Wait, you mean it won't be enough that erryone throws in the ole $3.50? 🤔

Hopefully the site doesn't lose steam when Pokerstars releases its epic new changes this year


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1st order of business for Mr Galfond .. Stay away from Doug Polk at all cost!!!! , could you imagine the baggage / leaked info / drama he would bring to the site as either a sponsored pro or a position behind the scenes , second thought that may work

totally random speculation, but it seems ongame closes and the last thing i've read about it (a few months ago), was that nyx sold it to "an undisclosed buyer". i know, galfond said somethign like "from the scratch" but ...

could an investor be this Guy

Most likely scenario IMO. Building a software from a scratch is expensive. Probably more expensive than acquiring some old software that has been out of order. And Stars can't be that dumb the sell FTP's old platform to an emerging competitor, as it is by quite a margin the second best poker software that has ever existed.

What I'm afraid of is that Ongame's platform won't be versatile enough to support all the necessary features that is required to run a successful poker site in 2016. The P5 platform was notoriously buggy when they first launched it.

If Unibet is a an example of how to make a site grow in 2016 then all the necessary features are:

bet slider
raise button
call button
fold button
quick seat feature
cash game lobby so we can use scripts to insta-sit the fish
plain text hand histories to support third party software and datamining
p2p transfers so Americans playing in "Europe" (i.e. VPN) can fund their accounts
sng lobby so you can decide whether to play or not

Any more essential features?

I thought Dnegs meant RIO-Poker

i'm happy.. i'll definitely play there. let's get some games going besides hold em and PLO. That's all new sites seem to offer.

Rake is higher live and I know people making 8-10 bb per hour, let alone per 100 hands. If someone is only 4 tabling and can't make more then 2bb/100 they need to look at their game imo, just play bigger games live, or get a different job.

lol what? Many people ITT overestimate what RIO can realistically achieve.

sounds like a bet

anyone giving odds for it being in the top xx spot for cashgames in xx months on scout?

this poker site will be very successful. mark my words

As much as I'd like to see Mr. Galfond succeed in this, I'd bet quite a bit against it.

That's quite a confident forecast .

Since you are so confident please share with us in which countries you think this site will be "very successful".

Perhaps..,this hype attract mainly people whom know and play poker very well(mostly Reg),and that's bad for business..

maybe Baazov and DN where talking about different things ... Negreanu about PS and Baazov about the kickbacks ^^


... or what "very successful" means

Coup d'stars 😝😂

make everyone use webcams and those who aren't good looking and charming are not allowed to play

Dunno about poker but sounds great for NVG .

I get to dismiss 5 people just cause

Username checks out.

1) semi anonymous tables with 24hr screen names

2) full hand histories available 48 hours later with unique/permanent player IDs

3) randomly assigned seating in cash games and STTs

explanations:

Semi-anonymous: I'd like to see a site where players are assigned a screen name when they log in (or, pick their own, whatever), but it only displays for 24 hours and then resets. That way, we know when a player leaves the game but then sits right back in; and we know if we're playing the same guy on multiple tables; etc. We can use reads, but they are only good for 24 hours and datamining is still defeated. A serendipitous effect: it would be fun to pick names every day... or, to see if the computer assigns you to be OMGClayAiken today.

Full hand histories available after 48 hours: we defeat datamining and bumhunting by the semi-anonymous table idea above. But, in order to allow the community to monitor for bots, collusion, superusers, players that have cracked the RNG, etc, we assign every player a unique and permanent ID number. All hand histories are available, with those ID numbers, 48 hours after the hand is played.

Random seating: Another thought would be to simply have the site assign seats for all cash games and SnGs rather than allowing us to game select and seat select. You want in a cash game? not a problem, just click-select the game/stakes and we'll put you in a seat (pretty much the same as what happens in live games). You want to play a SnG? not a problem, just click-select the game/stake and you'll be dropped into a game. A side note idea to this, you could add coding that allows players in cash games to request seat changes at the table.

+1 to the above. I think Unibet goes too far allowing you to change your name mid-session and potentially sit at two tables with the same player unbeknownst to him.

@Phil Galfond - I assume you're reading this. Whether you currently agree about allowing screenname changes or not, tell the architecture guy designing your system to have separate field for "username" and "screenname" - for 2 reasons:

1) you might change your mind later

2) Even if screen names are going to be fixed, they shouldn't be the same as the usernames. For security reasons you shouldn't have half of someone's username/password combo displayed at every table - if they have a guessable password or have used it on another site then they are at risk to a trivial kind of hack.

I highly doubt he is using an "architecture guy" to design his software to be honest.

Some sites simply allow hackers to change password once they hacked a email so passwords to be sent to phone not email.