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Re: FYI Betfair Poker moves to the Ongame network
« Reply #15 on: July 12, 2010, 14:59:35 PM »


adding other sites across the OnGame network can only serve to increase the standard of opposition at each table :(



Looking down the list of sites already on...ahem...Ongaming, I"m not sure the standard will improve.
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Re: FYI Betfair Poker moves to the Ongame network
« Reply #16 on: July 12, 2010, 16:21:33 PM »
Not too worry steve i play on Betwin and its about the same mate with regards to the standard of play.  There is a mass of eastern europeans and other softer nations to pick on just as much as the betfair ><))))))*>
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Re: FYI Betfair Poker moves to the Ongame network
« Reply #17 on: July 12, 2010, 17:37:19 PM »
I for one welcome the change, be good to see folded cards after every hand, not just by random chance.  Personally happy for the extra tournaments and player volume and I"m certain as a few have said that the competition will still be soft.  Roll on August...

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Re: FYI Betfair Poker moves to the Ongame network
« Reply #18 on: July 12, 2010, 17:53:57 PM »


Looks sort of "On Tilt" like to me.


My kind of site



I thought Ladbrokes were on the OnGame Network but I see that MicroGaming sites just look very similar.

These are OnGame softwares;

BWIN
TowerGaming
RedKings
SmartLivePoker
Betsson
PrimePoker
Hollywood Poker



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Re: FYI Betfair Poker moves to the Ongame network
« Reply #19 on: July 12, 2010, 21:29:35 PM »
I notice from the demo that Paulie posted that the software is multi OS support, Betfair on a Mac has to be a positive move I would say
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Re: FYI Betfair Poker moves to the Ongame network
« Reply #20 on: July 12, 2010, 21:36:34 PM »
backwards step imo,the Ongame platform is slow,unreliable and one of the worst out there,sad day
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Re: FYI Betfair Poker moves to the Ongame network
« Reply #21 on: July 12, 2010, 21:47:52 PM »
whilst ongame isn"t the greatest, at least the structures of the mtt"s are smooth and also have the structure available to look at before deciding whether to play or not

Unlike Betfair at present where clicking on "structure" merely informs players of the starting stack  ??? ???

hope it works out for them
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Re: FYI Betfair Poker moves to the Ongame network
« Reply #22 on: July 12, 2010, 22:23:48 PM »


Gotta be a good thing as the current software is soooooobad!


I"m gutted!!  Combining the general Betfair userbase with players who currently play on other poker sites is a bad thing. The standard of play at Betfair is generally so very fishy and poor - adding other sites across the OnGame network can only serve to increase the standard of opposition at each table :(

That said though, more volume will be a bonus.




I grouped Betfair with PKR as sites whose fishpools didn"t quite outweigh the additional discipline I"d need to put up with the downsides.

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Re: FYI Betfair Poker moves to the Ongame network
« Reply #23 on: July 12, 2010, 22:47:08 PM »
Got to be good

I applaud Betfairs contribution to the APAT coffers, but their software....................stinks

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Re: FYI Betfair Poker moves to the Ongame network
« Reply #24 on: July 12, 2010, 22:55:10 PM »
Just when I was getting used to the current software...sigh.

I have a gala account and not daft on Ongame tbh but I suppose I will grow to love it  ::)

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Re: FYI Betfair Poker moves to the Ongame network
« Reply #25 on: July 12, 2010, 22:56:40 PM »
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Re: FYI Betfair Poker moves to the Ongame network
« Reply #26 on: July 12, 2010, 23:16:59 PM »
IMO.....it cant be any worse than Betfair"s current software. But lets wait and see.
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Re: FYI Betfair Poker moves to the Ongame network
« Reply #27 on: July 12, 2010, 23:25:35 PM »
The ongame software has many of the bits that members complained about that were missing in the Betfair software. It also has a far bigger player base so more action at all levels.

But I have always found ongame to be slow and problematic ( I used to play a lot on Poker Room which became a part of BWIN).

Recently played on Betsafe and it still seems slow compared to Betfair and ipoker.
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Re: FYI Betfair Poker moves to the Ongame network
« Reply #28 on: July 13, 2010, 13:22:32 PM »

I really like the Betfair graphics - plain and boring to some but I find all the fancy graphics distracting. Guess we"ll just have to get used to it  :-\

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Re: FYI Betfair Poker moves to the Ongame network
« Reply #29 on: July 13, 2010, 14:03:52 PM »


I really like the Betfair graphics - plain and boring to some but I find all the fancy graphics distracting. Guess we"ll just have to get used to it  :-\


I"m with you on that - it"s particularly useful when having the window set to it"s smallest scale for multi-tabling.