Stacks Poker News

[NeverBeg]

Hey, I posted this in the Stacks Poker forum, but thought more people would check it out in this forum. Looks like Stacks Beta is here....

Beta Announcement
Fri 27 Jan 2006
StacksPoker.com is pleased to announce the launch of the Stacks Preview Player Beta Testing Period. Special invitations to download the StacksPoker.com beta software will be distributed between January 30 and February 19th to all registered Stacks Preview Players. Required login information will be included with your invitation.
The SPP Beta Testing Period is scheduled to run for approximately one month. Each week functional testing will focus on a specific component of the software, gradually unlocking StacksPoker.com's many features.
As an added incentive StacksPoker.com will be offering prizes for SPP's who find new bugs, log the most hands per day/week, win multiple Sit & Go tournaments, and SPP Freerolls!
The SPP Beta Testing Period will conclude with a fully open public beta period. Public beta will take us to launch and give you a chance to invite your friends to preview StacksPoker.com – The Next Generation of Online Poker.
Thank you to all Stacks Preview Players for contributing to the success of the Stacks Preview Player Beta Testing Period.

[John D]

I'm really looking forward to giving it a go anyway

Wonder what will actually be available in the beta stage though..I used to be a part time beta tester for a few programs years ago and it wasn't much fun.

Hopefully there will be enough features available to still make it good fun

[NeverBeg]

I have never been involved with a beta testing before. I think its cool that they are giving away prizes away for finding bugs and stuff like that. I am looking forward to it

[NeverBeg]

as members here get their invites to beta test stacks could you please post that you have received it in this thread. I am talkin to a buddy now who got set up and he took a screen shot. here it is:
http://home.comcast.net/~virtualvendorinc/stack1.jpg

[FattyOwnz]

HEC To The TIC

Looks great cant wait to have a go, does any1 know how they do the invites, like when will we all be able to play

James

[NeverBeg]

i am pretty sure they are sending out the majority of the emails tomorrow (monday)

[dbirider]

Wow that table is huge! Honestly who's going to want to play there with real money?

As a player I see

• Big tables - 1020x760!? I wouldn't be able to multi-table on my 1600x1200 monitor
• ugly 3d graphics - It looks like it was designed over 10 years ago with ancient 3d software
• hard to see the action. The perspictive is crazy. Even with the oversized window I have to squint to see the cards!
• There's no way that software's as fast as a 2d poker room. Even if the software runs quick, the games are definitely going to run slower because of odd 3d layout. I want to play as many hands/hour as possible.
• Nothing special in terms of player support. Their site has recently been updated just once in the last 5 months. They haven't been active at this forum. They were supposed to be working closely with another forum, which they ended up ignoring for months. The administrator said he's sent several emails but they wouldn't make a post about the special promotion they were working out with them.

As an affiliate all those things work against me in terms of how much a player can rake. 3d isn't anything innovative or special. True poker did it 5 years ago and they had much better looking software. For a while it was the #2 online pokerroom but it eventually phased out due to usability.

I predict that this room’s going to start off fairly decent. They have a ton of affiliates promoting it like it’s the next sliced bread. But there’s really no need for a 3d poker room so it’s going to steadily phase out until the real money tables will be almost non existent

I've been saying it for a while now and I stand by my prediction that this room won't take off.

couldn't disagree more.

If you want to come into the business now, you have to come up with something new. Stacks has done a great job with this.
There is also 2d for multi tabling.

Graphics look like that because its a screenshot and he might have a crappy video card.

You can change the views to be able to see the cards (i believe you can have them hover above)

I think this company has come up with a great idea and it will catch on tremendously.

Dbrider...do you promote party? you like their software?

also this is beta, not finished product

[John D]

We have started beta, we sent invitations out to a small group this weekend, and are going to open it up gradually to our beta tester group over the next few weeks.

Got this as part of an email from Stacks

I think it looks great.

I might be testing tomorrow, I will give a full report.