PokerStars Speeds Up Software Dealing Speed - Page 9 - Internet Poker

Based on player feedback, the time taken to deal the turn and river cards when all-in has been increased slightly to 1.5 seconds. This duration had recently been decreased from 2 seconds to 1 second, so the new setting is still a bit faster than it was earlier this year but not quite as swift.

Perfect!

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09-02-2011 , 06:12 AM

#202

BadSeed

grinder

Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 470

I hate the animation. It looks very unnatural and hurts my eyes. Had to switch it off, but I'd rather play with the animation from the last update, which was great.

Talked to two SNE players from Russia, and they hated it even more, cause they multitable, while I usually play not more than 3-4 tables of mixed games.

Hope something can be done to fix it...

Also the timing. The WCOOP is coming! I FTd one of them last year, and I can't help already hating 10-hour mtt grind in this new hostile environment. Couldn't you postpone your experiments till October, guys?

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09-02-2011 , 06:29 AM

#203

checkback

newbie

Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 47

It leads me to tilt..

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09-02-2011 , 08:41 AM

#204

penfold

banned

Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 2,279

Seems they've sorted that horrendous bouncy castle animation out. Thanks!

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09-02-2011 , 08:44 AM

#205

rakebackgrinderxy

stranger

Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 11

like the update (speed) but is it just me or are the new table themse so small, everything seems so close to each other..

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09-02-2011 , 09:08 AM

#206

SGGrinder

enthusiast

Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 72

can make chips go back to winner instantly after showdown? instead of staying for 1 sec and going back to winner.

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09-02-2011 , 01:20 PM

#207

Rainbow Warrior

flight risk

Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 5,815

OMG - I get it now.

Tried animations ON - def tilting.

Options > Table Display Options > Animation OFF!!!!!!

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09-02-2011 , 02:00 PM

#208

frenki

stranger

Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 10

def too fast: looks like an alienating slot machine...

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09-02-2011 , 02:06 PM

#209

PokerStars Stefan

PokerStars Poker Room Management Team

Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 523

Corss-posting from the software improvements thread:

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Originally Posted by PokerStars Stefan

We have released a new client update which should address the issues reported by players.

Re: animation: We have added three options for animation: "Disabled", "Simplified", and "Full (Beta)" and we have set all clients to "Simplified". Simplified is effectively the animation from before the last client updates and Full (Beta) is the animation we released yesterday. Players who would like to keep the new faster and smoother animation can switch to it by going to "Options" > "Table Display Options" > "Animation".

If you have any feedback about the Beta animation please email us at beta@pokerstars.com. Thanks!

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09-02-2011 , 05:13 PM

#210

brrrap!

banned

Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 1,096

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Originally Posted by Rainbow Warrior

OMG - I get it now.

Tried animations ON - def tilting.

Options > Table Display Options > Animation OFF!!!!!!

Why would you turn them on in the first place?

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09-02-2011 , 05:36 PM

#211

rakebackgrinderxy

stranger

Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 11

lol stars simply stole the card dealing/speed from absolutepoker client

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09-03-2011 , 05:26 AM

#212

ramdeebam

grinder

Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 485

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Originally Posted by rakebackgrinderxy

lol stars simply stole the card dealing/speed from absolutepoker client

I'm sure they didn't. Even if they did, what relevence does it have?

The speed of the cards being dealt and time to act has reduced means it's positive, regardless of where/how they got it.

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09-03-2011 , 06:35 AM

#213

rakebackgrinderxy

stranger

Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 11

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Originally Posted by ramdeebam

I'm sure they didn't. Even if they did, what relevence does it have?

The speed of the cards being dealt and time to act has reduced means it's positive, regardless of where/how they got it.

how you so sure they didnt?

i played alot on absolute and if you put(animation full) its so obv. they stole it... just poor on their part they dont have own ideas as the leading company in the pokerbusiness.

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09-03-2011 , 07:30 AM

#214

RedHot

old hand

Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 1,731

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Originally Posted by BadSeed

I feel this way, I'm glad its not just me. Given that most people seem to love it, I guess I am somehow going to have to learn to live with it. At present I feel putting in a lot of volume with this animation could give me health problems, but we will see. Perhaps my eyes/brain will adjust in a few days.

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09-08-2011 , 05:53 PM

#215

nickmao

newbie

Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 21

now the speed back to nomal? it kind annoying

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10-03-2011 , 09:32 PM

#216

IamPro

one time Plz???

Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 17,652

Any SNG players been forced to decrease their number of tables or changed how they layout them? Also, do u guys still keep sound on or turn it off now?

Just 2 things I have been thinking about since relocating.

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10-04-2011 , 07:31 AM

#217

FDSaussure

old hand

Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,242

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Originally Posted by IamPro

I find that tiling 12 tables on Stars makes everything really hard to read (a bit less so with the new Nova theme) compared to FTP. So I now semi-tile with overlap to maintain a larger table size. I keep the sound on and use Tableninja (which hasn't upgraded to be Nova theme compatible yet but I mainly want the next table to act management and frame highlighting anyway).

I've not played more than 15 tables, usually with 9 on one screen and 6 on the other.

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10-04-2011 , 07:41 AM

#218

djdanny82

banned

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 905

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Originally Posted by PokerStars Steve

After listening to player feedback, we have enacted changes in the PokerStars software to speed up dealing in certain situations. A few other related changes have been made as well, though in most cases the time a player has to act on their hand has not been affected. Read below for more details.

Non-Satellite Sit & Go Tournaments
Hyper Turbo Sit & Go Tournaments are most affected by the changes. Players in these tournaments will have 12 seconds to act on their hand instead of 16. Several other dealing speed improvements including time taken between hands and speed of dealing cards once players are all-in have also been made.

All other Sit & Go tournaments have had dealing speed reduced, but not quite as much. Cards dealt after all action is complete due to players being all-in are now dealt twice as fast. The time between all hands being shown or mucked and the next hand being dealt has also been reduced by one second per hand.

Players in regular speed Sit & Go’s will now have 16 seconds to act on their hand, reduced from 18 seconds.

The time taken to start dealing after all players have registered and been seated has been reduced for many popular Sit & Go tournaments. Many Heads-up and Hyper speed tournaments now start after only a 10 second delay. Other popular tournaments start after 20 seconds.

Scheduled Tournaments, Satellites, and Step Tournaments

Dealing speed has been increased in these tournaments similar to the changes made in Sit & Go’s. Cards dealt after all action is complete due to players being all-in are now dealt twice as fast. The time between all hands being shown or mucked and the next hand being dealt has also been reduced by one second per hand.

Players in some tournaments will experience slightly different amounts of time to act on their hand. This is as a result of standardizing this setting across all tournaments.

Hyper-turbo satellites have been sped up drastically. These satellites will run at the same speed as hyper-turbo cash S&Gs.

These changes will not take place for all future tournaments, but will instead filter their way into the tournament schedule over the next few weeks.

Ring Games

As with all tournaments, cards dealt after all action is complete due to players being all-in are now dealt twice as fast. The time between all hands being shown or mucked and the next hand being dealt has also been reduced by one second per hand.

The delay prior to dealing the first hand of a session at a table has been reduced from 15 seconds to 10 seconds.

The changes to ring games will not have a significant impact on the number of hands played per hour at this point in time. PokerStars is considering further changes that may include changes to the amount of time players have to act on their hand.

Comments about playing experience at ring game tables are appreciated. In particular, if there is anything about the ring game experience other than players’ time to act that seems too slow or too fast we’d love to know.

Request for Comments

While PokerStars never stops considering player feedback, in this case we are particularly interested in response to these changes. Additional tweaks are possible if desired by players as a whole. Thanks in advance for any constructive suggestions.

Thanks to all players who have already provided input that helped us make this round of changes. Special thanks to all of those who helped test these settings on PokerStars.test and provided helpful input.

Steve, I am banned at Stars for botting maybe 3 years ago. I learend my lesson, can you do a good word for me? I want to grind sit&go's and I love the Stars software. I promise I will never bot again and if I would you guys are so high tech you would find out immidiatly. I was always a good donator to the cashgames at NL200. I love you Steve, don't break our relationship please.

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10-04-2011 , 07:58 AM

#219

PokerStars Steve

PokerStars Poker Room

Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 3,002

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Originally Posted by djdanny82

I'm sorry, but this is not a case in which I would be able to advocate for you. The rules of our site are quite clear about botting. While the punishment is harsh, violation of rules on botting is equally serious. Players expect to play against other human beings.

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10-04-2011 , 08:09 AM

#220

djdanny82

banned

Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 905

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Originally Posted by PokerStars Steve

Yes and I regret it immensily, every day I feel the pain in my heart of not being able to play on my own account at Stars. I dont want to keep giving my friend 25% of my winnings all the time, it's agianst my principles, I even had to buy a new computer cause you guys registered every serial number of every hardware piece and got 2 friends pissed off already cause there accounts got locked with money inside (well my money but still).

Lol, just kidding, I had only 1 friend account locked and now I'm looking for a new account to play from, haven't found yet, everyone I know knows that I'm into botting and they don't want to give there accounts to me cause they are afraid the same thing happens to them as happened to my friend.

One additional question: Am I also banned in the Pokerstars pokerroom in Maccau? I would like to go there some time.

Last edited by djdanny82; 10-04-2011 at 08:15 AM.