Poker Sites

Poker Sites

I am so fed up with these sites that can't spend a few dollars and upgrade their sites with just common sense type of things. Like providing convenient hand histories to their players, UB, BODOG, Full Contact these sites do not.
Yet, Poker Stars and Party Poker have absolutely no problem doing this.

How about hand for hand play. Poker Stars does it with about 2 places before the money. Party does it 10 places before the money, which means your tourney will grind to a stop for 20 to 30 minutes while you wait for 10 people to go out. Watching grass is more enjoyable than that.

Here is a really great one. I am on Party Poker playing in a tournament and I am waiting for another to start that I am registered in. The other tournament starts and it doesn't even tell me. It doesn't open the tournament lobby window and my table, ie. Poker Stars. No, it does nothing. I have to remember that oh, by the way, I think my other tourney started and now I have to go find it. Meanwhile I have missed all those hands. Pathetic.

Party Poker has the most pathetic customer service as well. The first excuse with any problem is that it must by your ISP. I couldn't possibly be their substandard software. Their selection screen is ridiculously laggy. You can click on a SNG that says it only has 4 people and by the time you get there it is already underway. I have been in a SNG and playing and gone back to the lobby and it says we still need 4 people. Poker Stars has no problem with this, nor does UB for that matter.

Bottom line is that Poker Stars is the most professional site, bar none. Party Poker is pathetic, but they do make up for it by having some of the crappiest players on the internet. I mean, why else would people play there. This site sucks, but it is just too damn easy to make money there.

Bodog has a pretty cool interface that I wish others would adopt. It would be nice to resize the games to fit to the screen like Party Poker has done, even a dog finds a bone now and then. Having you be the center player no matter where the button starts is really nice and a few sites have this feature, all should.