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03-24-2012 , 02:06 PM

#2801

KiWiKaKi

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10 players per waiting list at 2-4 is just ridiculous. It takes more than an hour to get on a lot of tables. 2-4 zoom should just replace that

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03-24-2012 , 02:09 PM

#2802

GeleHaas

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Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 794

I got a Zoom-Poker improvement idea:

Put the "I'm back" button above the fold button, makes it easier to rejoin the pool by pressing fold, very handy with TableNinja.
That;s how it was done with FullTilts RUSH Poker

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03-24-2012 , 02:10 PM

#2803

pokerbiker

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Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 2,589

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Originally Posted by KiWiKaKi

10 players per waiting list at 2-4 is just ridiculous. It takes more than an hour to get on a lot of tables. 2-4 zoom should just replace that

start tables?

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03-24-2012 , 02:30 PM

#2804

KiWiKaKi

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Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 951

yea start tables lol great idea , very nice to play 2-3 tables when im a 24 tabler

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03-24-2012 , 02:58 PM

#2805

888inside

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Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 85

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Originally Posted by pokerbiker

start tables?

would require HU skills

Nevertheless he´s right, Zoom is the future and in particular the end of bumhunting.

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03-24-2012 , 03:08 PM

#2806

ArtySmokes

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Originally Posted by PokerStars Stefan

Re: Higher Stakes: The main concern to not deploy ZOOM at higher stakes for now is how ZOOM will impact the game liquidity at those stakes. This decision requires more analysis and time to pass so that we can gauge the real impact of ZOOM on the games. We almost certainly won't deploy higher stakes in the next few days.

By "impacting game liquidity" do you mean recreational players will go busto more quickly, so Pokerstars may actually lose customers?
I can certainly envisage some players giving Zoom a try, getting quickly and absolutely crushed by nitty regs, and then never depositing again. As video games go, Zoom could be a very expensive habit that provides less "entertainment utility per hour" than other pastimes.

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03-24-2012 , 03:16 PM

#2807

d_smith77

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Originally Posted by ArtySmokes

interesting point. fish will go broke slower though

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03-24-2012 , 03:20 PM

#2808

yAAwn

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Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 192

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Originally Posted by ArtySmokes

You really think nitty regs who aren't playing pots with fish bust fish faster then people playing pots with fish EVERY hand?

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03-24-2012 , 03:54 PM

#2809

pokerbiker

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Originally Posted by 888inside

would require HU skills

Nevertheless he´s right, Zoom is the future and in particular the end of bumhunting.

lets put it like that, the mass tablers love it because they can play even more hands and get even more rakeback.

the guys who prefer to make money playing poker and not via rakeback just dont like it.

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03-24-2012 , 03:54 PM

#2810

JonIrenicus

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Originally Posted by KiWiKaKi

10 players per waiting list at 2-4 is just ridiculous. It takes more than an hour to get on a lot of tables. 2-4 zoom should just replace that

Pokerstars Stefan,
I am speaking about FR only.
2-4 fullring->10+ players on the waiting list. Those games are like non-existent already. And no, people won't start tables all of a sudden if they hadn't so far.

And at 1-2 there are tons more players and tables and still very large waitlists. It also takes care of bumhunting as others mentioned. More hands per hour with zoom, stars is happy, we are happy

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03-24-2012 , 04:54 PM

#2811

KiWiKaKi

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Dear stefan , i dont see any reason to not have 2-4 for zoom as the 2-4 games are pretty horrible at times for both fullring and 6max. Huge waiting lists , people hit and running the fish , tables breaking up all the time. Seems like 2-4 is dead

If i decide i want to play a session i gotta wait an hour or more which is insanely annoying for anyone. You also cant even take a break once you opened tables since you would have to wait those sick waiting lists again.

Zoom fixes all those problems

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03-24-2012 , 04:58 PM

#2812

pokerbiker

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this is completely ridiculous. it is easy to get 2/4 tables going, most of the time they fill up very fast when they are started.

you just cant expect that everyone is waiting for you, sir.

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03-24-2012 , 04:58 PM

#2813

IrBerg

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Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 115

Zooommmmmm

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03-24-2012 , 05:04 PM

#2814

hurt

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agree w/ kiwikaki. because of the novelty, you would attract many players to Zoom1/2 or Zoom2/4 that don't wish to play at the regular tables, where it takes 30min to start a session. that is why you should introduce higher stakes to zoom poker.

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03-24-2012 , 05:07 PM

#2815

hypergeometry

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I'm noticing there is a dispersion in a 10k sample. Is this variance ? How are the position assigned ? Randomly ?

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03-24-2012 , 05:08 PM

#2816

d_smith77

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yup. even in the 100 games there appear to be a bunch of people who generally play lower stakes who are jumping up to play the highest stakes of zoom that are available. rather than killing the player pool you might open up access to a whole other group of people who wouldnt normally be playing 400.

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03-24-2012 , 05:29 PM

#2817

Suzukishosan

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Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 1,303

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Originally Posted by hypergeometry

I'm noticing there is a dispersion in a 10k sample. Is this variance ? How are the position assigned ? Randomly ?

wtf, my hands per position are uniformly distributed.

Have you got a filter on?

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03-24-2012 , 05:31 PM

#2818

von7thal

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Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 159

and we're talking FR games, those are dead anyway in the mid stakes. 6max will probably not run well in zoom like it did in rush and i think most zoomers don't care about 6max?
right know it's probably one of the busiest hours on stars and there are 9 FR 2/4 games running.
the bellagio has more 5/10 live tables running than you with 220k players online right now.

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03-24-2012 , 05:46 PM

#2819

hypergeometry

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Originally Posted by Suzukishosan

wtf, my hands per position are uniformly distributed.

No filter, those are my hands at nl100. Could this be explained because I'm ratholing ? If that is the case I don't see why this is happening. I always wait the bb for sit out next bb so I can't understand what's going on.

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03-24-2012 , 05:54 PM

#2820

JonIrenicus

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Originally Posted by d_smith77

exactly. I play 100nl but I'd play 400 zoom for sure. It's just too time consuming to get a session going above 100nl since I don't start tables

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03-24-2012 , 05:58 PM

#2821

Fayth

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if they're not gonna put 2/4 already they shud at least put 1/2 up...

as kiwi said, zoom fixes all the jhuge waiting list + bumhunters problem

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03-24-2012 , 05:59 PM

#2822

soah

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Originally Posted by pokerbiker

False.

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03-24-2012 , 06:09 PM

#2823

Dodo1497

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Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 120

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Originally Posted by PokerStars Stefan

OK.

What about PLO with 5 cents big blind ?

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03-24-2012 , 06:09 PM

#2824

flannelboy

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Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 77

Zoom has a major bug: Whenever an opponent from Europe flats my 4-bet with a ******ed hand ( A9o, A6o, K6, Q9, 52off, just to name some) he wins every single time against my premium hands. WTF. This is unreal.