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« on: January 30, 2007, 08:57:23 PM »
I purchased TD2 a couple days ago and have been completely engrossed in setting it up. I've done a lot of reading and fine tuning and am very pleased with the result. Great work Corey. I was familiar with version 1.3.4 and was reluctant to purchase TD2. I'm very glad I did.
As a new user of TD2, I found the whole buyin process very confusing. After reading through the online help and the thread here, I think I have it figured out. I suspect most new people to your program are equally confused (the "Paid" and "Paid in Full" fields scramble my brain). I had to type it out initially so I could understand it.
Summary of Buyin process (sorry to repeat, but it helps me make sense of it all)
Rationale: Ideally everyone shows up to a poker event 15 minutes early and pays their entry fee. They are marked as "paid" in TD and their seats are randomly generated. Unfortuantely, people either show up at the last minute, show up late, or forget to hand over their entry fee in a timely manner, thus causing a dillema.
Option 1: We can wait until 1 minute before tournament, then collect money and randomly seat. This option allows the TD software ro randomly seat the entire field but almost assuredly causes the tournament to start late.
Option 2: Buy people in early that we expect to attend, generate random seating then remove the people who end up not showing. This has a small added benefit of allowing for unexpected guests, they can simply take the seat of someone who didn't show. This option isn't without its drawbacks, namely how should you know to collect money from someone which you've already designated as "paid" when they had not yet arrived?
Thus, we have 2 PAID fields (paraphrased from Online Help)
PAID: Whether or not the player has "bought in" This denotes whether the player has bought into the tournament. If he has "bought-in" he can play (IE be seated) The PAID field can be completed at any time, but once the player is designated "PAID" they may be seated and play in the tournament.
PAID IN FULL: A convienience field to denote that players have actually paid the entrance fee. PAID IN FULL does not affect game play. That is, PAID IN FULL is just for record keeping (to help track those who have actually paid and those who have not).
Observation
Intuitively, the process seems reversed to me and the terms are confusing (Paid vs Paid In Full) I would think it would be clearer to rename "Paid" with "Reserved" IE Player A has a reserved seat. Reserved seats can can then be randomly distributed.
Then, rename "Paid in Full" with "Paid". Once the player hands over the money, they are allowed to be dealt a hand. The "Seating Chart" could reflect names in black as "Paid" and those in red as "Reserved", but not yet paid. Cards aren't dealt (tourney doesn't start) until the un-"Paid" players are removed OR a seat can remain in a Reserved state and the person's stack blinded until they show up, but they physically don't play a hand until they've handed over their buyin. If any players without Reserved seats show up, (IE - unexpected guests) they could then buyin (be marked as "Paid") and assigned to a Reserved seat (of someone who didn't show).
Just my 2 cents, I thought it might make it clearer to new users of your software. Of course, it'll probably end up confusing the hell outta the people who have become used to the current system.
Aaron
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