Down in Canada

It's not the whole site. Actually all tournaments are running with several people, but not that many, sitting out. So this just means you're blinding out and clocks are not paused. If you were shortstack in a tournament you're guaranteed to be out by now.

yep

Plenty of Canadians and Germans playing. Again, nothing is paused so you're really getting shafted at this point because good luck proving it was PS' fault.

Everything normal here, no one sitting out (playing 12 tables atm).

My last two tourny tables have just manually paused, I think it's down again.

Oh, they have just returned - approx. 3 minute break.

Which ones? I just logged in, nothing out of the ordinary.

There seems to be no problem now, but I did get 2 manually paused messages. I did'nt personally notice any lag and only one player from Brazil had been sitting out for about 10 hands. It's now the 5 min break

So yesterday apart from a unscheduled 3 minute gap the games continued smoothly and continued without incident for another 90 mins - well until running AQs into AA 20bb deep.

Pokerstars lagging like crazy for me... anyone else? All other websites are working fine

Surely I can't be the only one? Takes about 10 seconds for every new hand to start on zoom and another 10 seconds for my cards to appear once the hand starts been like this all night

Hey,

I have a weird issue lately on Stars. Basically, I have a big delay at the beginning of almost all hands after playing at a table for a while. So, at the beginning of the session this delay never occurs and after the initial delay at the beginning of the hand, the delay won't happen again in the same hand on later streets. It is basically just for the first decision in the hand.
To make sure: The hand starts, but I don't get to see my cards or bet-buttons for ~1-2sec. When that issue happens (only after having played for a while, it will persist for rest of the session always)

I've had this issue for around two weeks now. I asked my opponents a few times and nobody seemed to have the same problem, which made me think the issue is on my end. I haven't been able yet to test with same internet connection on a different device. However, I've been using the exact same setup for around a year now and I'm not running any software at all when playing on Stars.

Any advice? I guess re-installing Stars is the first step I'm going to take if this is no known issue that's already been fixed.

thanks for any input!

Are you playing Zoom? Zoom has always been quite laggy at certain times of the day for me, not sure there's much you can do about it.

You can try excluding the Pokerstars folders/processes from your antivirus, turning off animation/avatars in settings, check your Task Manager to see if there's any cpu spikes (it could be cpu lag rather than internet lag).

Edit - try a different theme too. Some of them can be more resource intensive than others (Mercury theme is definitely worse on a slow computer, not sure about others).

thanks for quick reply

- i should have clarified: im mostly playing 8game, i cant really say if it happens at other games too since i didnt play any long session at other games recently

- already excluded those folders from antivirus software
- already turned off animations, will turn off avatars.

and yeah, will check taskmanager and try with different theme

anyone else having trouble opening pokerstars right now?

no.... crap traffic at the 100 nl full ring all day though... cant get beyond 3 tables open... often just 1 or 2

Very good (100%) connection but huge lag & delay in zoom.

No new SNG's in the lobby?

Yea for around 30 min, what is happening? All MTTs are running good as far as I see.

Was a disc. for a few minutes. No SNG's since. Don't get it you don't have a person or two to monitor these things all day..

Live chat said they were aware of the issue. Would take 1-3 hours from now to fix this...

cash games crashed?

I can't load up zoom tables. Can observe fine.

EDIT: Noticed the queues for SNG's are all empty as well.