*Official* Suggestions for Stars Thread

[Guthrie]

Buy more servers. The crush of new players is bogging the system down.

[ChrisV]

I play SNGs I'd like to add my voice to the chorus asking for cards to be turned over faster during allins. Enhance the "drama" in MTTs if you like, but in turbo SNGs this is just cutting down play time drastically.

Also, if possible it would be great if you could revamp the filter system. In particular, the reason the $114 tourneys don't get as many people playing as the $109s had on Party is that you put them under a "High Limit" tab. You would get more people playing these if you removed this psychological barrier.

[Miamipuck]

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A couple of suggestions:

1.) Faster software

2.) More guranteed tourny's. Party, like it or not, had tons of non rebuy guaranteed tourny's that attracted 2000+ players nightly. Please add more of these. Examples 40k guaranteed $20 and $100 tournies and the 20k $10.

3.) More tourny's that start with 2500 chips. Other then rebuys and a few deep stack offerings there is nothing. The extra chips would not increase the amount of time tourny's take.

4.) Please add another level early in your tournies like a 150/300 level.

I think Stars has a great site. I just wish you would let the tournaments become a crapshoot just a little bit later.

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Miami,
We are always looking to further improve on our tournaments. Your suggestions have been noted.

All,
Keep the suggestions coming! Good stuff in this beast of a thread.
~Justin

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Justin,

Thank you for taking my thoughts into consideration. I greatly appreciate it.

[MobBarley]

Don't allow pokertracker, don't allow HUD. The games would soften up. You asked...

[MobBarley]

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Dear Lee Jones,

I am a recreational player who plays a couple thousand hands a week at most. Some people call me a fish. [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

I must tell you sir, I cannot wait to come to Stars after you implement the improvements suggested here.

I look forward to visiting tables full of slow playing tight nits who are seining for fish ten tables at a time.

I look forward to having my name pop up on everybody's "buddy" list.

I look forward to sitting at a table full of "professionals" who play 25000 hands a week, who never chat except to insult you if you catch once in a while.

I can't wait to sit with hudbots who NEVER play a hand without the nuts.

I can't wait to get on a table where I wait, and wait, and wait, for some multitabler to fold. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

So sir, in closing I wish you the speediest success in your "improvements". I will be along very quickly thereafter.

NOT!

Tony Tuff Fish

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VNH

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[ilovecereal]

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3.) I don't like how if my table isn't highlighted I have to click on the table, then click on the fold/check/whatever button. Very annoying when multitabling.

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Options: Advanced Multi-Table Options: Single click table activation(check it/make sure its checked)

[Dazarath]

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- Make it so you have to click on the chat box to start typing. WAYYYYYYYYYY to easy to accidentaly start tpying your [censored] in there .

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[CharlieDontSurf]

Fix the NL cash games

1. Default buy-in is always the max.
2. Partial points for rake--i.e. don't screw over NL6maxers.
3. Get a less greedy with the bonuses, make them a bit easier to clear and offer them often---fish don't care about customer service or your store...they care about free money.
4. Create a black background/black table theme.
5. Add a join any available NL$1/$2 with (x) amount of players tab.
6. RB or something(FPP for bonuses)that is close to the 27-50% RB I can get on FTP/Absolute/UB with rb+bonuses.

[NoahSD]

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So far a bunch of people have mentioned the speed of the software issue, but none of the responses from employees of Stars thusfar have addressed it. (unless I missed something)

Any plans to do anything about this?

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Yeah.. I really don't get this. This costs both Stars and poker pros money.

[Vern]

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partial points for hands raked under $1

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yes yes yes

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Lee et al., I don't want you to underestimate how big an issue this is for some of us.

In the 50 and 100 NL games it is really hard to accumulate points.

I play most of the time at Full Tilt. I would rather play at Stars. I play at Full Tilt for the same reason everyone else does. Even given that, I would play a lot more at Stars if I felt I could take full advantage of the VIP program.

One more suggestion is to put in a "custom" tab like Full Tilt has. It makes finding your game incredibly easy and quick. Yes, I know you can sort and stuff but filtering is better than sorting.

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I've tried to direct homeless friends that didn't want to play at Party conversation usually goes as such.

"Bonus?" "Yeah like $50 with reloads"
"Only $50?, must be easy to clear like in a day?" "Uh not really unless you play SNG's or 10K hands of 25 or so NL"

"So what's the point of bringing in inexperienced players with a bonus they can't clear before going bust?" "I don't really know"

.25 points for $.25 cents rake
.50 point for $.50 rake
1 point for $1 rake

Boom done

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My rake format suggestion

$1 Rake = 10 FPP divided among the number of players at the table, so a $3 rake pot would be 30 points. At a full 10 handed table, each player earns 3 points. At a full 6 Max table, each player earns 5 points and HU each player earns 5 points. Do the same for partial points. If you want to provide an incentive to move up, make the less than $1 rake non-linear.

Rake^1.5 as a fraction * 10 FPP

So
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|FPP for number of players dealt in a hand at a table
Rake FPP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
1.00 10.00 1.00 1.11 1.25 1.43 1.67 2.00 2.50 3.33 5.00
0.95 9.26 0.93 1.03 1.16 1.32 1.54 1.85 2.31 3.09 4.63
0.90 8.54 0.85 0.95 1.07 1.22 1.42 1.71 2.13 2.85 4.27
0.85 7.84 0.78 0.87 0.98 1.12 1.31 1.57 1.96 2.61 3.92
0.80 7.16 0.72 0.80 0.89 1.02 1.19 1.43 1.79 2.39 3.58
0.75 6.50 0.65 0.72 0.81 0.93 1.08 1.30 1.62 2.17 3.25
0.70 5.86 0.59 0.65 0.73 0.84 0.98 1.17 1.46 1.95 2.93
0.65 5.24 0.52 0.58 0.66 0.75 0.87 1.05 1.31 1.75 2.62
0.60 4.65 0.46 0.52 0.58 0.66 0.77 0.93 1.16 1.55 2.32
0.55 4.08 0.41 0.45 0.51 0.58 0.68 0.82 1.02 1.36 2.04
0.50 3.54 0.35 0.39 0.44 0.51 0.59 0.71 0.88 1.18 1.77
0.45 3.02 0.30 0.34 0.38 0.43 0.50 0.60 0.75 1.01 1.51
0.40 2.53 0.25 0.28 0.32 0.36 0.42 0.51 0.63 0.84 1.26
0.35 2.07 0.21 0.23 0.26 0.30 0.35 0.41 0.52 0.69 1.04
0.30 1.64 0.16 0.18 0.21 0.23 0.27 0.33 0.41 0.55 0.82
0.25 1.25 0.13 0.14 0.16 0.18 0.21 0.25 0.31 0.42 0.62
0.20 0.89 0.09 0.10 0.11 0.13 0.15 0.18 0.22 0.30 0.45
0.15 0.58 0.06 0.06 0.07 0.08 0.10 0.12 0.15 0.19 0.29
0.10 0.32 0.03 0.04 0.04 0.05 0.05 0.06 0.08 0.11 0.16
0.05 0.11 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.06
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Then finally, award a reward for a $3 raked pot like an extra FPP.

My $0.02 on FPPs