Here are my dislikes;
The stupid characters
You can turn them off. I leave them on though as they don"t bother me, and you don"t see them after you"ve been on a while. I do prefer the smaller avatars that others use (dare I say Pokerstars?) though.
Bad structure
This can be changed, and I"m sure it will be for the next one. Blondepoker.com uses the same ipoker software, and there was a tournament recently with 30-min blinds. Not sure about how the blind levels are set though, if there is a problem with missing blind levels (I don"t know if there is?).
You can"t move the tournament lobby
This annoys me immensely. I have a two monitor set-up, using one screen for poker, and the other for my web browser (usually). But the tournament lobby will only show on one monitor and cannot be moved. It"s a ridiculous design flaw, and I do think that whoever designed the ipoker software doesn"t play poker online.
No hand for hand
That"s something I hadn"t noticed (wonder why...?), but something that they could easily add. They wait until all hands are completed before a break starts - and a message comes up telling you this. It should be easy enough for them to do the same thing when it approaches a bubble. Again, the sort of thing poker players notice, but not the non-playing software designers.
My biggest bugbear with the ipoker software is the time you have to make a decision. It gives you a few seconds, then beeps at you, and then you don"t have long at all (certainly not enough if you have a difficult decision at a crucial time). The time indicator bears no resemblance to the amount of time you have left - compared to other sites, this is a flaw that really needs to be rectified in my opinion. The "timebank" feature on PokerStars is very nice, and if ipoker could add something similar that would be brilliant (but not as important as getting the standard time correct and an accurate indicator showing how long is left).
When blondepoker and bluesq moved over to ipoker from Tribeca, the first thing I missed was the x2 x4, etc. betting boxes. You clicked the box and it entered the amount into the betting field. You could then quickly edit the amount before betting. Much, much better than the awful slider on ipoker. Again, if you"re going to have a slider, it should operate much in the same way as PokerStars. The ipoker slider goes from the minimum bet to about 20x that amount in the space of a few pixels. How anyone is meant to accurately determine a useful bet size is beyond me.
However, having said all that - the pros in terms of the live events far outweigh the negatives in terms of the online events (for me anyway). I guess APAT can continue to lobby bluesq and ipoker to improve the software over time.
