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[boltonguy]

Kent added the "Pause Table" feature so players aren't blinded in at the start of the game:
http://www.briggsoft.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2974&sid=1cb4fe85206bb8e6c06a7d5f5e04694e

 

[BearMetal]

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.

Yup - we had enough people with connection problems on Pokerrrr that we switched to Poker Mavens. Would be nice to have bomb pots or a 7-card game where you can designate wild card. But, this is a stop gap solution, so I'd rather it be rock solid without the extra frills.

 

[boltonguy]

You can do a bomb pot if all players just agree to call preflop, no?
That's how we do it in person.

 

[BearMetal]

You can do a bomb pot if all players just agree to call preflop, no?
That's how we do it in person.

Yup - it would work if everyone agreed. But you can't do double-board bomb pots

 

[LotsOfChips]

Kent added the "Pause Table" feature so players aren't blinded in at the start of the game:
http://www.briggsoft.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2974&sid=1cb4fe85206bb8e6c06a7d5f5e04694e

YAY!!!!

Actually he fixed a whole bunch of minor issues (table resizing bug, add on timer bug, added SSL to Pro version, ring game now allows buy in while paused, more).

I highly recommend everyone to upgrade to the newest release (free minor upgrade).

 

[Irish]

I highly recommend everyone to upgrade to the newest release (free minor upgrade).

Will applying the patch completely re-install the program? I see on the site that the server has to be off and the software closed out before running the patch. I haven't looked into backing anything up at this point and also have a tournament scheduled with registered players. Maybe I'll just wait until after the tourney.

 

[boltonguy]

No - I just patched. All config is preserved

 

[LotsOfChips]

Will applying the patch completely re-install the program? I see on the site that the server has to be off and the software closed out before running the patch. I haven't looked into backing anything up at this point and also have a tournament scheduled with registered players. Maybe I'll just wait until after the tourney.

While it does remove the old program and install the new one, it searches for and saves the existing configuration before doing so. Takes about 5 minutes.

HOWEVER!!!! If you take a tournament offline (which you need to do to close the program and upgrade), all registrations to that tournament are lost. You can save the registrations and then reload them (or just re-register everybody manually using an option in the player's Chips tab), but it might be easier to wait until after this tournament to do the upgrade.

 

[MrCatPants]

Ok. After running a test tourney, one question.

How do you turn off the "double rebuy" option? I cant seem to find it.

 

[SendThatStack]

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.

We had 6-7 guys and no rebuys. They take about 60 minutes if Im remembering right.

 

[LotsOfChips]

Ok. After running a test tourney, one question.

How do you turn off the "double rebuy" option? I cant seem to find it.

Edit - Maximum Rebuys = 0 (or however many you want to allow)

 

[MrCatPants]

Edit - Maximum Rebuys = 0 (or however many you want to allow)

I tested going from unlimited to 2 and it still allowed the double. Is it 1 (or 0) only to shut that off I guess?

 

[LotsOfChips]

Reportedly if you set Rebuy Threshold to a number less than Starting Chips, it will only allow a single rebuy. (I set my threshold to 1)

 

[CraigT78]

I'm up to 90 players in my game - 4 cash tables running nightly - PM me if you want in on the action.

 

[grantc54]

Do HUDs exist for Poket Mavens? I'd like to play with regular home game players and not internet poker wizards.

 

[CraigT78]

Do HUDs exist for Poket Mavens? I'd like to play with regular home game players and not internet poker wizards.

I am not aware of an HUD that works for Poker mavens. If anyone has info otherwise, please let me know.

 

[LotsOfChips]

Do HUDs exist for Poket Mavens? I'd like to play with regular home game players and not internet poker wizards.

AFAIK, all of the commercially available HUDs don't work, as the hand database has to be made available to the HUD. Commercial sites typically make these available to HUD developers (I'm looking at you, P*). PM, not so, as there is no central database (it only resides on YOUR server for your games).

On the PM Support site, there is talk of private software developers trying to create Bots, but I haven't seen any evidence that any of them actually work yet, and they are targetting large public PM sites. If you keep yours private and know who is playing (or at least have some connection to them), then the risk of Bots on your site is next to zero.

 

[CraigT78]

Taking my server offline this morning for upgrade and minor adjustments. Going to try out a bad beat jackpot!

 

[DoubleEagle]

Having an issue with Zoom. I have a paid account. Is there a way to open a room without requiring players enter a password to login? Stumped...

 

[grantc54]

Having an issue with Zoom. I have a paid account. Is there a way to open a room without requiring players enter a password to login? Stumped...

I received an e-mail from Zoom recently (yesterday I think) saying hey added passwords and waiting rooms to all conferences for added security.

 

[DoubleEagle]

I received an e-mail from Zoom recently (yesterday I think) saying hey added passwords and waiting rooms to all conferences for added security.

I got the same thing.

 

[BearMetal]

I got the same thing.

You can turn it off if you login to your account. It's under the settings somewhere. Also, you can copy the link with the password encoded in the link as well.

 

[DoubleEagle]

You can turn it off if you login to your account. It's under the settings somewhere.

I have looked everywhere and can't find it.

 

[BearMetal]

@DoubleEagle Login via a browser. Go to your Account -> Settings and it's this option:

 

[DoubleEagle]

@DoubleEagle Login via a browser. Go to your Account -> Settings and it's this option:

View attachment 435855

Got it! Thanks.

Does this setting stay off or does it need to be reset each time you access your account?

 

[BearMetal]

Got it! Thanks.

Does this setting stay off or does it need to be reset each time you access your account?

These should remain in effect - they are account-level settings. All you're doing is switching the defaults from on to off. There are a few more password-related settings for things like scheduled meetings, etc.

 

[codeman00]

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.

You are correct, I thought I saw an ON/OFF listed for Rathole protection. I set the rathole time to the length of our nightly game so there is no chance someone can come back in with less chips than they took off the table.

I'll have to experiment with these other settings more. I thought for sure that you could set the table limit at $65 but if the player left with $135, that if rathole protection was in effect that he would have to sit down again with $135 no matter if the table is set for max $65 or not. Otherwise what's the point of rathole protection? I don't want player to be able to buy in for over $40. Note that the $65 max limit allows players to top off when they are down to $25 or less. Still, I think the program makes you bring back $135 if you leave the table...or am I wrong there?

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.

The reason he left is unknown. He was just completely locked up to where none of his controls worked. I had to go to the connections tab and boot him manually. When he came back, he was only allowed to buy in for $65 since the rathole protection was at zero. Another player didn't know to buy in for his full amount either (and he's old and wasn't on audio) so both needed to be brought up to their previous chip stack.

To fix this, I ended the table, fixed the settings and everyone logged into the new table which had rathole protection enabled AND thinking back, I raised the buy in to $300 just to make sure because I didn't know how buyin limit affected everything. So I'm sure you're right, I need a max table buy in set to abnormally high... I can control the buy in though by the amount of money people buy in with.

I am not aware of an HUD that works for Poker mavens. If anyone has info otherwise, please let me know.

I hope not!! HUDs have ruined online poker for normal people.

We had 6-7 guys and no rebuys. They take about 60 minutes if Im remembering right.

I'm hoping for 10 people, default settings, and 5000 in starting chips, that the tournament will last a little over 2 hrs. Does that sound right?

 

[LotsOfChips]

The reason he left is unknown. He was just completely locked up to where none of his controls worked. I had to go to the connections tab and boot him manually.

A couple of players experienced this during my initial test game. Both of them were using Chrome browsers, and a least one of them experienced issues after resizing their table. Apparently the table resizing bug was addressed in patch 6.16, but I suggested to all my players to use Firefox or Edge/Internet Explorer, and nobody had issues in subsequent games.

 

[codeman00]

@LotsOfChips By the way, I just tested out the Rathole protection vs Max Buy In. In my example above, even though the Max Buy In is set to $65, if a person left the table with $300 and rathole protection is in effect, he must come back to the table with $300. The $65 only applies to his initial buy or limit if he tops off.

That was a big issue in my last game...just wanted to make sure I had it fixed correctly.

 

[LotsOfChips]

...I set the rathole time to the length of our nightly game so there is no chance someone can come back in with less chips than they took off the table.

... I thought for sure that you could set the table limit at $65 but if the player left with $135, that if rathole protection was in effect that he would have to sit down again with $135 no matter if the table is set for max $65 or not. Otherwise what's the point of rathole protection?

... Still, I think the program makes you bring back $135 if you leave the table...or am I wrong there?

@LotsOfChips By the way, I just tested out the Rathole protection vs Max Buy In. In my example above, even though the Max Buy In is set to $65, if a person left the table with $300 and rathole protection is in effect, he must come back to the table with $300. The $65 only applies to his initial buy or limit if he tops off.

Thanks for the info! I had initially though that it didn't force him to bring his full stack back with him, but rather kept him from returning at all, at least for as long as you configure. Based on your experience it seems that as long as the rathole timer is active, the player must either buy back in for the full amount he left with, or not be allowed back in. Good to know, thanks!