Opening new online poker room need your input for development! FREEROLL for help!

[MrHubbard]

I forgot

Also with the buddy lists and chat outside of the rooms. The programming will include a failsafe so that you cannot chat to anyone who is at the same table as yourself. If it becomes a security worry I may just have it for people not playing poker at the time of chatting. Thoughts on this would be appreciated.

Kevin

 

[kadafi]

Deposit that does not require sending your life history for withdrawal.

Thats the best bit of advice anyone can offer.

I recently had to send unbelievable amounts of information to make a withdrawel at a poker room. Things which included a passport, a scan of a card and a utility bill. Not to mention about 25 emails with customer care.

I say do all the identity verification at the moment of deposit or sign up.

It went through in the end but it was the most annoying process ive ever had to go through.

 

[pigpen02]

What ticked me off was that deposit was easy as pie, but the history to withdraw to the same card was "to prevent fraud". Giving it back to the same place can be fraud? Hmmmmmm.

 

[aliengenius]

One thing I hate about certain sites is that they add the bet you type in to the current bet/blind already posted. When I type in "400" I want to raise TO four hundred, not BY four hundred.

Also, please make sure you are following the standard rules of poker. Here are two that could easily be confused:

1. The amount of the raise is whatever remains after you add the call, and therefore, any RE-raise must be by THAT amount, NOT double the initial raise. For example, if blinds are 25/50, and player A opens for 175, player B can now RE-raise to 300 (175-50 = a raise of 125; 125 + 175 = 300). They do NOT have to raise to 350 (175 x2).

2. If a player in a NO limit game does not have enough to make a FULL raise, then their bet does NOT reopen the betting (please not that in LIMIT games that HALF the bet DOES re-open the betting). If a player goes all in for less than a full raise [see above for the amount that constitutes a raise] then action back to other players should only allow a call. For example, with blinds at 50/100 player A makes it 700 to go (a raise of 600) and player B calls. If player C then goes all in for 1,000 players A and B can ONLY CALL the remaining 400 (less than the full 600 required to reopen the betting) and can NOT reraise each other for purposes of isolating the short stack.

 

[Debi]

One thing I hate about certain sites is that they add the bet you type in to the current bet/blind already posted. When I type in "400" I want to raise TO four hundred, not BY four hundred.

And I thought it was just me - I hate that too.

 

[pigpen02]

This is great stuff keep it coming! In order to stop the spam accusations I THINK ITS BEST IF NOBODY LEAVES THEIR EMAIL ADDRESS!!! . This is not my intention for this post. Naive me never even considered that (probably why I get so much spam myself!) I only mentioned the freeroll as a thank you and couldn't think of a way to do that other than that way. Any suggestions?

If you really get a lot of help from Cardschat, I bet you could work with Nick to get a freeroll for contributors in this thread.

 

[Debi]

If you really get a lot of help from Cardschat, I bet you could work with Nick to get a freeroll for those contributors.

A huge one. Like a million dollars please lol.

 

[beardyian]

Deposit that does not require sending your life history for withdrawal.

Or a sneaky 'have not played required minimum hands etc

What ticked me off was that deposit was easy as pie, but the history to withdraw to the same card was "to prevent fraud". Giving it back to the same place can be fraud? Hmmmmmm.

Always confuzzled by that one


Also an Ultimate Bet style knock out any no-shows in Tournements instead of having sit-outs hanging around for ages

 

[pigpen02]

I like the removal of non-seated players in freerolls after the first level. I can see letting people who paid for their seat stay, but FRWs make serious play a problem when they clog the tables. One level gives people time to get in if they registered but just missed the start by a few minutes.

 

[NoWuckingFurries]

Another important thing is for it to show all times in my local time (GMT)

 

[pigpen02]

It would be good to have histories that you could see after you got moved to a new table in a tournament.

I prefer histories that show the cards at the table instead of text.

Player notes and colored dots or such to show various levels of fishiness.

 

[NoWuckingFurries]

Please ensure that when people are given the option to rebuy after they lose all their chips, that the decision is forced very quickly. It's annoying to be at a bodog table and all be kept waiting around for over a minute, when the person involved has probably gone down downstairs to kick the cat, and has no intention of rebuying - that's poor coding...

 

[jp814]

Micro limit 5 card draw!

 

[robwhufc]

As for the budget half a million is not compulsary for a poker site to be up and running but I won't go into my own finances. My business partner is a very experienced software developer and web designer and we will be doing a lot of the ground work ourselves. Suffice to say the budget will be depending on the return on the investment I have no limit as of yet. As in any business its best to have a plan of action BEFORE you begin and know your objectives for features etc before the site is put into full production. Every feature that is decided to be planned into the site costs time and therefore money so the reason I am doing this is to set priorities on which features I definitely want in V1.

Good luck Kevin, but a new start up poker site would usually have a program manager, 3 or 4 project managers, a lead architect, a few senior achitects and a few junior architects, a handful of consultants, project office staff, lead coders and coding managers, coders, test manager, test leads, test analysts, release managers, and release analysts. You've got a friend that's a bit handy on a PC!? You'll need to set up a company,get an office for your staff, get investment backing, find a host server strong enough to deal with the traffic, get a gaming licence etc etc and etc - I would have thought that deciding whether or not to have rabbit hunting would be a decision to make when you are 95% through the set up process.

If you are legit and i have underestimated you, my suggestions would be;

- making it as easy to withdraw as it is to deposit.
- have no minimum withdrawal (or at least, don't have a minimum withdrawal amount which is more than the minimum deposit amount).
- being able to withdraw an odd amount of cents
- being licenced by a legitimate and trustworthy authority
- have your Random Card Generator audited by a legitimate company.
- randomly monitor chat history and take action on all the trash talker that know how to get round censors by typing sh1t etc.

 

[arkeymedus]

How about player points MTT's and even player points ring games...

 

[Jagsti]

Hopefully this is a legit thread so here goes, you could look at most of the leading sites and take the best bits form them:

Stars: slick software/graphics, excellent customer services, strong Free Player point system, excellent deposit/withdrawal facilities, variety of games, and huge customer base.

Party: Lots of fish and horrendously slow software that should be avoided like a hole in the head , Bad beat jackpot.

FTP: Good graphics and excellent instant hand history, good deposit bonus.

as for my own requirement, I would like the site to be of the highest integrity that is constantly audited by a leading name.

Excellent lobby for navigation, really adventurous deposit bonuses which allow rakeback affiliates, relevent Free Player Points.

Lastly I really think you should offer me a Super User account so I can check on all the CC players and show them all how to play Real Poker .

 

[Snowman1964]

Sort out your marketing and advertising budget. Pick 3 or 4 top poker mags and run full page ads for 6 months. Each magazines marketing director will give plenty of advice and that could be priceless.
A budget of $500,000 in today's market wont even scratch the surface I'm afraid. You've got to look at something in the order of $3 or $4 million if you're serious. I know an excellent corporate lawyer who's familiar with this sector, he's expensive but worth the money. Contact me privately for his details and I'll happily pass them on.
Hope this helps.

 

[blankoblanco]

good luck on this incredibly difficult endeavor. this sounds obvious, but you're really, really going to have to give people good incentive to try your site out and even better incentive to stick around, all while maintaining profitable. it will be close to impossible, but the potential rewards for success are, well, impossibly huge. pokerstars, full tilt, and party poker all have so many loyal users that it will be difficult to tear people away. i will say that if you can draw casual fishy players (ease of depositing would be big for this), other players will likely follow

 

[gembob13]

I second the calls for ease of withdrawl, and availability to US players. To add to that maybe the ability to deposit with mastercard cc or debit, a lot of times sites only accept visa. Good luck!

 

[NoWuckingFurries]

Does it really matter whether you believe it or not, surely it is interesting to discuss what we like about the different existing sites and what we would like to see in a new site? The guy didn't ask you to sort his life out for him, or to run his business for him, just what you would like to see in a new poker site!

 

[K_Kahne_Fan]

Does it really matter whether you believe it or not, surely it is interesting to discuss what we like about the different existing sites and what we would like to see in a new site? The guy didn't ask you to sort his life out for him, or to run his business for him, just what you would like to see in a new poker site!

Agreed. It's funny how some have to be cynical about everything, but that's how the world works. Personally, if his site never comes to be, I just looked at this thread as a "wish list" of the perfect site. Who knows, maybe one of the big sites will take note of this thread and try implementing some of these ideas on their site. The OP no longer wants personal info, so just roll with it guys.

 

[AlexeiVronsky]

I'd like there to be a superuser account you can just use my username and password for it.

 

[rick32]

freeroll times

if you plan on having freerolls i would suggest 5 to 8 min rds.i know for myself and im sure i speak for alot of people,i hate playing tournys that take like 7 hrs.it also helps if u keep tourny max players to 1000 to 2000. 5000 and 10000 player tournys take way to long. most people get bored and just start playing anything.im sure you like us all have gotten beat by some guy going allin every hand and you catch aces and he hits a str8 with his 3 4 offsuit...lol.......and he is only doing it cause hes bored and been playing for 5 hrs.....just some things to keep in mind........gl with your site hope to play there some day..

 

[agentmax]

What about an ATM Debit card that is linked to the account so that your members can use it to deposit to their casino account as well as for withdrawal from their account. And make sure that the debit card has many funding options.

 

[B-TownRounder]

I like Avatars; Full Tilt has the best graphics/avatars

If you are in the middle of a hand and get disconnected keep you in the hand so you are able to win what you put in up to that point; don't give the person an extra 2 minutes (or whatever it is) to come back like Full Tilt..it's annoying waiting for people every 5 minutes!

You need to be able to see your folded cards by holding the mouse over your name (also where people are from)

You should be able to get your money out without having to wait a century

You should have a lobby that can be easily navigated; like Full Tilt's but you should be able to narrow your choices down more when looking for something specific

Allow notes to be put on other players....and it would be cool if you could be alerted when they sit at a table (almost like a buddy list I guess)

No rabbit hunting (maybe in heads up). The hands take long enough with people wasting time making decisions. If you do allow rabbit hunting maybe let each person get 1 an hour or something stupid like that

I think that's it!