Comments on: Exclusive first look at PartyPoker’s new table

By: k.kuukka

k.kuukka — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:03:22 +0000

you should bring party shop and old items back with this update. almost every poker rooms has shop items nowdays and i loved old ones

By: Henry Luburgh

Henry Luburgh — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:39:22 +0000

Hi everyone, i am not very computer literate, my daughter has set me up w/ a new computer del inspiron 530s w/ a flat widescreen monitor…. for some reason, the party poker screen only comes up about 1/3 of the size of my screen, i can not get it to go full screen as i had before on my old one… can anyone please help me and advise me what to do? thanks soooooo much for any help you may be able to give

By: Mage

Mage — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:24:23 +0000

^ Preferences –> Themes

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:01:49 +0000

@Simon: How do I enable the old table? I really hate the new look and feel!

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:07:08 +0000

The new table will get some getting used to, and though it is hardly ground-breaking in my book, it’s fine and has some good new features like big-hand alert, sit-me-here and keyboard shortcut play.

My biggest problem is with the lobby. I didn’t like the old one and dislike the new one even more.

I cannot add multi table SNG’s and tourneys to my favourites. Switching tabs erases my filters. I can not get an overview of all free/low stake tourneys together in one list (no multi-select on game name and format filter). I cannot filter out Turbo SNG games since they show up under ‘Standard’(!!). I cannot get rid of the partypoker ads, popups and welcome/goodby sreens. The lobby doesn’t remember my latest position, with the left menu folded. I cannot disable the ‘Mail the hands’ alert after finishing a SNG unless I have them mailed. The list goes on…

On the plus side: i like the fact that the lobby is bigger and I’m glad it doesn’t open Internet Explorer anymore (i don’t like that browser and use firefox).

Some features that i think should be present in a ‘ground-breaking’ interface are:
- View current global standings in a tourney at play
- An option to view some (selected) tourney stats at the table, like nr. of players left, my current potition, next payed position etc so I don’t have to keep the tourney lobby open.
- A lobby that remembers my view-mode.

I’m seriously thinking of changing to another poker room.

By: Viper

Viper — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:48:27 +0000

I had not read anything about this major update, so it was quite a surprise to see the new software yesterday after the update was pushed to my computer.
It definitely needs some getting used to, but there are already so many things that I wanted that I can only be very happy at the moment:
* able to turn off auto-focus and auto-popup of tables needing action.
* visual indication of your time running out on a table.
* be able to select and even pre-fix your position at the table, allowing you to always sit at the same place.
* player images
* less obtrusive sounds
* etc…

One thing that still could be better though, is to see who is still left to act.
* From the above screenshot, it looks very clear, with the images darkened out. But when I played, I didn’t have this feeling at all and had to look carefully to see who still had the 2 cards left, so maybe the actual implementation has less contrast. Also graying out the image alone is not sufficient since some people may have a dark image to start with. Why not darken that part of the table (similar to how the current player is now ‘highlighted’). I guess I will experiment with brighter card colors for now (hope that I can set this globally rather than having to repeat it on each table which was the case in the old software).
* It would also help to have a better view of your own tables to still act on. Why not darken an entire table where you are no longer in the hand ? Or at least apply the trick with you running out of time, where the entire frame of the window turns orange, then red: you could make it turn grey once you fold your cards.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:44:27 +0000

I don’t like the fact that you have to play with real money in order to use your own uploaded pictures.
Will we ever be able to upload our own pictures onto the play chip tables, if so, when? All the other poker sites you can

By: Mage

Mage — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:22:02 +0000

This new software crashed third time today already.

By: John

John — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:47:31 +0000

Simon I thank you for the time you have put in to answer questions. Seems that Partybill is also answering questions. Its about time people from party are actually talking to us.

The new software is full of bugs. Did you guys beta test this software at all?

By: Simon Young

Simon Young — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:46:32 +0000

@ JustMe: Your question has been answered elsewhere – it is something I can ask the product team to look at for you.

@ x_jonte_x: Yes – as you’ve just found out! (In lobby, under preferences, then themes!). This is for .com players only. .net players can only use the new table.