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

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Make your software ALT+ ready

Check = ALT+C
Call = ALT+Y
Fold = ALT+F
Raise = ALT+R
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I am more inclined to think that he found out that he couldn't do this after all because he had not thought through the financial aspect properly. It would take a millionaire to pull this off and even then he had better be willing to risk it all for a potential loss.

I had a good friend attempt this a few years ago before all the troubles ever started. It didn't take him long at all to figure out that it was impossible to do without a bucket full of money.

I probably wouldn't waste any time offering him new ideas until he returns - if he ever does.

Yes, I absolutely agree. It is too late for any small player to enter this market. Even with a "perfect" poker software, I don't think many people would be willing to deposit.

If the industry were regulated like banks and people could be confident that their money is safe, there might be some chance. But obviously, this isn't happening any time soon, if ever at all.
 
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One of the most important things is Security. It's great knowing your money is secure and isn't going anywhere by mistakes except that you might make =P

Also, a buddy list where you can add players that you met in a table would be great.

Another thing is Avatars. As you hear, some people might be agitated by them but I'm very fond of them. They are a nice touch and bring creativity to the table and sometimes even help you recognize the playing style of your opponent.
 
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I love the fulltilt layout more than any other site. Why? It is simple, almost cartoonish, but they make it so clear what is going on. Also, a variety of stakes is always good. Another thing which can sometimes be good is promotional tournaments in which say 10% of the prize pool and 50% of the rake go to an AIDs charity. Buddy list = yes!

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I would first off recommend that you guys set up GREAT customer service, unlike some of the sites I have played at. But besides that The top things that I would like to see in a site are

a buddy list
all time in local time
a table search feature
like many others have said removing sit outs in free rolls, or at least a time limit to the sitouts
a wide variety of depositing methods
the option to play with certain rules (ie 72, straddling) if making a private toruney/table
option of various time limits for decisions, all games, and blind levels, tourneys, when creating your own
A wide variety of games offered, not just HE
view folded cards
4 colour decks large and small decks (like poker room)
Avatars aren't really a draw for me, but are nice
the option of mini tables
I have always wanted to play a dealers choice table online (if thats even possible)
lower # cutoffs for free rolls

Now I don't know how complicated that would make your software, but thats what came to the top of my head right now, I'm sure that I could think of more once I'm in the middle of a game, but that a start and my contribution to this thread
 
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I really think you guys are talking to yourselves at this point.
 
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If nothing else, just look at this thread as a "wish list" thread for an ideal poker site.
 
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Surely you don't expect people to read what's already been posted before they post themselves!!!!11 :rolleyes:

Some people are not as arrogant as you are furries and actually read before posting. I hope you don't blow more than 3 gaskets when you read this. If you do, I hear gaskets are on sale at pepboys next week.
 
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Some people are not as arrogant as you are furries and actually read before posting. I hope you don't blow more than 3 gaskets when you read this. If you do, I hear gaskets are on sale at pepboys next week.
Actually I thought that the 11 after the exclamation marks and the smiley I used had made it reasonably clear that my comment was tongue in cheek... sorry to hear that you aren't capable of understanding my dry sense of humour... but it won't be changing any time soon... :)
 
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Actually I thought that the 11 after the exclamation marks and the smiley I used had made it reasonably clear that my comment was tongue in cheek... sorry to hear that you aren't capable of understanding my dry sense of humour... but it won't be changing any time soon... :)

Actually, if you were not such a snob, it might have worked for you. I enjoy humor a lot. I suppose you have to work on it more than I have to:)
 
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Everything going to plan so far....

Thanks for all the feedback. Keep it coming. I have been hard at work with all the bs that goes into this kind of thing before you get to the fun part :( When I get the final feature list for version one finalised I will post it up for you to see.
 
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Ideas for new poker site.

:D 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.
 
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:D Rabbit hunting, slows down play...

Put it in hand history and this would resolve this issue. If someone wanted to see what "could've been", they could look in the HH to see it once the hand is over.
 
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I would like to lobby for NO "Pot Bet" button. Let the fish min bet if they are too stupid to size their bets correctly.
 
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For lobby style, check out UB they have the easist and most informative imo. Ring games show average pot size and hands per hour. It also gives you % of flops (nice). When you highlight a table it gives you a preview pane of who is seated there. One tweak to the latter that I would like to see is stack counts for players in the preview pane. Not their entire bankroll, just what they brought to the table.
 
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Have plenty of free rolls for people Have seperate ones for new players and first time deposit people. Let people make deposits for a little as possible. Have sit and go's for less than a dollar entry fee. I play poker to pass the time, not to win or lose a million dollars.
 
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Thanks for all the feedback. Keep it coming. I have been hard at work with all the bs that goes into this kind of thing before you get to the fun part :( When I get the final feature list for version one finalised I will post it up for you to see.

Hi

I would be interested in helping you out if I can.

Having set up a poker room 16 months ago I would probably be able to pass on some knowledge :)
 
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i like the region games i,e UK,ireland,scandanavia etc it gets annoying when u canty understand what people are saying to you.

also none of the annoying music you get on some sites i know they can be turned of but surely no one enjoys it
 
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1. Auto kick players that arent @ the table.
Nothing more anoying then playing in a freeroll where half the people are autofold

2. Resisable table view.
Dont like playing poker sites where u cant have the table view full screen or cant shrink it to play in 2 tables at once

3.Not to complex table view(like at pkr)
just a plain table view- name, stack size, raise size(maby avatar and chat) non of that 3-d stuff

4. regional games like scandinavian, america, uk..
I for one like playing against and meeting people from my region

5. simple lobby view and the option to filter sng,cash games,mtt
Some time i get lost in some of the lobbys on the sites i play at

6.microlimits cash and sng games(01-02 cash and 50cent sng)
its gonna attract players that dont whana risk a lot of money bout stil play real poker

7.poker leagues
poker leagues are good fun a speciale if there is a good prise for the winner

8.low deposit options,not a 50 or an 100 dollar min.
I play @ fulltilt mostly bout on other sites also bout its kinda anoying that damm minum deposit ammount

9.dont have all turbos
i dont now about you guys bout i dont like playing in a sng that in 10mins your geting blindid out.

10.Obeserver chat off option
a lot of sore loser hang around forever curseing the player that bustit them

11.playing points, that can be used for sng/mtt buy-ins

And finaly lots of freerolls to attract new clients:D
 
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I had a good friend attempt this a few years ago before all the troubles ever started. It didn't take him long at all to figure out that it was impossible to do without a bucket full of money.
I've got the bucket if you would like to fill it.
Hi

I would be interested in helping you out if I can.
Having set up a poker room 16 months ago I would probably be able to pass on some knowledge :)

Make sure you negotiate a good contract first.

1. Auto kick players that arent @ the table.
Nothing more anoying then playing in a freeroll where half the people are autofold

:D
What is wrong with taking the easy blinds and building your chip stack for when you get deeper into the tourney.

I tried to refrain from this thread for the reasons that rob posted at the beginning of the thread. Why would the head man be doing all the research, surely he would have some lackey from the reasearch department to do that for him.
What really cracked me up was that he thinks he can do it for less than $500,000, if he believes that he might as well look for the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.
 
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Rabbit hunting: yay or nay ? NO, If your out your out, if you wanted to see it you should have chased it yourself.


Buddy lists with private chat? Dont see the point in them. private chat seems like a bit of a drain, and unless on the same table i doubt it would get used much. And same table as youve stated yeah too dodgey.

Avatars: are they necessary No, but they are fun. I would say yes to having them, but then if its a drain, they have never influenced my liking of a site.


What do I want from a lobby? Being able to filter is really good. A good tab set split between rings, tourneys, and SnGs. With futher filtering tabs

multi table players As long as the games pop up in different windows and can resize easily its all good. Tabbed games, or split windows just dont work well
 
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"Seat Change" option for those already at the table would be really cool. How many times have you wanted to move to get position on some donkey, but the waitlister got the seat first (currently you would have to stand up, find the table again, and sit back down).
 
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