pokerstars stefan,

I can confirm that this bug still exists. My internet is iffy, and connection can become poor.

It is most frustrating to see the network attempting to reconnect, successfully reconnect, then see the hands going by and I am kicked off a great seat having missed 3 blinds. All the while being at the table.

It is EVEN MORE FRUSTRATING to have the network reconnect and having two of my tables play fine, while the best table will NOT let me back in. No options available except a small box on left "Fold to any bet".

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Note taking needs some serious work/thought.............

IF PS just does not want players to take notes, then remove the feature. But it is extremely poor to have players typing like madmen into the notebox only to find that the note is actually now a chat message at either another random table, OR at the table wth the player you were taking a note on.

FTP fixed this ages ago, so it must just be that PS does not care.

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a temporary solution is to watch what the table name is, close it and re-open it from the lobby, you will still be seated and can play the hand if you reconnect quick enough.

3 Suggestions, I dont know if 2 have been mentioned before, pretty sure 1 has:

1. Make news popup when you log on optional
- What happens is if you get disconnected during a session this annoying thing pops up over all your tables right at the point where you need to sort out your tables after the disconnection - really annoying.

2. Allow us to colour tag players when our timebank is running
- So what happens is say I want to tag a player red which is my "fish" colour. I go to do so but on another table my ahk script auto clicks the time bank for me. When that happens the stars software wont let me apply the colour tag. Now I understand the reasoning for this might be that I should be concentrating on the other table and not on tagging so as not to slow the games down for other players. However all that happens is I have to go sort out the tables then come back and apply the note, during which time another table might need a decision that gets delayed and so on so forth - so I end up delaying MORE tables than I would if I could just apply the tag in the first place!

3. Unregister all button
- Im sure this has been mentioned before, just wanted to throw it in again!

They should just make it a once a day news popup. The first time I log in to Stars I get the popup. Every other time that day there shouldnt be one.

Maybe once month the news popup actually interests me so I probably dont want to turn it off for good.

This thread seems to be just a bunch of whining multi-tablers. It is not Stars responsibility to make it easy for you to play more tables than you can keep up with.

I don't think we have anything to worry about but still: http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/18/r...fectiveness-o/

give us more colors plz. currently those colors aren't enough for me categorize my opponents.

+1

shouldn't be too hard to implement note colors as a variable lenght list. 8 colors may too many for some and not enough for some others.

Optional cap for 40-100bb tables???

^^ dont know if anybody has ever suggested this or if stars has ever considered it... some people dont like to play deep >100bb and the guys who buy in for 40bb like myself at times would want to know if its possible to have an optional CAP on our original buy in... stars has the option of auto top up but what about auto cap??


^^ suggestion is all it is, i know 2+2 will flame me but had to do it...

Please add the option to display the Bonus Status on the VIP Club Progress Bar ...

Like Next Bonus Increment, Full Bonus etc. ...

If you look on the menus, you can customize them.

Having a CAP option at regular no limit tables is actually a great idea.

In my opinion there are a few critical parts of the feature that need to be included. The CAP option at regular no limit tables needs to be 100BB CAP annnnnd if you select the 100BB CAP you must top-up to 100BB every single hand or it sits you out. Forget this 20-40BB short/mid stack junk. *this mandatory 100BB top-up every hand will all of a sudden have almost every seat playing 100BB effective stacks at most tables* The recreational players will have the 100BB CAP option selected and be topping up, creating 100BB effective stack every hand. And the regs will be playing 100BB+ effective stacks as they already do. All of a sudden all of the silly weird short stacks people play by not topping up will disappear.

Stars and players are starting to see the light about having the player pools separated too much. Get everyone back into the same no limit player pool by having an optional CAP feature. Just make the feature a full 100BB option with mandatory top-up. No more separated player pools. No more games filled with people letting their stacks dwindle down. No more watching the recreational players kinda hit and run because they won a big pot and are afraid to stay at table because they are too deep.

I'm almost brought to tears about the joy of having every single seat at the table at an effective stack of 100BB or better every single hand. Abolish 20BB CAP tables. Get everyone back into the same player pool with an appropriately set 100BB CAP option. SERIOUSLY this is a great idea, it is a major win-win.

I tile tournaments, and I would love to have the line in the Info box that says "Your current position is x of y" to be updated after every hand, as are all the other numbers in that box.

It would be great to do a quick scan and see where I stand in all of my tournaments.

Tiny and possibly even dumb detail I noticed. What is the point of having both these buttons? Will the world explode if I press the wrong one?

40-100bb cap though.... ladybruin not everybody wantns to play 100bb just like not everyone wants to play deep(250bb)... all i know is that most of the guys playing cap or short stack regular games have tried 20bb cap and hated it and most lose so its a horrible game imo where only the server wins and it will be pretty short term

40-100bb optional cap ftw!!!

Yeah, this is not fixed and it's completely unacceptable. I can see cards being dealt and bets being made in real-time, so I'm clearly not disconnected, yet it will not allow me to take actions and sits me out. I can still access everything else on the internet during these times, so the problem is not my connection.

Unfortunately I'm not nearly a good enough player to overcome this disadvantage, so my volume of play on Stars has been reduced to a very small amount (I had around 300k vpp's each of the last two years).

I want to play more poker on your site and pay you more rake. Please fix this so that I can.

I noticed once tonight when this was happening it popped up a dialog box that said "NOSIT" with just an OK button. Maybe that can help the developers track down the problem?

I'm not understanding this. I don't have this problem that you are talking about and I have literally tens of thousands of players that I have notes on. PS note taking ability is far superior to Full Tilt. Have you ever tried to copy a players screen name so that you can OPR on Full Tilt? You have to painfully go through the lobby (only way i know of anyway). On Stars you just copy and paste directly from the table.

I am relatively new to FT, so it is possible there are some features that I am not aware of.

I was wondering the same thing. Doesn't appear to be the case since its practically right on top of us.

Exothermic,

20-40BB CAP is an aberration that should have never existed in the first place on PS/FTP.

The normal way of describing a no limit table is 100BB of the big blind, for example, $0.10-$0.25 is called $25NL. People see and understand that. So in keeping with that example, offering people the option to play $25 CAP (100BB) at the table or regularly would be easily understood and a pop-up would tell them the CAP feature is only available if you top-up to 100BB if you fall below.

The player pool issue is really starting to hit home with people. Every time I hear some poker site saying they are going to create something new, I pray that it isn't something that splits the player pool. Stars already recently took the step to consolidate the PLO player pool. They need to get rid of 20BB CAP in no limit too but create this new idea I suggested. Their would riots if they created a 20-50BB CAP option at regular tables. You can't unleash 20-50 CAPpers at the regular tables, it needs to be 100BB.

Also, let me give you an example of something I've seen many times. A recreational player loses a buy-in then re-buys, loses another buy-in then re-buys and finally triples up to be exactly even. He is exactly even but leaves the table because he is sitting with an uncomfortable deep stack of 300BB. He leaves not because he wants to leave but because his stack is too deep. And the other players at the table are sad to see this loose break even/losing recreational player leave too. Just have an optional 100BB CAP option at regular tables with a mandatory top-up.

Get everyone back into the same player pool. Plus have an optional CAP feature for recreational players. It is a win-win for the health and future of no limit.

I agree with you about splitting the player pool. This is a big problem with STTs. For example, at the $1 level you can play 6-max or 9-max, turbo or regular, and 3 different formats (regular, knockout, Fifty/50). Now there is talk of adding hyperturbos at the lower levels.

Like everyone else, I have my favorite formats. I loved the DONs. And since I play a lot of large-field tournaments and don't get a lot of FPPs, and it might be nice to be able to throw in a few hyper STTs to bump up to the next VIP level once in a while.

But everyone can't have what they want if there is going to be a decent number of players in each pool. At the very least, put a moratorium on new games or formats or games for the rest of the year.

Would it be possible to have the ability to export all of the settings within the client to a file (i.e. filter settings, bet slider sizes, prefered seat, hand history location, etc) so that if you have to reinstall your OS or something, you can just reimport the file afterwards and restore everything to the way you like it? Would this be difficult to do? Thanks

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