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Today, I had an interesting experience,
I ran a 1k free roll for the other poker community site that I'm focused on (we're going to run something for PL as well quite soon); and there were 93 runners. Late registration was for an hour, so I was still helping stragglers get into the tournament and I had opened about 6 random tables to follow the action. In about 30 mins about half the field was gone and by a little bit past the hour, we were already in the money with 30 players left.
Now there is a messaging system that I can use to message the players, the problem is that it messages all of my players; including those who are playing in the Freeroll tournament and not. My initial intent was simply to announce the where the auto muck button was and say thanks for playing. I am sure there is some way to message within the chat box of that tournament , but I simply wished to give out a single message.
THE EYE IN THE SKY
For Hero Poker and all Merge software poker clients, it has the ability to show animated smiley faces and other very lol type of animations (like a panda bear doing a victory dance-hard to explain) and when the players type in text, it pops up like cartoon speech box. Now for a serious grinder, these have no value at all, but since it was a freeroll, people were just trash talking each other and I could see all their conversations pop up on each table. So sometimes they would ask a question to the table about the client or something; and then I'd send out a message that answered it. Now, the players at first did not know I was observing all the tables, and so after I made the comment; someone would point that out, 'Oh, CEO Dave just answered that question'.
MUCKING AROUND
After a bit of time, I noticed that some players were really trash talking hard and there was one player who had this really offensive sexist screen name and there was a girl at the table, but she took it as a joke. But I ended up messaging everyone that the guy player with the sexist name was now restricted from chatting to women on the site. It got some chuckles, but then the players were like, is Dave observing the tables, then they starting to ask a few more random questions and I would answer them as if it was coming from above. It was just pretty funny in general.
I didn't keep cracking jokes because, (i) I'm not a funny guy, (ii) I didn't want to distract the other players on the site as well, but in the end I watched the entire freeroll for 2 hours and did some live updates on the forum as if I was some pokernews staff at a live event.
A LIVE POKER ROOM EXPERIENCE OF SORTS
The entire experience reminded me when I had started two poker rooms in Macau and simply getting to know the players, and because many of the players had PMed me before the tournament I did feel as though I did know them all and it was a bit unreal watching a nearly 100 person tournament and knowing everyone. I mean some local tournament directors of live rooms do know hundreds of their players, but for online, I don't think so.
There really is no clear business point to this post, other than I thought it would be fun to run commentary throughout at tournament and really interact with the players as they are playing, but that would only be possible in a freeroll, otherwise I think it would be annoying as hell. Additionally, if there was live commentary on those high stakes online games, or online final tables, on a more regular basis, I think it would be something different to consider in adding to this concept of a boutique poker site.
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Spicy United States. Mar 30 2011 03:08. Posts 1027 | | |
Sounds like you're taking really good care of your players 
Keep up the good work, I'll definitely consider putting money on HeroPoker over any other network skin if I feel like getting away from PS or FTP |
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SIG1 United States. Mar 30 2011 03:26. Posts 651 | | |
so i played almost 100 sngs and am fairly pleased with the software. However, my one complaint is that the color of the cards are almost the same color as the background and it makes it pretty difficult to tell whos in the hand especially when you're playing many tables. Also, a leaderboard for sngs would be nice with prizes. If you had that, i might fully switch over from absolute poker to your site. |
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Cheers guys
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@ Seobombisgay, I'll look into that right away about the sng leaderboard; as far as the cards and table background,
you can change the default cards by going to the top right of the game screen where it says 'mini' and then clicking on that and going down to the bottom 'custom colours' and just changing the cards directly(or whatever else). Sorry I know it's not the best solution, but it the easiest one I can give you at the moment, and I believe you only need to do it once. But I will make a note to change the default colours of the cards in the future.
Thanks,
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something i noticed is the scrolling wheel isn't very stable (it works sometimes, but not others.. sometimes you have to click right on the slider to activate it, other times it just works.
sorta important imo. also, yeah, it is sort of difficult to try to keep up with whose turn it is when you're playing a few tables. have only been playing play-money so far, but have timed out tons of times. |
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