Last October, PokerCollectif had informed you that Everest and Betclic would migrate to the iPoker network. Following this announcement, several players were worried about the new game offer. They had issued a few claims. Several months later, applications have still not been executed and the players are now threatening to the network of a sit-out weekly.
The first sit-out should take place on Tuesday 16 April between 18:00 and 20:00 time of France. This sit-out will take place every Tuesday until the players to be heard.
According to the official thread created for this purpose, regulars want among other banned foreign regulars. Thereon they explain: "Turbopoker accepts foreign players playing abroad with no connection with the France, Everest, Betclic, Unibet and Joapoker representing the bulk of the players in the network have always refused this policy. "We ask that the general policy is coherent and unified, in respect for the equality of players and that it denies access to foreign players.Understand that all limits are affected by this leakage of liquidity".
Another important item on the program, the quality of the software. According to them, the software has not changed in 6 months. The alleged negative points:
-soft yet frequent crashes.
-multiple windows to close the opening of the app.
-refresh the real-time tournament lobby.
-refresh of the players at the cash game tables.
So, to summarize, the requests are as follows:
-improving the speed and the stability of the soft;
-activate the auto-reload in cash game;
-fix the minimum buy-in at 40bb;
-move the heads up at the bottom of the lobby tables;
-improve the readability of the software with more attractive graphics, larger color pellets...
-many other requests presented in detail on this page.
It will be interesting to see soon what will be the impact of this threat on iPoker software, and what will be the impact for gamers around the world on this network.
For the moment, iPoker has issued no comment following these threats.
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