Monthly Poker Credits Rankings & Chip Prizes
Sunday, November 14. 2010

There is a new section in the rankings page that shows the monthly poker credits earned (this number won't drop when you spend poker credits).

To go along with this, the top 10 poker credit earners each month will win great chip prizes, totaling to over 2 million chips. The breakdown of the prizes can be viewed on the rankings page.

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Double Experience Day & Liar's Dice Experience Fix
Sunday, November 14. 2010

A new monthly event has been added to the site: Double Experience Day. This is on the last Saturday of every month, and as the name suggests, you get double experience for the day for any game you play that is on the Play Poker page (Poker, Blackjack, Liar's Dice).

Speaking of Liar's Dice, it appears there was a bug keeping any experience from being awarded by playing it. This has been fixed, so you will now get experience from those games and double that on the upcoming Double Experience Day.

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New Task Mission
Sunday, November 14. 2010

A new task mission has been added to the mix, more are on the way (if you have requests, please post them in the comments).

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Loans Update
Sunday, November 14. 2010

If a loan you gave becomes overdue, the slot it takes up preventing you from giving another loan is now unlocked.

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New Ranks Page
Saturday, November 13. 2010

The ranks page has been completely revamped to be much more informative. The categories for rankings that were there before are still there, but they are broken up into 2 lists, You and Overall. You can see your ranking (and the factors that go into it) for each ranking category with the users that are right around you (this way you know how close you are to passing them). You can then also view the Overall list to see the complete overall list of rankings for each category.

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Monthly Rankings
Friday, November 12. 2010

I have redone the calculation for monthly rankings to take into account your chips gained/lost and experience gained/lost for the current month rather than all of your chips plus your monthly experience. This should provide a better representation of the month's top players, rather than what was closer to the all-time top players that were performing the best this month.

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Table Actions Bug Fix
Friday, November 12. 2010

The internet isn't always 100% stable, so sometimes you will lose connection for a fraction of a second. If this fraction of a second happens to be when you do something like Check, Bet, Call, etc, the action won't go through. In these cases, the options wouldn't come back up and you would time out. A fix has now been added to check for a loss of connection and to give you the options again if the action doesn't make it to the server.

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Missions & Anti-Freedom Update
Friday, November 12. 2010

I believe in having freedom, so I'm giving it back to all of you. You won't be forced to play 5-10 hands to access certain features on the site anymore. Also, you now have the choice in missions to accept an item mission or a task mission. Right now there are only poker hand task missions, but more kinds will be added soon as well (you are limited to 2 task missions per 5 total missions each day).

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Optimizations
Friday, November 12. 2010

I have moved all images and static files to a CDN (Content Distribution Network), which means they are stored on servers spread out all over the planet. This should give speed improvements to international users because these files don't have to travel as far.

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Table Freeze Bug
Thursday, November 11. 2010

There was a bug in cash games that would sometimes cause a table to freeze if a player left the table at the same instant that it was to become their turn. This has been fixed.

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Bug Fixes
Thursday, November 11. 2010

When someone calls all-in after the person in the seat before them bet or raised all-in, their chips and bet wouldn't show on the table. This has been fixed.

An issue with the starting of new hands lagging sometimes when heads up and folding before the flop has been fixed.

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Loan Update
Thursday, November 11. 2010

In order to help prevent scamming, the collections period has been doubled to 30 days instead of 15, and users that have an overdue loan will be blocked from buying points from the point market, buying items from user shops, playing the odds, and giving chips to other accounts.

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Previous Update & Mission Update
Wednesday, November 10. 2010

I have altered the previous to not be as harsh so that you only have to play (not win, just at least see the flop) 5 hands to collect interest, play slots, and play the lottery, and then play 10 to do missions.

There is also the opportunity to get a new type of mission. You can now be asked to do certain tasks besides getting items like winning a hand of poker, etc.

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Go play some poker!
Wednesday, November 10. 2010

Starting tomorrow, in order to play the lottery and slots you will need to first win 2 hands of poker, and in order to receive missions and collect bank interest, you will need to win 5 hands of poker.

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More Polish
Wednesday, November 10. 2010

The messages page has received a few updates that should make it look nicer and be a little easier to use.

The shop inventory page has received a makeover to make it easier and faster to update shop prices and quantities.

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