Copy of our recent message out to all club members. We wanted to share it out on here as a general update!
Its been quite an exciting past two months! A lot has happened and in this email we will update you all on changes, updates and the future!
NewsAs of this week, we have passed the
1 millionth hand played on our network! As we write this update, we pass hand number 1,057,000!
Over the past 10 weeks we have ramped up our own marketing activity which is starting to drive a lot of new faces. We have reinvested all our operating capital for platform improvements and marketing to ensure players play on a more updated and busier platform.
We have seen over
220% growth month on month across both our BTC and Lobby lobbies so far in player traffic and activity.
We have kick started our biggest Rakerace event ever at prizes of $6,000. This is double of what it was back in July. We look to double the rakerace event again in October!
In August, we started giving out
200% bonuses which will now remain. You can get a 100% bonus twice (once for BTC and once for ETH)!
In August we also had the first of many tournament/sng competition. The next one will take place right after the current rakerace ends from the 18th September with twice the prizes.
We recently revamped our Ambassadors programme where partners can now get 60% rakeback and up to 30% revenue share based on performance. We also introduced the ability to create your own games, tournaments and even host private games. Private password protected games feature has recently been built in.
A few weeks ago we increased our Freerolls to
every hour rather than every 2 hours. Not only did we increase the number of daily freerolls but we also
doubled the prizepools. BTC prizepools were 0.5MBTC each, now it is 1MBTC. ETH freerolls were also added valued at 20 Finney each.
Software Updates - Windows- Fixed a number of withdrawal and deposit bugs preventing users from making transactions from certain exchanges/wallets.
- Fixed lobby filtering as it was not working for higher stakes games.
- Animation speed increase to speed up games as requested.
- Display fix for table preview in some cases, incorrect usernames were shown.
- Major rework for the rank progress screen - you can now view your realtime rank progress, rakeback unlocked and rake paid.
- Dynamic update banners added, get frequent banner updates of latest events such as the rakerace leaderboards.
- Ram memory function rework added to better reduce RAM usage caused by our security features and RNG.
- Private password protected games added.
- Mixed games support added.
- Improved Avatar upload feature to better scale images on the game table.
- Multitable tiling feature improved to better support more screen sizes - sometimes if you ran multiple tables at once, some tables would appear off the screen. This is now fixed.
- Languages optimized to support 12 major languages
Software Updates - Web Client (part 1, more updates to come soon) - Withdrawal screen now supports adding both BTC and ETH addresses. Prior to this, you would need to confirm each address manually via email. This now makes withdrawals faster.
- Custom avatars now added on the web client. Upload and edit custom avatars simply by clicking your name!
- Rank progress and rakeback screen updated to show more statistics of your account and now works across all ranks.
- SNG games are now supported by our web client.
- Lobby filters fixed for stakes. Did not work properly for ETH lobby prior to the fix.
- Hand replay now works well for older replays. Older replays that took place longer than 7 days used to be erased.
- Dynamic update banners added, get frequent banner updates of latest events such as the rakerace leaderboards.
- Private password protected games added.
- 'Seated' bug fix added. Sometimes when shifting tabs, players names were not showing properly.
- 12 inconsistencies improved on the mobile version of Instantplay.
Security UpdatesAs you may have read from our whitepaper, we operate under very strict security modules against cheating, hacking, bots and more. Over the past two months we have been on a mission in the background improving our detection methods and have hired a private 3rd party to aid in consulting.
Since our launch 4 months ago, our detection systems have caught:
- A whopping 287 fraud & collusion attempts
- Blocked 61 bot attempts
- Stopped 39 Instances of chip dumping in tournaments
We have continued to improve our systems and its safe to say we are now more secure than ever before. We feel security is one of the biggest problems in online poker which we look to tackle.
Rake Structure UpdatesWe had reports that sometimes rake for a hand is overcharged and sometimes undercharged. Over the past week we have been investigating and testing what the issue could be. We later isolated the problem with a new update we had 3 weeks ago while patching Rakeback issues some users faced. This then lead us to discover the problem also linked to our ETH lobby and some calculations were off if done simultaneously. This affected 22% of all hands played.
Long story short, we decided to rework the entire rake structure to patch the issue. While working on the fix, we also noticed that our current structure was quite complex as it relied on too many factors. In resolution, please find our new simplified rake structure below. For some of the higher stakes games, we also reduced the rake percentage from 5% down to 4% and made that the basis across all games.
*For reference, 1 mBTC = 30 mETH (Finney) approximately.
BTC Cash Games:
2 Players - 4% - 0.8MBTC Cap
3 Players - 4% - 1MBTC Cap
4+ players - 4% - 1.2MBTC Cap
ETH Cash Games:
2 Players - 4% - 20 mETH Cap
3 Players - 4% - 30 mETH Cap
4+ players - 4% - 35 mETH Cap
Tournament Structure Updates We took all the feedback from all players and reworked our entire tournament schedule. The tournaments below are also mirrored onto our ETH lobby with the same buy-ins (as mETH equivalent) and in the same times. Another change we implemented is that ALL tournaments are now GTD tournaments!
MICRO STAKES:
NLHE HYPER TURBO 0.1 MBTC ($0.7 Buy-in) [GTD $7+] @ 12:00 UTC
NLHE TURBO 0.1 MBTC ($0.7 Buy-in) [GTD $7+] @ 14:00 UTC
NLHE HYPER TURBO 0.2 MBTC ($1.4 Buy-in) [GTD $14+] @ 16:00 UTC
PLO HYPER TURBO 0.5 MBTC ($3.5 Buy-in) [GTD $35+] @ 18:00 UTC
NLHE HYPER TURBO 0.2 MBTC ($1.4 Buy-in) [GTD $14+] @ 19:00 UTC
NLHE HYPER TURBO 0.5 MBTC ($3.5 Buy-in) [GTD $35+] @ 20:00 UTC
LOW STAKES:
NLHE HYPER TURBO 2 MBTC ($14 Buy-in) [GTD $85+] @ 16:00 UTC
NLHE TURBO 1 MBTC ($7 Buy-in) [GTD $70+] @ 18:00 UTC
PLO TURBO 1 MBTC ($7 Buy-in) [GTD $70+] @ 21:00 UTC
NLHE PROGRESSIVE KNOCKOUT 1 MBTC ($7 Buy-in) [GTD $70+] @ 22:00 UTC
NLHE HYPER TURBO 1 MBTC ($7 Buy-in) [GTD $70+] @ 23:00 UTC
NLHE DEEPSTACK 2 MBTC ($14 Buy-in) [GTD $85+] @ 12:00 UTC
NLHE TURBO KNOCKOUT 2 MBTC ($14 Buy-in) [GTD $85+] @ 17:00 UTC
MID STAKES:
PLO DEEPSTACK 4 MBTC ($28 Buy-in) [GTD $150+] @ 14:00 UTC
NLHE PROGRESSIVE KNOCKOUT 3 MBTC ($20 Buy-in) [GTD $200+] @ 16:00 UTC
NLHE HYPER TURBO 3 MBTC ($20 Buy-in) [GTD $200+] @ 18:00 UTC
NLHE TURBO 5 MBTC ($35 Buy-in) [GTD $200+] @ 20:00 UTC
NLHE DEEPSTACK 10 MBTC ($70 Buy-in) [GTD $600+] @ 23:00 UTC
HIGH STAKES:
NLHE DEEPSTACK 15 MBTC ($105 Buy-in) [GTD $850+] @ 18:00 UTC
PLO DEEPSTACK 20 MBTC ($142 Buy-in) [GTD $1000+] @ 20:00 UTC
NLHE DEEPSTACK 40 MBTC ($284 Buy-in) [GTD $2000+] @ 22:00 UTC
NLHE DEEPSTACK 100 MBTC ($700 Buy-in) [GTD $5000+] @ 00:00 UTC
Rakeback Structure ImprovementsAs mentioned earlier, we had improved our Rakeback feature and the statistics/tracking of rank progress. During this progress, we created a change in the rank requirements to normalize the ranking up journey. Effectively we found that ranking up in ETH was harder than BTC and needed this to be normalized. You should now find ETH games to be as easy to rank up as BTC games!
You will also find we have one of the cheapest requirements for our upper 50% Rakeback on the market!
*For reference, 1 mBTC = 30 mETH approximately.
BTC VIP Rakeback Programme:
Bronze Star: 1 mBTC - 5% Rakeback
Silver Star: 10 mBTC - 10% Rakeback
Gold Star: 32 mBTC - 20% Rakeback
Platinum Star: 250 mBTC - 35% Rakeback
Gold Star: 500 mBTC - 50% Rakeback
ETH VIP Rakeback Programme:
Bronze Star: 30 mETH - 5% Rakeback
Silver Star: 300 mETH - 10% Rakeback
Gold Star: 960 mETH - 20% Rakeback
Platinum Star: 7,500 mETH - 35% Rakeback
Gold Star: 15,000 mETH - 50% Rakeback
Competitions and Bonuses Updates - We have created a new competitions updates page:
www.cryptopokerclub.io/competitions- Our plan is to keep increasing our prizepools and competitions month on month! We kick started our biggest Rakerace event ever with much more to come soon.
- We now allow a 200% Bonus (100% X 2) unlocked instantly as a first deposit. This is not unlocked in parts but up front.
- More competitions such as the Tournament & SNG competitions will start taking place every month!
- New weekend warrior bonus will be announced soon which will give highest raking players over the weekend a special bonus!
Our RoadmapWe are on the mission to become the most trusted Crypto Poker platform on the planet as well as the most profitable poker site ever. We are looking at ways to improve your experience as well as new ways of giving back through strong VIP programmes, bonuses and weekly/monthly competitions.
Our future Roadmap plan looks like this:
1. Build an on-board coin exchange service exclusive for club members to exchange coins on the platform at lower rates than any exchange out there making it easy to play across multiple currency tables without having to withdraw then exchange then deposit back.
2. Supporting all the major coins such as Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Ripple and more!
3. Adding both iOS and Android Apps to the platform for mobile users.
4. Adding more game types such as shorthanded poker, Chinese poker and zoom poker.
5. Expanding the group to support other games (such as Blackjack, Roulette, ect) on a separate but connected platform with one unified profitable VIP programme like never seen before!
6. Linking the new games with our decentralized RNG system and our innovative security modules.
We hope points 1 and 2 will be ready by the end of this year with the rest of the points being met by mid-late 2019!
Thank you all for joining us on this journey and much more to come soon!
As always, all feedback is welcome and any suggestions would be taken into consideration strongly.
Good luck on the tables!
