Article says they are doing random selection.

The tilted cards are not clear enough. The cards are a bit pale (the impact is weak) and the hearts are too dark/wrong colour.

The bit 3D type of aspect is missing, making it feel less real life and more plastic, that these type of software programs produce, just not all that much here because of the colours I suppose.

They are not too bright/light (too bright and too slippery shiny as a result) like Party cards where I need to use less light on my computer and use a darker table that in that case works for me.

The cards are not graphically slick enough either but rather basic.

There are people who do the graphics for the top softwares and some sites simply ignore stuff like that having bought it and that's it then. The developers rarely are good with graphics, especially when it comes to the sort of 3D type of slick elements, and regularly they don't get the lights and colours right either, nor is there so knowledge about the subject but if one has studies all about it.

I also wonder what kind of programmers do pokersites employ.

I see videogames with amazing graphics and usability, keyboard shortcuts and general good feeling of space and playability. Why do poker clients look so bad in general, and why is it so difficult to make a great poker client? It's certainly not going to be that poor atempt at virtual reality it seems by pokerstars...

I understand great videogames take many (hundreds?) millions of dollars to be produced, but still it's a mistery to me why pokersites have such a hard time to make a great product. And RIO is looking like one of the best even so, but one has to consider the poor competition there is.

Next Beta is on wednesday, oct. 3 btw. Check Rio website if you wanna be invited.

I'm one of the chosen ones
Let's go!

I just wish developers are wise enough to make the software moddable for modders. This means, being able to change seats (and their positioning), tables and background images.

Also, I wish window size is the same as PS as some of us stack tables and this would make it easier to play different sites at same time.

Beta-test is live now for three hours!!!

What a painful experience that was

Def seemed like a slight step backwards this beta test. It seems to be a server issue - slow to respond to all requests: logging in, showing balance, showing buy-in box, sitting at a table... all took multiple seconds. And then the pause between hands also stretched to something like 20+ seconds. My uneducated guess is that there's one server queuing/response issue that when resolved will hoover up a lot of the issues experienced last night.


If on the other hand they were stress-testing what happens under heavy load (like a ddos), I'd say they're on the right track

Based on the player pool I hope that wasn't a stress test.

I agree there seems to be something server side that needs changed that should clear multiple delays up. Good thing is the mechanics appear to be working for the most part and this "less successful" test appears to have given them much more information and things to fix pre-release.

DDOS wouldnt matter what their player pool was for the stress test.

I would have thought a stress test (as in seeing how many players the server could comfortably handle at any given time before it falls over) and a DDOS simulation (purposely attacking the server so nobody can use it) would be two different things.

I was referring to the first test.

They can also simulate both together. However i get your point also.

Beta test is being run now.

So far running very smoothly, no lags at all in between the hands like it happened in the second beta test.

A couple of players reported crash issues but only 2 or 3. Some minor bugs but looking good so far

It takes two seconds to figure out that if you're colluding you just say 'I am button this hand and just made it 2.75x' or something, no avatar or sn needed.

Everything I've read says that PG and team have painstakingly taken time to eliminate cheaters, I know they're in beta and just trying to get it off the ground at this point, I just really hope they actually do have excellent systems in place that keep the cheating under control. Maybe it's just me but some of the chinese sites and live tendencies of people lately have really illuminated how much scum revolves around the poker world. Tons of hit and runs, colluding, rat holing, people jumping into and out of mix to dodge games. I know this stuff has always kind of been a thing, but it seems like lately people have taken it to a new level. I would love to see this site be extra hard on players who are nothing but toxic to the ecosystem, rather than the standard 'they pay rake too, **** it' business model.

Anyhow, rant over. I signed up for beta and no invite, noticed the table in video posted was euro, I'm assuming this is non-US, anybody know if that's correct?

Could you allso tell us how easy it is to get seated at the same table?

I believe they were chinese who colluded in dons at stars so you can't be really surprised that they are scum.

You figure if you get up to $2/4-$3/6 there will probably be less than 5 tables. Even $1/2 probably less than 10. If you can multi-table they'd have to be able to do it, a lot of determined scum out there. Maybe I'm being naive but it seems like anonymous SNs and avatars are only a false sense of security at that point, would love to know that/if the security team was actively monitoring IP addresses and possibly even doing some stuff like auditing high win rates, or charting postflop raise % when say two accounts are in a pot vs a third player or something. What's the reddit meme, modern problems, modern solutions?... idk, you're probably right, if it's a zoom type format it'd be way harder to do, which would be nice

What's the marketing for this site going to be like? Will it be well advertised to fish; or just end up full of regs who study poker? lol

We know one part of their marketing strategy - the live-streaming rakeback concept (details up-thread). They are going to announce details of their main rewards program soon. No other details have been announced yet.

There’s a recent Joe Ingram Interview with PG, that covers RIO‘s stance on security quite decently. I believe it is linked in the other RIO thread.

Residents of the following countries are not allowed to create an account on RIO Poker: Afghanistan, Australia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany (State of Schleswig-Holstein), Greece, Guyana, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Syria, Uganda, United States of America, Vanuatu, Yemen.

Residents of other countries are not allowed to play while physically being located in any of these countries.

Gaming regulations and restrictions change frequently. While the above is accurate as of today, an up-to-date list of restrictions will be available in our Terms&Conditions at launch.

gregorio, here's the latest list of restricted countries from the last email:
Afghanistan, Australia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Colombia, Czech Republic, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany (State of Schleswig-Holstein), Greece, Guyana, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Spain, Slovenia, Syria, Uganda, United States of America, Vanuatu, Yemen.


I've been picked for beta testing, but Slovenia is now on restricted list

Test their security by VPNing perhaps ?

Haha.
Thanks for that, I needed this laugh

They need to add South Africa onto the banned list as online poker is illegal there.