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it depends what their goals are for poker traffic. doing poker right doesn't mean it has to be their main focus.

i dunno what the ideal lobby design is without more insight into the industry, but i can say from experience with other sports betting sites that the poker room is usually more prominently displayed. IMO the most attractive UI is a standalone client with 3 primary sections---one for sports betting, one for table games, and one for poker.

We have to realize sportsbet is not a poker website. Sure the poker part played a big role in staying active during the pandemic process where there wasn't many games to play so we focused on the poker side of the website, but that doesn't mean their focus is poker part, their focus is the sports side of things.

Certainly they could improve the poker part, most request removing from it being just the side thing and making it a full page thing (right now it is either small or full screen, no middle version where it is full website sized) but honestly do they have to do anything? I do not think so. As long as it works properly without any problems, I think that's enough, at least for a sportsbook that offers poker game at the side. We should not really request things from them like they are a poker website.

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Thank You Steve for your awesome support.

Very happy that we were able to fix the issue.

We have to remember that poker is a pvp game in the first place and to find enough players to provide enough space for tables all around the clock means a lot of people in many timezones. Covid brought poker into the spotlight (without sports) and I think SB will always focus on sports but we have to be patient for more improvements to non-sports offerings.

Hard to please everybody right?

All your points are valid and I hope Sportsbet will do something about it. As you said I am also very grateful for great rewards we are getting on the tournaments but softer needs a lot of work to get to industry standard.

This one point about guy yelling raise or fold is bugging me immensely. I have to mute Sportsbet tab just to be able to play. I know when i raise or fold, really don't know how somebody thought that is a feature. Again as you said this shows that the person who made the software doesen't play online poker.


And how did you find that trick? Sounds useful but that should be an option somewhere and not a lucky find.

Thanks for sharing

There is another trick that works for me. You have to hold the username and drag the mouse upwards. This will fix the cards on the screen in faded form and from the next hand, your cards will no longer hide aftering fold. They will appear in faded form.

Have to agree with this on the Bubble - Final Table. Most users had less than 15 big blinds, the blinds rose faster than expected there. Made most of the spots here either push or fold.

i would absolutely love to see that. i don't think SB can realistically get all the software changes they need from coinpoker. they should really start fresh with a better designed platform. i think SwC is a shining example of what they should be aiming for---intuitive and UI comparable to the major poker sites.

i also think the poker room's position on SB's main page is problematic for traffic. your account has to be on BTC currency to even see it, and when you do see it, it looks almost like just another table game or something. it's just not very visible.


yeah it's part of the same function that makes it so you can't access the prior hand replay once knocked out. when observing tables, you can't see handles or hand replay.


to each his own. i found the mid-late blind structure to be really fast. so many standard levels were being skipped. it felt a lot more like a turbo deep stack tourney than a regular deep stack.

To add one more, Not sure if this happen to only my screen or everyone. When I spectate the last table from the tournament, I couldnt see the player's username for some reason just their avatar

Has this happened to you?


Got no issue with the blind structure because the starting stack is big 10k chips. Perhaps , Folks here are not just the same as what we expected them to be and mostly like to shove


Ahh so thats how you check your previous card when you fold lol

Epic facepalm, lolz. Thanks, I'll remember that for next time! Would be nice with cards being faded and/or just hovering over to see them.

A different thing I noticed is that when two players go all-in their cards show but they are faded out for some reason, what's up with that?

You can see it you can have to hold down left mouse button over your user and your hand pops up.

Agreed with all of your points, I know of a certain poker software out here and if SportsBet were to license or straight up buy it we'd have something awesome brewing.

One thing that bugs me is that I can't see my hand after I folded, this feels like a pretty basic feature that could easily be added maybe?

the software (coinpoker) is a big issue for me tbh. whoever designed it was not an online poker player. while i am extremely grateful for SB's gifts to the poker community, i do think there is a big list of software problems deterring consistent traffic.

the betting interface is clunky and manually betting takes forever. a few times, i manually typed in bet amounts but when i clicked to raise it only minbet. it may have been technically my fault but the interface is just not intuitive at all. table breaks are glitchy too. sometimes when i get re-seated it sits me out and there is no way to sit back in unless i close and reopen SB completely.

then there is the sounds/alerts. for some reason they felt it was important to yell "fold" at you when you fold, but there is no alert sound (or option to pop-up table) when the action is on you. what a strange design. the crazy fast blind structures aren't my cup of tea either. it's all shove-shove-shove so quickly.

finally, you can't retrieve hand histories---this is a very basic fault that will deter any semi-serious poker player. the best you can do is see the previous hand, and only while you are seated at that table. if you get knocked out, your access is gone.

anyway, i'm not trying to hate, but if SB is serious about pushing into the poker world, they need to consider dropping coinpoker or otherwise pushing them into a serious platform overhaul. it's too bad there is such a lack of network/skin operations in bitcoin poker.

i'll definitely be playing in any big overlay tourneys like yesterday but the software tilts me so much that i take my normal action elsewhere. that's the sad truth.

It's kind of a challenge for them though.

Yeah as the only thing makes people around here to get attracted to play poker is where there is a tourney that worth their time and the buy-in quite low with huge prize then it's guaranteed the room will exploded, even more if there's a weekly or daily freeroll which it's pretty working well to keep the room filled all the time.

Idk. It's kind investing if they do this as time goes by the fiat poker players might make switch come to crypto .. I've seen this.

I played in the poker tournament but was having problems with my router so I folded most my hands 
Filled out the form for the t-shirt, but didnt get any confirmation to my email.  Did anyone get an confirmation email?  Maybe they didnt send them out. 

The problem is, that these tournaments are not profitable for Sportsbet, there was a huge overlay. So don't expect these tournaments too often


Lots of poker rooms struggle with getting players in general and Sportsbet is no exception. There are few players and the software needs some improvements to attract more players. I think the main focus for Sportsbet was on the Sportsbook in the past, but you can see they are slowly but surely putting more focus on poker too. But poker is a hard business nowadays and the boom is over. We witnessed some mini-boom again in the last months for obvious reasons and Sportsbet is trying to ride the wave, which is very nice for us Poker-interested gamblers. But the software needs to bet more convenient and a bit more fancy imo and unless that happens, I don't think it's worth to put up loads of tournaments. And even then, you have this Goliath of a poker room called PokerStars and everyone else is only David.

Hi again!
Yesterday sadly i have a terrible bad luck in the tournament.
I really like if where more tournament like these.
And for finish i repeat why dont put other tournaments in the scheudle ? Like 5mbtc price whit 0.2 buy in like we have in the past because the freeroll are really unplayable a lot of noobs and multiacounts(the other day i see goodyboy777 and good777boy, come on man) playing. And the other tournaments nobody plays the 20 mbtc and 50 mbtc tournaments we have in these days. What do you think steve?.
Cheers

The sports are finally back in many places, I have finally had the chance to gamble on Turkish super league as well unfortunately it wasn't really a nice week to play on it since the teams that are usually the great teams ended up losing their games. Fenerbahce did win their game which was the rare occasion for this week, but Besiktas and Galatasaray both lost their games this week which I did not really see coming.

Specially Galatasaray because they were fighting for championship before going on the break and now they came back and they both lost their game but also lost Fernando Muslera who is a world class goalkeeper and also lost their striker as well. I think we can easily say that with this one game they have said goodbye to their championship possibilities.