My Experience at Hollywood Poker (PokerRoom) thus far

[dbirider16]

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At 1 hand per minute, this would take 621 table hours to do... at four tables, that's 155 hours.
So the total bonus would work out to ($722 + 1000) / 155, or about $11.12 per hour.


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Hey good write up.
So doing the bonus+rakeback at 2/4 and 3/6 should equal about $3 an hour per table? That doesn't sound to good if you're playing for bonuses.

[RatFink]

Here is a long and painful method to get GameTime+ to work with Pokerroom skins.

Once you do this, it remembers it for future session.


First go to options-preferences and disable avatars. You don't need the characters and you would prefer more screen real estate for GT+ stats.

Now the problem with not being able to drag the stats to the correct location is the Pokerroom software siezes control of the mouse as soon as it enters the table area. So you need to be able to get the mouse on top of the player stat you want to move without Pokerroom thinking you've moved the mouse over its table.

There are two ways. One that is hit and miss is to put your mouse directly over a player stat and then hit ALT-TAB to go to another application, and then ALT-TAB back without moving your mouse.

The other more annoying but definite way to do it is to open an application like Notepad. Resize it and position it so it overlaps the pokerroom game table right at the players stat you want to move. Then go to notepad and click to activate it. Slowly drag your mouse to the edge of notepad and ever so slightly onto the players stats in the GT+ overlay. If you do it right you'll see the GT+ stats drop and you click and drag and position it where you want. Then move the notepad window to overlap the next players stats. And repeat.

You'll find that you may need to make minor adjustments later on, because where you thought was a good placement for stats will cover your cards when you sit in that particular seat.

[DavidC]

Thanks to ratfink and tobdog!

Great suggestion guys.

Also, I've heard that the newwest ver of GT+ let's you drag around despite PR's client. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

(I'm mildly curious if this was told to me by someone using the java version, and therefore not accurate. I haven't tested it yet. I'm also curious if you can still get hand histories in the java version, using a db, or if it's not allowed, due to limitations in java script. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] ).

--Dave.

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I'd also like to note that you have to sit out to get more chips to put on the table... this could result in missing a hand or something like that. Kinda gay!

You don't have to stand up, just sit out of play while you do it. So buy in with a big stack, guys!

[RatFink]

Pokertracker doesn't work with the Java version since it doesn't store your hand histories.

[TobDog]

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I'd also like to note that you have to sit out to get more chips to put on the table... this could result in missing a hand or something like that. Kinda gay!

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If your fast, you can fold and sit out then hit chips, add chips, then sit in, you can do it mid hand, just have to be fast. Also, this site software allows you to remove "extra" $ when adjusting your $, if you hot chips and request $100, your total will be $100 not $100+what was there, not consistant with table stakes rules, but you may as well know what the software allows.

tobdog

[DavidC]

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If your fast, you can fold and sit out then hit chips, add chips, then sit in, you can do it mid hand, just have to be fast. Also, this site software allows you to remove "extra" $ when adjusting your $, if you hot chips and request $100, your total will be $100 not $100+what was there, not consistant with table stakes rules, but you may as well know what the software allows.

tobdog

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Yeah, I just figured that out... weird.

However, "house rules" are "the rules", and we just adjust to them expertly, so it's not a big deal.

I'm mildly curious if this is permissable in their NLHE tables. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

The notepad thing does work for gt+ movements, but I haven't had 100% success with it, and I've had none at all with trying to alt-table and then move the stats windows...

However, the new ver of GT+ is found here:

link

(Thanks, smartalec!).

and it works beautifully.

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Trying something at the NLHE games:

Sat with max buy.

Played some hands and lost some cash. (my blinds, but still...)

Tried rebuying for less than max: didn't work... I couldn't rebuy for less than what I had on the table, nor more than the max buy.

Something neat, though... if you're up money (I got two pair a few hands after this), you can cash out to the max buy at the table, leaving just $25 on a $25 NLHE table, for example. Kinda neat. Actually, I lied... it SAID that you could do that... I just tested it out, and it doesn't let you rebuy with less than your stack.

NLHE slider works fine, and you can type in your bet which is good. But I'm a little afraid of the enter key when I'm doing this... actually enter key doesn't do anything, thank G-d, but it might, if I hadn't enabled the keyboard.

The NLHE table that I sat at was filled with really slow players... it was horrible. Maybe it was just because I was single-tabling that I noticed, but it seemed a lot slower than party's games.

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OOC, does anyone know why the GT stats always show up in the wrong places?

[DavidC]

A couple more things:

1) If the big blind leaves and the small blind remains at the end of a hand, the small blind becomes teh button, as normal. The person who would have had to post the BB, though, still posts the BB, and there's no SB in the hand. The next hand, the button stays where it is, and two blinds are posted. The next hand, the button moves as normal.

(There's a "dead small blind".)

2) You can't join the waiting list while viewing a table, afaik. An unfortunate thing happens when someone sits in a seat but doesn't "sit in" the game (they buy some chips but don't tell the software to post their blinds, etc.). In the lobby, it appears that the table isn't full, and you can't join the wait list. When you go to the table, the seats are full, but someone is greyed out. It therefore takes longer to get a table. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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the bonus looks pretty good from a tournament players standpoint. it's making me give some serious thought to trying this site instead of full tilt as i had planned.

[jrz1972]

Nice report, David. From one nit to another, I appreciate people who pass along all the little details of these sites; most people won't care about most of them, but a lot of people will be interested to know some of them.

I was thinking of signing up for PokerRoom because of the deposit bonuses, but it looks like clearing it would be the poker equivalent of the Bataan death march.