Comments on: Lightning In A Bottle: Recapturing the Magic of the Poker Rooms

By: littlepeddler

littlepeddler — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:35:55 +0000

Myself, I am a big poker fan. I would love to see an awesome poker room. There goes my budget. I also would like to see a matching wardrobe for a high stakes winner. This would up the challenge for most to be able to take notice of whom the real serious poker players are and not just for someone who got a little extra on their allowance and was able to buy the outfit to claim the status.
May I suggest even different rooms for different ranked players? This way you won’t have kids coming up and trying to dance on your head while trying to play. Maybe even have the certain suits for certain rooms and those rooms have the change wardrobe option disabled. Make those suits earnable suits not purchased suits. Then have your tournaments in accordance with the suits.
It’s time that PSH have a place that’s for adults only. And having a place such as a poker room with talented players, serious players would be the idea place. I can just see me walking around with a glamorous high stakes poker champion evening dress with matching bling.
And after a great game of poker who wouldn’t love a high stakes dinner club to relax in with some glamorous dancing with music that doesn’t consist of hand banging music but music designed for the more serious adult players of home.
The only problem I can see with this is that if you don’t play poker then you do not reap the benefits of the dinner club. This I would have to leave up to the developers. Maybe a one personal invite to another to the dinner club. Just to give the non-poker players a little taste as to what they are missing out on. Or it could be even some bingo winners for those who do not like to gamble.
I just would like to see one place in home that is catered to the adults of home. Not sure how it can be made to happen, but it would be one place I know that would generate funds for PSH.

By: HolyCrapBjoue

HolyCrapBjoue — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:57:16 +0000

Bring back poker!! why get rid of a game that attracts so many people to get into home?? Wouldn’t hurt to have a few others too .. like scrabble ..

By: Porshe__917

Porshe__917 — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:51:25 +0000

I think its a great idea we need poker back on home. I had an idea about what they could do. A disk based full casino attached to home so we can use our avatares. and i would be willing to pay to play i know it takes alot of money to keep these servers going. bring poker back please.

By: Porshe__917

Porshe__917 — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:40:53 +0000

I think its a great idea we need popker back on home. I had an idea about what they could do. A disk based full

By: sharmark

sharmark — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:59:53 +0000

Thanks for hearing All of those That want to play poker again… we all love that space and it was interesting.. most went there to play poker nc the newest fashions that their friends were wearing that day… it wasn’t so much about poker as it was about meeting your friends and talking to new people… we had a blast and to put it simply we want it back..thanx Keara again for being our voice in this matter… I love the article and I think that everyone should support use in getting this thing going again… everyone loves a part of the poker rooms misses it and we want it back!!

By: rockstarvixen

rockstarvixen — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 20:36:18 +0000

Kearra ,great article i have no questions sign me up ,your ideas are great ,I WANT POKER BAK ,, charge everyone like the golf or slap happy ,wich wouldnt hold a candle to how full an exciting those poker rooms were ,,i miss the people just as, much as the poker ,charge everbody straight 5buks like golf ,,omg ps3 your on a, gold landmine ,i guarrantee the people i saw leave ps3 would be running bak ,i still get emails ,''did they bring poker bak yet'' they bought ps3 just for poker n gone CMON what are you waiting for get to work ,an i also fell in love in those poker an some have even married ,,,please ps3 bring it bak ,,,vix

By: cthulu93

cthulu93 — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 19:05:22 +0000

Ok I see now,yeah I would pay something then.I’m still not sure exactly how much but if I did have a problem getting chips I’d have no problem buying some,just like I would at a real casino.And I think you might be right about the all in idiots.Much harder to go all in when there’s real cash involved,even if it’s only indirectly involved.

By: keara22hi

keara22hi — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:09:42 +0000

“Well here are my 2 minor concerns with your plan granny,1st do my chips get stored for future use if I stIll have some when the day pass runs out?2nd 20 dollars for 1 days play on a black table seems high to me.”

Good points, cthulu, I should have made that clear: using the EA rooms as a template, the chips would get stored for future use. That has been one of my big gripes about the Brimstone tables -- no way to build a bankroll. So, in my plan the bankroll of winnings would stay with you even if you played only occasionally.

I was being facetious with the Diamond Jim Brady comment. No one is crazy enough about the Black Table to spend that kind of money to get there. I am sure it would be populated eventually with a lot of us die-hard players who would spend a week accumulating that amount of chips. I might, however, be tempted to spend a couple of dollars to be able to start on Red Table and bypass Green completely.

As a side note, one of the main reasons the people I talked to liked the chip machine idea was it would probably put a stop to the “All-In” idiots.

By: Sekhemrera360

Sekhemrera360 — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:16:44 +0000

Awesome article Keara, the thing is will there be any takers for poker on home at all. ooblag’s casino is supposed to have poker related games, but i’m sure it will not be like EA.

By: Sekhemrera360

Sekhemrera360 — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:11:21 +0000

The thing is, bringing the EA template of gaming back in all phases! the godfather space still exists and that is free.do it on a basis it is competitive and fun socially like EA was. poker bracelets and all. That should be the foundation, then run incurring costs to see how it can be run on a monthly schedule and then use a pay system based on that. The thing is getting the same type of poker we had when we were playing EA back in the days. If it is too high on the pay to play scale many will not come back and it should be reasonable if pricing is of concern to the developers.

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:03:09 +0000

Great ideas and great article as well Granny. I wasn’t one of those people who went to the poker rooms a lot. I had and have an active social life in Home without it being related to any particular space there. But the few times that I did play it was always fun, I even won on the green tables a few times and accumulated enough chips to get to a red before it disappeared. It is clear to me from the passion that is displayed by all of the people I have heard talk about the EA that there is definitely a need here that should be filled by some developer who cares about their customers and wants to turn a profit as well. I think you have shown them the way to do this in your article, well done!

By: cthulu93

cthulu93 — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 09:55:29 +0000

Btw I think the gambling laws can be circumvented by having an item as a tournament prize that can’t be bought or possessed in any other way,therefore giving it no cash value.It could be a way to attract new players if a highly sought after item were given to tourny winners.It might encourage cheaters but I think the cheaters will be there regardless if there is a prize or not.In the EA poker rooms I encountered cheaters that were cheating well after they had a diamond bracelet and were doing it just for the leaderboard ranking.If all communication between players is cut off except communication that can be seen or heard by all players then much of the cheating is prevented.Still,outside of Home communicating like phones,computers,and actual human voices as some players will be from the same house on a different PS3,will occur but there isn’t much that can be done about those methods in Home.Cheaters are as resourceful as hackers seem to be and yes they will cheat just for a leaderboard position.

By: cthulu93

cthulu93 — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 09:19:14 +0000

Well here are my 2 minor concerns with your plan granny,1st do my chips get stored for future use if I stIll have some when the day pass runs out?2nd 20 dollars for 1 days play on a black table seems high to me.For a few dollars more I can buy a disc based poker game and play everyday.I think the price points should be researched in-depth to see just how much ppl would be willing to pay.Also would like to see some tourn.play in any new version,it was the 1 thing missing in the old version.Btw there was a few other ways to cheat in the old version,I hope any new version considers them all and prevents as much of it as possible.The greatness of the EA poker room didn’t come from just one thing,it was the sum of it’s parts that made it work.Inter-activity between players,different levels of play,the items,the fact that it was mostly troll-free and finally the price(free) all combined to make it a fun place to play.The godfather 2 poker tables are missing most of those things which equals epic fail.If anyone is seriously considering making a new poker space please,for the love of god,DON’T copy the godfather 2 version.