Ten things that Party Poker should do.

[brian8065]

1) Change the Avatar on for seat 7 for men. It looks like a girl. Most men avoid it. I have seen guys get hit-on on this seat. Watch how people sign up, and you will see that this one is usually last.

2) Allow for “Player Only” chat. So often someone from outside the table is heckling a player or players. This would be most helpful at the end of a multi-table tourney, when 50 non-players are chatting. You can turn off player chat, but you cannot turn off chat from a non-playing heckler.

3) When a player signs up for a ring game, he should be given the option right away of waiting for the big blind.

4) Get rid of speed tournaments. If they decide not to take this good advice, at least drastically shorten the time each player has to act. ESPECIALLY towards the end when the best strategy is to delay, so everyone delays every hand. That is not speed.

5) Have an option to always accept or always deny whether you want a tournament history or not. This way the system would not prompt you after every tournament. I would guess that most player always say no, or always say yes.

6) Get rid of the advertising pop-up that shows up every time you sign on. This is so annoying, and you have to wait for it to show up before you can sign on. I cannot believe anyone looks at it.

7) If a player misses a hand for computer reasons, or other reasons, the system posts your blinds, deals you cards, and folds you until the “I AM BACK” icon is hit. This is OK, UNLESS you are the first to act on the next hand. If you are UTG on the next hand, the system will deal your cards, fold you, and then ask if you are back. It shows you your two cards just to tease you. There is no way that I know of to play that hand, even if you are back. I normally do not have a lot to complain about with the Indian help-line, but under this circumstance, they are awful. I tried to explain how bad this is, and they try to explain how the software works. It is an endless loop. There is no explaining to these people that this is a big software problem that should be fixed. I want to shout, “Can I Speak To An American!”. As soon as the system recognizes that you are out, the “I AM BACK” icon should appear. Not after you are dealt out of the next hand.

8) In no-limit tournaments, it asks you before the hand is dealt if you want to Call BB, Fold, or Bet Pot. The bet the pot icon is useless, and should be eliminated.

9) Once it is your time to act, it asks if you want to Fold, Call, or Raise 2x. I would like to see 3x, 4x and 5x and All-In buttons. This is what I do, and what many other players do. It would save time, and there is room. This would be especially helpful at the end of a multi-table tourney, when you have to deal with huge chip amounts. If you have 1,000,000 chips, and you want to raise from 60,000 to 180,000, the toggle switch is useless. If I remember right, I don’t think you can type in numbers greater than 100,000. I can’t remember though.

10) During Tournaments there are always players that go into a stall 400 players from the bubble. Software should be developed to stop these players from doing this on every hand. I sat with one player on table 3 that did this for 2 hours. He would wait until the last moment, and then fold. HORRIBLE

These are my ideas. Are there any others?