That's why you hire a good CTO.

Downloadable Hand Histories are Now Enabled!
On top of our recent software update, we’ve added another new feature: downloadable hand histories! Moving forward, hand histories for hands that were played greater than 24 hours ago will automatically be downloaded upon your next login. These hand histories will have hole cards revealed for all players involved in the hands.

Historical Hand Histories are also available! Head to our help centre to learn how you can retrieve them and get instructions on setting up automatic downloads.

stupid question but the HHs aren't going to work with tracking software right?

Afaik they will but obviously you will only be able to track your own results.

It seems like you will be able to import them into your tracker to review play/results or else what is the point

There's literally nobody on the site, no matter what time of day, smh.

"Well, ....Bye".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVrEwCa8nSA

Even bots won't play there ?

That’s great news! It’s a nice feature to review all hands with face up hole cards to check how good one’s intuition in game was when bluffing / hero folding etc... also to be able to track results and check the own stats.

Things are definitely moving in the right direction and hopefully traffic will increase with the time !

They’re not compatible with Hem2 as far as I’m aware and the Hem team won’t be bringing in a fix for them. They will be compatible with Hem3

this is why they should have wait to have a finalized product there was a lot of expectation even Iimitless in a podcast on youtube said it will be the new place for online grinders, sad to see it busting GG RIOP

Phil Galfond: he had the right intentions but trusted the wrong people.

Galfond was arrogant. The guy had hundreds of pages of suggestions/ideas of players, I even know some players wanted to help building the room. He didn’t listen.

The only proven business model, is pokerstars pre Amaya. All the unibet kinda sites are **** and won’t work. Recs don’t give a **** about huds and hand histories. Just enable huds, let people track their progress. Like the only proven site, pokerstars.

Waste zero resorts on trying to solve that stupid utopia of playing without hud (who is gonna play highstakes reg vs reg without tracking and checking simple stats with the softwares that there are out there... oborra like stuff) and focus on building the best software, clean and good support.

The regs and recs will follow because there’s none in the market, not even stars. Stars lives of its formal glory, good software and player retention.

Poker isn’t dead, and the market is up for grabs for a pokerstars pre amaya site.
What happens is all the sites are so ****ing bad. Like Galfond made a website with no re sizable tables, wtf is this? But hey you can put a stupid avatar and talk lol

They threat casual players like children, thinking if they have the gamification/shenanigans and graphics of an average mobile game it will be appealing to them.

In reality a casual player is just the same as a pro player, he also watches pro players and he also wants to be a pro player, even though he knows he will never be one. Perhaps his idol is Phil Helmuth instead of Stephen Chidwick but tomato tomato.

Think about any other sports, a casual player also wants the same gear as the pro player plays, to bring him closer to the feeling of being a pro player. He also watches the pro players play on TV. It's just the same for poker.

So the Unibet's etc who optimize their game for casual players by basically turning it into an iphone game, I'm not suprised at all it's not popular. It's basically saying, you are a kid go play in this special room cause you are not worthy to play with the big boys. No casual player wants to feel like that.

+1

Have u imagined ppl not playing e sports cause ‘hey he has a super pc, monitor xyz, 200e mouse and 300e keyboard’ so i won’t play bc I’m at a disadvantage?

This conversation of huds and HH are bad for poker is the biggest bull**** I’ve seen. First you can’t enforce it, 2nd recs don’t give a ****, 3rd it prevents botting, 4th you still think a rec will last more in no hud environment? Huds are useful vs multitabling regs. Fish is a fish, don’t need a hud to spot/play vs him he is going busto anyways

Just please some rich guy create a pre amaya website, **** this unibet/riopoker 8year old graphics poker.
Party poker is **** too, with rob young being ******ed as well... party poker is a ship that will sink soon

damn. you hate to see it

I'm quite happy to see it go this way. Only a question of time til RIO closes. Don't think having a handful of players online is sustainable, considering the cost of man-power.

Wow, so much negative energy itt, why??! I am also rooting for a re-thinking of the anon decision and am not a fan of STP either ... but still, hope the site can turn around to become a success!

Let's see how things look in Q1 of next year.

Do you think will have tournaments sngs ff and fixed bugs by then?

It's pretty simple a site is not going to succeed or fail because some novelty way you distribute rakeback. I think Galfond overestimated the impact of these and similar features.

One thing I dislike as well is that he called it "Run it Once", identical to his poker training site. This is super confusing for the general public to google as you will almost always end up on the training site first, and have to click through. It would have been way better for marketing if he kept this separated.

No idea. Never played there. Think its the 3rd or 4th year celebrating "Q1 of next year" type statements though, so maybe this time will be different. One time etc,

To be fair what did we really expect from Phil, the guy literally put a slide in his apartment. He is so far away from reality and what players want.

He has a chance if he just stops with his nonsense ideas and just create pre-amaya. Phil and other highly intelligent people love to overthink and complicate things. COULD IT REALLY BE THAT SIMPLE, I hear Phil ask himself.

Is all I really need to do for a successful POKER site, is look back at other SUCCESSFUL poker sites???

Nah, it can't be, I hear him think. You know what, I will look at the ****tiest of sites, how about that for some meta! I'll show them.... I'll create it even ****tier than the ****test and have all the players come to my site, because that's what players really want.

I'll look at Unibet and Bodog for inspiration because those sites are really booming, I'll implement all the bad traits they have and then explain to the poker community that they are all wrong and Bodog and Unibet are way way better than Stars! I'll show em!!

I'll ask for people's opinion and then thank them but won't listen to anybody, and continue to implement the worst possible decisions. Then when nobody plays on my site, I'll still not listen to anybody because pre-amaya stars is not what players really want. They want UniDog, they just don't know it yet!

Why so much hate to this small site?

STP pots is good, bots aren't coming here, it makes their life more difficult.
Anon is debatable, but that is how it is, you like it or not, no need to show so much hate?
Dynamic avatars, I do agree these are not needed at all, but it is a nice decoration I guess

What RIO have do is to solve all bugs asap, they have been improving a lot, I play there and the software is more stable now , the sit out bug has almost dissapeared, they are delivering hand histories now too. Still some bugs related to multitabling (it is as if the software collapses after some hours of grinding at 2+ tables).

You have to give this site time, the site is working fine now, they have done a great job despite I don't like anon tables, but that is how it is.