PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add a chop option.

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Shagnasty
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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add a chop option.

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Some tournaments can start early if 4 out 6 registered players have the start early button clicked. Could you maybe incorporate this into the tournaments to where if the last three remaining players, for example, have the chop button selected, then the tourney will automatically end and split the winnings amongst those three. It would be an awesome addition to some awesome software and those of us at Seals With Clubs would greatly appreciate it. Right now we are having to transfer chips to each other to even it out, and you worry about the guy who isn't going to do what he promises. Or 7 people want to chop a big tournament, but the maneuvering of chips would be complicated and difficult to coordinate, so we have to wait.
Kent Briggs
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Re: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add a chop option.

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The site owner could implement this with the API. Put a button on the web site where players can request a chop. When everyone left in the tournament has selected it, an API call can just cancel the tournament, which automatically spreads the remaining prize pool out.
Shagnasty
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Re: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add a chop option.

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Kent Briggs wrote:The site owner could implement this with the API. Put a button on the web site where players can request a chop. When everyone left in the tournament has selected it, an API call can just cancel the tournament, which automatically spreads the remaining prize pool out.
Wait, so could he put an actual button on the table window similar to the "check/fold" button? Or like a chat command like <even chop on> that everyone could put. Or does it have to be on the actual website.
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Re: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add a chop option.

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Shagnasty wrote:Wait, so could he put an actual button on the table window similar to the "check/fold" button? Or like a chat command like <even chop on> that everyone could put. Or does it have to be on the actual website.
No, you can't modify the Flash interface. You would need a function back on the main web site or else the client could be embedded in a web page with an iframe tag, leaving a little room on one of the four edges for custom HTML.
Shagnasty
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Re: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add a chop option.

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Kent Briggs wrote:
Shagnasty wrote:Wait, so could he put an actual button on the table window similar to the "check/fold" button? Or like a chat command like <even chop on> that everyone could put. Or does it have to be on the actual website.
No, you can't modify the Flash interface. You would need a function back on the main web site or else the client could be embedded in a web page with an iframe tag, leaving a little room on one of the four edges for custom HTML.
Alright, that sounds ok. What about the chat command? Like if all remaining players put a command in the chat table that would do it? Thanks again for the answers.
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Shagnasty wrote:Alright, that sounds ok. What about the chat command? Like if all remaining players put a command in the chat table that would do it? Thanks again for the answers.
There are no API functions monitoring the table chat. It gets written to the hand history files so you would have to be constantly polling those with API code, looking for the specific keywords. That would be very inefficient since they have to be reloaded in full on each call.
antmar904
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Re: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add a chop option.

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Kent Briggs wrote:
Shagnasty wrote:Wait, so could he put an actual button on the table window similar to the "check/fold" button? Or like a chat command like <even chop on> that everyone could put. Or does it have to be on the actual website.
No, you can't modify the Flash interface. You would need a function back on the main web site or else the client could be embedded in a web page with an iframe tag, leaving a little room on one of the four edges for custom HTML.

Kent,

You stated above that the flash interface can be embedded into a iframe.

Is this something that can be done easily?
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Re: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE add a chop option.

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antmar904 wrote: You stated above that the flash interface can be embedded into a iframe.
Is this something that can be done easily?
Yes, that's very simple. See item 3 in the FAQ:

http://www.briggsoft.com/pmfaq.htm
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