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Originally Posted by angry_man
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Originally Posted by George Lind III
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Originally Posted by angry_man
When tournaments for which you have registered fill up, there is a pause as the new table is opened. This is very annoying whilst multitabling as it interferes with the action on the table you are acting on. Would it be possible for the new tables to open in the background instead?
they've said this was impossible before as it is something that windows does, not stars, but it would be absolutely amazing if someone could come up with a fix for this.
Damn. I had a feeling that was the case, but no harm asking.
Hmm, now I'm on 2p2 I was gonna post about this myself, but seems the question is already out there, and like many computer problems, the answer has come back "Blame Windows".
I may be pretty new to 2p2, but been a stars player for quite a long while, and played nearly 10,000 tourneys in various formats over the years, so not exactly a johnny-come-lately.
So, picture this, familiar to many I'm sure. I register for a 'set' of 25 turbo DoNs, (and like most people with that volume, I stack, not tile or cascade) so obv most are well into the action by the time the last few fill up. You then get three or four tables not yet started suddenly pop up in front of the one that demands action. You can spend ages fighting against the new tables opening up, frantically Alt+Tab-ing through to find the table you want, by which time action is on you on several more tables, and you'll probably time out and sit out on one or two of them, which come to the front as well, denying access to the next one needing action etc. etc. and it's a vicious circle. By the time I get all 25 open and ensure I'm not sitting out any more on them, I'm already tilting furiously like a bar-steward at the stupidity of it cos somewhere I probably min-bet AA in a rush rather than have it autofold and now have five callers who were given excellent value to call preflop, and I'm now effectively set-mining the best starting hand in the book
SO, what about a possible solution............ Windows triggers the bring-to-front manœuvre when the table window is created by the last registering person filling the tourney, so why not cheat Windows? Why can't there be written into the Stars software, a feature to hold closed new tables that are about to launch even though the SNG has filled up, until you have a gap in action, and you can then choose when YOU want to fire them all up, by pressing a button which will open any new tables. You know you've regged for them and that they'll be there waiting, but it's about a minute between seating and first cards dealt, so plenty of time to find a spot to hit the "Launch" button. Perhaps with an option to toggle on/off in the main lobby for people who pre-reg scheduled MTTs or wait on cash tables and won't necessarily know when they will be available.
Which brings me to the finish of tourneys....... Why oh why when the tournament ends do they have to pop to the front again, when tables have fewer players and action is coming round faster, while the decisions are becoming ever more important? I guess someone will say "MS Windows" again, but surely this is because you get the 3D box which comes up telling you either you won, or got knocked out in
x-th place. Well, I'm still playing a couple dozen other tables, and either way I have no more actions on this one, so right now I don't give a damn. Once again, surely once again we can cheat Windows, just lose the line which say "produce (annoying) 3D object" and then the empty table won't come to the front. Cos if I was only 1-tabling, well I saw it anyway, and if I'm multitabling, well I have more important things to worry about, because poker is a game about decisions not results. I can then close the windows when I finish my set, or once again, introduce a button which you can press at your leisure, which says "Close all finished tables".
Now I don't know how feasible this suggestion is, but I'd either like to see this attempted, or a pretty good reason why it can't be? CBA is not a good reason, cos there are clearly plenty of people who would like to see something done about this.
Sorry for essay....
Short version below, but wanted to describe properly
Cliff notes
1) Multi tabling SNG-ers to be able to choose when to launch a new table by hitting a button
2) On/off toggle for above to cater for scheduled MTT and those on cash game wait list
3) Get rid of the code which brings up a 3D box on a table where you have no further decisions
4) A button to close the above tables, again at the time of choice of the SNG-er