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Help Me / Table Balancing - Player Movement - random??!

« on: November 28, 2012, 05:56:00 PM »

I presume the player(s) chosen for automatic table balancing are random?

I've had a couple of occasions where for a whole tournament, when TD re-balances tables it consistently chooses the same player to move tables! - it's become a bit of a laughing point, as soon as the same person gets chosen twice in a row.. you can almost guarantee that he/she will be moving around the card room for the whole night!!!

Anyone else seen this? or found a way of avoiding the situation?
 

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General Discussion / Re: TD3 - First Round duration

« on: August 27, 2012, 01:09:39 PM »

Yes.. its fixed..! Thanks again.

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General Discussion / Re: TD3 - First Round duration

« on: August 26, 2012, 09:15:04 AM »

Thanks Corey... 

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General Discussion / Re: TD3 - First Round duration

« on: August 23, 2012, 05:32:21 AM »

Hmm.. I'm *still* having issues with this.. it seems that if you start the tournament "Controls->Start Tournament" then everything works ok..
However, if you use the countdown, i.e. "Controls->Start Countdown" and have the tournament start when the countdown ends, the first round duration *is* always wrong! 

My "Start Tournament Countdown" dialog is set as follows:
Countdown a specific length of time, 00:30:00
When countdown ends, start the tournament
Start Countdown Now

Please can someone else try this and confirm...

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General Discussion / Re: TD3 - First Round duration

« on: August 07, 2012, 03:59:33 AM »

Think i had a similar problem once, think it was solved by removing old cache or something, but maybe it was some thing else..

Doh! - yes, thanks, changing the IE settings to always "check for newer versions of stored pages" every time IE is started (as opposed to "Automatic"  ) solved the problem. Sorry Corey for doubting your excellent software!! 

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General Discussion / TD3 - First Round duration

« on: August 06, 2012, 07:07:41 PM »

Hi,

Has anyone else noticed (or is it just me?!  ) that using TD3 (3.1.1), the first round duration (when a tournament has been started) takes the value of the second round, ie. If I set up Round 1 to have a duration of 15 minutes, and Round 2 to have a duration of 20 minutes, the Tournament shows the duration of round 1 to be 20 minutes (and not the defined 15 minutes!), Round 2 is correct and is displayed as 20 minutes.

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Suggestions / Re: rebuy/add-on - original positions

« on: July 26, 2012, 03:43:25 PM »

A bit of a quandry for you there Richie, I think no matter which way you do it, you will be doing extra work.  How about setting the tables up so there are no forced movement until the tables fall below 4 players. Then when you add the re-bought players in to the game they would just fill the empty seats.So you would have a mix of players with hi and low stacks.

Another way of getting players to remember there seats is to give out (when players first buy in) a table and seat number ticket. So after the re-buy period each player has a record of where they were sitting.
Or on the tables tab take a screen dump of the tables screen control/alt/Prt Sc, save it in paint and then then you can display it on the screen during the break.

Is the league run by Red tooth?

Players always seem to remember where they first sat down.. so re-seating to original positions is easy.. its just that even with saving the tournament (yes - it *does* save the seating plan) which is a bit of a bodge, you end up having to manually step through all the preceeding rounds up to the rebuy/reload time - it would be cool if a seamless and fool-proof functionn was available to re-seat as per the start of the tournament.

Yes its the Redtooth tournament format.

Thanks for your suggestions..

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Suggestions / Re: rebuy/add-on - original positions

« on: July 21, 2012, 06:26:55 PM »

Lets make it simple:

10 players, starting stack 1000, average chip stack 100.
5 players or knocked out the first hand.
Now we have a game for a hour that is 5 handed with average chips 200, but there are 5 players
waiting to come back in with 1000 chips each, so them chips can not be won by any of the 5 players that are playing.
The 5 players that are sat out have in reality 1000 chips, they can not lose any of these chips till they re-enter in 1 hours time.
When the players re-enter it completely changes the game again, it goes from a 5 seater to a 10 seater.

Your 'simplistic' view doesn't match reality! - in the tournament format used, players start with 2000 chips, addon/rebuy after 1 hour is 1500 chips, blinds at the +1hour point are now 200/400. Newly rebought-in (reloaded) players are very short stacked in comparison with remaining players and inveitably have to make a "move" within a few hands or risk heamoraging all of their remaining chips - it's a format tried and tested (and it DOES work) - the format is used in pubs and is designed to keep punters in the premisses as long as possible!!

I have played in some of the pub poker games in the UK and apart from the odd few they are badly run, one big exception is a forum member on here,
his games seem to be run very well.

A little unfair! perhaps you should visit a few more events!

Just a question for you, if all players except 1 was knocked out in the first 5 minutes what would happen.
The 1 player left in could not continue because there are no other chips on the table.

Extremely unlikely (we have 50+ players!) - even if it did happen, the rebuy/addon would then occur immediately rather than +1hour - the game would then continue.

Just a thought, once your game is set up and all players are seated, you could then save that game under a other name,
run your game as normal, then when you want every body seated as they were just bring in the saved game, set the level to the right one
then continue, think this is the quickest option.

Nice idea, I did try this, unfortunately it seems TD doesn't save seating layout - hence the suggestion!

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Suggestions / Re: rebuy/add-on - original positions

« on: July 20, 2012, 02:42:26 PM »

Not a good way to run a game IMO.

Maybe, but its the format adopted by a major UK Poker League.

Having players sat out waiting to re-buy back in strange and unfair.

Why unfair? gives beginners a second bite of the apple.

So if a player is all in first hand and loses then he can just wait for the re-buy (lets say 1 hour).
This would encourage players to go for it, if they lose and go out what the heck, just wait for the re-buy, lose no hands or blinds,
the players left in will not get dealt the correct cards, the game as changed completely then will change back again later.
Players will be playing with average chip stack being wrong, there would be imaginary chips on the table that can not be won
or do not have to put blinds in.

I don't understand how you think that the average chip stack will be wrong.. or that there will be imaginary chips? The number of chips is constant until the first break, then the chip count increases by the addon/rebuy which every player gets (same value of chips for rebuy and addon). There is a distinct DISADVANTAGE to coming back after busting out.. namely you are horrendously short stacked normally meaning you normally only survive one big/small blind before running out of chips!

I would be looking at changing this ASAP, TD does it the way it does because that is the correct way to do it.

As posted, we are mandated to follow the format.

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Templates, Layouts and Sounds / Re: HQ Card Room Announcements

« on: July 20, 2012, 02:28:01 PM »

Superb sound files.. really makes a tournament appear very professional (my tournaments are like a swan.. serene to all who play.. but sheer panic behind the scenes!)

I found this website (http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php) which allows you to type in phrases and get them spoken, you can choose your language and voice [Daniel(UK) is closest to the files Stuart provided]

There's no direct way to save the spoken text from the website, however, if you are using windows, you can use the "Stereo Mixer" in Control Panel ->Sounds->recording, you can set this to be your default sound recording device ("Stereo mixer" is normally not visible - right click in the dialog and select "disabled devices" - or simply Google!!!), this will allow you to use the bog standard sound recorder to capture (and save) anything played through your pc speakers 

Rich

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Suggestions / Re: rebuy/add-on - original positions

« on: July 20, 2012, 05:36:36 AM »

In any re-buy tournament that i have done, the players have to buy in as soon as they are busted.  Only ever seen this done at a poker league, and then the re-entry didn't cost anything.

Indeed, I am running a poker league tournament - unfortunately we are mandated to follow the tournament format which stipulates the (free) rebuy/add-on after the first hour.

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Suggestions / Re: rebuy/add-on - original positions

« on: July 18, 2012, 08:41:18 AM »

I'm curious about this ... why do you move players back to their original seats?

Purely from a logistical point of view.

The scenario is:
Tournament start - players sit down at random seat as defined by TD.
Players bust out and tables rebalanced by TD
First break occurs (1 hour after start) - ALL players INCLUDING the busted out players get an add-on

The first time I tried this, I re-bought-in the busted out players, however this then resulted in the short stacked re-bought in players all being seated on the same table(s) - no problem, simply randomise the seating... however, this then resulted in mass confusion and wasted 15 minutes trying to get everyone re-seated!!  

The second time... I didn't bust players out in TD before the break, and had to manually re-balance the tables, at the first break I asked everyone to return to original positions as shown by TD (players will always remember where they first started - the return to their original seats took less than 5 minutes). All players then got the add-on/re-buy. Subsequent rounds then used TD as intended with automatic table balancing etc.

All i''m suggesting, is that it be possible to save/restore the seating plan so that I can use TD throughout the tournament.

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Suggestions / rebuy/add-on - original positions

« on: July 17, 2012, 06:42:08 AM »

Hi,
I run a tournament where everyone (including those who bust out) get a top-up (rebuy/add-on) after the first hour of the tournament - if I use TD as intended, players get moved about as the tables get re-balanced etc, but I'd like to be able to return everyone to their original positions when the add-on/rebuy/top-up occurs (otherwise I end up spending the next 10-15 minutes trying to get everyone seated/chips moved!) .
So, the suggestion is: Add a mechanism whereby the original seating plan can be saved/restored.