A few more comments on my early PokerView experiences

One thing that PokerView does not have is a good a way to review hands after you complete play and at this point, neither Poker Tracker nor Holdem' Manager can be used with the site. They do have a hand player reviewer that is rather nice but a bit clunky in action. You can click on a hand you want to see that was just played and it might come up that it can't find the database. So, to write up a session, like I've done in the past, means I have to REMEMBER what happened and I've not good at that. Nor do I have a way to know how many hands I've played Ring games or otherwise. They don't have a way to make online notes on any of the players. 

I've been impressed, so far, with PokerView's support and LIVE help. I'm not at all sure they'll be able to keep that up if they ever take off and become the size of ye ole Full Tilt or Poker Stars, but while it last it's great. Last night I was having trouble getting the Lobby to come up (it was taking from 3-6 minutes) and my webcam to function. After talking with the online LIVE chat person, she decided to refer me to her manager. The manager decided she'd like to TeamViewer with me on my computer, and then we chatted live through Skype. The bringing up the Lobby seemed to resolve itself and she discovered the system was trying to come up with a different webcam than the one I was using. Thanks to my ole poker coach I already had TeamViewer and Skype on my computer.

After we finally got my Ring game session going, she ask me questions about how I liked the interface. It appears we may be at the "live" beta stage and they are making continuing changes to the system while we play. I got to offer my opinion about various issues I have (they don't say/print in the chat window what the actual winning hand is, you have to look at the cards it and figure it out for yourself. That would be OK but the hand closes too quickly after the River and the chat window doesn't have a freeze scrolling so you can't keep the results in place to read them). .She said, if I have any future problems to contact her. I ask her how and she said through Skype. I now have the Skype support number. They still have a lot of work to do, including getting a lot more players, as it is hard to find SNG's to play and Ring games below the $0.50/$1.00 level. You can usually find a Tournament but they end up with less than 100 players after an hour's worth of late registration, and are all of the lower dollar buy-in level (from $.01 to $2 that seem to have players when I've been online).

So far I've managed to break even with my initial play. Ring games are not my best play and I have a tendency to overplay hands and not give the other player credit for having the hand that I know will beat me. One my best pots last night was when I was on the other side of that. The other player felt they were beat but had to "look me up" to be sure.

One interesting side point that happened during a ring game last night is another person from Tucson, AZ entered the Ring game webcam session. No one I know, but it was interesting to find that this early in the site's life another Tucsonan was there.

I moved my lamp to in back of my computer desk so I now have light coming directly onto my face and I get a brighter image of myself. Lighting is what many of the players need to work on so we can see them better. I'll post a picture that shows that at the end of this post.

I learned the hard way, that you should take a look in the mirror BEFORE you subject yourself to webcam viewing. Yesterday morning, I got up to do a couple of things intending to head back to bed shortly, so didn't deal with any "out of bed grooming" but got distracted, and on here in a webcam Ring game on PokerView. After playing for a half-hour or more, I was noticing that my hair looked a bit disheveled and eventually went to check it. Well, I'd not combed my hair yet for the day. It could have been a lot worse, but due my lacking much of my hair on my head, there wasn't a lot to make me Einstein-ish looking.

Enough for this morning. Following is the table picture with better lighting for me.