Poker Mavens 2.50 Released
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 3:51 pm
Upgrade Patch:
http://www.briggsoft.com/patches.htm
New Features:
Added rebuy option to tournaments. Blurb from the help file:
Rebuy levels - Set the number of levels (up to 1000) in the rebuy period. Use 0 for a standard freezeout (non-rebuy) tournament. During the rebuy period, players can select the "Add more chips" command from the Options menu in the client to request a rebuy any time their chip stack is at or below the starting chip amount. Players can double their stack before the first hand is dealt. The amount of chips added is the same as the starting chip count and the amount deducted from their account is the same as the buy-in. However, they are not charged an entry fee again and thus 100% of the rebuy goes directly into the prize pool. If a player loses all of their chips during the rebuy period, they are automatically presented with "Leave" and "Rebuy" buttons to stay in the tournament. The amount of time they have to select Rebuy is equal to a normal turn. Otherwise, they are removed from the tournament. If the rebuy period is still in effect when the first player leaves in a money position, the rebuy period is terminated immediately since the prize pool can no longer be modified at that point. The payout schedule is updated immediately after each rebuy and can be seen in the tournament's General Info panel in the player client.
Added no-show player removal function to tournaments. This is a new button on the tournament leaderboard dialog (View button on Tournaments tab in server console and remote admin interface). A no-show player will have an asterisk after their name in the player list, indicating that they never clicked their Ready button. The buy-in/entry fee is removed from the prizepool and added back to the player accounts so no-shows can only be removed up to the point of payout distribution. All chips in their stack are removed and the payout schedule is recalculated as if those players never registered. The chips bled off when posting blinds remain in the tournament, however. An equivalent API function called TournamentsRemoveNoShows is also available.
Added manual tournament register function to Chips menu on the Accounts tab. Now the administrator can manually register players for a tournament from the console or remote admin interface. Previously that could only be done via the API.
Added "Suspend chat during all-in" option for tournaments under Client Settings. Some other online poker sites use this feature to prevent players from influencing the action when someone is contemplating calling an all-in bet. This setting has no affect on ring games where that type of collusion is less of a factor.
Largest/Average/Smallest stacks now displayed in player's stat panel during tournaments. Viewable when selecting "Statistics" on the Options menu in the table window.
Players are now seated in "Sitting Out" mode when starting a tournament and must click their Ready button after being seated. This serves two purposes: no-shows no longer hold up the first hand while everyone waits for their turn to time out, and it helps the server identify a no-show player for the new 'Remove No-Shows" function.
TournamentsPlaying API now returns the tournament number. This parameter added per customer request.
"Poker Mavens" markings not shown in remote admin interface until after login. This was implemented mainly for Gold version customers so that non-authorized people trying to access the \admin link couldn't see the Poker Mavens branding.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed bug in multi-table tournaments where a moved player could be credited with an extra pot. This was a nasty little bug that could cause a multi-table tournament to end up with more chips than what it started with. Specifically if a player who just won a pot at one table happened to get moved to another table where their pot was being awarded, the moved player would get the same number of chips again because a variable that held their share wasn't properly cleared.
Cards folded face down can now be flipped back up in the client. In the previous version, a new feature was added to flip your hole cards over by clicking on them. But if you happened to fold with your cards face down, you couldn't see them any more on the mouse-over. Now you can flip them even while folded.
http://www.briggsoft.com/patches.htm
New Features:
Added rebuy option to tournaments. Blurb from the help file:
Rebuy levels - Set the number of levels (up to 1000) in the rebuy period. Use 0 for a standard freezeout (non-rebuy) tournament. During the rebuy period, players can select the "Add more chips" command from the Options menu in the client to request a rebuy any time their chip stack is at or below the starting chip amount. Players can double their stack before the first hand is dealt. The amount of chips added is the same as the starting chip count and the amount deducted from their account is the same as the buy-in. However, they are not charged an entry fee again and thus 100% of the rebuy goes directly into the prize pool. If a player loses all of their chips during the rebuy period, they are automatically presented with "Leave" and "Rebuy" buttons to stay in the tournament. The amount of time they have to select Rebuy is equal to a normal turn. Otherwise, they are removed from the tournament. If the rebuy period is still in effect when the first player leaves in a money position, the rebuy period is terminated immediately since the prize pool can no longer be modified at that point. The payout schedule is updated immediately after each rebuy and can be seen in the tournament's General Info panel in the player client.
Added no-show player removal function to tournaments. This is a new button on the tournament leaderboard dialog (View button on Tournaments tab in server console and remote admin interface). A no-show player will have an asterisk after their name in the player list, indicating that they never clicked their Ready button. The buy-in/entry fee is removed from the prizepool and added back to the player accounts so no-shows can only be removed up to the point of payout distribution. All chips in their stack are removed and the payout schedule is recalculated as if those players never registered. The chips bled off when posting blinds remain in the tournament, however. An equivalent API function called TournamentsRemoveNoShows is also available.
Added manual tournament register function to Chips menu on the Accounts tab. Now the administrator can manually register players for a tournament from the console or remote admin interface. Previously that could only be done via the API.
Added "Suspend chat during all-in" option for tournaments under Client Settings. Some other online poker sites use this feature to prevent players from influencing the action when someone is contemplating calling an all-in bet. This setting has no affect on ring games where that type of collusion is less of a factor.
Largest/Average/Smallest stacks now displayed in player's stat panel during tournaments. Viewable when selecting "Statistics" on the Options menu in the table window.
Players are now seated in "Sitting Out" mode when starting a tournament and must click their Ready button after being seated. This serves two purposes: no-shows no longer hold up the first hand while everyone waits for their turn to time out, and it helps the server identify a no-show player for the new 'Remove No-Shows" function.
TournamentsPlaying API now returns the tournament number. This parameter added per customer request.
"Poker Mavens" markings not shown in remote admin interface until after login. This was implemented mainly for Gold version customers so that non-authorized people trying to access the \admin link couldn't see the Poker Mavens branding.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed bug in multi-table tournaments where a moved player could be credited with an extra pot. This was a nasty little bug that could cause a multi-table tournament to end up with more chips than what it started with. Specifically if a player who just won a pot at one table happened to get moved to another table where their pot was being awarded, the moved player would get the same number of chips again because a variable that held their share wasn't properly cleared.
Cards folded face down can now be flipped back up in the client. In the previous version, a new feature was added to flip your hole cards over by clicking on them. But if you happened to fold with your cards face down, you couldn't see them any more on the mouse-over. Now you can flip them even while folded.