Party making the switch to Beta?

[MAYHEM45]

It's about fucking time

Just in time for my triumphant return to SNGs. Even though it will be a completely different game, and will take some relearning how to play optimally, I really welcome these changes.

EDIT: Well fuck, they changed the SNGs to a time based format, thats a huge bummer, unless they also introduce turbos down the line. I dont wanna be playing for an hour and a half when these used to take 40 minutes, tops.

EDIT2: I gotta stop posting before I read everything. They will have speed SNGs it looks like. woohoo. carry on.

[PShabi]

I want a nice starting stack when I'm playing a forum tourney, or a bigger MTT. If I'm up against stiff competition, I like a deep stack.

But, that's what I thought was so great about Party's SNGs before. There were easy to win if you adjusted your strategy correctly. The players suck my left nut, and they were over quicker, thus increasing your hourly earn.

[PShabi]

I just read something that indicates 5/10 LHE, 6-max, BAD BEAT tables have been added. If someone is around when this gets back up, could you verify this for a brother at work?

Gangsta.

[Talking Poker]

Hello! If this is true............... just think how much FASTER I'll be able to lose to the idiots!

Bout time they change their starting stacks.

[BrianSwa]

maybe they saw my thread

Thats cool the new changes look nice, I really like the new way you can set up your tables like tileing or however u spell it and stuff. For someone like me that has to have the tables overlap its real nice. Looking forward to this.

[Talking Poker]

Does this mean you are playing again, or were you speaking in future tense? I'm no judging either way - just wondering.

Also, how is Gavin? Feel free to reply in a new OT thread or via PM if you don't feel this is the place (it isn't)... I'm just wondering.

[BrianSwa]

well I won $57 in one of the points tournies, Thats what im playing with right now. Been able to build it a little at $25 NL which I know is above bankroll but it was free money sooo. Gavin is good, I will pm you details when i have more time to type it out to you.

[MAYHEM45]

Its been pushed back till 2pm now. I will check then.

[PShabi]

I'll be leaving work early today and hitting the tables hard this afternoon.

Quick rake question: At the BBJ tables, they rake 50 cents extra, right? When does this occur? When the pot reaches what amount?

I'm just wondering if the RBCalc program handles the bbj tables smoothly or if I'd manually have to figure that shit out.

If they rake the .50 every hand, it'd be easy to calculate. I don't think that's the case though.

[nflchad]

Anytime they rake a hand they drop .50 or at least they used to. I wonder how the rake will look on the new 25 No limit Bad Beat tables where it's frequently raked .10 doesn't really seem fair to drop .60 on a $2 pot

[Robbie Robb]

at this point DO NOT play in any game at Party where you stand a chance of being moved to a different table.

Nikki & I are playing for fun in a play chip tourney and EVERYTIME you get moved your chip stack resets to 1000. I went from over 11K to 1K. The nice thing is, if you're less than 1000 you go back up to 1000...

I don't know if this will be happening once the real money tables return (they're not back online yet) but I would definitely confirm that this IS NOT happening before buying into a game.

[MAYHEM45]

Agreed Pshab. But thats where the new turbo SNGs come in. And I also noticed the beginning blind level is now 20/40 instead of 10/15, so it shouldnt be too much different than before.

I'll give a few a test run tonite.

[PShabi]

I applaud party for their upgrades, but one thing sucks big fucking dick for me.

The new software does not suppport "observed hand histories." Before, I could open 10 tables, start importing through PT, and turn on my Poker Ace. I go have a smoke, take a shizit, or what have you, and when I come back, I've got 30 hands worth of stats on my players. Then I just join the waitlists and wait for great seats to open up. Fishies to the right, Shabis to the left. Simple.

This is not going to be possible any more. Even if you have stats on a player, you aren't going to get PA to read them until you've actually played a hand at the table.

I'm absolutely positive that selecting tables in the manner described above had more than a minimal affect on my winrate. I'm not happy about this new development.

[Talking Poker]

Interesting.... cause I never do this, and I probably should.