FTP New Software - 'Synchronized Breaks'

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This caught me by surprise today during the 3R Donkament but it's actually a pretty useful feature that Full Tilt implemented. I'll highlight the information they put out regarding the new feature.

"Playing in more than one Multi-Table Tournament at the same time can make it difficult to take advantage of individual tournament breaks. With full tilt poker's new Synchronized Breaks, you'll have the chance to "take 5" out of every hour of tournament play without missing a hand.
How Synchronized Breaks Work

Synchronized Breaks will take place at 55 minutes past every hour. For example, if a Tournament starts at 10:15 ET, the tournament clock will stop at 10:55 ET and all hands currently being played will be completed before the break starts. This will ensure that players at tables that finish their hands before all tables have completed their last hand won't miss any of the current blind level. The tournament will then resume exactly five minutes after all tables have completed their hands. This will result in most tournaments resuming at slightly different times. The next Synchronized Break will then take place at 11:55 ET."


Basically this allows MTTers who are playing multiple tables the chance to take a break every hour without worrying about multiple tables.


Here's the link - [old link~tb]
 
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that actually sounds pretty neat. credit to FT for having a good idea for once.
 
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This is a great idea for multi-MTT players

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Full Tilt is something right :) thanks for the info:)
 
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Very useful

Played there today and was in 2 tourneys at the same time. Excellent for bathroom breaks:)
 
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Haven't read the details @ the link...any idea if this applies to private games as well? And it says MTTs, so then is that all MTTs including both scheduled and SNG MTTs? I'm assuming single table SNGs are out since they aren't MTTs at all.

But yeah, sounds like it could be an interesting feature overall.
 
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Does sound like a good idea. Too bad the update basically ruined cash games.
 
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This is a better link:
[old link~tb]
Please note that Synchronized Breaks will not occur in the following cases:
  • Tournaments that are running but still open for late registration
  • Tournaments still within the first blind level
  • Turbo Tournaments still within the first two blind levels
  • Sit & Go Tournaments with less than 30 players
 
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In the freerolls it's annoying! they start at 40 after then 15 min in a break! Thanks, I was exhausted lol. Well I suppose since the new 1K turbo started at 10 min after we may see a shift in all of them.
 
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Haha I posted the OP about synchronized breaks then I go to the bathroom because the Tourney Info says <1 min til break when thats actually just the Add-On period. So I missed the Add-On and came back to the start of the actual break.

Applause please?
 
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Deep tables separate thus don't run thus have to play with shortstackers :(.

I completely disagree that this ruined cash games. First, it doesn't change anything significant (that I've noticed) about deep stack cash games. All they did was replace "(deep)" with a deep icon and separate them (but that's not much different than the PS filter for deep tables). That's highly unlikely to change the frequency at which people play at them. Whatever you're noticing is probably just a short term fluxuation probably due to people checking out new features.

But more important is the added ante tables. Sure, they're only optional at the higher limits, but eventually I expect to see them at lower limits if they catch on and I'd love to see how a deep stack & ante table plays. I'm not sure how I feel about the cap tables though. I'm still hoping for an update with new games like draw games or the PS 8-game.
 
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I don't like the 'Synchronized Breaks' because I registered for a tourney, then 10 mins later it was the first break. I found that annoying.
 
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I completely disagree that this ruined cash games. First, it doesn't change anything significant (that I've noticed) about deep stack cash games.

it did change one significant aspect: deep tables pretty much don't run anymore. 5 deep FR tables running at 200nl vs. 40+ for regular ones. 2 deep FR tables running at 400nl vs. 20+ for regular ones. They pretty much killed the best feature on their site. Totally retarded move by FTP, imo.
 
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I don't like the 'Synchronized Breaks' because I registered for a tourney, then 10 mins later it was the first break. I found that annoying.

Annoying cuz you had to take a break? What about if you're in 5 MTTs at the same time? Can't you see how much better this is? (oh.. maybe it's just an extra post for the freeroll pw... my mistake.. sorry.. what was I thinking?).
I always just thought that the 'Gatorade Bottle' (empty of course) was the 'feature' most multi-MTT players used by choice? This is going to put a huge dent into Gatorade sales imo!!
 
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Can you explain what you mean here?.. .I don't get it.

the new lobby is organized in a way that the deep tables for a given stake are grouped together below all the regular tables of the same stake. So recreational players don't see them, and since regs can't just be playing each other, it's more or less impossible to start the deep tables anymore. So 90+% of the tables running now on FTP are regular tables, and it's becoming a shortstack pushbotting ratholers' heaven.

In other words, there is no more fun in playing poker there.

In other words, 50bb min tables on pokerstars are now the best option for people who want to play multistreet poker.

In other words, shortstackers will move towards FTP, deepstacking regs will move to PS, and the enjoyability of FTP game will go down the drain, so the fishes will leave too and cash games at FTP will die.
 
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I don't play FT much but was this really needed? How many people really want/need synchonized breaks? I'll give them credit though for trying something new and different from other sites.
 
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I actually don't like synchronized breaks. I liked how it was before, and I was very used to it. If you get on a roll and all of the sudden you have a break in every tournament, it could possibly hurt you.

I don't really like this and the matrix tournaments they have. I'll give them credit for coming up with new ideas though to make their site different from other sites.
 
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More on FT new update

This caught me by surprise today during the 3R Donkament but it's actually a pretty useful feature that Full Tilt implemented. I'll highlight the information they put out regarding the new feature.

"Playing in more than one Multi-Table Tournament at the same time can make it difficult to take advantage of individual tournament breaks. With Full Tilt Poker's new Synchronized Breaks, you'll have the chance to "take 5" out of every hour of tournament play without missing a hand.
How Synchronized Breaks Work

Synchronized Breaks will take place at 55 minutes past every hour. For example, if a Tournament starts at 10:15 ET, the tournament clock will stop at 10:55 ET and all hands currently being played will be completed before the break starts. This will ensure that players at tables that finish their hands before all tables have completed their last hand won't miss any of the current blind level. The tournament will then resume exactly five minutes after all tables have completed their hands. This will result in most tournaments resuming at slightly different times. The next Synchronized Break will then take place at 11:55 ET."


Basically this allows MTTers who are playing multiple tables the chance to take a break every hour without worrying about multiple tables.


Here's the link - [old link~tb]http://w.fulltiltpoker.com/synchron...0b2tlbj1WSlBLOEFOVVhLVEtBWVBSTlZQTkU-&brand=1

I thought I would post here what FTPDoug has posted on Two Plus Two for those who don't venture off to that Forum.
If your on dialup this is huge. And a few Q and A from FTPDoug
New this update:

A. Blinds + Antes games - No Limit Hold'em and Pot Limit Omaha with antes! Limited to higher stakes only for now, but it should work down to the lower limits in the coming weeks.
Not to sure about this, could be good. Interesting atleast. With that being said i'm going to give them a go when they are down a few levels.

B. Ring Game Lobby Icons - No, it's not ring game filters. It is, however, a step closer to that goal (some of the plumbing that is needed for filters is now done because of this feature). For now, you can sort by ring game type better than you could before. For example, Deep tables used to be mixed in with normal tables, and now if you sort by "Type" they are separated.

C. Synchronized Breaks - Basically, every multi table tournament in the game will now start going on break at :55 past every hour. The tournament clock will stop, the current hand will finish, and then the 5 minute break will start. This means that the actual restart of all tournaments will be slightly staggered (since the tournament with more players take longer to finish that final hand before the break than the tournaments with fewer players) but most people will have a good 5 minute break now no matter how many multi-table tournaments they're playing.
The Tournament players have hit GOLD!

D. Improved Network Communication - Even though this isn't a "feature" that you can see when you log in, this is probably the thing that will make the biggest difference in everyone's day to day playing experience. Basically, the way the game client communicates with the server has been completely re-written. It's easiest to notice the difference when you flip back and forth between, say, the Hold'em and Omaha lobbies or when you open a very large tournament like the Double Deuce. What used to take an annoyingly long time is now much faster. The worse your internet connection is, the more of a difference you'll notice.
Big help for me

E. Anti-Ratholing in Limit Games - The same check we've always had for NL games is now being applied to limit games. If you leave a game with more than the minimum buyin, you can't re-join the game with less than that amount within 30 minutes (or 30 hands, whichever comes sooner).
This is good, Congratulations to FT for finally adding this.


Question: In order to promote responsible gambling please allow self banning from stakes of your choice. For example, I want to only be able to play 10nl and lower.
FTPDoug: We'll look into the possibility, but it's not on the radar at the moment and wouldn't be for a good while.

Question: Although you say there are distant plans to add 2-7 triple draw, how distant are they? and do you plan on add all draw games (i.e. 5 card draw, 2-7 triple and single, A-5 triple)?
FTPDoug: When I say "distant plans" that means the end of the year would be the earliest we would see that thing. More likely 2010. Our current pipeline of projects will take us to nearly the end of the year, so if a particular request isn't in that current pipeline, that's when I start saying things like "distant plans."

That being said, when we do add triple draw, we will very likely add other draw games, yes.

Question: "platinum" iron man for 1k points a day, or something equivalent?
FTPDoug: No plans for this. We do have some distant plans (oh no!) for a bigger rewards system for our "bigger" players.

Question: How about private cash tables?
FTPDoug: I've always liked this idea. I've got a few ideas about this, myself. It certainly won't be any time soon, but you know, distant plans...
 
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I thought I would post here what FTPDoug has posted on Two Plus Two for those who don't venture off to that Forum.
If your on dialup this is huge. And a few Q and A from FTPDoug

D. Improved Network Communication - Even though this isn't a "feature" that you can see when you log in, this is probably the thing that will make the biggest difference in everyone's day to day playing experience. Basically, the way the game client communicates with the server has been completely re-written. It's easiest to notice the difference when you flip back and forth between, say, the Hold'em and Omaha lobbies or when you open a very large tournament like the Double Deuce. What used to take an annoyingly long time is now much faster. The worse your internet connection is, the more of a difference you'll notice.

Dunno about this one. Seems to me that I've had connection problems ever since the latest update and before that I could count on one hand the number of times I d/c from a table. Also, when that huge turbo FR started up it locked my FT, had to end task it. Twice. Third time it did finally work. My connection is a 20meg/20meg FIOS connection so there should never be any connection issues.

As for the deep tables, I don't see where it makes a difference. It's not like the casual player who didn't want to play deep stacks would join the table. If they clicked on it accidentally I'm pretty sure they just left without actually buying in. You're still going to get all the same players at those tables you had before.
 
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