With all these poker sites nowadays theres not many ways to get people away from their "preferred" site.

The only way forward to attracting new people is to offer them some type of free "no deposit" bonus such as Pokertime has done offering a free $10 for registering.

This will get the people checking out your site for the sole reason of getting free cash but it introduces them to your new "cool" features which my encourage them to play at your site.

I guess this is the only way you are going to develop a sloid player base with all those sites out their nowadays offering bargains for new players.

Only one site around now has the ability to fold and show. What I want to see is the ability (for either the winner of the hand or the last person to fold) to only show one card. In live tournament play, people show only one card much more often then they show both cards, so it makes sense for an online site to integrate that into their software.

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If you are realy serious about having the best site out there here are my suggestions for the perfect site.. Plenty of low limit games Cash, sitngos and tourneys spread throughout the day. This will attract new players and make it easy for them to afford to play while learning, You need a lot of MTTs from $10 to $100 spread throughout the day. You need to have some very high limit cash tables and several very high buy in tourneys occasonally. That pretty much is everything you need as far as games. While Omaha triple draw and stud should or could be nice , that is not what will draw the highest number of players. I would at least once a month offer the highest buyin tourney on the net with satelites. Another good idea would be to create satelites for Mid level tourneys to increase the fields, Make it where a $5 MTT player could win a seat to a $50 tourney.

Look at pokerstars for customer service, Speed of replys to emails. A phone number would be nice but not as important if the support staff is competent.A good blind structure as Ultimate bet has would be great but you have to have turbos available at times. Make bonuses that are reasonable to clear but make sure the MTT and sitngo players are able to clear them.One of the most important things is that you are able to unregester from a seat won from a satelite. Have a program similar to the $Ts on pokerstars would be OK, but why not if you want it to be the best site just give them the cash if they unregester.

The most important of all things is that the software not only looks right but works properly. Dont create a site that has server issues from traffic. Test test and retest to see if there are software problems such as auto folding or kicking you out of rooms or tourneys. Dont make the customer mad. Make it easy to find other players (player search). Ease of bringing up Hand histories, and stats while playing is important. Make chops possible at final table,, whether by contacting support or have a chop button at the final table on MTTs.

Pokerstars is the closest thing to a perfect site around. Use it as a model. Add UBs blinds, Add some high stakes tables and tourneys.

mixed games

Make it so you can decide when you look at your hold cards. Leave the cards dealt flat on the table and when you click on it, they will fold up so you can see what you have, when you unclick the cards go flat again. Make this available so you can see when other people are looking at their cards. This could add another way to read people at the table.

I would like to thank everyone for their feedback so far.
Keep the fresh ideas coming.
DiegoSP7

I'll put a grand on right now if you can make a dark check feature. :)

ok here's a lazy option...but i like how at stars ya can jus dbl click on someone and the notes section automatically opens up..verses some sites i play at where ya have to right click on their name then scroll down to select notes..pbbbbt too much work lmao!

oh yea and I definitely agree with someone who posted up there that a free cash insentive (spelling) without depositing first sounds good I'd definitely check ya out then...thats how i started playing at absolute and also i started playing at jetset n full tilt cuz they offered cool freerolls with cash prizes for top finishers.

whats ur name at cd? i wanna take ur money jking, but ill give you a look up :)

djinoc said

" <span>Make it so you can view 4 tables on a 1024x768 monitor (laptop) with no overlap"

</span>you do realize it would be almost impossible to see your hole cards right?

Ok for the pokerroom....

I would like to see the hole cards face up in an all in in a cash game. hate having to wait till showdown.

Make sure it is Poker tracker compatible. some people only play sites that allow PT... don't care if you allow datamining or not....

Tournaments

This is where you need to get it right... Ultimate bet has the best structure hands down.... You will need to have guranteed tournaments... with overlays.... if you don't want to have any guranteed tournaments or make them retarded like UB's (never raise them) your site will fail and you should think about investing your money somewhere else.... You should have a TLB gives people something to shoot for. start out with no less then 1500 chips.

Cool things...

you need to give out a sign up bonus.... not an impossible one either or cash game players will not play there..

I would like to see the fold face up feature and showing 1 card would be sick....

Rabbit hunting might not be a horrible idea... i know 1 site does (don't know if i can mention the site or not) Make sure the software looks good i don't want to play at a place that is painful to look at.

A frequent player program is a good thing to have (unless you take less rake then other sites do)

Key things....

1. Make sure there is a reason why i should play at your site.. make it stand out from others.

2. If you aren't willing to lose $$$ at first to get players(like a sick tournament gurantee or something or a big freeroll for people who rake a certain amount of hands in a time period) if not you most likely will never get players....

3. Good support.

4. Fast cashouts.

all i can think of now if i think of more i will post

" mixed games.....get this done, and you are 'golden' "

Yes... Yes... Yes!!!

If you could introduce mixed side games I would definitely check it out. A dealer's choice option would be stellar. It would be tough but possible. Probably a list of 8 or 10 games to choose from including some old-time-kitchen-table games like Stud 8OB Chase the Queen, etc.

Loopy

Screwy1. Been hitting the $2/20 sngs pretty hard. ITM 3/3 today, with one first, one third, and one fifth.

find a way to let people change avatars and screenames more often. i suck at choosing names lol.

the more security the better. make me feel safe leaving my money with you.

like gamble said, a rabit hunting option (idk how that works, maybe allowing like one a tourney or something) and the ability show down the card of choice from your hole cards.

it's been said already SUPPORT SUPPORT SUPPORT.

some kind of buddy list. so that you don't have to search for your friends, maybe a list u can scroll down and see who is on, double click and it will take you to their table or give you the opt to choose which tabel...etc..etc..etc..

rewards, bonuses...thank your customers!!! we are paying the rake that pays your bills!

well for one thing the tables are all really big on all sites. they could make the tables smaller by just 33% points...

they could put the next action buttons in the middle of the table to save space

Lucky Nugget (i think that's part of Prima) already has a table size that works on my laptop.

I think party has one too in beta