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Originally Posted by BringThePain
You can't push people to play a game they don't want to play. Everything I see at Run It Once, other sites have it already... with traffic. The software looks good but not... WOW!
True, except RIO does have one unique thing that the other sites don't have: 'Splash The Pot'.
I reckon what Phil is trying to do here, is test the popularity of STP (and then adjust this unique feature, to make that work first).
By making it both anon + no HUD compulsory, I think he has inadvertently made it too dissimilar from any one particular site.
It's much easier for people to move over from another site, if they don't have to make any big adjustments and it seems familiar.
All the top sites are non-anon screen names, and the biggest allow huds.
So instead of just testing 1 thing: STP popularity, he is now testing 2 or more slightly different things: will people change the way they play (no hud, no notes) to move + STP popularity (under these anon + no HUD conditions). It would have to be so much more popular in scenario 2 than in scenario 1.
So I guess with these restrictions, a smaller player pool is to be expected.
The ironic thing about anon tables, is that it makes everyone look like a bot.
hehe. I don't think anyone really sees real poker, as a game played against a sea of blank faces.
I think the hud as avatar expressions is very clever and a really brilliant idea. But I expect most HUD users would also like a checkbox in settings, that would show the exact VPIP, PFR and 3Bet/agg numbers of each player under the avatars, as an additional option. Did I say RIO had one unique thing? Maybe I meant two... especially good if he adds that checkbox for stats numbers
I know Phil has addressed these points, and doing what he's doing makes sense to me, if the pool is small and you want to preserve your existing pool. But then you'd also have to expect to be doing a much smaller test.
It's also much easier to test, if you only change 1 thing. But it's like he's changed 3 things at once (anon, no hud, stp/rakeback).
So when you make alterations to 1 of the 3, you might never be quite sure if people like it, or if they just still dislike more strongly, any combination of 1,2,3 or all.