Ok, having played some games, here are what I see as shortcomings on the BetFair poker client...
- Blinds structure - When in a game, cannot for the life of me find a blind structure for that game. When playing in a game, we see a countdown clock for the game we are in, but have no idea what the next level is, or, if the end of this level is a break.
- The folded cards - When you fold, sometimes (cant me more than 25% of the time) you cards shrink smaller and stay above your name, but mostly they do not.
- A friend of mine tells me she cannot see a button at the top left for "Last Hand".
- Tournamen list from the main lobby - Sort by name and you expect that all the games whose description starts with APAT xxxxxxxx, come together... They just dont... makes it dificult finding the games we want... Also, similarly, sort by numbers of players registered in games, sorts it say from 0 thru to whatever high number... but if you scroll down past say 250, there are more zeros thru to 250, and then further down, some more... sorting is all wrong and makes it hard...
- The wierdest thing I see about the software is looking at the game lobby you are playing in your table goes to the background, and you can hear it playing, but you are reading the lobby. It is a very wierd way of playing as you suddenly realise you are missing hands. It is possible to get a different window by opening 2 windows, or maybe viewing a player at another table and then switching to lobby view, but it all seems wrong. Why doesnt it just have one window for the lobby and one for the game table as standard.
- Outstanding Balances - I click the button left of the main lobby " My Account "... I go to a web page, and have to login, and get a whole list of pages. 1st page "Account Summary"... Never works for me, always fails, so I go onto one of the other pages and then go back to the Account Summary, and it works, but, quite often it tells me I have zero available to bet, I know this is wrong, I go to "Account Statement" I see I have plenty of funds, so I go back to the summary and it tells me same number I just saw in the statement. Also, when we register for a tournament, why cant it tell us there that we have say £50 total, and we are spending £10, so new balance = £40... The software MUST have gone away to check the balances anyway to make sure we have the funds, so why cant it display that?
- Friends - I have added a friend in the "Find Players" section... I can see that he is playing in a particular tournament.. I would like to go and see how he is doing, I would like to go right to his game as it is listed on the screen in front of me, how hard is that to figure out, I expected to double click the game, but after trying lost of things, found a teeny little icon to the left of the game, and it took me there, but, as similar to table lobby, took me to the game, but, its put the game in my game window and its a trip and a half to get back to having one window with friends game and one window with my game.
- While viewing friends, the "Last Game" button not visible. Not a necessary item, but dont understand why not visible to observers.
- Betfair Poker Buddy - I see this link inside the page for preferences - I click it and get a HTML page opened. shows me the betfair top and left menu but in the main window - Page Not Found (404). It is supposed to show me the hand history on there.
- Are betfair gonna do a sportbook on the regged players at the APAT events?
If I think of any will add a new post, :-)
