Ideas for new poker site.
Rabbit hunting, slows down play, so to allow it I would make it cost the player in a cash game, 1 penny if it was a 5-10 cent game, which goes into the current or next pot. Naturally if its a 1 dollar 2 dollar game it should cost around 10 cents. This is just for cash games.
For tournaments the cost of seeing a rabbit hunt should just be added to tournament prize pool.
My idea was a 1 or 2 dollar and 10000 fake chip player tournament, so to enter it takes
real money and fake player chips, with the tournament being a knockout tournament, where you get half the buy in for knocking out a player. So if buy in is 1 dollar and 10000 chips you get 50 cent and 5000 fake chips for knocking anyone out. Total players 250.
Other ideas, is attach a sports results section to the website, filled with updates on recent sports events like baseball, Nascar, and football, with articles made by the website, If you need someone to help write articles I will gladly write on football and Nascar. Adding sports info can help draw people and members to website because it will allow you to get update on sports scores and play cards at same time.
A current news section as well.
Cant have private chat, while people can still Im one another you dont want your website providing the means to cheat, it could result in the site being blamed or implicated wrongly.
Avatars, in my mind they are not needed, I think it makes people feel like their not playing with real money, though lack of one can make a poker site look cheap, its 50/50.
VERY LOW STAKES TOURNAMENTS AND CASH GAMES- the other websites wont put more than a couple weekly 10 cent tournaments, the reasoning is to push people into the more expensive tournaments, which if they had more 10 cent tournaments multiple times every day the amount of players with a short or small
bankroll would play in more real games, thus they would draw in more income from players who dont have enough to play in larger tournaments so they dont play in any.
Multi table play, try to program in a way that wont kick u from table to table before you even get to play a hand. On FT in some tournaments you might never leave the table, but in same tournament next day you could bounce around so much that you might get at most 4
hands from any one table, it is unfair, you barely get to figure out how the table is playing before you are bounced.
Also 9 handed sit and go's need a 50 cent and 1 dollar non turbo nl hold em games.
Additionally in full tilt on a 9 handed sng you start with 1500 chips and a blind of 30/60- you should instead start with 2000 chips, 1500 is too little it is designed to make the tables run faster but all it does is make it less fun to play because it makes hand selection complicated and betting make you pot committed. For example raise 4 times the blind, is 240 that leaves you 1260, that is 16 percent of your chipstack, bet another 240 and you have committed 30 percent of you chips.
Instead it it were 2000, you bet 240 it leaves u 1760, only a 12 percent raise. It makes for better and more realistic play, rather than a game where the strategy has become to not play any hands and wait for people who bet to go broke, or wait till the blinds slowly eleminate people, and only play huge hands.
Another idea is a freeroll ranking board, it would encourage regular play.
MOST IMPORTANT THING, LIMIT OBSERVER CHAT- Observer chat on FT is annoying, it mostly is to pester people, if observer chat is allowed they should be limited to just two sentences per 5 minutes, or even less, maybe none. A good example I saw an observer call Phil ivey the N word a dozen times in a row, probably just to see if it would affect his play or to provoke a response, while I know phil has observer chat off, and this observer likely got a chat ban eventually, the observer should not have been able to do that in the first place. Another idiot observer I saw type USAUSAUSAUSAUSA, nonstop during the ftops tournment. Or how about the ever annoying can someone loan or give me 5 dollars, typed a hundred times a minute, by not just one but dozens of observers.
While you can turn observer chat off, many people do not and it is not uncommon to see observers calling cards, telling people they should call, fold, or raise, and or overall doing things that may/do affect play. If you turn off observer chat you wont notice when observers are helping players at the table.
This would stop observer scrolling the same thing over and over, or from begging at the big games, and it would stop obervers from being abusive repetitively.
Lastly when a player goes broke at a table they should be allowed only 1 minute to type anything they have to say like gg, or whatever, players on full tilt in tournaments will go broke get angry and just hound players from the rail, in a casino they would likely be removed and banned for life but online the greedy poker rooms, just decide we will ban their chat for 3 months, so we can continue to make money from them.