It's crazy. It was launched in 'beta' 17 months ago and towards the end of last year we were told they were expecting to launch SNGs by the end of 2019, of which we still don't have in July 2020. I want to support the site but they're not making it easy.

Great site but games are much tougher than other sites. At least when leaderboards started

And one of the reasons was "well I started the hu challenge so the tech team focused on that". Imo it's pretty hilarious. And the only adv I have seen / heard ist the random email I get mentioning some promo. Even that doesn't come on a reglar basis when there is a new promo. I mean emails are free?

There's a lot to like about RIO except the player traffic. I'm so ready to jump over as soon as there's a reasonable enough player base where you can grind through for 10 hours a day.

Actually, if you knew anything about email marketing, spamming inboxes isn’t a good long-term play.

You mean sending one or two emails / month when they have a new promotion is spamming?

I’m not sure what you’re arguing about as I get those emails. Maybe check with your email service?

nvm no reason to spam this thread with you.

Anyone else getting "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc00000007b) after downloading?

Anyone having connection issues this evening?

Annoying as it ****s up the animations as I keep seeing old bets on the table and don't even know if Im calling or raising >.>

Can't someone tldr me on how the site is doing so far? Liquidity any good?

Ghost town during daytime. Plo seems to be more active during evening night eu times.

They have been doing rakerace promo's for the past few weeks boosting traffic a bit if you are happy battling regs. Still very limited traffic beside that, hard to get 6 tables going where you don't play the same people ever I'd say + very aggro games (NL20), bit more PLO traffic I think but don't play it nor follow it.

They need a different strategy and also fix some software issues.

That is a damn shame.

I wanted to delete my account today but before that i will post a last time in this thread.

I supported the site for quite a long time but i think ill move on at this point. Not even the leaderboards have brought the much needed large player-influx for NL, PLO was always more liquid but even here its stagnating at a pretty low level.
I am sure that the RIO crew and Phil especially had/have some very good ideas. But even with a near perfect strategy i think at this stage its almost over.

The fact that there was so little functionality at launch, and i am not just talking about the bugs and crashes, those were bound to happen to some degree, i am talking about the lack of game types (no Tournaments etc.), made it very tough to ever get things going. Now with the Crisis Online Traffic has increased but before that It was not like we had a poker boom or anything. In a somewhat declining market (esp. highstakes online) you have to be very good with your marketing, quality and also need a little luck.

Marketing efforts were quite shallow, i dont know how many emails with some kind of super-splash-announcement i have deleated over the course of the last year. And yet we are still waiting for SNGs, let alone MTTs. And then the hand-histories dont work smt., i mean, wtf?! The Regulars are targeted with leaderboards, Rakeback etc. but this fundamental feature still doesnt work properly?? Also one of my bonus-paths just got straight up canceled but i dont even care anymore. Its way too slow for my stake anyway and all that it brought me was to come back every few weeks only to be disappointed by the traffic once again.

Regarding other stuff in the quality-section: Rakeback is nice, gameplay is fine (but still a bit too slow at 4+ tables). However, you need Freerolls, you need exciting stuff to attract the recs. Splash the Pot alone is not nearly enough. Its also not exciting to play against random names, random genders and with about six different avatar types which smt. leads to three clones playing on the same table.
Anonymity itself could have worked, but not like this. And Anon Tables should not have been implemented in the first place just because Phil and his close colleagues „feel like“ there is more expansion potential there. This decision is huge and should be based on large amounts of data just like a lot of other decisions including no HUDs etc.
You need a ton of primary and secondary research to come to a decisive conclusion. I dont think RIO ever made any big poll just asking a ton (by that i mean hundreds, maybe thousands) of people (both recs and regs) why they play poker online, if they feel hunted, if they identify themselves with their screenname, how important it is for their experience to battle someone they played with before, if they prefer Cash or MTTs and so on.

I feel like there was always a paradox situation: Regs should really like the site in theory with the rakeback, the design, but there is not enough of them (lack of marketing, traffic and recs) and some are turned off by features like no HUDs and anon. At the same time those to some regs unpopular features were supposed to target recreationals, but again not enough marketing and liquity, and they may just want to mainly play MTTs anyway and dont give a **** about HUDs and other supposed issues which dont prevent Stars from making money these days. So there is low traffic and now we can try to attract the Regs with leaderboards which leads to more traffic but its not sustainable because there is not enough core traffic and recs and now we could.......acknowledge that this is a a potentially self-circling dilemma here.

What about the Galfond Challenge. Has it brought in a significant amount of players? No? Then why waste money and resources on it. Phil now plays poker instead of figuring out a way to turn things around.

RIO would probably have needed more initial funding, more programmers (leading to a quicker and better launch) and more (competent) market research as well as some really big marketing, ideally in the context of a somewhat solid launch.
But to be fair, here. Most start-ups fail, and i dont think anyone at RIO, be it founder, PR-Manager, programmer or designer has to feel particularily miserable if RIO does fail (which i consider almost inevitable at this point). It was a reasonable effort, but not good enough especially in the planning and strategy department, and then some things (like Partypokers development) were not forseeable in 2016.

Now some really great ideas like STP (already implemented by GG-Poker, innovations are not yours forever if you cannot/dont want to protect them) almost feel wasted. Nobody seems to care about the site and even more people have probably never heard of it.
Its really a bit sad, though. Table Design is just really really good and clearly the best out there. Small Details like Card-Dealing-Animations and also the great dynamic Avatars show me that there was definitely no lack of passion, creativity and ambition in the Team.

Since the update/maintenance this morning the lobby seems really small and cannot be resized (I dont think it could be resized before) but it was definitely bigger. Also the leader boards are not tracking / working / updating properly.

Looks like a nice update. Basic hud stats, play in bb's, better table management and an option to optimize performance (for low-end computers) are all great qol improvements. Still no games running to test it out though!

Interesting

release notes: https://help.runitonce.eu/kb/release...ugust-05-2020/

how the in-built hud looks: https://www.runitonce.eu/features/hero-iq-poker-hud/

Still can't make my peace with anonymous poker, but looks good

That's the way it was suppoused to be to begin with. Not that dynamic avatars nonsense and yes I know they still have those. Might give it a go then unless it's still a semetary. Still wish you could see the games running without logging in.

I can't open the client after the update lol.

Played this site recreationally and it's a nice idea but just not fun. I want to be able to choose what table I sit at, not to be placed at a dying table where I'm forced to play 3-handed and ultimately heads-up instead of 6-max. The only workaround is to stay seated at the dying tables and then click on "seat me" again and again until you get a decent table. Not only is this tedious, but the traffic is so poor I can get at most one normal 6-max table going per session. Please let us use waiting lists to get on full tables or at least implement SNGs, MTTs, ZOOM, Spins, or anything so people can actually play the game instead of playing lobby simulator.

So is the RunitOnce only operator who is offering lowest rake structure at plo games?

My thoughts on RunitOnce pokersoftware.

Software is actually really good and appearance in my oppinion one of the best in the market, by that i mean cards 4 colours deck looks great and almost reraly missreading the flop. It also run super smooth.

The think that everyone is anonymous is not a that great attraction to the site, even weaker players, in my opinion, want to know who are they playing against.(Same as live playing people want to play the game because of social aspect also)

You should implement the same thing like its was at Microgaming, that players can change they nick after 1000 played hands ofc because notes still were there after the nick change, but it still adds some kind anonymous situation. Like misreading player etc..

Also i want to add that in Microgaming i noticed even they dit offer anonymoys tables to play, but most action was at non-anonmoys tables, so logically you can think that most of the players don't want to be anonymous.

As the company you want to seek how u can offer players more choices... After that the numbers will tell the truth. (Quoting Kevin O’Leary numbers dont lie)

Ps: If you add normal tables too I will come and play there every day.

And lisensing can be one of your options to add more traffic to your site. (Also by that your marketing expenses will get lower of more cooperation with others providers)

Hi,
after about 6months of not login to Runitonce, i logged in and was greeted on my Dashboard with "get another deposit bonus up to 100%".
I started the deposit bonus in january 2020 but only received like 5% and it was ended because i havent played for 30 days.
So I thought they gave me a chance to renew this deposit bonus and i redeposited to start it again.

After I deposited money there was no indication of any bonus running, so I contacted Run It Once support which told me that the deposit bonus in my dashboard is a "visual bug" and Im not eligible for this bonus because I already received it/went inactive.

Can you try to make your advertisment less confusing or less "buggy", it looked 100% like I was offered the bonus and thats like 95% of the reason i deposited. The "visual bug" in my dashboard is still there fwiw.

https://help.runitonce.eu/ @SirGaribaldi

Join the discord and contact support there or via e-mail.

That is pretty awful. The offered bonus should be honoured.