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Originally Posted by zoogenhiem
The ads actually didn't play for me lol. Any time one would start it'd just go black for a second and go back to the game.
Our ad company it not exactly a top tier ad provider. Until a site starts serving up millions of ads a month, most big ad providers don't want to talk to you. As such, we're kinda lucky to have found this one, despite the fact that there are some devices that they don't support. Count yourself fortunate not to have to watch ads... for now.
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Originally Posted by zoogenhiem
With the Play n go, is it supposed to be where as soon as you bust you can close the table and re-enter? If so, why not allow re-entry without having to close the table? Also though, since it's so easy to get back in, people just go all in every hand. Now I get that can provide great profitable opportunities for the more disciplined, but if I'm playing for pennies I'd rather just play normal poker for fun and practice.
There are a few reasons why we don't have you re-enter from the table. One of them has to do with the absurd complexity that child windows in browsers cause, but that's not really a good excuse. The main reason, though, is we don't want to give the impression that you'll be continuing at the same table. Perhaps that assumption is faulty. We're open to feedback on this topic.
As for people going all in every hand... we have two camps in our company: one side believes EVERY player will just go all in at the low levels, and one side believes that only a few people will. I'm in the latter camp. I'm happy to say that my experience so far has shown that a vast majority of people are playing normal poker even from the onset. For the few who are die-hard all-inners, I've gotten quite a lot of their chips! If that were a winning strategy, then you'd see everyone do it in perpetuity. Alas, it's rarely a winning strategy, so I'm not too worried yet.
I do take exception to the notion that we're playing for pennies. If you accumulate 100K chips, which is a possible feat over the course of several days or a month, you can cash them out for about $25. Given the current user base on the site, the amount of chips in circulation will make that difficult. However, let's say 1K users were playing on the site (someday), then we would be minting 1.5M tournament chips per hour. 10K players would mint 15M chips an hour. They have to go somewhere, right. So you can bet that some players will work their way up to millions of chips. Should anyone acquire 250M chips, well that's worth over $80,000!
Here's how I like to think of it. For a typical player accustomed to playing on a real-money site, rather than making a $100 deposit once or twice a year, on Big Ugly Poker they might instead make a $100 withdrawal once or twice a year.