Betfair Poker and Ongame Network partner

think im playing golf tomoro tea time. can someone ask if they will be honouring existing cake deals or will we have to renegotiate/have set ones ? or indeed any at all.

i'd like to think those that stuck with the site through thick and thin would get some recognition.

black tie time

RIP betfair :( My favourate poker site is going :(:(:( Just about the only site on the net where people will talk! And the worst bit is i lose my alias! BOOOOOOOOO

forgive me for being a NOOB but what does this actually mean?

what is ongame?

ok, and which sites does ongame currently cover?

what's this likely to mean for our player base and quality?

reason i love betfair is for the fishy italians/cypriots...as a pretty poor player myself i dont think it would be worthwhile to play on a site with 'average' quality players!

Titan.

Try googling Ongame Network and read through it. It gives you information you seek

hennigan1

Just read a few reviews of the ongame network. lmao. Nice one betfair.....


CONNECTION PROBLEMS
The worst thing is that sometimes I get connection problems that seem to be on the server side ...
This is more so than any of the other sites I played at ...
In a few days I have lost 2 or 3 hands because of that ...

THE BAD

Disconnects from the server side are more common than on any of the major networks, fortunately you often get reconnected before the hand is done but it has happened that the server threw me out and when I came back I was very low ...

Hand histories are viewed in text form

No rakeback offered

10% rake at headsup and turbo games too (where many other sites have lower rake)

Software is the worse on the internet : with the last update (which should improve multitabling), you cannot play more than 4 tables with a computer with 3GB memory. Many disconnections (hand folded), no timebank, no waiting list. Programmers really sucks: each release is worse than the previous one, and we need to wait several months to get something just ok. Then a new release came and so on ...
- Support is bad since skins cannot answer themselves and need to escalate the problem to OnGame : it tooks 15 days to get hand histories ...
- Standard valuable player loyalty program sucks
- Many reg at 5max (easy to get a 30BI downswing due to very aggressive games)


Watch out,

this software has become a disaster after "upgrade" last month. Now the software regularly collapses, so every game is cancelled, even if you are already heads-up in a tournament, or having the nuts in a cash game.

But even worse: you always HAVE to know, how much money you had BEFOREHAND, so you have a chance to get the money back. You must know which tables you froze.

This is a pure disaster and I will leave them as soon as bonus is played out.


With this new software update it become a pain the a** to play there.

Personally i played only twice since the update till then was playing almost daily.

If u don t have latest pc forget it about...i can play only at one table and this thing make my cpu work at 90-100%;i've tried at 2 tables....frozen screen,etc.

All the other things as "traffic, game selection and quality of players

- Bonuses, freerolls and other perks offered

- Deposit and withdrawal methods" etc doesn't t really matter if u can't play.

Ongame has one of the worst software and management on the internet. Their soft always crashes, you loose your money because of that. I have had pots that were 200-300 dollars high that I lost beacause the tables crashed. You have to write to ongame to get ur money back. DO NOT GO TO ONGAME UNTIL THEY FIX THEIR STUFF 
 
The new soft is unbeliavable bad. Its slow, and takes your money(if the table crashes your money is stuck for 24-48H) there are poor players but now more and more regulars. So 6/10

seems to me that this is a typical Betfair idea. Upgrade to the worst network available and p1ss their long standing loyal customers off yet again...

Thanks guys

I don't play HU poker but 10% should be a concern for many. We don't want a worse deal than we're getting BTW.

This is what happens when 90% of people bitch and moan, we get shipped out to Ongame FML

Ongame a delightful network. Well done betfair

perhaps its my warped mind but ongame makes me think of on the game, ie hookers.

i suppose the principle is the same, one way or another someone is getting screwed

GOOD GOOD RIDDANCE TO WANNA COOKIE AND THE OTHER PATHETIC GRASSING LONELY SAD LOOOOSSSSEERRRS

I'll give it a bash for a month, mostly played betfair due to making money on really poor players - don't think i'm a great player. Sad day indeed but have to look at facts. Sit and Goes even at low level take ages to fill up and tournments are getting less and less.

Hi Wulfman nice to see you on here, maybe we will play against each other in the future although maybe a good thing as you beat me far too easily :D

Cheers
Naegood

looked at screen dumps of that and c0ral use it. Please it before. Not much but prefered betfair.

I've just sent this email to betfair poker. Was there any point?

Dear Betfair Poker,

What are you doing????

You are destroying the very essence of what makes betfair poker so attractive to your regular players, its originality.

Your poker site will look like every other site on the market. The cards, chip count and name fonts will be tiny, hidden in a forest of clutter and nonsense, such as avatars and chairs (and no doubt, in December, Christmas Trees).

You're also going to lose your community feel, where the chat facility is lost in the spew that the dealer comes out with, like what the flop cards are (as if we can't see them on the table already) and what player 3's last action was (folding, raising, or what he's just eaten for tea).

There is generally a good spirit between all of the regulars on Betfair Poker '1', whether they play each other often or just now and again. That will go, replaced by virtual anonimity surrounded nobody you've ever played before. Thus, taking some enjoyment away from the experience.

Basically, you're not offering anything more than any of site on the market so what exactly is it that you are promoting?

I understand the need to make the site profitable, or more profitable but is this really the answer?
Becoming a clone of every other site?

Betfair has made its name by being original, innovative, cutting edge. Betfair Poker 2 might as well be called Online Poker 3,412.

I suppose somebody in betfair thinks this is a good idea. For what its worth, I don't.

Boollean

Betfair has made its name by being original, innovative, cutting edge.

Lol, you are joking?  The software is dreadful, always has been since day 1.  I gave up after my laptop nearly burnt a whole in my table trying to run it.

Happy with any overlay TBH, will you get that on ongaming?

At least rake has been sorted.

Yes, I know you meant the whole Betfair but I am interested in the poker.  This will be bf p3.  Bf p1 was on a shared poker platform and this forum was full of people, normally at the most a day between the post at the top and the one at the bottom. Waiting lists to go on forum weekend.  They decided to be 'innovative and original' and look what you are now left with?  No-one on here, no-one playing the site because it is rubbish.  Sorry but they have to do something before the whole thing folds.  When they went on their own it could have worked except they decided to buy out a dreadful piece of software that has never delivered.

Could everyone please state what level of rake-back they receive as I want to ensure I'm on the highest band before the switch. I play loads sop negotiation to get the highest band shouldn't be too much of a problem ;) ty in advance