Time bank

nickkay

Apologies if this has been discussed before, but surely in MTT's we could have a bit more time for tough decisions?

Itsover4u

In Response to Re: Time bank:

Which begs the question, how do some players get their clock to start another lap over one decision?
Posted by chilling

Thats just a player disconecting and reconecting

But yes a timebank is massively needed it does not have to be large.... But.... Sky will never do it

nickkay

Some decisions require real thought, especially ones for your tournament life etc. Thinking back through the pre flop action, then the various streets sometimes takes a little longer, surely it has been brought up before?

churchy18

look through the old forum posts this has been ongoing for years its still a no from me. here is 1  previous thread about it.

https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby?action=show_static&page=poker_community_forums&plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plckDiscussionId=Cat%3a57795ac2-1793-4377-b4cf-e124b0f555f4Forum%3adf77f82c-151f-4bea-aae1-fb423dcae1faDiscussion%3ae92dc919-4525-4b55-bf07-c4e5c2074efb&plckFindPostKey=Cat:57795ac2-1793-4377-b4cf-e124b0f555f4Forum:df77f82c-151f-4bea-aae1-fb423dcae1faDiscussion:e92dc919-4525-4b55-bf07-c4e5c2074efbPost:3eca7b72-957e-4acf-b316-e0132dc548a3

nickkay

In sit and go's its not a problem, but people playing in the bigger MTT's who run deep should (IMO) be given more time to think about big decisions.

nickkay

A previous post that again IMO is spot on regarding Timebanks

When I said it would have no negative impact I meant on individuals and on overall gameplay. Is anyone really gonna notice if the average hand length increases by 0.6 seconds? Or if instead of getting 80 hands per hour, you get 79 hands per hour now? Not a chance imo.

BUT will the individual who just one time in a tournament wants to spend an extra few seconds on a tough decision notice that he has an emergecny 10 seconds to use? Definitely.

I've said it earlier in the thread, but I don't personally need it and I play about 10 Sky comps per night along side other sites too, and I still don't think I'd need to use the Sky timebank apart from rare occasions but it seems a bit selfish for me to say 'well I don't need it, so don't do it'... it's gonna have zero impact on me if others are using it so why not let people have that bit of extra time if they need it.

WAOOGA

888 has a nice feature of an extended time bank of 30 seconds which can be activated but once used I think doesn't reset until a table move.

NChanning

 Imagine for a moment either you or possibly me get handed the keys for a day and we are running Sky Poker...a smallish part of the huge Sky Betting and Gaming empire. We have our budget to manage and we have staff and time to allocate to things. We decide we want to spend some of our money on making software changes and possibly we need to allocate staff to helping to make and explain any changes and also to deal with any problems that those changes bring about.

 The first thing we need to do is work out what changes we would like to do and put them in order of priority and cost. We then need to look at which ones bring in most money. We could decide that making the mobile product better so that it's possible to play more than one table and that people enjoy it more is a high priority as that is definitely something that people seem to want. We can easily prove that by looking at the numbers of people playing that way and how it's increasing. When we now ask that the valuable development time is taken away from working on the sportsbook or the customer service side and diverted to poker we can back up our assertions that this will be good for the whole business with facts. It's easy to prove that more people will play, the company will make more money and the players will have a nicer time and love Sky Poker even more. That would seem a no-brainer and I'm sure it's high on any list currently.

 If we decide instead to go to the other parts of the business and say we have a list of things that will undoubtedly improve the user experience and make life easier for everyone but they might slow the games a little causing less hands to be played, (and hence mtts take longer and people get knocked out slower and play less new events), and effectively costing us money, then it's possible that the resources might not be given up so freely.

 What I suspect might happen soon is that, to use an analogy, we get a big kitchen conversion that involves lots of builders hanging about and a few chippies and plasterers too and in amongst it one guy gets a bit of time to mend the dodgy tap in the bathroom and do a bit of tiling around the cupboards.

 It's definitely not that "Sky will never do it" or "Sky don't want to do it" but it's just this fast changing technological world we live in where you build an app and then it needs to work for EI, Firefox, Chrome and every other browser and then you make small changes to it and they have to be good for all browsers and you work on your mobile product and it must be good for Apple and Android and everything just takes time.

 The will is definitely there to make things as good as they can be. If we were the boss for that day one thing we would learn is that every penny we spend on making changes that doesn't bring in any money...it doesn't make it easier to play more games or it slows the games down means less money to the business and that either means less profits for Sky Poker and less resources allocated to poker next year or spend less on rewards and promotions. That means the pressure is always there to focus on changes that mean people play more poker.

 That took me some extra time to write...glad I had some saved up.

rhino11

what about those who already take there time and just run the clock down, ruins it for some players, when you started on sky poker did you know that you had a limited time ? I think you get ample for online poker , why don't you suggest 5 minutes to sky, surely then you will be happy .