would say that the variable isn't found.
(but another variable is spelled right - action_sequence).It's easy to keep the notation unified, though, because if someone attempted to invoke 'command_sequence', the debugger would say that the variable isn't found.
Last edited by coon74; 10-31-2015 at 08:48 AM.