stars froze the table and i didnt receive the pot.... that is quite good

at least they put 2 entries limit
might be playable

nice muumi sitting from 10k to NL500

That's good for the ecosystem!

Same here. Although was lucky that the pot was still unopened. Pretty ****ty way to go through with the changes.

Good luck with that. Another naïve fool who doesn't appreciate the vast sums of money required to create and run a poker site.

^^best post so far. You win!

but this is good for the ecosystem and the lobby is clean and all the bumhunters cant play anymore this is good guys guys

Can I host a clinic for everyone who seems to have never played small zoom pools before regarding how to not let the rec sit by himself and end up leaving?

You could type it out here?

I mean I have a lot of thoughts on how these situations *should* go but some basic stuff...

Whenever you've got 2x reg1, 2x reg2, ..., 1x rec you've got an odd total which means someone is getting left out - if it's the rec and he has to wait more than like 5-10 sec he's gonna think the game broke and quit. Suggestions to stop this from happening:

1. Hurry up all your decisions towards the river whenever you're playing vs the other regs. You can take your time on the river while the rec is actively playing. This way, if you get matched with the reg at both tables you should often have a hand very near completion. You can now complete that hand and get the rec right back into playing. If you've played vs me in zoom you probably see me timebanking some basic preflop folds in spots like this, now you know why.

2. An extention on that, but maybe less obvious - don't think so damn hard about situations when the rec is currently left alone. The decision that ends the hand as quickly as possible is probably the higher EV choice here, but if you simply can't fold early in the hand then make your choice fast and hopefully your opponent can.

3. Try to keep the totals even. Sometimes this means varying if you're playing 1 or 2 tables, but just keep your eye on the lobby because the total under 'Plrs' doesn't update as quickly as the preview window with everyone's names in it. If you see that someone just joined and it brought the total to odd, drop a table (or add one) to fix it temporarily, and feel free to go back to your preferred number afterwards. Which brings me to...

4. Watch the lobby even when you're playing reg vs reg with nobody else. Sometimes a rec will join and one reg is timebanking on both tables without realizing the rec will quit before even playing 1 hand.



I know this is gonna sound like bumhunter logic to some of you who might think this is silly to think about. It's important to realize that the bottom line is: if the recs don't enjoy this format, HU is gone from stars. IMO the recs are only gonna enjoy this format if they get to play lots of hands at a fast pace. If they end up sitting around a bunch of the time at an empty table while the 2 regs in the pool timebank, they're going to just get confused and cashout of the site because they think HU zoom sucks. It's only going to be fun if zoom lives up to its namesake.

What about a community heads up lobby that does not display screen names until you sit at a table. When you leave a table, you cannot rejoin the lobby (at that limit) for 20 minutes. This forces regs to battle each other and if they choose not to, they will waste their own time (and, after all, time is money).

Also with this, the matchmaking is random so just because you refused a match with someone 20 minutes ago, does not mean you will not be matched up with them again in 20 minutes if you join that lobby again.

+1 here ... only that Stars / Amaya in all likelyhood won't bother to even think it through ...

What are the cons/abuses of keeping a fixed amount of tables, but imposing a restriction on only the open sitters to force them to autopost for first x number of hands, but the table joiner doesn't have that rule?

It would be a very soft rule change that would likely just be a one time pop-up for an open sitter, no changes necessary for a table joiner. It would not affect recs one bit and it would strongly discourage opening tables unless you were serious about playing who sat. No more leaving tables open carelessly, optimistic bum hunting etc.

I'm thinking even like x=5 would keep a lot of the riff raff out.

Go for ongame system where everyone can have infinite amount of tables open as long as you have enough bankroll.

Did you mean former ongame system? From today on you can only sit one normal and one speed table per stake hadsup. Seems bs

how is that a worse system than letting people literally sit 100+ tables?

Wow pretty sick they changed it today, didn't even know when i wrote that.

Total bs thing. Now every poor bumhunter can have as many tables as richer bumhunter like me.

Yap its hard to be a bumhunter these days

It's nearly impossible tbh.

Action is so dead on 2/5+ in NL, im actually kinda surprised its this bad.

RIP NLHU.

A few days in, it's worse than I've expected, there are some high times but most of the day NL200+ is quite dead.

Stars setting up DUEL poker - only for mobile platforms lol
"...you can challenge team pros, you can challenge your friends... blah blah blah lol" It's not even for iPads!

Now, the most interesting stuff:

Duel last for like 20 hands. You get dealt 500 chips for each player.

Now here comes the bomb, you will love it:

You can play these 20 hands over infinite timebank, meaning you can go get a blow job, drink vodka, while thinking before clicking call on his check-raise or not.

JokerStars - your amazing future! Bets poker site EVAR! FU!

haha PD

How do I fight for a table on the ipoker-network?

If villain sits out, we both get banned from the table!?