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boltonguy said:
Can you upgrade from Lite without reinstalling the software?
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My suspicion is no. I think with a new license comes a new download. However, I was able to install the Lite version over top of the trial, and it saved all my settings.

I should also say this is a great time to read the FAQ about how to backup all your settings/accounts in the app ;)
 
Well after last night my group is going to move off of Pokerrr. Some folks would get booted and it would take 5-10 minutes for the server to login again. Guess everyone playing home games online is killing their servers.
 
AceFour said:
Yeah I'm not going to host Windows software. I dumped Windows in '97 and never looked back.
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But you missed so many quality Microsoft offerings! Like Windows 98, 98SE, 2000, CE, ME, NT (spells cement, ran like it too), XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 (not sure what happened to 9). Their motto - if at first you don't succeed, offer it again under a different name!
 
boltonguy said:
Yes - found the setting it is set to ON by default blocking multiple logins from same IP address.
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I’m so glad you guys posted this. I had a friend whose wife wanted to play and they couldn’t figure out how to both play from their house. Had no idea it was a setting on my side that I can toggle on and off. Thank you!
 
codeman00 said:
I’m so glad you guys posted this. I had a friend whose wife wanted to play and they couldn’t figure out how to both play from their house. Had no idea it was a setting on my side that I can toggle on and off. Thank you!
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You can also have one of them use their cell phone (cell data, not wifi) or a VPN on one machine to get around that restriction (gives each device a different IP address), if you want to keep that setting enabled. It does prevent the same player playing multiple hands in the same game under different names (which can happen if you aren't monitoring who is creating accounts on your site).
 
LotsOfChips said:
You can also have one of them use their cell phone (cell data, not wifi) or a VPN on one machine to get around that restriction (gives each device a different IP address), if you want to keep that setting enabled. It does prevent the same player playing multiple hands in the same game under different names (which can happen if you aren't monitoring who is creating accounts on your site).
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I appreciate the tip. I’m actually only using the software for nine or 10 players in my home game that I know so it’s not a big deal here to change the setting. Glad to know it exists!
 
For those of you that use Discord for voice while playing online, can Discord run in the background while you play on to pokerrrr2? Or do you need two separate devices?
 
Himewad said:
For those of you that use Discord for voice while playing online, can Discord run in the background while you play on to pokerrrr2? Or do you need two separate devices?
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They are completely separate. You can run discord by itself without doing anything else if you want to.
 
codeman00 said:
They are completely separate. You can run discord by itself without doing anything else if you want to.
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I know they are separate. My question is this: on my iPad or iPhone, can I open the Discord app, join the voice channel that I created for our poker group, close Discord, open the pokerrrr2 app and use both at the same time?
 
If I’m hosting a pokerrrr2 game and I bust out, can I turn off my iPad? Surely the game continues, right?
 
Pokerstars tourneys with 10k stacks and 5 minute levels have been a hit with my group.
 
SendThatStack said:
Pokerstars tourneys with 10k stacks and 5 minute levels have been a hit with my group.
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How long are these tourney taking you to complete? How many players? Rebuys or no?

Tomorrow night we are doing our first with a 10K buy in, 10min blinds with no rebuys and hoping it takes around 3 hrs.
 
BadCardHaver said:
How long are these tourney taking you to complete? How many players? Rebuys or no?

Tomorrow night we are doing our first with a 10K buy in, 10min blinds with no rebuys and hoping it takes around 3 hrs.
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As many others here will tell you, the game usually ends when Big Blinds are around 5% of the total number of chips in play (20 BB = # of chips on the table). The time that occurs depends on starting stack, number of players (and rebuys), blind times and tournament blind structure. For example with 10 players and no rebuys then you should finish around the level when BB = 5000 (total 100,000 chips x .05). Say for argument's sake that this occurs at your tournament's blind level 16. At 10 minutes/level, this is 160 minutes (not including breaks), so at around 2 hours 40 minutes.
 
LotsOfChips said:
As many others here will tell you, the game usually ends when Big Blinds are around 5% of the total number of chips in play (20 BB = # of chips on the table). The time that occurs depends on starting stack, number of players (and rebuys), blind times and tournament blind structure. For example with 10 players and no rebuys then you should finish around the level when BB = 5000 (total 100,000 chips x .05). Say for argument's sake that this occurs at your tournament's blind level 16. At 10 minutes/level, this is 160 minutes (not including breaks), so at around 2 hours 40 minutes.
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I appreciate this information! I wanted two hours also, so I'll keep with the standard blind structure and start with 5000 in chips. This should stop the game at level 13 which is just over 2 hrs.
 
Anyone have experience running tourneys on mavens? Any advice in addition to the making sure people have buyins preloaded that was previously posted?
 
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MrCatPants said:
Anyone have experience running tourneys on mavens? Any advice in addition to the making sure people have buyins preloaded that was previously posted?
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Great question.

In Ring games, make sure the "Rathole Protection" is turned to ON! One player was locked up. We he came back in he couldn't buy in at the amount he left the table with because the max buy in was set too low.
 
codeman00 said:
In Ring games, make sure the "Rathole Protection" is turned to ON! One player was locked up. (When) he came back in he couldn't buy in at the amount he left the table with because the max buy in was set too low.
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Yes, that is a problem, but "Rathole Protection" isn't really the way to solve it.

Rathole Minutes setting merely prevents players from buying back in at a lesser amount for a pre-determined time, so your big-stacked player that leaves has to wait for however many minutes you configure before he is allowed to return with a smaller stack. (There is no On/Off function for Rathole Protection as such).

If you want a big-stacked player to be able to return with his big stack intact, you need to increase the maximum buy in setting. This has the potentially undesired effect of allowing people to buy in initially for way more than other players feel comfortable with.

Perhaps the bigger question is why did the person leave with his big stack. If he did it by choice, then rat hole minutes punishes him by making him wait for a period of time before he can play again at that table. Not a bad thing to do, but it also punishes players who leave not by choice.

Rather than punish a player who was removed from the table unexpectedly (usually for sitting out too long), make sure he isn't removed at all. Do this by increasing the Sitout Minutes setting (default 10 minutes, way too short), and enabling Sitout Relaxed setting, which prevents a player from being removed unless a player is on the waiting list for the table.
 
MrCatPants said:
Anyone have experience running tourneys on mavens? Any advice in addition to the making sure people have buyins preloaded that was previously posted?
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Experience? A little

Advice?
  • Read through the tournament settings page of the help file thoroughly, and understand what each setting does.
  • Run a test game before you play for real money in order to get the bugs worked out, and to familiarize players with the interface.
  • Keep things simple to start, and add more complicated features (like add ons) after you are comfortable with the basics
  • As with any tournament, figure out the levels, blind times, starting stacks, number of expected players, number of expected rebuys, etc. (all of these affect the expected duration) in advance and then configure your settings to match.
  • Use the extended chat function to move your chat from the table to a separate (larger) window. (Each player must do this themselves)
  • Rebuy period may not end exactly when you think it does. It ends at the end of a level, not at the start of the next, so if you bust on the last hand of a level, you may not get a chance to rebuy, even if there is a break at that time.
  • Understand the starting options. Easiest is to wait until all players are logged in and then start manually. Timed start begins whether players are ready or not. Start when full won't start at all if there is a late player or no-show.
Cheers!
 
MrCatPants said:
Anyone have experience running tourneys on mavens? Any advice in addition to the making sure people have buyins preloaded that was previously posted?
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IIRC someone mentioned that the best way of handling any rebuys or add-ins was to ask players to send over all the funds for both the buy-in and any rebuys or add-ons they may want to cash in that night. Say you're running a $10 tourney with unlimited rebuys for 2 hours. If a player wants to play and potentially rebuy up to 2 times, they should send you = $10 buying + $10 rebuy +$10 rebuy = $30. Load that $30 into their account balance in Mavens, and then if they need it to rebuy, they automatically have access to it. If they don't need it (or choose not to rebuy), the balance remains on their account and you just send back the balance after the game.

If they only send you $10 for their buy-in and you load $10 into their account balance, you'll only have 60 seconds to add more funds to their balance to allow them to rebuy once they bust.
 
We are going to try our Poker Mavens setup this weekend. But one of my players also came across donkhouse.com on Reddit's poker subreddit. It's free of charge and browser-based. From what I can tell it doesn't have the level of customization of Poker Mavens and doesn't offer PM's variety of mixed games, but it has NLH and PLO, and does have some other home game-friendly features (72 game, bomb pots, double-board). Also offers its own house mixed game "donk'em" which I've never seen before - 3 card PLO, 2 card flop, 2 card turn, and a 6th street (no betting). Figured someone looking for a cheap alternative for hosting private online games which you can use on desktop might want to check it out. Word of warning: it looks like they've had some bandwidth problems at peak times like some of the other mobile apps, though the developer says they are expanding their servers.
 
Irish said:
IIRC someone mentioned that the best way of handling any rebuys or add-ins was to ask players to send over all the funds for both the buy-in and any rebuys or add-ons they may want to cash in that night. Say you're running a $10 tourney with unlimited rebuys for 2 hours. If a player wants to play and potentially rebuy up to 2 times, they should send you = $10 buying + $10 rebuy +$10 rebuy = $30. Load that $30 into their account balance in Mavens, and then if they need it to rebuy, they automatically have access to it. If they don't need it (or choose not to rebuy), the balance remains on their account and you just send back the balance after the game.

If they only send you $10 for their buy-in and you load $10 into their account balance, you'll only have 60 seconds to add more funds to their balance to allow them to rebuy once they bust.
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Yup, you've gotta preload your accounts or let players on the site go negative.
 
power13 said:
But one of my players also came across donkhouse.com on Reddit's poker subreddit.

Word of warning: it looks like they've had some bandwidth problems at peak times like some of the other mobile apps, though the developer says they are expanding their servers.
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That is one of the big complaints against Pokerrr at the moment. Not sure how the donkhouse developer is going to expand their servers massively during a lockdown, but the various features (72 game, bomb pots, double-board) sound interesting.
 

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