SBR Poker feedback thread

[daneblazer]

Taking the rake out as it incurs is the normal way poker sites do things.

Yeah, not that big of a deal. I'm just use to seeing it taken out at the end of the hand. Many more things can be added or improved before this.

[no1here]

Just rudely booted from table for maintence, unreal

[lolguy999]

1500 starting chipstack? Hardly any room for bluffs at all

[Pete0]

since the update, i havent had a single disconnect or screen freeze


i would see occassional screen freezes, but not something that affects gameplay and resumes almost immediately ..

GREAT UPGRADE !


PS : I also noticed that the OLD SBR ODDS works amazingly fast and smooth too after the upgrade. Not sure about accruacy as I havent tested enough.

[jeffdane]

come on, get rid of this kicking us out if we arent on time.

[no1here]

sit outs are allowed way too much time

[jeffdane]

sit outs are allowed way too much time

yeak fukin right, 10 minutes late for a free tourney, that i only want to play for fun. should be no kick outs. set the software up to auto-fold anyone not playing. whats the prob with that?

[SBR_John]

yeak fukin right, 10 minutes late for a free tourney, that i only want to play for fun. should be no kick outs. set the software up to auto-fold anyone not playing. whats the prob with that?

Actually I like the rule. We usually have 4 or 5 tourneys a day. So just sign up for the one you can make. If you are a little late, like 10 minutes or less, that's ok. When we have buy in tourneys you can be as late as you want. But the free ones will have a minute cutoff.

[Doc JS]

SBR John & Lou,

Is there a way to address this "problem"?

You money in a poker tourney for 25 points. The smallest table to try and roll your 25 points over is 100NL. When you take those 25 points to the 100NL table, you are outstacked anywhere from 4 to 8 (or more) to one. And you cannot add chips to your stack. I understand not being able to add other poker points because of the "bookkeeping" involved but this puts you at a clear competitive disadvantage.

My recommendations:
1. Allow us to add from our regular points (not other poker points) to reach the table limit of 100.

2. Add a 25NL &/or a 50NL table for those folks trying to roll over small tourney winings.

3. Make the minimum points won in a poker tourney 50 or 100.

4. Allow the option of combining small poker tourney winnings together to get to 100 points.

Thoughts?

Doc

[Roadtrip635]

SBR John & Lou,

Is there a way to address this "problem"?

You money in a poker tourney for 25 points. The smallest table to try and roll your 25 points over is 100NL. When you take those 25 points to the 100NL table, you are outstacked anywhere from 4 to 8 (or more) to one. And you cannot add chips to your stack. I understand not being able to add other poker points because of the "bookkeeping" involved but this puts you at a clear competitive disadvantage.

My recommendations:
1. Allow us to add from our regular points (not other poker points) to reach the table limit of 100.

2. Add a 25NL &/or a 50NL table for those folks trying to roll over small tourney winings.

3. Make the minimum points won in a poker tourney 50 or 100.

Thoughts?

Doc

Is that true, poker points won from two or more different tourneys cannot be combined when you sit at ring games? If I had 40 poker points left from trying to rollover and have 50 points from another tourney, I can't combine those and sit at a 100NL table? Pretty ridiculous if that's true.

[Doc JS]

Is that true, poker points won from two or more different tourneys cannot be combined when you sit at ring games? If I had 40 poker points left from trying to rollover and have 50 points from another tourney, I can't combine those and sit at a 100NL table? Pretty ridiculous if that's true.

I'm sure it has to do with how the software keeps track of the rollover. I'm not sure if it could be tweeked or not...but its a bit of a problem as it currently exists...

[Kindred]

I gave up because of all the disconnects. Saturday was the first one I've played in awhile and it was perfect, not one disconnect. Good job SBR

[kidk]

How's connectivity for you guys? Poker playing smooth?

most of time it starts off great the problem comes when transferring to tables then it freezes and i have to restart program

[Doc JS]

most of time it starts off great the problem comes when transferring to tables then it freezes and i have to restart program

The only time I've been disconnected was at a table change.

[Doc JS]

Lou,

Another request...

When you click on Cashier, could you guys add a Balance column next to Starting Amount. For right now, the rollover column seems redundant since all rollovers are 3X. A Balance column would let you know at a glance if you were up or down in that particular rollover. As it presently stands, you can not see your Balance until you sit down at a table and decide on how many chips you want to start with.

Thanks,

Doc

[4uk4life]

Working out pretty good for me so far!

[SBR_John]

I gave up because of all the disconnects. Saturday was the first one I've played in awhile and it was perfect, not one disconnect. Good job SBR

[mrmarket]

Cross posted from another thread:

As it stands you have to play within the balance of your point winnings. So if you win 225 points in a tournament that is essentially your bankroll at the tables until you either:

A) Bust it
B) Roll it over

The current system causes a number of problems for people:
1)They can't combine their point winnings into one bankroll
2)They can't combine their SBR forum points with their SBR bonus poker points.

The addition of 50NL tables has alleviated a portion of the problem but the system is still clunky. My suggestions would be twofold:
1) Allow the user access to all poker point bonus balances at one time
2) Have rollover requirements continuously staggered. That is to say if your rollover winnings look like the following:
- 25/75 rolloved balance 2
- 0/450 rollover balance 150
You would be able to play with the total of 152 points. If you bust the 2 points remaining in the first rollover it stays stickied until the 75 points is finished rolling over. At that time 75 points would be available for withdrawal if you so choose from your total poker bonus balance.

In conjunction with this change you could also implement a 1x rollover requirement when transferring from SBR forum points. This 1x rollover would allow you to combine SBR forum points and SBR poker bonus points equitably while allowing a player access to all the funds at their disposal.

This system is a little fairer for the players but still requires the same rollover as far as SBR is concerned.

[gamemastere]

Wow I would assume suggestion #1 would be a no brainer. Seems the rollover could potentially influence a session as being a winning or losing.

Placing in a tourney and cashing does not directly result in an immediate winning of a prize. So when you cash in a tourney the winning players receive a prize that is more like a stake to be played at the ring tables. The higher you place, the bigger stake you receive to play at the ring tables.

Which makes the tourneys being played now more like a satellite tourney.

[mikejamm]

See how ridiculous this shit is? More fuk'in trouble than it's worth. You've got people sitting around playing ring games outstacked by somebody who needs to rollover a larger amount of points they won based on where they finished in a satellite tourney. Because that's exactly what those bullshit so called tourneys are anyway. How fuk'in fair is that? Why not just run a bunch of qualifiers and then have a real tournament and award real spendable points! I don't give a fuk if I ever play sbr poker again, you guys have ruined it with your fuk'ed up overplay! Way to kill the good vibe it once had and make it into a mandatory fuk'in time waster!

[Doc JS]

I play the 8pm tourney while watching the Braves game...when I bust out, I head to the ring game and grind thru the rollover. Just got thru with a 1275 rollover last nite.

[SBR Lou]

Guys,

We added $0.25/$0.50 NL which has a minimum 10 point buy-in. We'll never give less than 10 points as a poker prize. Just don't stand up from the table if you get below 10 points, since there won't be a game spread that low.

For more insight into the bonus points guidelines, check here.

The reason the balances are kept separately is for efficiency. Can you imagine all the confusion you guys would have if trying to calculate the rollover you should've put in for 12 different bonuses? We modified the bonus points display so not only is it more transparent, it's incredibly easy to track your rollover completion.

[Doc JS]

Lou,
Did you consider adding a Balance column when next to starting balance on the Cashier page?

Doc

[SBR Lou]

Lou, Did you consider adding a Balance column when next to starting balance on the Cashier page? Doc

The cashier is being redesigned and is hopefully going to be rolled out in another week. It's going to be 50% smaller, cleaner and more efficient.

[Doc JS]

The cashier is being redesigned and is hopefully going to be rolled out in another week. It's going to be 50% smaller, cleaner and more efficient.

Thanks, Lou!

You guys have been very receptive to our suggestions!

Doc

[chemicalbrother]

lou, when the cashier is redesigned, will there be a way to just keep the points in the poker room? couple times now i've tried to buy into a table and forgot that my money wasn't in my wallet, so i had to rush to transfer from sports to wallet..

why would the points always need to leave poker when you're done for the night?

[gamemastere]

The cashier is being redesigned and is hopefully going to be rolled out in another week. It's going to be 50% smaller, cleaner and more efficient.

can the size of the tables get 50% bigger?

[FuzzyDunlop]

Crashed for me for the first time, 1st hand of the 8PM, facing an all in. No idea what happened, was really laggy throughout hand then died after I hit call. Can't get back in, no idea if I doubled up, am out, or folded handing over a third of my stack.

EDIT: Getting Access Violation at address 00A74981 in module 'sbr.exe'. Read of address 0000002B error message.

EDIT 2: Call never went through, just folded. FML.

[chemicalbrother]

can the size of the tables get 50% bigger?

yeah, full screen would be great.

[hhsilver]

I have question about rollover.

So far I cashed twice. 175 with a 525 rollover , 225 with 675 rollover.

suppose this happens: I lose the 175 without reaching the 525 rollover. Let's say I am 113 short of the 525 at that point. Will that 113 be added to the 675 rollover required for the 2nd case or does it go away?

Sorry if this was already discussed elsewhere. If so, I missed it.

[mrmarket]

I have question about rollover.

So far I cashed twice. 175 with a 525 rollover , 225 with 675 rollover.

suppose this happens: I lose the 175 without reaching the 525 rollover. Let's say I am 113 short of the 525 at that point. Will that 113 be added to the 675 rollover required for the 2nd case or does it go away?

Sorry if this was already discussed elsewhere. If so, I missed it.

Points rollovers don't carryover once you bust the balance that is associated with them.

[BeerDog99]

I had a weird disconnect last night. Both of my tables froze and the "lost connection" message popped up. After I gave up waiting, I closed the windows, the lobby was still working and I just re-openned my tables.

Forget the time that it happenned, but I think it was late evening (say between 9-11pm)

I think Zam77 also experienced something like that earlier too.

[sinmiedo]

last nigth everytime i want to play a table the system givme an error
and deducted the points but i was not able to play, i lost in all the atempts 695 points.
Can you plese review the log and see what happened, and also credit back the points into my account .

[nyed1010]

I've played a lot the last few days and seems to work fine most of the time(haven't had a single disconnect problem or table stealing my chips like some that are listed in this thread, none that I'm aware of), but a lot of weird glitchy image things happen from time to time. Like on my screen, kind of hard to explain, but sometimes it appears two players went all-in and then at the end of the hand, you realize it wasn't an all in and the player won only like a pot of 40. It probably looked normal on their screens, but on mine it looked like they went all in.

[jetsjets1028]

hmm errors playing poker not good