'I'Poker' losing the plot !!

[bennythedip2]

The online poker skin that is 'I'Poker' is killing off the game faster than the bookmakers can get more machines into their betting shops..
Or, for that matter more gambling games onto their poker sites !!

Take a look at any 'I'Poker site that is being operated by any of the major bookmakers and their poker skin is also littered with 'junk' games !
To be more precise, you're one click away from, Bingo, Roulette Blackjack and any number of gambling fruity war type lotto games ..

Now i've no problem with the bookmakers selling this crap (well I do, but thats another story) ..The problem I have with it, is it's all going on the poker site .. AND it slows down the software, or disconnects and re connects ..

Not all bookmakers are using that software, Sportingbet (paradise poker) They have two poker rooms, The Dollar and The Euro rooms ..
Great no advertising of junk games and the like and what you have is what a poker player wants .. Just A Poker Room, with a selection of poker games

There are a few other poker sites who also operate their own room ..Fair enough

BUT these main line bookmakers are just using the Poker room as a casino the same way the high street bookmakers are using betting shops to operate their gaming machines and virtual racing ..

Who are the worst and who are the guilty greedy bookies ?
For me the worst are .. Bet365 , Corals and William Hills .. there are probably more that i don't know about ..
Their 'I'Poker software is so unstable now it becomes impossible to concentrate on the game in hand, that is POKER

Benny view ..(IPOKER is going down faster than West Ham concede goals)

(Pinched this 'pic' of Tom ..thanks mate)

[tiredeyes]

I couldn't agree more, never really been a fan of ipoker but bet365 use it and I recently got given a free £5 for the poker when I deposited plus a deposit bonus, played 6 tables and it was very hard to click anywhere on the screen without some godamn pop up trying to take me to "slots" or "casino" I got incredibly frustrated, so frustrated at the crude attempts to get me to gamble every other minute that I forego any bonuses I could have gotten through the poker and transferred my remaining balance into "sports" never to return to ipoker again

Really bad "poker site" more like they're using poker to target mindless gambling on slots and roulette.

[bennythedip2]

Yes exactly 'Tiredeyes' ..

I also found out last week, I'Poker have now cut back all the '7 card stud' tables ..No more $5/$10 or $3/$6 ..and only just the one $2/$4 + a few smaller 'low and micro'.. ..

'I'Poker have done the same thing as the High Street bookies by using a genuine platform to exploit their casino and machine games ..

Still, as i always say, IF they don't want to play my games, then i'll go where they keep things simple ..
Paradise Poker could be my new Poker site, or anywhere that just gives its customers what it wants 'A game of Poker' !! ..

The big boys are taking the pizza, lets hope sometime in the near future the government see through what's happening ..
But like everything else, somewhere, someone behind the scenes in government knows what's going on.. How Why ?
Because they have 'shares' and/or are on the board of these companies , and these people are filling their overseas accounts ..'Thank you very much' ..

[tiredeyes]

I can't think of any better poker site than PokerStars tbh Benny, yes, some of the fields are massive and I have never won a standard MTT but still have a +ROI there, with some FT appearances and regular cashes.

The promotions there are also great, micromillions, SCOOP, and more, plus tons and tons of available cash tables of all disciplines, currently having a January daily challenge where you win a ticket to an (all in every hand) shoot out MTT to win free cash, todays challenge is to gain 1vpp at any zoom cash table, (dead easy)

In December I won $300+ as part of a milestone hand promotion >