As a lot of the discussion is on different currencies, has anyone noticed how good the exchange rates they give us actually are when cashing out into non-US? I must admit I've not paid it much attention. They could be giving interbank rates or they could be shafting me worse than the local travel agents for all I know!

Stars excange rates have been very fair so far in my case.

I just looked it up and their cashout page says they use "Reuters exchange rates", whatever that means exactly. Well, according to Reuters, as I type the exchange rate is $1.6268-1.6273 to £1. I'm only being given $1.6158 to buy. I'm not sure if this means they're taking the difference as a cut or simply that they only update the exchange rate occasionally (that value is pretty close to today's open). Unfortunately, I can't see the exchange rate offered to cashout to compare, but given they're offering exactly the same now as they were 20 minutes ago, it looks like the "irregularly updated" option. Even if not, it would still be a very good exchange rate.

PLEASE......

an option in requests - "Sitting out tables."

Then a list of tables where you are sitting out comes up.

+1

i want the avatar outlines to be black rather than silver. it looks way better. take a look for yourselves. go to change image and the example is black.

gee whiz does it look sleak.

Beta testing of Euro accounts is now open. If you wish to take part, email beta@pokerstars.com using the email address registered to your PokerStars account. Please allow up to 72 hours for a response.

The usual warnings about beta software apply, and we can't provide users with documentation or support in any language except English at the moment.

I have "show lobby images" unchecked, but the bottom of my lobby is filled with image and wcoop links regardless.

I need all that space clear so I can click on the lobby without clicking on stuff I don't want to when adding a couple more tables after I've had to close a couple.

Can you get rid of all that please?

If you switch to the Classic lobby the images should disappear. In the black lobby there is (intentionally) no way to hide to WCOOP promotional banner.

boooo

ok thanks anyway



btw, i hope you only do this during wcoop and not wsop esop ept and whatever else in the future

i like the black theme better and i would like to be able to use it again one day

ty

How about changing to a system for PL/NL where you can only buy in for exactly the specified amount for that table.This would only work if it would totaly replace the current system.

So if you want to buy in for :

20bb go to a 20bb buyin table
50bb go to a 50bb buyin table
100bb go to a 100bb buyin table

that way people can play shortstack if they want to but they wouldnt bother
the fullstack players.

Pretty please with sugar on top, stop enforcing those promotions (lobby images). I have no problem that they are on by default, but I chose to disable them and they're still in my face (although I don't mind Russo's image). Now I have to switch to the ugly classic lobby? Or stick to black lobby and don't accidentally click on any fo the images that starts my browser.

And just now, 10-tabling and was in a hand and I see Tournament popup for the WCOOP. Guess what, I had them disabled them too but still see the promotions. It distracts me when u show tournament popups on tables so stop doing that, please.

Apart from this, I'm very happy with PokerStars but take these 2 complaints into consideration for the next SCOOP,WCOOP, WSOP,EPT,.... events.

This is interesting...

I would appreciate a few HH files from the testing of the euro accounts. (So I can make sure they work with fpdb--see the software forum about fpdb) Drop me a pm and I'll reply with a pm of my email address.

thanks in advance

I can't provide you with hand histories unless you participated in the hands (company policy) but you're welcome to play in some of the Euro games to test.

That said, there are only two differences anyway:

'USD' is replaced with 'EUR'
'$' is replaced with '€'

Everything else should be the same. You could make a bunch of testing hand histories simply by doing a mass replace on the above.

Yeah Alex, I figured that you couldn't actually send me a HH, but I figured some public-spirited citizen could send me a couple of files. I don't mind getting them myself if US players can do the test. I don't play much holdem, so I'm not really a good candidate for testing.

thanks

For MTT's, is there any way you could put some kind of estimated finishing time in the tournament lobby? A while ago I listed all the tourneys I regularly play, and over a week or two, noted the finishing time for each one, so that I could plan out my playing schedule better. Most tournaments finished within an hour or two hour window, so I think you could give a decent estimation based on no. of players registered so far.

We're planning to show the 'typical duration' for SNGs (something we already do on PokerStars.it), so I see no reason why we shouldn't do that for MTTs too. However it's a major task to do this for thousands of tournaments, so it will take some time.

Yeah that's definitely a good idea. I find myself looking at the tournament's previous day to see about how long it runs. This would be much more convenient. Of course, it will take time. Good idea though.

Don't believe the hype on this forum pokerstars is so good. People that say that have probably never played anywhere else or simply no choice. I believed it and after trying the site for over 6 months and 1000s of tourneys I absolutely hate it now.

No, I am not loosing or anything, except my patience. Pokerstars really is the worst pokerroom I have played the past 7 years and I am just very disappointed with them.


This thread is useless unless pokerstars hires people that play poker themselves!

Let me give an example what happened at another pokerroom.
That had preselect buttons, but at certain blind levels these made it possible to raise less than one big blind. If you had already acted you couldn't raise again.
You guys understand how wrong that is and why that should be changed immediately, but it took the pokerroom years to come to that same conclusion.

I play a lot of poker. In fact, I write a monthly strategy column for Britain's top poker magazine ('InsidePoker'), and before I worked for PokerStars I played $10/$20 NLHE (and most other games, up to $40/$80 limit) to pay my way through university. I'm not alone - there are a lot of excellent poker players here at PokerStars, and that's always been one of our greatest strengths.

Is there anything else about PokerStars' software you don't like? If so, post it here - that's what this thread is for, constructive criticism and suggestions. Many of the ideas posted here have been implemented over the past year and a half, and if you have a good idea I'd love to hear it.

please make the add-on after 55 minutes of play.. the 1 hour was based on 1 hour increments of play, but with the new synchronized breaks we are now playing 55 min increments so it makes sense to make the add-on also happen on the 55 min..

thanks

I think the most urgent thing that's nagging at us is to find a way to fix your time banks.. make them start smaller and add on a few seconds with every level (or x mins, etc).. disconnections do happen and some tourney take many many hours to finish where some extra time would be helpful..

I agree that we need to look at the way the time bank behaves when a player is disconnected. However, we're definitely not going to have incremental increases in the time bank for tournaments - see my earlier post for more info on that.

5-Card Stud and A-5 Draw for 2010 please.