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Ignition Casino and its twin online poker room, Bodog, recently made a major change to their cash game lobbies, moving from the traditional table listing to what the poker rooms call the Quick Seat lobby.
This lobby variation is nothing new; it has been around in the online poker world for years. What makes this interesting is that it is now the only way to find a cash game seat at Ignition Casino. The way we have been used to for as long as internet poker has existed is now gone. No more perusing the list of open tables, no more seeing what the average pot size and percent of players to the flop are, no more ability to open a table to see who is playing.
Now on Ignition, players will just choose their stakes, the maximum table size, the game (Texas Hold’em, Omaha, or Omaha Hi/Lo), and game variation (No-Limit, Pot-Limit, or Fixed-Limit). When all that is settled, the poker client will find the proper table and seat the player.
It looks like the idea behind the change is to protect recreational players from being targeted by sharks throughout the lobby. With no ability to find their prey, sharks can’t really hunt anyone down anymore. When they can’t do that, the recreational players will likely not lose their money as quickly, not only keeping money in the poker economy but also increasing the chances that they reload after going busto. Plenty of people have fun while losing money and the longer it takes to go broke, the more probably it is that the players still enjoy themselves.
Oddly, Ignition already had anonymous tables, so it was already next to impossible for any recreational players to be preyed upon. Perhaps the Quick Seat lobby is just a way to cover hat one percent of the time sharks were still able to target weaker players.
Reviews of the new system have been mixed in the poker community. While many applaud Ignition for taking another step to making online poker just about poker and taking away much of the edge third-party software tools provide, others feel the Quick Seat lobby just makes playing more difficult.
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The way it makes it more difficult is that most people have certain preferences when it comes to the games they play. Some like starting new tables. Others only want to play at full tables. The Quick Seat lobby doesn’t allow players to choose. Thus, if someone who hates starting a table or playing ultra-short-handed ends up at an empty table, they will either leave and try again, sit out until more players arrive, or play begrudgingly. None of these options is ideal.
At the same time, some players have reported having great success with Quick Seat, especially multi-tablers. Quick Seat guarantees players will get into a game, as opposed to a traditional lobby that often has just a couple tables of a certain type with long waitlists.
Ignition Casino has remodeled its cash game lobby, converting it from the traditional style in which players can view all the tables and choose one or many as they please to what it calls a Quick Seat lobby, where players just select a few game options and are automatically seated.
Quick Seat makes the process of finding a cash game extremely easy. Players just choose the game type, limit, stakes, and maximum seats and off they go. Those who want to play more than one table can go through the process again.
This is another step by Ignition (and its sister site, Bodog) to make its poker room more hospitable for recreational players. Poker rooms have made moves over the last few years to limit the ability of the most seasoned and skilled poker players to prey upon weaker, often recreational players. This isn’t done by taking skill out of the game (though certain, newer game types definitely do this), but rather by eliminating the means by which stronger players can track weaker ones and sit themselves with them at will.
This is typically done using hand tracking software, which players will use not just to monitor their own play, but keep statistics on opponents. Many software users implement seating scripts which use their statistical database to find weak opponents in the lobby then automatically sit with them. For poker rooms, this is counterproductive, as it typically results in the weaker players losing their money more quickly than they might otherwise and then not returning because they are not having fun.
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Ignition already has anonymous tables, which largely foiled this practice. Without names to go with results, there is really not much of a way for strong players to track weaker ones. But Quick Seat was apparently deemed necessary to take things one step further. As it is now the only way to find a seat, there isn’t even a way to reliably find a targeted player if one could get around the anonymity obstacle.
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Many in the poker community are none too thrilled about the change, and it is not necessarily because they want to use seating scripts. It is simply the lack of choice that irks people. For instance, some players do not like to be the one to start a table, but with Quick Seat, they have no choice if the software seats them at an empty table. It is thought that most recreational players prefer to play at full or near-full tables, so forcing them to play short-handed if that’s how the software works it could drive them away and defeated the purpose of the new lobby.
Players can leave the table and try the Quick Seat lobby again, but there is no guarantee they even get a different table.
On the flip side, players have found that they are able to get multiple games going faster than before, as the Quick Seat system seats them immediately. With a traditional lobby, popular games may have full tables with wait lists. With Quick Seat, nobody ever has to sit in a wait list.
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