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It is the Russian and German sweat shops that have already messed with the poker ecosystem.

Don't worry Doug. There is a clear answer for the fullsatcker come January 1st.

+1
(stars supernova resets incase you are slow)

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10-15-2009 , 10:41 AM

#52

Stinky Stu

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Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 4,201

It's nice to see that Doug is keeping his sense of humor. Very nice post, sir. Much appreciated and keep up the good work.

The security token news is exciting, but "run it twice" and "cashout tournament" sound a little out there. What's next, prop bets at the table?

All that said, gotta give them credit for trying new things. Academy, Ivey Challenge, WSOP Fantasy Poker, etc.

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10-15-2009 , 10:47 AM

#53

cds0699

LOSING

Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 9,018

Weird, my "cashout" button isnt appearing for the cashout tourney im in.

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10-15-2009 , 10:47 AM

#54

Redeye00

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Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 549

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31. ftp doug, can u say the same? everyone thinks FTP snoops around and monitors what we do while we play.

- I can. We can't take screenshots of your screen and we don't monitor your internet browsing

So the websites ptr, sharkscope etc are banned but we can look at them anyway, with the client open, because you don't know if we are?

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10-15-2009 , 10:55 AM

#55

mittman84

old hand

Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,436

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Originally Posted by Don't mind me

Are you guys honestly double raking the pot when you run it twice?

If so, epic scam.

Is this true?

I wonder if fish will be more likely to make bad calls with draws now because they'll think "now I have twice the shot to win some money". Obv ******ed, but hey, there fish for a reason.

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10-15-2009 , 10:56 AM

#56

lilaznboi

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Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 4,448

I'll never run it twice so this feature is pretty useless.
TBH I can see fish berating people for not running it twice.

anyway, come on RSA tokens

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10-15-2009 , 10:56 AM

#57

caspermatic

adept

Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 810

Please a sign that says "Sitting Out" when somebody is sitting out in a tourney. Please. I'm tired of raising into the blind that has been sitting out for ten minutes, only to find he's back now.

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10-15-2009 , 10:57 AM

#58

liljaybe

stranger

Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 14

hey

i never had problems with previous updates...but now it will update through the autoupdater after thats done ft will start automatically like normal. but everytime my computer freezes. cant do nothing about it...
i tried to uninstall full tilt but it wont work...

what can i do?!

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10-15-2009 , 11:11 AM

#59

JBables

grinder

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 664

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Originally Posted by cds0699

Weird, my "cashout" button isnt appearing for the cashout tourney im in.

Was the tourn in late reg? I'm playing the $2.5k and the cashout thing didn't start till after late reg

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10-15-2009 , 11:14 AM

#60

SaltyVeteran

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Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 772

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Originally Posted by FTPDoug

14. I am sure this has been addressed somewhere before, but with the Stars 180 man MTTs being so popular, why does FT offer so few limits for those? The highest you can play is $2.

- We have a roving $8 180 man as well that goes off every 70 minutes. We used to have it as a normal SNG, but it filled too slowly.

Doug

Make it a turbo. They take too damn long. That's why it filled too slow.

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10-15-2009 , 11:27 AM

#61

erniebilko

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Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 436

Thinking about the cashout tourneys (i'm playing the 10;30 $11 one), the likely result is that the payouts become even more top-heavy. The remaining cash-out pool gets distributed based on chip count as soon as the final table starts. There will always be a huge amount left in cash-out pool because to deplete it fully would require every chip in the tourney to be cashed out prior to the final table.

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10-15-2009 , 11:33 AM

#62

Stinky Stu

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Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 4,201

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Originally Posted by erniebilko

While the tourney don't interest me, it will be interesting to see how this plays out.

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10-15-2009 , 11:37 AM

#63

DukeMuscle

old hand

Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 1,452

CLIFFNOTES:
[ ] Security Tokens
[ ] Short Stack Solution

Last edited by DukeMuscle; 10-15-2009 at 11:45 AM. Reason: .

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10-15-2009 , 11:38 AM

#64

erniebilko

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After more thought, I think a better solution would be to have the cash-out pool operate as-is up to the bubble. Thereafter, the prize pools should be merged and subsequent cash-outs would alter the prize payouts of the remaining places. This would flatten the payout structure.

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10-15-2009 , 11:39 AM

#65

caspermatic

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Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 810

How about a leaderboard (with some kind of payout) for individual regular daily tournaments? A lot of casual players play at the same time every day and might be more inclined to play even more if there was an incentive to be a "regular" in the same tourney? Even just a small prize (a few buy-ins for the leader over the course of a year) would make for some fun competition.

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10-15-2009 , 11:42 AM

#66

panda

adept

Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 1,032

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Originally Posted by DukeMuscle

13. I hate having to click ante and big blind/small blind. Any chance you could combine that into one click(post $2.40 for big blind and ante)
- We're thinking of changing all ante tables to be more like speed tables when it comes to posting. Meaning when you sit down you'll be forced to have auto-post on (and be placed in "Wait for BB" mode immediately), then you'll have a "Sit Out Next BB" checkbox instead of the "Auto-Post" checkbox. Anyone not like this idea?

I DO NOT LIKE THIS IDEA!
While it will be easier for your programmers to implement this, this is NOT WHAT PLAYERS WANT. This is NOT a solution to the problem. This creates a NEW problem (having to post in a -EV position).

Read it again. You'll automatically auto-post and you have the choice when you sit down to post now or wait for BB

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10-15-2009 , 11:43 AM

#67

Sir Poko

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Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 457

seriously, make the hole cards BIGGER.

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10-15-2009 , 11:48 AM

#68

SirFelixCat

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Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,227

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Originally Posted by NewTeaBag

ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO AT LEAST GET ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF SYSTEM PROBLEMS!

1) Waiting list notification Popup
-Horrible horrible alert sound (Sounds like 2 cows belching in my ear)
-Why are there two popups? I get a quick double belch and two popup windows. The 1st one disappears within 1-2secs and the 2nd one sticks around with the countdown.
-These popups seize/freeze my computer for 2-3secs each and every time they come

Please fix this.
-Make these popups less resource hogging (stop the freezing)
-Make it one popup
-Change the cow belching alert noise

2) I'm still randomly getting double cards about 3-5 times/ 1000 hands when multitabling. It goes away when I resize the table even a little bit.

3)Internet browser. My default browser is Firefox, however anytime I open a browser window throught the client (my promotions, my ironman, FT academy, etc.) FTP is opening an internet exploder browser which then proceeds to freeze my computer for a few seconds.

4) Overall freezing. All of the list below cause some level (>2secs) of computer freeze.
-Using the client to open any browser related stuff
-Last Hand replayer
-Layout changing (even for a minor change the client hogs a lot of puter to resize tables)
-popups at the end of SNGs asking if I want to register in another (both HU and Multiplayer)

5) Last but certainly not least.
TIMELY RESPONSIVE SUPPORT.
I acknowledge that you acknowledge the issue but tiny incremental improvements from a baseline of very low are not seen as significant progress. 1) Waiting list notification Popup
-Horrible horrible alert sound (Sounds like 2 cows belching in my ear)
-Why are there two popups? I get a quick double belch and two popup windows. The 1st one disappears within 1-2secs and the 2nd one sticks around with the countdown.
-These popups seize/freeze my computer for 2-3secs each and every time they come

Please fix this.
-Make these popups less resource hogging (stop the freezing)
-Make it one popup
-Change the cow belching alert noise

2) I'm still randomly getting double cards about 3-5 times/ 1000 hands when multitabling. It goes away when I resize the table even a little bit.

3)Internet browser. My default browser is Firefox, however anytime I open a browser window throught the client (my promotions, my ironman, FT academy, etc.) FTP is opening an internet exploder browser which then proceeds to freeze my computer for a few seconds.

4) Overall freezing. All of the list below cause some level (>2secs) of computer freeze.
-Using the client to open any browser related stuff
-Last Hand replayer
-Layout changing (even for a minor change the client hogs a lot of puter to resize tables)
-popups at the end of SNGs asking if I want to register in another (both HU and Multiplayer)

5) Last but certainly not least.
TIMELY RESPONSIVE SUPPORT.
I acknowledge that you acknowledge the issue but tiny incremental improvements from a baseline of very low are not seen as significant progress.

This is my number 1 issue (1a, w/ RSA tokens being 1b). How does this get completely overlooked, Doug?!?

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Originally Posted by mjcace

Anyway you can add an option to make the mouse wheel increase in SB increments?

+1, please!

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Originally Posted by yop

Well I guess I'll copy paste my post every month until it doesn't get totally ignored...

Here are a few suggestions :

- make the table instantly popup when it's your turn to play (like on stars) and not 2 sec after the beep
- change the annoying waitlist sound (+1 for newteabag)
- bet slider in sb increments
- timezones
- different currencies for bankroll like on ipoker or partypoker
- smaller lobby in standard view
- highlight colors in the lobby for tables you are playing on or on waitlist

I'd also like the datamining problem to be addressed. I can't believe sites like handhq or ptr can still provide fresh hand histories (how can they do that btw?). Please do something to prevent those sites to datamine. I really dont like the idea that some players may have more info on me than I have on them.

+1, again, please!

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Originally Posted by King Spew

It is the Russian and German sweat shops that have already messed with the poker ecosystem.

Don't worry Doug. There is a clear answer for the fullsatcker come January 1st.

And yes, this helps the first couple of months of the year, but after that, we're right back where we are. We def. need this addressed, please!

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10-15-2009 , 11:48 AM

#69

Online Veteran

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I love the new run it twice option. I can't wait until it's available at lower stakes.

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10-15-2009 , 11:49 AM

#70

Mr Quicksilver

adept

Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 727

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Originally Posted by Sir Poko

seriously, make the hole cards BIGGER.

they should make all cards bigger, there is enough space and it would be a simple 10mins change in the code.
but we learned that ftp doesnt care how users like their graphics.

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10-15-2009 , 11:56 AM

#71

hime

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Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 2,082

#31: Hope you enjoy gay porn.

Can we get a schedule update on the mini-FTOPS to reflect the 7-game tourney?

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10-15-2009 , 11:58 AM

#72

jinzerd

old hand

Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 1,875

didnt see anything about it but did the headsup problem get fixed where if someone sits out and the other person adds to there stack it doesnt apear until the first person sits back in?

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10-15-2009 , 11:58 AM

#73

JBables

grinder

Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 664

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Originally Posted by Mr Quicksilver

they should make all cards bigger, there is enough space and it would be a simple 10mins change in the code.
but we learned that ftp doesnt care how users like their graphics.

Mod it

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10-15-2009 , 12:04 PM

#74

Weegs

grinder

Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 567

http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/run-it-twice

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* Please note that maximum rake might vary for hands that are dealt twice.

So what does this mean?

Edit. Found it.. http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/glossary/R/#rake

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rake

Rake is the percentage of a pot that the house collects as compensation for hosting a game. At Full Tilt Poker the maximum rake in ring games is $3, with a minimum pot size needed for any rake. The only exception is a hand completed where players have chosen to use Run it Twice, where maximum rake is $4.