The ads/banners that flash on tables notifying you of upcoming/running tournaments are absolutely absurd on so many levels. Please join me in getting party/borgata to at least give players the option to stop the ads from appearing on tables if not completely removing them from the site. I know that many others have previously expressed frustration and disdain for the inability to play on tables not fraught with constant ads popping up. Given the fact that these are especially bad when they have a big tournament series going on (as there are many more tournaments for which to advertise), I thought now would be an opportune time to post this with the NJCOP approaching.
#1.
They interfere with gameplay. If you are multitabling and have table windows in small sizes, the ads will obscure the community cards. Also, if you are in the seats at the top of the table, the ads will obscure your current bet. It is almost impossible to find the time to click the ridiculously small little "x" to remove the ad when multitabling, not to mention the fact that the ad will simply reappear following the conclusion of that hand and you will once again need to close it. Moreover, if the ads get "stuck" as I will talk about in the next point, the bet/cards are permanently obscured barring closing and reopening the table.
#2. When multiple ads pop up it creates an error where by it is impossible to remove the ad from the table unless you close the table and reopen it. Others have posted about this issue as well. If an pops up, then a second ad pops up before the first ad has had a chance to fade away, this error with occur. Again if you are only playing one table this is not a big deal, but when playing many tables it becomes a huge problem as even if you resolve the issue by closing all tables, going to all of those table's lobbies and reopening each table, the same thing will just happen again in five minutes and you will need to do it all over again.
#3. They are such an annoyance to any serious minded player trying to keep track of many different tables when all of a sudden twelve ads pop up on your screen, obscuring bets and cards and then pop up over and over and over, every minute. As I said this issue becomes hyper magnified when a big tournament series is going on as there are so many more ads running for the increased number of tournaments. But they are incredibly annoying in any case. One should be able to play poker without being bombarded for ads for tournaments, often times for which i am already playing...
#4 The international party client has the option to turn off the ads!!! I used to play on the international party client and had this same issue. Amazingly, there was simply an option not to view the tournament ads. This is what really bugs me the most, why would you give international players the option to turn off the ads, but not us? This is such a simple fix and would alleviate so much frustration, much like the cash game lobby issue was, and much like the cash game wait list issue currently is. But this issue apart from customer service, geolocation issues, and software failures has to be right up there at the top of the list.
So come on party, get with it. Let's get these ads gone, or give us the option to turn them off. This is totally unacceptable for all the reasons outlined above. Join me everyone and lets get this issue taken care of once and for all!