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In a recent post I noted that ignition Poker is experiencing significant connection issues, lag, freeze ups, etc over the past few weeks. While this alone isn't enough to make me want to no longer play on a site, these other issues over the past few months have left me wondering if Ignition is going downhill and if the anonymous poker table experiment started by Bovada will come to a close. As some of you know i had some success at Bovada before it changed to Ignition and even as Ignition, I saw some small successes early on in a bankroll challenge. But after some recent updates something just doesn't seem right on this poker room anymore.
Has anyone else stopped playing there or considered stopping because of these things:
- Loss of cash game table lists and stats , you simply pick your format and stakes and get seated at a random table.
- When it changed to Ignition, the FPP rate was reduced. And while they never had rakeback, the lack of any type of rewards besides some tickets points makes me wonder if I should stick to sites I have rakeback deals on.
- No more deposit bonuses cleared by poker playing.
- Loss of DON and Triple Up SNGs
- Increased connection issues leading to loss of seats at tables, loss of entire tables, delays of up to 15-20 seconds before river card falls, auto folding of hands, etc. Seems to happen most often in cash games.
- Noticable decrease in amount of tourneys, the gtd amts, and number of players playing them. Still the best/highest gtds for US facing sites but seems like a lot of nightly tournaments have vanished, more small ones cancelled due to lack of players, higher buy ins for the lower gtd amounts.
- And this last one is very subjective, but for past month or so I've noticed a distinct change in the player base. Site has always been loose and fishy, but seeing a lot of players shoving pre with junk and flopping massively, seen a lot of players chasing or even shoving their 2-4% outers and getting there very often. Obviously it's poker and things happen, but the amount of sick beats in past month there have been a little excessive. It concerns me a bit since there's no user names and collusion has always been a concern at this site.
So what are people's thoughts?
I've considered keeping my account open and just using it for MTTs since they still offer great prize pools and none of that excessive late reg or unlimited rebuy stuff even if the buy ins are increasing while the prizes decrease). But at same time I've become more concerned about decreases in traffic, the still anonymous user base and lack of seeing active cash games, the loss of table selection, and loss of formats.
Has anyone else stopped playing there or considered stopping because of these things:
- Loss of cash game table lists and stats , you simply pick your format and stakes and get seated at a random table.
- When it changed to Ignition, the FPP rate was reduced. And while they never had rakeback, the lack of any type of rewards besides some tickets points makes me wonder if I should stick to sites I have rakeback deals on.
- No more deposit bonuses cleared by poker playing.
- Loss of DON and Triple Up SNGs
- Increased connection issues leading to loss of seats at tables, loss of entire tables, delays of up to 15-20 seconds before river card falls, auto folding of hands, etc. Seems to happen most often in cash games.
- Noticable decrease in amount of tourneys, the gtd amts, and number of players playing them. Still the best/highest gtds for US facing sites but seems like a lot of nightly tournaments have vanished, more small ones cancelled due to lack of players, higher buy ins for the lower gtd amounts.
- And this last one is very subjective, but for past month or so I've noticed a distinct change in the player base. Site has always been loose and fishy, but seeing a lot of players shoving pre with junk and flopping massively, seen a lot of players chasing or even shoving their 2-4% outers and getting there very often. Obviously it's poker and things happen, but the amount of sick beats in past month there have been a little excessive. It concerns me a bit since there's no user names and collusion has always been a concern at this site.
So what are people's thoughts?
I've considered keeping my account open and just using it for MTTs since they still offer great prize pools and none of that excessive late reg or unlimited rebuy stuff even if the buy ins are increasing while the prizes decrease). But at same time I've become more concerned about decreases in traffic, the still anonymous user base and lack of seeing active cash games, the loss of table selection, and loss of formats.
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