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gpokr fails in so many ways
morphine wrote
at 9:21 AM, Sunday March 2, 2008 EST
When I started to play on gpokr last December, I was really excited about the game: best interface I saw on an internet poker site, friendly and often active chats and some good competition seemed to be going on (for a free poker game, of course).

I'm writing this post because I feel very disappointed by a game who could have been a great game, if only Ryan took the right direction.

Since January, there are details becoming worst each month:

- The new server was a downgrade compared to what I saw for a week in December: no more cool stats in your profile, no more posts in your profile, more latency issues, no more sit and go...

- Raise amounts announced to be fixed, yet still illegals compared to standard poker (200 -> 400 -> 600??). No further change to this in January even if Ryan is aware of it. Current system doesn't even make sense.

- The cheaters hunt this month. Seriously. 1: This is a free game. 2: Most of these guys did nothing harmful at all. 3: You are taking your own game way too seriously.

- The stupid membership feature. There are so many bad things to say about it. 1: You do not pay for a game filled with adds. 2: You already had a fine donation feature. 3: You are hunting "cheaters", yet I find it far more illegal poker wise to give a chips advantage at start, in a free game, for real money ! 4: If anything, membership should give access to features requiring more hardware, e.g bigger database and tools for your profile, this kind of things.

The worst is yet to come, and it's the randomness in gpokr. You are advertising your game as a free Texas Holdem Poker. During the short time I played (8000 hands...), I found the randomness in gpokr to be sometimes... weird. Today I heard from respectable players that you (Ryan) claimed yourself the drawing in gpokr was tweaked to give a more thrilling game.

If this is true, then gpokr is not a free Texas Holdem game. It's something else, something most poker players can't enjoy for long. And it's getting worst every month.

Do you even play or enjoy poker Ryan ? Given the raise amounts mess and gpoker randomness, I would say: no.

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SherrifSkullface wrote
at 9:33 AM, Sunday March 2, 2008 EST
the best are fine if somebody raises 200 u can raise 200 again, nothing wrong with that..u just have to match the previous raise amount
SherrifSkullface wrote
at 9:34 AM, Sunday March 2, 2008 EST
bets*
SherrifSkullface wrote
at 9:35 AM, Sunday March 2, 2008 EST
thats what i thought anyway.. i could be completely wrong
morphine wrote
at 9:37 AM, Sunday March 2, 2008 EST
At least it's not a big issue.
SherrifSkullface wrote
at 9:42 AM, Sunday March 2, 2008 EST
true. and i also miss the hand stats and comments
morphine wrote
at 9:47 AM, Sunday March 2, 2008 EST
About the raises, I meant no further change in "February" (not January) and it should be 200 -> 400 -> 800.
Ryan wrote
at 10:25 AM, Sunday March 2, 2008 EST
Morphine, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you just don't know what is involved with running this site. I'll correct your statements for you...

"Since January, there are details becoming worst each month: The new server was a downgrade compared to what I saw for a week in December: no more cool stats in your profile, no more posts in your profile, more latency issues, no more sit and go... "

It's not worst each month (worse even). The changes were put in for January. What are the downgrades for Feb and March? All I can say here is that sometimes a couple steps forward needs to begin with one step back.

"Raise amounts announced to be fixed, yet still illegals compared to standard poker (200 -> 400 -> 600??). No further change to this in January even if Ryan is aware of it. Current system doesn't even make sense. "

Remember this is no limit. It does not have to be limited to 200, 400, or 600. You are able to bet as much as you'd like. The fix was for the raising minimum which changed to doubling the previous raise. If it's still not correct you can simply post a bug report.

"The cheaters hunt this month. Seriously. 1: This is a free game. 2: Most of these guys did nothing harmful at all. 3: You are taking your own game way too seriously. "

See my other post on cheating. I don't have sympathy for cheating even if it this is a free game. Nearly everyone who plays here does not appreciate cheating.

"The stupid membership feature. There are so many bad things to say about it. 1: You do not pay for a game filled with adds. 2: You already had a fine donation feature. 3: You are hunting "cheaters", yet I find it far more illegal poker wise to give a chips advantage at start, in a free game, for real money ! 4: If anything, membership should give access to features requiring more hardware, e.g bigger database and tools for your profile, this kind of things. "

Why don't you pay for a game that has ads? I might make a membership option to take away the ads (they honestly dont make much).. but I'm not sure where you get this rule. When you buy a magazine there are ads that help lower the cost of the mag.

"The worst is yet to come, and it's the randomness in gpokr. You are advertising your game as a free Texas Holdem Poker. During the short time I played (8000 hands...), I found the randomness in gpokr to be sometimes... weird. Today I heard from respectable players that you (Ryan) claimed yourself the drawing in gpokr was tweaked to give a more thrilling game."

Don't believe everything people say. The card drawing is completely random. Nothing is tweaked. It's very simple. The deck is shuffled randomly many times before dealing. It's human nature to recognize patterns in randomness. It's very common in poker for a player to get upset after a bad beat and start blaming some of the mechanics.

I usually appreciate feedback like this but when it's prefaced with failure I can't really take it seriously. You can simply go play at one of many other poker sites.... there has to be at least one that is not a failure... or you can make your own since you already have a clear idea of what it should be. If you do I'll make sure to reserve my judgment on your work.


Country Girl wrote
at 11:03 AM, Sunday March 2, 2008 EST
WOW! Ryan~that response was right on the mark! If you are going to critize~have a solution to the problem! Now I'm just a COUNTRY GIRL but I luv this site! YOU too Morphine! :)
mandy1569 wrote
at 11:11 AM, Sunday March 2, 2008 EST
Ryan you cannot please every1 but i would like to say that gpokr is the best ever and any1 will be hard pushed to find any pokr site better than this one
We appreciate the hard work that you must put into to provide us with a fun place to play pokr.
xxx
casaloko wrote
at 11:29 AM, Sunday March 2, 2008 EST
Morphine i think your comments are very farfetched, Disrespectful and un-true.

You have only been here since December which is not along time i my-self have been here i think about a year and a half and ill tell you this Gpokr is by far better than it was back then. Ryan has put his heart into Gpokr and Kdice and then people like you just sit here and moan.

Wheres the respect?

Ill ask you one thing. If your not happy with Gpokr then why play here?

And ill go all in with my 1500 on this. If left this site i could probably bet that you would be back on playing in a couple of days.

You'll miss the game and the friends that you will have made,

But please before you go all guns blazing realise what your saying and please, do you think you have the stamina the run i site like this so successfully?

I think not

(excuse me for any grammer errors lol)
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