Top Form From IPoker
Apr. 11th, 2008 06:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksFollowing on from IPoker's top-form upgrade (now available on NoIQ, but not on Betfred), it turned out that the 8-max tables had vanished at $100 Buy-in. This kind of forced me to move to 6-max and, of course, I promptly did my bollocks. I'm just not used to all of this betting for value and worrying about whether I have the best hand :-)
Anyhoo, after a while, I noticed that Pokertracker was not reporting one of my tables correctly. This was nothing to do with the patch. It had completely the wrong players. I then noticed that I was playing at the same-named table twice. Hmm, I thought. That's odd.
Note that both tables are table Culver.
Oh, you can see my screen name as well. Oh well, fuck it. I'll kill it off soon annyway. :-)
So, I got onto the live support. This caused a ridiculous conversation where the support manager had no idea what I was talking about. "Are you concerned at players playing at more than one table"? "You do realize that you can play at more than one table at a time?" Eventually I got my point through to him. And, while I was there, I pointed out the absence of 8-max tables.
His response was:
SupportManager: The 8 max tables were removed from all NLH games with blinds below $5/$10 by the network management team as the lobbies were growing overcrowded.
Ahh. As I said, this is the first time I've heard of games being removed because they were too popular.
Anyhoo, after a while, I noticed that Pokertracker was not reporting one of my tables correctly. This was nothing to do with the patch. It had completely the wrong players. I then noticed that I was playing at the same-named table twice. Hmm, I thought. That's odd.
Note that both tables are table Culver.
Oh, you can see my screen name as well. Oh well, fuck it. I'll kill it off soon annyway. :-)
So, I got onto the live support. This caused a ridiculous conversation where the support manager had no idea what I was talking about. "Are you concerned at players playing at more than one table"? "You do realize that you can play at more than one table at a time?" Eventually I got my point through to him. And, while I was there, I pointed out the absence of 8-max tables.
His response was:
SupportManager: The 8 max tables were removed from all NLH games with blinds below $5/$10 by the network management team as the lobbies were growing overcrowded.
Ahh. As I said, this is the first time I've heard of games being removed because they were too popular.
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something fishy
Date: 2008-04-11 10:35 pm (UTC)I presume they just make more rake/hour on the shorthanded tables. The fact that they still have them for the higher stakes is probably down to the fact that the 5/10+ levels pay to the cap anyway, and most of the bigger games are shorthanded so allowing 8 players doesn't make a bit of difference.
They could have bothered to think of a better brand of bs to spin to customers though surely?
Re: something fishy
Date: 2008-04-11 11:07 pm (UTC)PJ