http://blog.pokerunderworld.com Keep up to date on what is happening at Poker Underworld Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:29:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It has been quite a while since my last update, so I'm pleased to be able to write about some new features that will be coming to Poker Underworld in May. As always, I like to write about changes first in the blog, to get an idea of how you feel ... http://blog.pokerunderworld.com/2008/04/23/finally-some-updates/ Trainers have now been completely phased on on Poker Underworld on all tables.  Trainers were originally used to help create action on the tables, but we've now regularly got more then 50 players at the tables so they have been removed. Some players may miss being able to practice on these ... http://blog.pokerunderworld.com/2007/10/18/there-are-no-more-trainers-on-poker-underworld/ Many players have started reporting issues with the Poker games over the past few days.  These issues have ranged from lagging in the games resulting in missed turns, to odd animation issues and chips being swept off of the table or not displayed correctly.  In some cases, this has result ... http://blog.pokerunderworld.com/2007/07/20/lag-animation-speed-and-game-issues/ I am preparing to do some bug fixes on the website this week. I am going to start with fixing the chat. I have started a forum discussion about this, so post your comments there. I'd like to know what bugs you are aware of, and what suggestions you ... http://blog.pokerunderworld.com/2007/07/04/bug-fixes-chat/ June 1st is here and we've decided to stick with the current games while we use all of the suggestions to create the new rules and tournaments. You will notice some small changes happening around the website today as we move things around.  We're also working on a new chat bar ... http://blog.pokerunderworld.com/2007/06/01/and-junes-change-is-no-change-for-now/ In the past week since we proposed some rule changes for July, there has been a lot of discussion in the forum and on the blog.  There have been some interesting suggestions, so I wanted to highlight them here. First of all, here are the criteria we want to meet with ... http://blog.pokerunderworld.com/2007/05/24/new-rules-discussion-update/ Update: To my surprise, a Google engineer responded to my blog post with assistance on the error I was having with this Gadget. His advice quickly found the problem and I'm proud to finally be able to release this gadget today! Download Poker Underworld for Google Gadgets I ... http://blog.pokerunderworld.com/2007/05/16/profile-gadget-for-google-desktop/ Hey everyone, As the balances get higher and higher, I think it's time to consider adding in a monthly reset. This means at the end of the month, your balance would be banked to your "grand total" and everyone would start off even at 2000 again. There are a few reasons ... http://blog.pokerunderworld.com/2007/05/10/new-monthly-competition/ There has been some discussion in the forums about the SnG tourneys and the prizes.  Since the tourneys generally don't get very full, the winner only wins about 50% of their buyin.  In order to make these tourneys more fun and profitable, we've raised the winner prize to 100% (and ... http://blog.pokerunderworld.com/2007/05/02/winner-takes-all-sng-tourneys-this-week/ Recently we quietly introduced a new chat room feature to our Poker tables. This new chat can be found on the right side of the Poker tables by clicking on the "Chat" table on the top right. This allows you to chat with other players at the Poker ... http://blog.pokerunderworld.com/2007/04/11/new-feature-chat-at-the-tables/