Stars Timebank Suggestion

[Double Ice]

Having no timebank completely blows because you don't know how much time you have left to act on your hand. There should be a countdown of a few seconds before timebank is used, incase you have none. It really sucks having your decisions feel rushed because you don't know when your hand is going to be killed. This has happened to me and many other players before, but I was just reminded of it again when watching Rizen play the $162 nightly FT and make a point of it in chat.

I'm sure many may rebut: "but you should have conserved your timebank so that those problems wouldn't exist, and if you didn't conserve your time bank, tough luck." However, timebank running to zero can happen for a variety of reasons: poor connection being the most likely, but also not watching tables closely or being afk and the game invokes timebank and uses it all while it is not the active window.

Another idea to help this problem, is the idea of giving additional time per break instead of all at the beginning.

So in short, a countdown before your hand is killed please.


ps. Also note that live poker also has a countdown. While online poker should not strive to be equal to live poker, it is an important note.

[BadgerPro]

I agree, sucks when it says 15 seconds and then you have to guess about when that is.

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Another idea to help this problem, is the idea of giving additional time per break instead of all at the beginning.


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This should definitely be done and start the initial timebank with less and cap the max.

[Yoshi63]

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This should definitely be done and start the initial timebank with less and cap the max.

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I agree w/ this and what OP said, but plz don't start w/ 10 sec like tilt sometimes does. Should start w/ at least 30, if not just 60 as it is now and add ~10 per break.

[smartalecc5]

atleast more time at the FT. you spend 5 hrs getting there, alteast you could have a few extra seconds added to ur timebnank for all those big decisions

[BrandiFan]

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atleast more time at the FT. you spend 5 hrs getting there, alteast you could have a few extra seconds added to ur timebnank for all those big decisions

[/ QUOTE ]Seems like it'd be pretty easy to do this.
Congratulations you have reached the final table, 1 minute has been added to your timebank.

[Exitonly]

[censored] COUNT DOWN BEFORE KILLING HAND.

DNT CHANGE THE TIME.. JUST SHOW A [censored] COUNTDOWN BEFORE FOLDING YOUR HAND.

This is w/ 25 lef tin the $300

PokerStars Game #13109735613: Tournament #65933437, $300+$20 Hold'em No Limit - Level XVIII (2000/4000) - 2007/11/08 - 03:15:06 (ET)
Table '65933437 16' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 2: pbdrunks (116100 in chips)
Seat 3: alesanre (71095 in chips)
Seat 5: Buckohfive (232485 in chips)
Seat 6: dblgutshot (97060 in chips)
Seat 7: The TBearII (105167 in chips)
Seat 8: wwwBTHEREcom (147495 in chips)
Seat 9: Exitonly4 (87610 in chips)
pbdrunks: posts the ante 200
alesanre: posts the ante 200
Buckohfive: posts the ante 200
dblgutshot: posts the ante 200
The TBearII: posts the ante 200
wwwBTHEREcom: posts the ante 200
Exitonly4: posts the ante 200
Buckohfive: posts small blind 2000
dblgutshot: posts big blind 4000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Exitonly4 [Kc Kh]
The TBearII: raises 12000 to 16000
wwwBTHEREcom: folds
Exitonly4 has timed out
Exitonly4: folds
Exitonly4 is sitting out
pbdrunks: folds
alesanre: folds
Buckohfive: folds
dblgutshot: folds
The TBearII collected 11400 from pot


I didnt k now my timebank was gone.

[smartalecc5]

wp wp