What features should a good poker site have?

[Felonius_Monk]

[Gaming Club Poker]

Thanks Felonious,

Points on the time bank and active table moving to front noted.

Kind Regards,
GCP

[Cactus Jack]

There's something on Full Tilt I really, really like. Right click on the player and you get an option "Put Me Here." This turns the table so I can put my seat where I want it to be, for instance, if I'm playing 2 tables, I can have one seat in the upper left corner of the screen and one on the lower right without overlapping to the point where I can't see when cards come. Over the last weekend, I went back to Empire for a turbo reload bonus and I really missed this feature. Party software sticks you in one spot and if you're in a middle seat, there is no way to effectively place multiple tables without severe overlap.

Hate Party's bonus button which opens a IE window. FT's bonus button opens a box. That works nicely.

I never got used to playing Prima's mini-view window. Didn't feel like I was sitting at a table and it often got me confused. Maybe if I'd played with it more, I'd have gotten used to it.

Minimalist tables are great. It's okay to have the fancy graphics for the fish and newbies, distracts them nicely, but for the rest of us, we can do without the avatars and stuff. (One, however, that was kinda neat for awhile was ordering food, drinks and cigars on Paradise.)

I still haven't found buttons and sliders that work as I'd like, and honestly not sure what I'd like. (Maybe one I could voice?) FT works pretty good. Click on the window and type the number, hit Enter, and it's there. Slick enough. NO bet the pot buttons, although the fish aren't all that good at betting and btp scares 'em.

Default mini-raise. Hate it. Don't know how to change it, but hate it.

Gotta show the amount in the pot, including bets, plus the rake. Full Tilt fails here, miserably. But they've got the best hand history in the business, including a playback feature. Neat.

Finally, a site software must improve on selecting tables. I basically want to see the same information on the table that GT+ provides, avg. Vp$iP and PFR% at a minimum. Avg. pot is pretty much a non-starter because who knows how many pots are taken for an avg. and the players % seeing the flop always seems hosed.

How's that?

CJ

[Ricardooon]

Agree, too many sites have hardly any information to aid table selection. This bites and is so easy to correct, what give?

Rich

[Felonius_Monk]

Thirded.

[k3nt]

I LOVE the default min-raise. It means the fishies are minraising you all the time. It's a beautiful thing.

More table selection information would be nice, but it's information that would be available to everybody. And it might start them thinking. I don't want the fishies even thinking about what VPIP means, let alone that it might be a good thing to learn about themselves or other people!

So I'm going to have to vote against those two.

My perfect site would have the software running very smoothly, and it would be CUSTOMIZABLE. If you hate the "minbet" button you could change it to a "bet pot" or "bet 3/4 pot" button if you wanted. If you wanted more information on tables, you could get that information, but you would have to go looking for it. That way, the fishies wouldn't learn anything or play better, but it would make my life easier.

Another example is the "call any bet" and "raise any bet" pre-check boxes that some sites have. These options makes NO sense at no-limit, and I never click them. I would like to make it possible to get rid of them. But at the same time, I do not want them gone because any time I see action that indicates somebody has clicked one of them, I know that I have found myself a 100% guaranteed fish.

Another example of customization is seating selection. Prima will let you select where you sit at every table, which is really nice. You can just set it once and then every time you sit down it always puts you in the same place! I always sit bottom right, right above the action buttons. I've never played another site that let you do that so easily.

[SebQtaneus]

I've been thinking about this since the thread started and keeping an eye on everyones suggestions and I have an idea for the bet window slider area. Please let me know what you think and if it could actually be implemented. I don't see why it couldn't, but I am not a programmer. You know how most mice have a wheel on them these days, what if you just clicked in the bet window to highlight the amount and then were just able to scroll the wheel up and down to raise or lower the bet amount? You could then eliminate the bet pot button which seems to be a feature that most here hate, and yet it would still be very easy for those of us who know they should BTP to do so easily. It could go up in set increments equal to the BB or something. Then just have one other button for All-In. Maybe even use the right mouse button instead of having to click or hit enter. Thoughts? Please don't flame too badly if this is a stupid idea.
-Seb

[Cactus Jack]

Heck no, that scrolling mouse idea is a great one.

[SebQtaneus]

You're my newest bestest friend CJ

Unfortunately, I think you and I are the only ones who thought it was a good idear. Oh well, you can't get a sticky post and I, well, .......... I can't find a cool Boobie avatar to put under my name!!!

[AlamedaMike]

[Alchemist]

[Cactus Jack]

[k3nt]

[T-Rod]

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