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Ignition Casino and its twin online poker room, Bodog, recently made a major change to their cash game lobbies, moving from the traditional table listing to what the poker rooms call the Quick Seat lobby.
This lobby variation is nothing new; it has been around in the online poker world for years. What makes this interesting is that it is now the only way to find a cash game seat at Ignition Casino. The way we have been used to for as long as internet poker has existed is now gone. No more perusing the list of open tables, no more seeing what the average pot size and percent of players to the flop are, no more ability to open a table to see who is playing.
Now on Ignition, players will just choose their stakes, the maximum table size, the game (Texas Hold’em, Omaha, or Omaha Hi/Lo), and game variation (No-Limit, Pot-Limit, or Fixed-Limit). When all that is settled, the poker client will find the proper table and seat the player.
It looks like the idea behind the change is to protect recreational players from being targeted by sharks throughout the lobby. With no ability to find their prey, sharks can’t really hunt anyone down anymore. When they can’t do that, the recreational players will likely not lose their money as quickly, not only keeping money in the poker economy but also increasing the chances that they reload after going busto. Plenty of people have fun while losing money and the longer it takes to go broke, the more probably it is that the players still enjoy themselves.
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Oddly, Ignition already had anonymous tables, so it was already next to impossible for any recreational players to be preyed upon. Perhaps the Quick Seat lobby is just a way to cover hat one percent of the time sharks were still able to target weaker players.
Reviews of the new system have been mixed in the poker community. While many applaud Ignition for taking another step to making online poker just about poker and taking away much of the edge third-party software tools provide, others feel the Quick Seat lobby just makes playing more difficult.
The way it makes it more difficult is that most people have certain preferences when it comes to the games they play. Some like starting new tables. Others only want to play at full tables. The Quick Seat lobby doesn’t allow players to choose. Thus, if someone who hates starting a table or playing ultra-short-handed ends up at an empty table, they will either leave and try again, sit out until more players arrive, or play begrudgingly. None of these options is ideal.
At the same time, some players have reported having great success with Quick Seat, especially multi-tablers. Quick Seat guarantees players will get into a game, as opposed to a traditional lobby that often has just a couple tables of a certain type with long waitlists.
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Poker players at Ignition Casino are becoming increasingly incensed at the seemingly constant disconnection problems at the poker room as of late.
Both cash games and tournaments are affected to the point where it is practically useless to log on and play, according to posters at 2 + 2. The tables seem to freeze up on a regular basis, timing out players who invariably lose any money or chips risked in the current hand to those players who have the good fortune not to experience the software issues for the moment.
'Dude if Ignition doesn’t fix their POS software I'm going to leave the site and never return,' posted a frustrated 'DeepStack bMAC.' 'It's getting absolutely absurd. In 20 minutes my tables have frozen up 5 times. It's to the point that risking money in a pot is -EV regardless of the players at the table because the software will freeze and time you out mid pot.'
Getting Worse
Those sentiments were echoed by a number of players, including this author who can attest to the disconnection problems first-hand. The software issues have been ongoing for at least the last couple of weeks and the problem seems to be getting worse instead of better.
Back on May 20, 'Rich Checkmaker' informed fellow online forum posters that he he was 'kicked off my tables. ignition is crap.'
Ignition honchos have acknowledged the problem and posted this message on Facebook on June 2:
'We’ve recently been experiencing software issues that are impacting some of our players’ game play. We’re aware of the issue and are working diligently in getting it resolved as quickly as possible. We’re sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you and thank you for your understanding.'
Players have reported receiving free tournament tickets after voicing their complaints to Ignition support. However, what good is a tourney ticket when the same problems continue?
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Quick Seat Quagmire
Some have surmised that the problems began when Ignition revamped their cash game lobby to that of the 'Quick Seat' variety back in April. Players can no longer scan the cash game lobby and choose which table to join and are instead asked to request their game type, the limit format, and the maximum number of seats at the table.
Players are then whisked to the table of their choosing among those choices, many times finding themselves alone. We can debate the merits of the quick seat format and how it is supposed to protect recreational players from being hunted by sharks.
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However, anonymous tables already alleviated the bum-hunting issue, so this quick seating silliness is just another cause for frustration among players. Coupled with the disconnection problems, a good number of Ignition players have apparently reached their boiling point and have already or perhaps will soon look at their hole cards elsewhere unless the poker room can quickly right the ship.
'Me and my 2 friends both play on here,' commented 'Shawn M Michael' in response to Ignition's Facebook post acknowledging the software issues. 'We were so pissed thinking about cashing out and playing somewhere else.'