why isn't wsex more popular??

[scorer]

Clearly this is a huge winner for the player, yet there still seems to be a player base that is not increasing. For those who can chime in as to why and who play there please explain your thoughts

[Pokeraddict]

The endless forum spam?

[GT123]

fish and big gamblers, don't give a [censored] about rake.

[SuperUberBob]

It's not worth it. I signed up and played a freeroll around later June.

The ring game traffic is basically non existent. There was *one* Stud Hi/Lo player sitting at two tables waiting for opponents. Yeah...good luck. Omaha Hi/Lo has about one full table and a couple of incomplete ones. There is not one single Stud Hi player on there now. Omaha is non-existent. There isn't even a lot of NLHE action on there. It's either Limit Hold'em or you could pray to get a full table NLHE tables at low limits.

As for the site itself. No. The interface is just horrific. The font for everything on the table screen is just too damn small. The options to act take up nearly a fourth of the entire window. The slide for the bet is way off. Instead of going up in blind increments (30, 60, 90), it goes from 30, 64, 98, 127 and just a whole load of random numbers. Easier just to bet by typing in the number. They also show your hole cards twice: once on the table itself in which they are microscopic and then in the place with all the options where they are magnified a bit. Why not just make them normal sized in the first place? And the whole concept of keeping your folded cards so you can remember them is a great way to piss you off because playing that deuce-six would have given you a six high straight right off the flop (which did happen to me). You can then figuratively punch yourself in the gut for recognizing that you would've busted about six people in one hand in a freeroll. The main window is no better itself. Big window, small space that shows the tables. It's also hard to see what SnGs are full and what aren't at first glance. Tournaments are also not sorted out well, which is a hassle.

Though in case you suck at poker, they leave ads the size of the list of tables to the left of the screen to allow you to take your rake-free money and lose it playing blackjack or sports betting. Gotta love WSEX.

So, positives:

+rake free poker

Negatives:

-Omaha is non-existent
-Every game besides Limit Hold'em might as well be non-existent too
-Horrible interfaces aesthetically and functionally
-Very low ring traffic
-Tournament don't pay out well
-Sit and Go's are available, but never filled
-Frequent points program "useful" for buying into the said [censored] tournaments
-No sign-up bonus
-Horrible referral system

[ShakeZula06]

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fish and big gamblers, don't give a [censored] about rake.

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[pshabi]

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And the whole concept of keeping your folded cards so you can remember them is a great way to piss you off because playing that deuce-six would have given you a six high straight right off the flop (which did happen to me). You can then figuratively punch yourself in the gut for recognizing that you would've busted about six people in one hand in a freeroll.

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Don't know much about the site, never played it, but this is a genius idea! Looks like one fishy already went hook, line, and sinker for it too!!!

[WichitaDM]

People choose to pay anywhere from 2bb/100 to 6bb/100 in rake at the major sites because they are lazy. In all honestly the games at wpex are tougher than average but not by much. Getting used to the software is easy. 100% rakeback is so nice and should be especially nice for the low limit holdem players, like 1/2 players who pay 6+ bb/100 to play. That is hardly beatable even with the horrible players at most sites. I play 10/20 and up but if you play 1/2 or 2/4 you are a fool not to play at wpex. BTW 3000 a week in rakeback is pretty nice...

[AntonHeat]

from a low limit point of view the sngs fill up but they are 5max, the full ring ones take soo long to fill up.

But ya the rakeback is great if it just had more people then it would be perfect.

Also there are sooo many glitchy bugs, sit out bug, beeping bug, connection issue bug, no option to get more added time on hard allins,etc etc

[Pokeraddict]

There was *one* Stud Hi/Lo player sitting at two tables waiting for opponents.

Stud8 has two serious bugs in it which is likely the reason it does not ever run there.

[PokerProfile]

I logged on in the evening and there was 1 game of full-ring NL50 going. Last month there used to be at least 2, but 5-max has taken away half the players.