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I had major disconnection issues like many others immediately after the switch so stopped playing on the site.
I got a phonecall about a month ago saying the problems were fixed and would I like to come back. Theres a 5k freeroll for Elite Level players on Sunday that I want to play as it will only have a few runners so I have been trying to get the site working this last week playing a few low stakes SNG's. I still get horrific lag and disconnected every 10 minutes or so, even only playing one table. I also get periods where the game just seems to jump so I will be waiting to act and suddenly find my cards folded even though at no point does it tell me Im disconnected or sat out, nor do I have to take any action to " sit back in " to the game. I get numerous random error messages popping up with various urls, these are scripting and java messages too numerous to mention. I also sporadically got an error message after logging out stating the playtech poker client is incompatible with my PC. This message tells me I am missing flash.ocx which is no longer compatible with my version of windows. I have unistalled and reinstalled the poker and flash player, I have also downloaded the Adobe Flash plug in to resolve the missing ocx. Nothing works and the issues remain. Judging by the number of disconnects in the games from other players at the tables its clearly still a problem. Im still gonna try and play this Freeroll on Sunday but other than that Ive withdrawn all funds from my BF account and wont be using either the poker or exchange at any point in the near future. As you say their refusal to even acknowledge there is a problem to longstanding and loyal customers speaks volumes. |
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Posted on the other thread, but basically I have had the same problems on ipoker as both of you.
It has to the worst software betfair has used yet, which is saying something! I quite liked the others by the time they got rid of it. |
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So I guess I am not the only one then :-(
I do not think it is just betfair but in general I look at all the major sites on poker scout and none of them fill me with confidence for various reasons. Maybe I am just turning bitter towards online poker and maybe the urge to grind for me is not there no more. Pokerstars - civil penalties imposed in response to the allegations that PokerStars lied to US banks about the nature of its business in order to operate online poker in the country. Corporate fraud and money laundering basically. Full Tilt - Well we all know about the Ponzi scheme that took place previously here and are now owned by Pokerstars. great !!!! pokerstars have a monopoly now Ipoker - Be lucky to sit down at a cash table without half of them being bots. Not to mention strange disconnections deep into tourneys without any explanation. 888 Poker - Possibly the most irritating poker room on the internet. Silly graphics and irritating themes and there rake is laughable Party Poker - Software so annoying to multitable on and now have split their rooms to protect the fish and hurt the grinders. |
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Keeping things on one thread I think there is a fundamental lack of understanding within BF Poker of what players actually want from a network. As Sven says on the other thread, you need to be able to multitable whether its cash or SNG, and you need stability on the platform,because particularly with turbo or super turbo SNG, even a disconnection of a few minutes can cripple you, especially in games like D2N where players will simply blind you out as quick as they possibly can.
The other thing you absolutely have to have is traffic. All the other stuff, customer service, variety of games, your promos, leaderboards, fancy avatars, 3D graphics, r@keback, are cherries on the cake. Before you do ANY of that you have to have stability, and traffic. And without stability you wont get traffic. BF seem to do things arse about t1t, they seem to think as long as they run promotions people will play, even if they are getting constantly disconnected. They seem to switch networks without asking the basic question before launch-does it actually work ? The constant pop ups on I-poker are a nightmare, and agree about 888 becoming irritating, wtf is all this stuff with people chucking eggs and tomatoes at each other ? Lunacy and presumably aimed at the twice a week for an hour punters, but driving the regulars nuts. Anyway on the off chance anyone from BF Poker reads these threads heres tonights chipfire Ipoker experience, done purely for the purpose of this thread 19:01 load up the BF Ipoker 19:06 after 5 minutes eventually get through login to the lobby and look for Freerolls. 19:08 loading the freeroll lobby disconnects me. I also get my first error message stating Unresponsive Plugin : Shockwave Flash may be busy or it may have stopped working. When reconnected I register for a freeroll at 19:30 19:14 disconnected again despite not actually playing anything 19:16 after briefly re-connecting I get thrown out of the poker client altogether. Log back in which takes about 2 minutes. 19:29 disconnected 19:31 I join my table, I have 99 and as we only have 100 chips I press all in. Nothing happens for 10 seconds and then I disconnect with no idea whether my chips are in the pot or not. Another shockwave error message. 19:32 I log out. I was using task manager to check my CPU usage and there were times it was jumping to 100% even when I wasnt playing and had nothing else open on my laptop other than the lobby. |