The cash games time bank is a joke

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Multi-tabling a lot of the games sucks with software response times (have to press buttons twice, etc) and poor time bank. So it's not only the cash games that are impacted.

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Agreed, it's pretty ridiculous esp considering your competitor has a 90 sec cash game timebank. What do you get at most games now? 10 sec? 15 if you play medium limit? They have actually even reduced further the timebank somewhat recently as well. I guess their thinking is they can get more hands / hr, but what they don't factor in is that ppl mtbling cannot mt as many games with such small timebanks and some have even switched operators due to this issue.

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I wonder what reason, if any, they can have for implementing things with such a short time bank as it is now?

I think when you grind super long sessions they add time, so maybe it's to motivate people to grind longer? I am grasping here.

Any ideas?

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No, time bank for cash never gets higher than th starting amount

The time bank is so glitchy too. It just decides to malfunction sometimes. Today i just had a hand where i had bottom set and was deciding if i should call or raise. Time bank goes to 0 from half in an instance and my cards were mucked! No lag on my end just glitched but since its so short anyways theres absolutely no room for technical software error. Its insane how bad it is compared to other sites. Its clear you guys just want to rake more pots and dont care if you glitch or if people disconnect

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It would make sense it's to discourage mass multi tabling by regs and make the games better for fun players

I am actually a fan of the short time banks for the most part as it helps keep the games moving. Can't stand when a reg is tanking on all tables every hand because they are trying to play 12 (not that 12 ever run) or something

i'm a fan of quick play too, but when numerous players (not regs, either) are timing out during sessions and in the middle of hands, especially large pots, i think you have a problem


i'm not suggesting to drastically alter the timebank, but i think having them reload quicker, or perhaps accumulate higher than the time they start with after X hands would help. this would reward those who play quicker and don't always use their bank, so when they do need to think for a little bit in a big pot, they can.

Ya if they could add 5 seconds after X hands played at table that would be a cool idea for people putting in long sessions who may need the time bank.

like maybe 5 seconds for every 100 hands would be reasonable, and 100 hands at 1 table is a lot these days with everyone jumping around all the time

This all has no chance of being implemented though so whatever

This seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Rather than solving problems, this does not seem to have any upside IMHO.

Sadly, the market in NJ is based on regs. There are some games I just won't play because of it. But a bad setting is OK because it's supposed to discourage regs from playing too much is a bigger problem IMHO. Some of the games just don't exist without regs, period.

Any player at the table is allowed to use their time. That's what it's for. I could care less whether they are a reg or a recreational player.

Part of the reason I thought time might have been added for longer sessions is that it may be that way on some other sites. I play a lot of random games on random sites and I honestly cannot remember. I also don't want to mention other sites here. But yeah I think it's something that is done elsewhere.

But once again, this is a setting that is going to help regs more than recreational players. Regs are more likely to put in long sessions.

No matter what they do in that regard, I think the only thing that is fair is to increase the time bank for everybody. Then if they want to add time after X number of hands, that's a separate improvement that could be made.

Perhaps somebody with a more detailed understanding of it can elaborate, but pretty sure the kind of "timebank rewards" you are describing are exactly the way it's currently set up for tournaments on the site. Once again, don't know exactly how "quick" you have to be to gain time, or if the reserve is always increased by a set amount.

the most a timebank can be is dependent on the limit you're playing, 15, 20, or 25 seconds. this is what you start with, and it will never get higher than that amount, regardless of the amount of time you're at the table.

if you use your bank you need to play a certain amount of hands to get more timebank, but even then, you only get a fraction of your starting bank.

I'd like a timebank increase, but more than that I think they should just add an extra 5 seconds to the regular allotted time. I remember being able to play 12-13 tables easily on FTP Stars and not time out too often. I struggle with more than 8 on Party. Sure, I bet some of it is more complex decisions and some is less smooth software, but it just seems like Party offers less time than I'm used to.

The time to act is 15 seconds on party/borg before your timebank kicks in. Wsop gives you 20 seconds and a muchhhhhh larger timebank

Was this ever addressed? I still feel like I time out semi-regularly on all NJ sites basically because I don't have it set to grab the auto time bank on this computer. Does Party/Borgata client have an option to auto grab the time bank even if you currently have $0 or 0 chips invested in the pot or no?

This hasn't been addressed or changed and in my view is the single worst thing about this site.

of all the things to gripe about.... whaaaaaaaaa i can only play 15 tables instead of 20

Its obviously not just that. Some people get disconnected from the game every now and then. Sites like 888 and wsop allow a big enough bank to reconnect and resume action but party doesnt care and just wants more hands/hr to rake so you have no chance. Sucks to lose a big pot you deserve just like that.

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It's not about multi tabling at all, it's about being able to think about a hand and take your time when needed in big pots.

Bumping. This has little to do with multitabling and much to do with: if poker is a skill game where you can outthink your opponents, we should be given the time to attempt to do so. And in complicated hands we have severely little time.

i personally have switched to wsop/888 solely because of this issue, that's how bad it is. wsop/888 offers a 60 second timebank across all games with a bump to 90 seconds after a certain period of time at a table. compared to the 15 seconds pp offers it's a small travesty. i agree it has little to do with multitabling, it is about the chance to out think your opponents. when i play on pp i constantly feel as if i am playing a game of bullet chess (one minute to make all of your moves for the whole game for those who don't know). that is not how poker should be. at the very very least they should offer a 30 sec bank and an increase to 60 or 90 seconds after a given number of hands played at a table would not hurt. out of all the sites i have played on, which is no small number, i have never seen a site that offers as little of a timebank as pp. and to the point about multitabling, forget it. i mean really, even 4 tables can be very difficult and anything over six is next to impossible with any real degree of accurate play. i can't believe more people haven't complained about this. i understand why they are doing it, they want to get more hands/hour which will generate more rake etc. but what they fail to realize is that they lose the big rake of the big multitablers as well as the amatuer player who does not want to be rushed into every decision as well as people such as myself who do not want time pressure to dictate the game. not to mention the fact that poker is not enjoyable to play when every decision needs to be instantaneous.

so your all saying the cash game time bank is less than the mtt time banks?