Hi, WSEX GM here, looking forward to being part of this board.

[Alobar]

Please please please make it so that when the HH are stored on the hard drive they arent available unless you are dealt into a hand. i.e. Dont allow datamining.

Also, your site is still way too small to allow 8 tables, please dont make it that many yet. 4 would be nice, but anymore than that and its just gunna be a ton of crappy tables, and the fish wont live long enough to see the beauty of rake free.

[d10]

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-The chat dialog, when you try to scroll upward and read earlier stuff, automatically goes to the bottom every time something happens on the table and it updates. This is annoying and makes it almost impossible to read through earlier hands and whatnot. Other sites' chat doesn't do this.

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Wrong.
Party and Absolute, to name the first ones that come to mind.

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OK. I think the point remains, this is a really annoying feature.

[d10]

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And in addition to the pot-limit omaha high suggestion, I think also that option to play more than 3 tables is not needed. Maybe increasing it to 4 tables isn´t bad, but after that I think it´s gonna be a drawback to "normal players" that, I think, you wish to have more at WSEX poker.

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I don't claim to know what's best for the room, but for many players (myself included), playing more than 3 tables rake free would be like going into work tomorrow and finding out you're getting a 100% raise. I would really like for this to happen.

[Guruman]

first off,

a great big thank you for the site. I really enjoy the games, the rakefree mentality, and the effort that you've put into the software and support.

I play primarily at WPEX and PokerStars, though lately I've been running about 70% WPEX 30% Stars. Your site has pulled me away from Absolute completely.

In my opinion, Stars has some of the best software out there, and WPEX still has a lot of catching up to do if they intend to meet the high bar that they and others have set.

I'll just do a quick list here.

things I like about WPEX:

)rake free
)Pokertracker supported
)the greyed out folded cards (cool shiny for bad players)
)speed when the server's really going
)rake calc in the cashier window
)instant link to sportsbook from poker room (with appropriate balance already available

things that stars does better than WPEX:

)number of players and bad players
)Instant HH window (great for quick hand posts to 2+2)
)HH to hard drive
)consistency of speed of hands being dealt
)variety of games
)ability to upload avatar pics (great for spotting bad players and its a cool shiny for any player to mess with)
)correct blind structure when headsup - the current WPEX system discourages HU action and hence tends to break up shorthanded tables prematurely. some of us have managed to adapt and incorporate this structure into our HU games, but many of our most profitable opposition would prefer not to play headsup in this structure, costing us an opportunity.


The bottom line for me is that your site's ability to deliver non-shady rake-free poker has effectively lured me away from lots of other great sites out there. If Stars decided to go rake free though (or even 85-90% rakeback) I would end up back over there almost full time because of the quality of thier software and players.

I commend WPEX for what they have accomplished to date. I wish you continued success and I hope that you continue to improve your software and playerbase. I know that a tipping point exists in out there where it would become the biggest no-brainer ever to play almost exclusively at a rake-free site. That tipping point exists in the number of players that are actively at the tables at any given time. If you can manage to reach a certain threshold, this thing will snowball and we'll all be a bunch of really happy guys.

[Johnny#5]

I really like the UB tables ... I think the software works really well. I don't have a strong opinion about always sitting in the same seat (it is sort of a plus) but I do like the big cards at the bottom. The WPEX tables are much slower than UB's or even Party's. I guess this isn't a total dealbreaker because PokerStars from what I've seen (never played on there) has slow and clunky tables and yet they are as big as Party.

If you can speed it up, make the action buttons bigger, make the slider more functional, maybe add a bet pot button the games would play faster and smoother. Basically emulate UB on this, their software is really slick IMO. Keep the big cards though ... those tiny UB board cards are the pits. That and the fact that the software doesn't put dollar amounts beside the individual bets, just a pot size total. You get used to it after a while but it is nicer when they are labeled.

Though UB's game selection kinda sucks too compared to other sites so I don't know. Must be a marketing thing I guess.

[d10]

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Advertise on TV during the WSOP if you can. These games need to be loosened up.

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Maybe if you played more than 9% of your hands people would loosen up against you? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Try it sometime.

[Guruman]

oop, one other major nit:

the fact that I have to request a HH through email really detracts from my ability to get on someone's play when they showdown a losing hand because I can't see that hand until the e-mail shows.

I'd see thier hand in a live game, I'll see it when I get the email, and I'll need that info to play my very next hand correctly.

that really burns me right now. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Johnny#5]

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Advertise on TV during the WSOP if you can. These games need to be loosened up.

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Maybe if you played more than 9% of your hands people would loosen up against you? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Try it sometime.

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Something to consider, though I don't expect it to happen on any site soon, is to change the blind structure so it encourages looser play. Maybe throw in an ante or something ... when a casual player sits in a full ring game and sees a big fold-fest so that every pot's 2- or 3- handed the game's not fun for them. Nobody, pro, amateur, or otherwise, wants to sit in a game filled with nothing but people who play 15-20% of their hands. An altered blind structure would change the optimal strategy ... and make the games a lot more interesting when you see 4-5 players in the pot slinging chips around. For all its advantages like simplicity and all that, at its core, the traditional way it's played Hold'em isn't really an action game compared to other types of poker. It doesn't have to be this way, but the way the blind structure's set up it is.

After all, if you optimally play 30% or so of your hands you wouldn't be as likely to be able to or even need to play on 10 tables at once. Besides, poker's more fun that way [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[karkstark1]

I would like to see the HU blind change to the usual button has small blind. I think this would incourage more people to play headsup.

[d10]

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Nobody, pro, amateur, or otherwise, wants to sit in a game filled with nothing but people who play 15-20% of their hands.

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I don't mind when they play predictably and make the same horrible post flop mistakes over and over again.