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Originally Posted by MustangJack
Playing devils advocate:
So what if you get paged? How long do you have to answer the page?
Say you go to the main building and play blackjack or goto Chickies to eat and get paged, there is no way you are getting back there in 2 or 3 minutes to claim your seat.
Good points - and, sometimes (most times, actually) there is a propagation delay in the network systems, before your phone actually receives the page. This could add a couple minutes. Would there need to be time accounted for that, before moving to the next person in line?
You could be standing right next to the sign-in desk when they send the text. Yet your phone might not get it for a few minutes. There would have to be something in place for that, before they "assume" you are not responding.
Do they also page you via the PA system?
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Originally Posted by Phaedrus29
I'm not sure what the rule in place right now is, but ideally, I think you should be able to call the poker room immediately after getting the text, and ask them to lock up your seat for 10 minutes.
Agreed.
The issue, as I see it, is - how long it takes the text to get to you. It's not instantaneous - even with phone-2-phone texts, it can take 15-30 seconds. Their text-paging is going through computer networks to get to your carrier, who then has to blast it over the air to your phone. I'd expect at least that long, most likely longer.
So how long do they wait for you to get it - then respond.
Worst case scenario is many people request this and they wait 3 minutes for each response. Seating could back up like a clogged sewer.
I'd like to hear the plans for how this would be implemented, without causing undo delay in seating for everyone else.
Don't get me wrong - I love the idea. But, will it work on a large scale?