Topic: PM Poker – True Vegas Style Poker with Bitcoin (New) - page 4. (Read 12118 times)
Has anyone confirmed whether or not PM Poker is now working flawlessly with Wine? If so, I'll consider reinstalling it.
Friendly suggestion/request:
In a freeroll, anyone that has been sitting out/offline/disconnected and misses X number of hands in a row, should be automatically eliminated/pulled.
In a freeroll, anyone that has been sitting out/offline/disconnected and misses X number of hands in a row, should be automatically eliminated/pulled.
any plans for a os x native client?
UPDATE
We did an upgrade this evening to fix most of the errors that where popping up. This is not a promise that others won’t occur.
Thanks to all for your time and concideration.
We did an upgrade this evening to fix most of the errors that where popping up. This is not a promise that others won’t occur.
Thanks to all for your time and concideration.
I saw the update - it applied automatically when I restarted the client. And I've not seen any error dialogs since. So whatever you changed seems to have fixed things for me.
Thanks!
UPDATE
We did an upgrade this evening to fix most of the errors that where popping up. This is not a promise that others won’t occur.
Thanks to all for your time and concideration.
We did an upgrade this evening to fix most of the errors that where popping up. This is not a promise that others won’t occur.
Thanks to all for your time and concideration.
I think you need the concept of 'sitting out'.
There's someone at a ring game at the moment who is online, but obviously away from their computer. I can keep raising, and they keep folding, over and over.
It's only a play money game, but it doesn't seem fair that they're not 'sat out' when they fail to act in time.
What would happen at a real poker ring game if I fell asleep at the table? Would my blinds be taken from me while I slept until my stack was gone?
There's someone at a ring game at the moment who is online, but obviously away from their computer. I can keep raising, and they keep folding, over and over.
It's only a play money game, but it doesn't seem fair that they're not 'sat out' when they fail to act in time.
What would happen at a real poker ring game if I fell asleep at the table? Would my blinds be taken from me while I slept until my stack was gone?
I have the same behaviour in WinXP SP3, it uses 80-100% of one of the 2 cores all time (Intel Atom 1.6 GHz) thus 40-50% in task manager when at table.
Actually you're right. I hadn't noticed it eating CPU when I wasn't at a table, but it does:
It's not as bad as when I am at a table, but it's still too much. Using over 50% of a modern CPU core just for sitting in a poker lobby isn't really reasonable.
I think PMPoker needs more players. I shouldn't be able to win every time. 
I'm glad to see the software behaving itself for the most part.
I'm glad to see the software behaving itself for the most part.
Here's a new issue... I noticed my laptop was running very hot. When I run 'top' to see what's causing it, I see PMPoker.exe using the whole of one of my CPU cores.
I have the same behaviour in WinXP SP3, it uses 80-100% of one of the 2 cores all time (Intel Atom 1.6 GHz) thus 40-50% in task manager when at table.
I just bought in for the 7PM(eastern) 25mBTC tourney. Anybody want to join me?
BTW, great job on putting up QR codes for deposits. It makes it a lot easier.
BTW, great job on putting up QR codes for deposits. It makes it a lot easier.
I noticed there are left and right arrows in the top right corner of the chat box's title bar. I couldn't figure out what they're for. I guessed maybe it's for moving through the tabs. But there's only one tab. Could it be that you can private-message people, and have a tab for each?
I tried clicking people's names in the chat, hoping to get a context menu, "pm this person" or something.
All it did was move the text cursor in the chat box, so that future messages didn't appear at the end, making a mess:
I tried clicking people's names in the chat, hoping to get a context menu, "pm this person" or something.
All it did was move the text cursor in the chat box, so that future messages didn't appear at the end, making a mess:
Here's a new issue... I noticed my laptop was running very hot. When I run 'top' to see what's causing it, I see PMPoker.exe using the whole of one of my CPU cores.
In the following screenshot, it's my turn to act, so it really shouldn't be doing much more than waiting for me to click something, but it's running the laptop flat out. It happens the whole time I'm playing (but not when I'm not at a table), no matter whose turn it is. It's too hot in here already, and I could do without the laptop heating up and making annoying fan sounds while I play. Also, I'm running off solar power, and it's winter, so there's not really enough power to waste on whatever the poker client thinks it's doing.
Is this a WINE issue, or does the client use the whole of one CPU core on Windows too?
In the following screenshot, it's my turn to act, so it really shouldn't be doing much more than waiting for me to click something, but it's running the laptop flat out. It happens the whole time I'm playing (but not when I'm not at a table), no matter whose turn it is. It's too hot in here already, and I could do without the laptop heating up and making annoying fan sounds while I play. Also, I'm running off solar power, and it's winter, so there's not really enough power to waste on whatever the poker client thinks it's doing.
Is this a WINE issue, or does the client use the whole of one CPU core on Windows too?
And I think the reason I beat you heads up was because you folded every time I bluffed, and called every time I didn't... Just unlucky I guess.
Ahhh, so you zigged when I thought you zagged and zagged when I thought you zigged. I'm on to you now.
However, I then found a workaround for the bug.
If I'm very quick, and click 'ok' to the access violation error box before all the JSON error boxes start appearing, then the table I'm sat at appears, and no other errors show up.
If I'm very quick, and click 'ok' to the access violation error box before all the JSON error boxes start appearing, then the table I'm sat at appears, and no other errors show up.
I think the 'access violation' error happens at the start of each tournament. Perhaps every time the client tries to open a table for me. I left the client running after the 1pm game ended. At 3pm I saw the error dialog pop up, but I was typing at the time, and as soon as I hit the spacebar the error dialog disappeared. Then the table opened, and I could play normally.
This is quite different to the 1pm game where the dialog popped up, but I didn't dismiss it in time, and then was met by hundreds of error boxes telling me about JSON errors, or some such.
So I need to be quick to dismiss the "can't write to 0x60" box as soon as it appears at the start of each tournament.
Why they would need to do this in online poker, I don’t know. This is done in live poker tournaments so that there aren't a million small denomination chips towards the end of the tourney.
I think the aim is to make the game as much like 'real poker' as possible. In real poker you can't make a bet of 1999 chips when the blinds are 100/200, so you can't in PM Poker either.
I meant to post this link earlier: http://casinosmack.com/blog/how-to-color-up-chips-correctly-in-poker-chip-race-round-up-and-rounding/ for people (like myself) who didn't hear about "coloring up" before...
And I think the reason I beat you heads up was because you folded every time I bluffed, and called every time I didn't... Just unlucky I guess.
I signed up for the 11am freeroll at my house, then took my laptop to the neighbour's house at around 10:55am and got back online. I had left pmpoker running, but when I got back online it didn't seem to notice. The player list showed me as the most recent sign-up even though others had signed up after me. I tried clicking around all over the client, but nothing seemed to make it check whether there was an Internet connection or not. Previously, it's woken up and noticed it was disconnected when I click around.
I closed pmpoker and started it again.
It came up and logged me in (no updates to apply), then showed 1 or 2 error boxes (I think about memory violation errors, or whatever it's called when you deference an invalid pointer) but after that worked pretty much flawlessly.
I saw only one thing that looked like a bug. A couple of players showed their hold'em hole cards. One guy had only 1 card, and the other had 4. I don't know if he was keeping some up his sleeve, or what was going on, but it looks suspicious. The 2 popups in the top right are IM alerts from a different program. I blurred their content.
Overall the game ran much more smoothly than I've seen it before. It was fast and smooth and almost bug-free! A vast improvement on yesterday at any rate.
What the?! You could see my hole cards? So that's how you beat me when we were heads up. I closed pmpoker and started it again.
It came up and logged me in (no updates to apply), then showed 1 or 2 error boxes (I think about memory violation errors, or whatever it's called when you deference an invalid pointer) but after that worked pretty much flawlessly.
I saw only one thing that looked like a bug. A couple of players showed their hold'em hole cards. One guy had only 1 card, and the other had 4. I don't know if he was keeping some up his sleeve, or what was going on, but it looks suspicious.
The 2 popups in the top right are IM alerts from a different program. I blurred their content.Overall the game ran much more smoothly than I've seen it before. It was fast and smooth and almost bug-free! A vast improvement on yesterday at any rate.
EDIT: When chips are colored up (the small denomination chips are converted/consolidated into higher denomination chips - a different color, hence the term, 'coloring up' as the blinds increase to bigger whole round numbers) there is a high card draw for the extra chip. And for each extra $5 chip you have at this point, that’s how many cards you get for the high card drawing for that $25 chip. In the image above, one of d3bil’s Jack(his highest card) beat my 5, so he gets the $25 chip. Once all the $5 chips have been consolidated into $25 chips, all the $5 chips are removed from the tournament.
Why they would need to do this in online poker, I don’t know. This is done in live poker tournaments so that there aren't a million small denomination chips towards the end of the tourney.
I though it was a bug too and in fact it shows everytime when level 5 starts. It is a game to distribute odd chips that will be not in play anymore, like in offline poker tournaments. But it is so quick and uncommon for online pokerroom, it looks like a bug. It also explains why we cant bet odd chip amount as we are used from online pokerrooms
Oh, yes. I meant to post about that myself. Steve from PM Poker called me and we talked about the bugs I was seeing, including this one. It turns out that this isn't a bug at all, but is how odd chips are fairly shared out when the blind levels go up. I hadn't even noticed that it's written right across the table: "coloring up $5 chips"...
Apparently this is common in real life poker tournaments, and PM Poker is aiming to be as close to real poker as possible. Hence disallowing 'silly' bet amounts, sometimes dealing a hand with no small blind (when the person who would have played small blind was just knocked out), etc. The website will hopefully list these differences when it's unveiled (soon, I'm told) so that those of us who only really know online poker will know what to expect at PM Poker.
Here's another example of "coloring up", involving 8 players:
Got the crazy pop ups again today. Same as dooglus has described - error messages popping up faster than I could close them. Had to exit (end task in task manager) the client and log back on. When i did, everything seemed ok.
Exactly the same (and solution) I got 2x in 2 sessions out of three, so relatively often
I saw only one thing that looked like a bug. A couple of players showed their hold'em hole cards. One guy had only 1 card, and the other had 4. I don't know if he was keeping some up his sleeve, or what was going on, but it looks suspicious. The 2 popups in the top right are IM alerts from a different program. I blurred their content.
The 2 popups in the top right are IM alerts from a different program. I blurred their content.I though it was a bug too and in fact it shows everytime when level 5 starts. It is a game to distribute odd chips that will be not in play anymore, like in offline poker tournaments. But it is so quick and uncommon for online pokerroom, it looks like a bug. It also explains why we cant bet odd chip amount as we are used from online pokerrooms
I get those too, on win7 x64 and win8 x64 preview. Hope this can be patched up, I really like it otherwise.
I killed it and tried again, and got much the same result:
However, I then found a workaround for the bug.
If I'm very quick, and click 'ok' to the access violation error box before all the JSON error boxes start appearing, then the table I'm sat at appears, and no other errors show up.
It's as if the access violation error box is blocking the table window from opening, which is leading to the players table not being initialised, and so none of the messages trying to update the table work. Maybe. I'm guessing with very little to go on of course. But anyway, I'm able to play again now, by clicking 'ok' very quickly to the first error box.
However, I then found a workaround for the bug.
If I'm very quick, and click 'ok' to the access violation error box before all the JSON error boxes start appearing, then the table I'm sat at appears, and no other errors show up.
It's as if the access violation error box is blocking the table window from opening, which is leading to the players table not being initialised, and so none of the messages trying to update the table work. Maybe. I'm guessing with very little to go on of course. But anyway, I'm able to play again now, by clicking 'ok' very quickly to the first error box.
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