luckyfish98
Legend
Platinum Level
Do you like playing online poker, we are placed from one table to another - I don't like it!
Ruslan L
Visionary
Platinum Level
I don't like it either, but there's nothing I can do about it, so I just accept the game as it is. You have the right to choose and maybe, for example, play a cash game where you choose your own table and no one will move you
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fundiver199
Legend
Loyaler
Presumably you mean table balancing in MTTs, where players are moved to another table to ensure, that all tables have (as far as possible) an equal amount of players. I dont think, any MTT players really love this, but it is nessesary to ensure a fair game, and it is done in both live and online MTTs.
luckyfish98
Legend
Platinum Level
I understand that you can't live without it, but in one tournament I got thrown into the big blind twice in a row and the tournament was valuable it and I went on the bubble and got busted
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puzzlefish
Legend
Loyaler
I don't like it when I get table-switched 5 times in a row without playing a single hand. That's where conspiracy theories are born. I've seen some pretty wild balancing bs over the years that's cost me tournaments.
S3mper
Poker Not Checkers
Loyaler
ACR always double blinds me. IIRC I got triple blinded in a Hyper late which is brutal. Probably something ACR should fix. I'd assume not making a person who was just the BB and the SB the BB again on his button is something that can be done.
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fundiver199
Legend
Loyaler
Other times this will happen to one of your opponents, and then maybe you are the one to cash as a result. It all levels out in the long run, just like coolers or bad beats. And therefore I prefer to focus on, what I control, which is my own decisions
pancho_1954
Rock Star
Platinum Level
The truth is I don't dislike it, many times I have been close to being all-in in my big blind and very close to ITM, they change my table and that makes me resist a little more, it has happened to me that they change me again and again being ITM and I manage to collect more because I don't play a hand because they change me so much
S3mper
Poker Not Checkers
Loyaler
Yes, but it still shouldn't be happening.Other times this will happen to one of your opponents, and then maybe you are the one to cash as a result. It all levels out in the long run, just like coolers or bad beats. And therefore I prefer to focus on, what I control, which is my own decisions
If the software randomly shorts people pots in MTT's the fact that this has 0 EV implication in the long run (assuming it happens at random) doesn't mean it's something that shouldn't be fixed.
Rost
Legend
Platinum Level
I don't like it, and it even annoys me. But sometimes there are tournaments in which the movement of players is not so frequent and you can ignore them. And sometimes in tournaments, especially in which there are not many players, these constant movements can really get boring.
0546474
Legend
Bronze Level
Yes, you are very uncomfortable because you are used to your opponents and know roughly how they play. But as soon as you get used to the players at the table, you are moved to another table, even if no one at your table was eliminated from the tournament and the same number of players remained at the table!!!
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fundiver199
Legend
Loyaler
What exactly shouldn`t be happening? Presumably sites have different algoritms for selecting players to be moved, and maybe some are more advanced than others. But as long as they are random, they are not systematically favouring one player over another, and then I really dont think, this is important enough to worry about. If paying a few blinds significantly impact your stack, then your stack was very short to begin with, so it can never be table changes alone, which cause you to not cash in a tournament.
Pokerpoet2
Legend
Loyaler
It happens in all Tournaments even in Casino's. I was the TD in our Local Pub and had to balance tables throughout the game, The reason is it makes it a fair game for everyone in the Tournament, You would be the first to complain that you had to post more blinds on your table if there was only 3 players left on your table and there was 7 players on the table next to you.
Balancing the tables would leave 5 players on each, and therefore the blinds would hit you at around the same time as the player sat in the same spot as you on a different table.
We normally had 3 tables going every week, sometimes 4 and I was constantly moving players around to balance them out, all the while trying to play the game myself, even having to move myself sometimes because you have to balance fairly and if someone that was on the BB next on one table was moved to the Dealer position on another table, he would have an unfair advantage over the other players because he misses a Blind.
So there is a lot to think about when moving someone from one table to another. You have to take into account Which player went out on one table, What position he was in in relation to the dealer button, and then take a player from the same position on another table to fill the open seat.
So there is no favouritism involved and even though I moved myself to a table where there might Someone who I don't like playing against or a player who happens to be a Friend of mine, I had to put personal feelings behind me and move to a table I don't want to be on regardless of my feelings.
On one particular night we had a Christmas special Bounty Hunter game charging double the normal £5.00 buy-in. Half of which was paid out in bounties and the other half went into the Prize pool, with a £100.00 bonus added in from the Landlord as a Gift, We had 5 tables of 8 Players and It was a nightmare keeping track of all the tables and taking part in the Tournament myself, But I managed to make the FT and got past the Money Bubble, into the prize money and that was all I got from it Plus a few Free Beer's. lol.
S3mper
Poker Not Checkers
Loyaler
Again, just because something has a 0 EV impact long term (Assuming it happens evenly) doesn't mean it's something that doesn't need to be fixed. Would you agree that if MTT's randomly sat you out this should be fixed? Does it matter if it's a push in EV and sometimes it'll favor you?
It's online. It shouldn't happen at all regardless of importance. I also think it's bad for the game rec's are already concerned it's rigged do we really want them getting constantly double blinded?
Also, the "(Assuming it happens evenly)" isn't a guarantee partypoker had a bug where players weren't receiving an equal number of CO/BTNs compared to their blinds.
Partypoker Fast Forward bug costing regs millions?
www.poker.org
There are many structures in which a few blinds are significant. For example, ACR runs a lot of On Demand games. Or a PKO which a few blinds could keep you from covering a bounty
It's not that I think people should worry about it. It's more so that it's annoying and shouldn't be happening. But I agree ACR has more important things to worry about in bots and RTA. - Unless it really isn't happening evenly and then I would say it is something that is important.
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mariale_1990
Legend
Platinum Level
For me it is contradictory:
I don't like it because many times when they change my table it's a more complicated table, and trying to read the players can be more difficult but it also may not be a table with such intense players.
I like it because it can help me advance a little more in the tournaments, especially when I have few chips. Maybe that might sound like a poor player and a loser, but if I want to get into the prize pool and that helps me, I'm not going to bother. , it only bothers me in a poker room and it is ACR because it has happened to me that the big blind has just passed for me, they change the table and I have to put the big blind again and I don't consider it fair
I don't like it because many times when they change my table it's a more complicated table, and trying to read the players can be more difficult but it also may not be a table with such intense players.
I like it because it can help me advance a little more in the tournaments, especially when I have few chips. Maybe that might sound like a poor player and a loser, but if I want to get into the prize pool and that helps me, I'm not going to bother. , it only bothers me in a poker room and it is ACR because it has happened to me that the big blind has just passed for me, they change the table and I have to put the big blind again and I don't consider it fair