i used to play alot of the dons on pokerstars pre black friday. there seems to be a decent amount of traffic on the Lock Double-up sngs. its too bad there is no player chat allowed in the double-ups, at stars there was chat til 7 players left...oh well. good luck to all the lock players, and good luck to lock support...seems like they may need it

any thoughts on the Lock Double-Ups?

The structures are horrific for these. They'd be worlds better without the stupid middle levels like 20/40, 30/60, 40/80 etc. Take these levels out and add 10/20 and they'd be terrific.

I'm actually loving the doublup turbos. Making a killing. Had a 4 figure profit this weekend for the first time in a long time... keep 'em coming.

wow what stake are you playing? do they run past 20s regularly?

I play everything from 5-50s. The 25's seems to be the highest level that runs regularly. I've gotten a 50 in every now and again, but it usually a table full of pros/regs. I'll game select the 25's as well. They can be just like the 50s. A 4 figure weekend at the DoubleUps is pretty impressive given that everything from the 10s up are pretty reg filled. Must have had some epic run good because you're edge is so small against that field of players. Whats your username if you don't mind releasing it and/or how many games did you play to make your 1k+ profit?

I'm AustinS89 FWIW, you've probably seen me in more than a few of your games.

during peak hours they seem to fill up to the $50 range, the structures arent so bad, a non-turbo plo double up would be cool.

sick brag

I think they should get rid of the 6min dons. The turbos are fine though

You're possibly AlPhAmaLe82, am i right?

just because its reg filled does not mean there any good. lot of clue less regs play.

don't seem to be running into as many bots here as merge.

just wish nastycanasta, wizowizzoo and many of the others would play here, but thank god dontpanek is here.

im not him btw, but always loved him on table, can't get more predictable.

guess dewey11 isn't a lock player either..

You want the profitable players in your games?

if they are predictable, yup. stole more blinds against those 2 than anyone else.
LOVED playing against jcmorgan.

in all seriousness, this disable chat thing is really useless. its not going to keep players from colluding, sure they are on IM or Skype or something else.

Good point, anyone who's going to be smart enough to run a collusion scam is smart enough not to type it in the chat box. The only thing it could stop is rec players from colluding to the extent of telling what he folded or to gang up on a player. I'd still play them if the chat worked I'd actually prefer to have it...only way I can communicate now is to show my hands lol.

even if they had the chat like it was on stars, they allowed chat until it was down to 7 (maybe 8, cant remember). at least its something. and as was mentioned, the chat doesnt stop collusion, i actually remember colluders getting caught due to the chat, they thought they were tyoing in IM but was in the player chat.

lol dontpanek is here, just played with him a $5 banger

Why? Just curious...

I feel like I remember back in the day, 6 minute blinds were the turbos and 10 minute blinds were the regulars.

Now 6 minute is the regular and the turbos are 3? what are the hypers?

LOL, hyper 30 sec.

I know this thread is mainly SNG related, but speaking of turbos, there are way too many turbo MTTs on Lock. I can barely ever find a 10-min blind, GTD MTT.

I'd prefer a 15min blind-increase MTT over 5 or 10min.

some things to improve the dons.

1st allow chat. Casual players want to chat and we need more of them. This does not in anyway keep colluders from colluding.

2nd, get rid of the minute time bank. 30 seconds should be enough.

3rd, not sure if this just a mac thing, but when players sit out, i can't see their chip totals. First don't post that they are sitting out, but if u do, I need to see their chip totals. I know I can go to the lobby and see this, but thats making harder than it needs to be.

4th, again not sure if this is a mac thing or not, but players need to be seated symmetrically to table. Im on simple view, no avatars, can't believe anyone on site uses avatars.

5th. Been said many times on site, but tables need to pop up action is ready. Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't.

I have no issue with blind levels, and really think if we change those we well lose getting more players.

Thanks

anyone know how to get HM2 to recognize finish and net winnings correctly for DONs

Same thing is happening with hem1. I have to manually edit each one

rofllll god you're an idiot

1.NO CHAT. The negatives of having chat enabled outweigh the positives. You want to make it easier for colluders? No thanks.

2. Keep that time bank. The software still sucks and is nice to have as a backup in case the client freezes up for a sec or crashes. (that way I can reboot it up fast without losing too many hands.)

3. I don't have a mac. I don't care.

4. again with the mac? Don't care. Do you really care about avatars that much? Last thing lock needs to worry about is avatars.

5. Works fine for me. I've never really had this problem. Quit surfing for pRon while playing lock. It might help.

This may seem like an odd question, but when 2 players get knocked out at once, do the prizes increase by 25%? or is it just the straightforward prize? happened yesterday, but wasn't keeping super tight tabs on my BR and just curious.