Topic: Paddleboat Mississippi, new poker site with low fees and good privacy (Read 424 times)

Apologies for necro, but I can't PM you as I'm a newbie.

The site isn't available anymore which is a shame, as I really enjoyed the aesthetic. Is there any way to play it still?

Thank you,
Austin

Hello and welcome to the forum,

I really like your site, it made me remember when I programmed in college, and also the program it has responds quickly to the tasks that are given the order, the command screen is excellent but it would be even better if you could replace it with a graphical environment Through some drawings, people and players like the visual more and do not read much, this leads to more emotion. To have all that development in such a short time and you alone is something to admire, very few can achieve it, if you look at it you have enough development and the optimization is at a very good level.

What do you expect from the community mate? to just jump on your site when you care nothing about the Broadcasting you put here?

Imagine creating a thread , actually ANN Thread but never comes back to answer or at least bump His own thread?

you are just proving that you are not capable of handling even your own advertising so expect nothing from as also.

We are looking for company that will keep sharing updates in their thread and not a Fly By Night company .

Harsh truth indeed, but OP must realize that stepping up to the game is really crucial to thrive in here. There are a lot of pre-existing sites, and making a new one all by himself, and not being able to live up to the necessary time and attention to communicate and execute improvements could be the cause of the end of this site before it can even begin.

The OP made this site by himself, without team. And you can see that this is and old-school site. It is impossible to get a lot of players with such design nowadays. May be the OP works with design now, or he got his players and it is not interesting for him what happens with this thread. Anyway i don`t think that he will often answer here.

To be honest I don't think there are many poker players here in the forum, mind you, everyone knows how to play, but few poker players and passionate poker players who want to play some games within the community even less, so in practice We are all freeroll players here, well, it in the first instance it seems, is the global category that we can give ourselves.

For a poker player the site may not be very attractive, in any case the interface of a poker table does not demand much in terms of graphics, what one wants is an honest site, that there is no collusion and if there is, it detects it by advanced use of programs that not only analyze IP traces, etc. they also have the ability to analyze and correlate the game between certain players, so in the event of a "false" or "true" complaint, e.g.


On the other hand, you have to be careful with these poker-only sites,  beware, a nickname, an email + IP, etc. They can be clues for them to track you in search of knowing what level of bankroll you manage, where you play, etc. Even gaming habits.

This is a "weird" site but the same OP mentions it is a personal project, maybe it's a programmer's final project, although he mentions his story, but anyway, you always have to be careful, not only with projects In isolation like this, sometimes the ones that seem the most legitimate do the most damage to a bankroll.

On the other hand, it is worth saying that this site does not charge for withdrawal but for deposit, 0.5% of what you deposit goes to the HF. This seems not very good but in this case this site does not charge rakeback per hand or per buyin, this is very good, especially in the cash tables where even leaving with profits you can be paying 5% of your profits in rake or even some more times. And this every time you sit down to play, but this only in the idea does not help much to this poker site, I have seen several Fiat casinos with similar modalities, but they do not survive.

Well, first I will say welcome to the forum, here if you do things properly you will attract players to your new poker site. It's always a pleasure to see new casinos pumping out but we are more interested in seeing quality development and design that can place your poker site in high demand because of good quality but from what I saw on your site it is far from that. A lot needed to be done and building a site is not an easy job so you will need huge marketing/promotion also consider getting a copper member account it will help your posting ability on this forum.

If you read his previous posts.... you will notice that he is not a company or a group of people, but rather a single individual that created something that he loves doing. So I think he has a full-time job and he does this on the side .... so do not expect him to comment frequently on the posts in this thread.

This is a project of passion for good game play.... something that is lacking in profit driven projects that are out there now. I guess he will grow over time, if the project is a success...  

That's almost a month, this thread would be better if we have an active OP. so now, I have a feeling that OP is not part of the team or the company, or they just have a very poor marketing strategy. Some company take their time seriously in the forum as they know how big the market is, and I still believe in first impression last, so not good for the business.

I just revisited the website to test this feature. I created a new game with friends and provided some of my email addresses. When I checked my email accounts, I didn't see any invitation emails. Not sure what's the cause of the problem, it could be a bug or just a problem with their email server/service provider. I don't think they want to keep their customers waiting for their friends who will never join because they didn't receive any invitation.
Also I noticed that if you create a new game and go back to create a new one the website hangs although it creates the table and you can access it only from the My games (!) menu!

Actually, .com is pretty cheap and not gonna matter anymore because the name of the casino itself determines the premium of the domain unless all domain in comparison has same name then .com will always be the most premium since its a top level domain. But if we compared paddleboat.com to bitcoin.xyz or other unfamiliar domain then the website that name after Bitcoin will always be expensive because of its premium due to the demand of that name. Domain doesn’t matter anymore on the current valuation of website.

Honestly, people now are very skeptical that even domain is being checked. I think it's because of the previous scam history of fake sites that users are now being more careful. I guess proper advertising of the site would be a good idea. Gaining the user's trust is also a way of building an important good reputation.

You know... the best sites are normally the ones where the "Player" are the designer of the game being played. A lot of ...let's call them investors, will pay a developer to develop a game for them and then the developer takes control and most of these developers will give preference to everything else and not the actual game play.

Your site looks simplistic, but the game play is very good and it is a pity that there are not more active people on the site. I love the fact that you can play via email and also against bots....... such an awesome feature.   

OP hasn't logged in for almost so not sure if he is still following this thread and reading our suggestions!
But in case he does, I want to know why the deposit page generates three types of bitcoin addresses (bech32, p2sh, legacy). I don't think this is needed since almost all wallets support segwit and hence only a bech32 address should be enough.
Also, when I tryed the game (for free), I noticed that the page reloads with each action (deal, fold, call..) which I found unpleasant.

I visited your site, and its design seemed old to me. In order to compete with the websites that are currently on the market, you must further develop the design. Because if your website is not attractive then no matter how trustworthy it is, players will not be attracted to that website. Because there are a lot of websites in the market today that are offering something better, attracting players to a new website is not an easy task.

So try to develop the website in a more interesting way and design the forum's Ann thread creatively.

I haven't created an account as well, but why would we?! What is so great about this place that can make me want to play here?! Old school design not for sure, good tournaments with granted prizes?! There isn't any!

PvP but multiplayer?! You need to be more specific about what you want! Join Betnomi poker games, I know just one game left, but you will get a taste of nice poker and maybe there will be another tournament after this one!

Site seems very much simple & quite old school era. I'm not saying I don’t like such design; I'm loving this smf forum as well LOL. But with the competition, promotion in the market, I guess OP will have hard time establishing the site.
I haven’t created an account with the site yet. Can someone share whether there's board game (pvp but multi players). I'm looking for such poker sites. There are only few available options.

Checked the site and seems a bit simple though it doesn't attract me to play even you can play using play money or chips that has no value. Though I have played in pvp poker in a gambling site against different people and it is quite good to experience it but this one does compared to it as other poker players may cheat using another account when playing with valued chips or whatever the site use like their own tokens whatsoever. Promotions are bit less in my opinion or lacking the effort in promoting the site after launching.

You haven't played online poker much, have you?

Poker rooms usually have a "play money" version where you play for no money. They simply give you chips that are not worth anything and if you lose them they give you more, usually up to a limit. It is like playing with your friends with some chips but without money. I guess they do it for people who don't dare with money, because a profitable percentage of those players end up depositing and playing with money.

The point is that it is very different to play with fictitious chips that are worthless than to play with money, even if they are insignificant amounts. The way of playing changes a lot.

If you want to see the play money version you can download Pokerstars for example and there you can choose to play with fictitious money.


This poses a problem, which is not unique to your site, but to all sites that want to preserve the privacy of their users: collusion.

Playing without identifying yourself in casino games is not a problem, because after all they are EV- games (or EV+ for the house) and you can't cheat.

On the other hand, in poker playing anonymously implies a great risk of people cheating, so you won't see me in those sites.

I see this project last month, I would like to ask of the OP managed to do some promotions I think many people would be interested to this game. I also see that you would be able to test it using bot, how many players you have so far? maybe a weekly giveaway would be a good idea and eliminate the player vs bot since we don't know how fair would it be I still considering playing with other player.