Sloe Times

Awhile back I fired up Doyle's Room when they opened up. The site is back ended by platinum casino software and in general the site was pretty weak. The interfaces were clumsy and the action on there was limited at best. I probably gave it a go for a month and then just walked away with a sizable deposit bonus unclaimed ($350) and down $60 from my initial deposit. It is somewhat unfortunate because I had some high hopes for it, probably because I bought into the hype of it being a poker room endorsed by Doyle. I think if the software/client were better behaved that it would cure a lot of ills, but it is damn hard to get away from the fish barrel that is Party.

Speaking of new poker rooms, Check n Raise Poker is opening its doors later this month (the 26th I believe) and I am somewhat anxious to see what it will be like. I will try to ignore the grief they caused with Pauly last month and look forward to a client and service that cater more to making the online experience better. Or at least, that's what their hype would lead you to believe. Obviously it is hard to know how it is going to play until they open up, but assuming their client really is the cats meow and they can attract enough players, it may be worth spending some time on.

The ultimate client IMO would be a combination of UB(mini view for multi-tabling) and Stars(avatars and overall general client appearance) with the user base of Party. You got to wonder how hard it would be to write a kick ass service with a client API and let some solid interface people create skins/clients for poker rooms.