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I'd like to drop the info on brand new poker site that I've been working on that is now opening up for BETA testing

https://blockpartypoker.com

Come play for free using bitcoin testnet coins.
Have fun with friends and make some new ones while you chat and play poker.

The poker server is running latest version of Poker Mavens Gold.

The website and services are developed and maintained by myself with some help of a peer developer along the way.

We are looking for users to help test out some of our features before going live with real cryptocurrency.
Right now the site offers basic functionally to allow you to register, deposit and withdraw.

We have plans to add more features to allow users to create private tournaments and cash game.
We are also open to suggestions to other features you would like to see.

My commitment to the poker community:
You will never pay rake - site will operate through funds collected from donations and service offerings
More freezeout/bounty type tournaments - rebuy, add on, and late registration options are still possible but will not be our main focus as those are really just traps collect more rake
Fun and friendly environment

You should post on the Services (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=52.0) and give a little incentive for those testers that are willing to check out your poker site.

It wouldn't need a lot of money but you're only getting a crowd to survey on what they think about your poker site. You give them a small reward or appreciation once they're done and also giving them free credits for the testing for the feedback and review.

Tried accessing your site, but it never loaded successfully initially though it loaded properly after trying repeatedly again and again due to which my first impressions of your site are pretty bad op.

Your site performance needs to improve asap in my opinion. Also, the site design is way too simple and also needs to be improved.

I had the same experience with Haunebu when opening the site. It shouldn't be that long to load considering how simple it looks right now.

This sounds good but do you think this is sustainable? Don't get me wrong. It's a nice way to attract players but your platform is new and it looks like you have a very small team handling it. How do you think you'll get donations and buyers of your service offerings?

It would be very difficult to get players, especially because it is a new site and you do not hold a valid gaming license?
Or do you have any plans to do so?

Playing poker candy wrappers is boring, let's get real no deposit.

How are you planning to make it a sustainable business if you are not going to get any rake/fee? How will you cover your hosting, mantainance , developing and whatever kind of expenses involvend in running and keeping it active?
Also to create a maintain a user base you will need some proper marketing actions that will require some money as well.

In the long run most poker rooms close their doors because profit < costs. This is due to the fact that if you want to become a serious player in this field you need to make sure to make "funds are safu". This is connected to a high investment.

Same experience where it do loads up too long even though i do have 100Mbps connection which is already a minus.You would really be needing to have lots of refresh before accessing this site.

When you do make refresh again then i do end up on a loading loop.  :'(
https://i.imgur.com/Htdsplh.gif

This has been done by many new gambling site, and its effective to attract gamblers and to help the new site to know some problems that may occur along the road, however I doubt that OP will do this since they are running through the funds from donations based on the OP statement and he’s running this site alone with a little help.

I already made the registration, confirmed my email and entered, I see that there are two open tournaments, but they require 250microBTC, I imagine that we will have to wait for several users to register to start the tournament, if so, could OP publish a schedule to enter?

https://i.imgur.com/rD8QeXm.png

It would be nice if I could fix the platform with the bright color combination, there are many users who like to see strong colors, depending on how it is right now for me it is fine.

Plain maven poker software? I thought I wont see any new sites using this software because there were too many poker sites uses this software and most of them failed to survive. First it is hard to get poker players and secondly you are using a basic poker maven software which is not that attractive for 2021. Indeed, you may survive if you know how to attract players but if you dont have something special then sorry to say that you will need to struggle very hard.

This is not to discourage OP but of course, we just want to see a more innovative poker site and this statement is just based on many poker site before that failed because of being the same and not competitive enough to survive. If OP wants to attract players, its also good to invest some money on marketing this project.


That's good to see someone trying the site, maybe I can also try to registration but I'm still afraid to deposit money. Maybe if there's more players waiting for the others, I'll enter too. Fix schedule should be publish, this can be a good guide for the players.

Welcome to the Forum and welcome to Bitcointalk.org .

Poker is very popular nowadays specially tournaments but candy wrappers Poker is some kind of Boring for me , sorry for the words.

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And like what the other member said , i tried checking your site and the Loading seems very slow , it almost not showing the interface .

Anyway since this is under BETA testing , hoping that advises from the forum members will take into consideration as we are also the players you will wanted to lured .

Yes, it is effective because they will be getting the attention of their target customers and at the same time, they will be known for that for doing such surveys.

They will save cost from the possible trouble that they might experience in the future by not finding out troubles and bugs that might be exploited by any of their customer. But in their case, they still dont have much players.

it seems like the website is still inaccessible to some users. @OP its been days since the issue has been brought up, are you planning on fixing this issue? for those who might think that it might be my internet. not it is not, I can access other sites just fine except for this one.

https://i.imgur.com/icf8fTG.jpg

I tried checking the site again and faced similar loading issues which I detailed in my earlier post. Horrible performance issues. Also, op hasn't tried to resolve all of our queries and has been inactive.

Due to these issues, I suggest avoiding this site completely since there are far better legit alternatives out there.

Me either.
I guess there is a website fixing but it should have an announcement here, but nothing we could see.

The site was created through godaddy.com and it was registered on 2021-01-17, so it really fresh gambling site that shouldn't trust.
I hope there is no stuck money from users there, this is the reason why I didn't use newly open gambling sites because they are not capable to trust your money.

I have been playing poker online regularly for many years and the crypto rooms I have seen are much worse than the fiat ones. I understand that a project starts with a small thing and takes steps but what you are commenting about this project does not encourage me to visit the room. It sounds like a botched job.

What I do hope is that someday rooms like Pokerstars or Pacific start accepting Bitcoin.

but at least if they will Give incentives of course , because if not then what they will get is BS testing and no legit testing that will be conducted .

This is actually a Job to offer and since it's a Job there must be even small compensation by giving small token of appreciation , at least free bets ?
That's it so they must Give some small payments for this Bug hunting , because even Big gambling sites experienced Bugs along the way and even some becomes controversial .

I do not know what is special about Poker stars today, before when it had the best vip system that has ever existed and that gave really good prizes YES!! to be at the time the best rakeback in the history of poker, today it is another thing.

On the other hand they do not accept crypto directly but if you can use crypto, neteller and skrill are good bridges to do it, but in my case I would never put a single satoshi in PS today.

On the other hand, do not insult an industry that is emerging, cryptocurrency poker casinos struggle to gain their traffic, there is good crypto poker casinos(!?) of course there are.

As for this Block poker, it is a fish, it does not even reach beta, the benchmarket he made with the reference to Party Poker so blatant annoys me, anyway, it is his project and he puts the name he wants, but it not make for that one must turn his back on it, at least as long as it is a legitimate and real entrepreneurial project that seeks win-win.

It's easy to tell any project sucks, we are going to give it a try, he says it is in a testing phase so hopefully it gets better over time.

Considerations:
Remove the welcome message where you ask for a deposit to be made, create play money games, users are better identified with this format and finally please make a poker game work, It also gives proof that you are linked to the development of this project.

Finally this project is in Raw Fish mode. But keep trying.

I test it out on chrome and it didnt load but when i do access it on Mozilla firefox then it does show or load fast. Dont know
if this do matter on what web browser you are using.
https://i.imgur.com/n2YeiTa.png

Good luck and congrats for the efforts on developing blockparty poker. The site is simple and loading fast, and to start from the base and make revenue in gambling industry is really a tough task. For this you need to have lot of patience, which isn't an easy thing. Also I would suggest to give a free access to test the site than registering, because majority won't prefer registering.

The website was loading for about 10 seconds in Chrome for me, which is way longer than usual but better than what others said about the website not loading at all.
It also needs some improvements when it comes to grammar and phrasing. For instance, the paragraph about the website says the following:
Oh, and while it's the 'About' page of the website, it says '/#contact' in the link.
When registering, there's no button to agree with the Terms and Conditions, and I couldn't find them on the website at all.
Good luck!

I tried from Chrome and Netbox... waited a few minutes, but nothing happened!

I guess this is just a first try, and the first try showed many bugs... it's not easy to create and run a poker site! This idea seems ok, but as always reality is something different!

OP should look for some partners, it's not easy (almost impossible) to everything alone... and for good ideas, you need a good team to carry out the entire process from creating to realizing the project!

Well, all I can say is that I will check this thread again, and maybe the site will work... in that case, I will take a better look at what you are planning to do here! Good luck OP!

This is what I do not like to see in this gambling board. A brand new site came and created an ANN thread but the representative/admin/owner leave the thread just after he created it. Nothing else to say, I can say the owner is not really serious in owning and managing the site. Lets see if he will be coming back in this thread in the next few days. If he is not coming back, better to avoid it.

First of all, I haven't insulted any industry I have just said that crypto poker sites are nowadays much worse than the fiat ones. That's not insulting and it's the truth.

The bitcoin acceptance thing was because of what might help adoption, not so much because I want to use it.

Apart from that, I agree with what you say about Pokerstars, I don't play there lately, but the rakeback drop has been generalized and there are no good alternatives. The ones that give you a little rakeback have worse traffic, soft etc.

Congrats on creating this website. The BlockParty Poker name seems nice as well. Creating an online poker venue is not an easy task, but you have to keep working hard to build the best experience for all users.
In that manner, it is loading a bit slowly (but successfully, yeah). Providing more details and ideas would be nice to see.
BOL

I am one of them that didn't able to load the site completely but soon I will try to access it again to see if it will load completely. It would be better if we can test the game or the site to see if it works fine. More like a test to see if poker players can enjoy playing poker without paying for fee as what you can read on op. Welcome to bitcointalk forum and good luck.

Welcome to this forum. Enjoy your stay at this forum.

I can access the site, but it needs time before it can complete opening the homepage. But I do not try to register, and maybe later I will do that. This site can be a good site to learn poker, especially for new people in poker games. But it needs seriously to maintain your website because I am sure there are many things you need to do to grow your site.

Thanks for those who have went to the site to check it out.
Thanks for the feedback as well.

The site is now being offered PLAY MONEY poker site.
The chips have no value, user get chips when the register and can top off once every 24 hours.
Tournaments start every 30 minutes, and there are RING games you can some and go as you please.

If you looking to play a tournament or just few hands, you might want to bring a friend or two as traffic is very lite.
In fact you would probably have the site to yourselves.

Planning to add some new features to allow users to create and manage groups to allow hosting private games.
You will be able to buy tokens with bitcoin that can be used to create new games within groups you own or manage.
The site is not a gambling site and doesn't promote gambling.

The poker server may not be flashy and that is okay. 
The intent was never to compete with those other sites or to make any profit.
The operational cost are low.  The biggest challenge is finding time and motivation to add new features.

In regards to the site not loading for some, I'm not sure I haven't see those issues.
I'll try to debug those, thinking it could be a polyfill issues as it appears to be browser specific.

Thanks again!
Nutzs

The website is pulling down 14 MB of resources.
The site loads fast when we the resources are cached. 
When the resources are not cached I'm seeing about 10 seconds to load the site.

I'll see what I can do the remove resources the site doesn't need.
In addition to that I can look into moving to geo friendly hosting solution for that website.

I'll look into addressing these issues before working on any additional features.