Paddleboat Mississippi, new poker site with low fees and good privacy

[paddleboat]

Thanks for all the good ideas and kind words, everyone. The best idea I'm hearing is tournaments. I will plan to code in support for tournaments, and then run a few with cash prizes. Winning something above and beyond the poker winnings themselves, should incentivize people to play and get me a player base.

I also like the idea of adding other games. Do you think seven card stud and five card draw would be the best ones to add? Those are the ones I like anyway.

I like the idea of adding other cryptocurrencies, but it puts a heavy load on the server. Running a Bitcoin daemon is the most resource-intensive thing the server does, and I don't have the resources to add another one. If my site ever starts making money, I will get a more powerful server and add other cryptocurrencies, but until then I don't think it's wise.

I totally understand the trust concerns. I probably wouldn't trust this site with my Bitcoin either. I think to address this, I will keep adding free functionality, so people don't have to trust the site in order to use it. Hopefully people will see that too much effort has been put into the site for it to be a scam.

[famososMuertos]

I think the term frequent player must sound familiar to you and that is good here in the forum, its equivalent would be a frequent poster and as it happens in poker, good or bad, that is determined by time in the individuality of each person...building community is not Easy, which in your case is measured by player traffic.

It is good that you take into account all the suggestions, but the best thing is that you return to answer in the thread and in that line of thought you join the community not only as an owner or entrepreneur but as a user who can contribute to the community.

[mak013]

Thanks for all the good ideas and kind words, everyone. The best idea I'm hearing is tournaments. I will plan to code in support for tournaments, and then run a few with cash prizes. Winning something above and beyond the poker winnings themselves, should incentivize people to play and get me a player base.

I also like the idea of adding other games. Do you think seven card stud and five card draw would be the best ones to add? Those are the ones I like anyway.

I like the idea of adding other cryptocurrencies, but it puts a heavy load on the server. Running a Bitcoin daemon is the most resource-intensive thing the server does, and I don't have the resources to add another one. If my site ever starts making money, I will get a more powerful server and add other cryptocurrencies, but until then I don't think it's wise.

I totally understand the trust concerns. I probably wouldn't trust this site with my Bitcoin either. I think to address this, I will keep adding free functionality, so people don't have to trust the site in order to use it. Hopefully people will see that too much effort has been put into the site for it to be a scam.

You can use your site as independent site for tournaments. Someone else(even bitcointalk tournaments probably) can organize a tournament just using your site without deposit money. At the end just calculate how much everybody won and this man send money to winners. And you will get a commission for using your site. In this way you ought improve speed and accessibility of the site.

[LUCKMCFLY]

Thanks for all the good ideas and kind words, everyone. The best idea I'm hearing is tournaments. I will plan to code in support for tournaments, and then run a few with cash prizes. Winning something above and beyond the poker winnings themselves, should incentivize people to play and get me a player base.

I also like the idea of adding other games. Do you think seven card stud and five card draw would be the best ones to add? Those are the ones I like anyway.

I like the idea of adding other cryptocurrencies, but it puts a heavy load on the server. Running a Bitcoin daemon is the most resource-intensive thing the server does, and I don't have the resources to add another one. If my site ever starts making money, I will get a more powerful server and add other cryptocurrencies, but until then I don't think it's wise.

I totally understand the trust concerns. I probably wouldn't trust this site with my Bitcoin either. I think to address this, I will keep adding free functionality, so people don't have to trust the site in order to use it. Hopefully people will see that too much effort has been put into the site for it to be a scam.

You can use your site as independent site for tournaments. Someone else(even bitcointalk tournaments probably) can organize a tournament just using your site without deposit money. At the end just calculate how much everybody won and this man send money to winners. And you will get a commission for using your site. In this way you ought improve speed and accessibility of the site.

It is excellent that you take into account all the suggestions of the forum members, however if you do a general improvement of the whole site and create an infrastructure for pvp poker and at the same time you can leave the poker against the same system, it is something that you would be innovating in a casino, I don't know how good the performance is, but at least it is something new, and the new always attracts the attention of all the players, and already with an infrastructure that is only for pvp it would be leaving an option to tournaments are held with surveillance of a third party plus the help of blockchain, it is something like Betnomi is doing, you can start as they do, then you can make the necessary improvements, of course this is my suggestion and if it is in the possibility that it you can do.

[perla]

The idea is not bad, but I think there will be quite a few people who are hesitant about this domain of paddloboat.ms
Nowadays it is.com if perhaps to a lesser extent .io   .ms exudes little confidence. However, if you can gain trust in the forum here and advertise, you can win a lot of players with it. Maybe play some freerolls for free so players can try the site without having to deposit money right away.

[Lanatsa]

The idea is not bad, but I think there will be quite a few people who are hesitant about this domain of paddloboat.ms
Nowadays it is.com if perhaps to a lesser extent .io   .ms exudes little confidence. However, if you can gain trust in the forum here and advertise, you can win a lot of players with it. Maybe play some freerolls for free so players can try the site without having to deposit money right away.

Domain names does indeed could really be seen and people does prefer on seeing .com or something in near popular but it isnt bad to have those odd domains but people couldnt just ignore about websites budget.

If they couldnt afford .com or better domain names then they would already have hindrance or questions in mind that the site budget or finances isnt really that great which is something not surprising kind of reaction.

Somehow same as suggested and advised above, as long you do stick on giving out good service and interesting promotions then this domain issue would be ignored.

[bitterguy28]

Thanks for all the good ideas and kind words, everyone. The best idea I'm hearing is tournaments. I will plan to code in support for tournaments, and then run a few with cash prizes. Winning something above and beyond the poker winnings themselves, should incentivize people to play and get me a player base.

month after this post and thread yet you remained Silent ? no  update ad all? are you serious in what you are telling us here?

at least short update of what is the plan makes sense at all.

I also like the idea of adding other games. Do you think seven card stud and five card draw would be the best ones to add? Those are the ones I like anyway.

And i like it also   maybe both 5 cards and 7 cards would make it better.

waiting for that to come now.

[BitcoinAccepted]

I see this project last month, I would like to ask of the OP managed to do some promotions I think many people would be interested to this game. I also see that you would be able to test it using bot, how many players you have so far? maybe a weekly giveaway would be a good idea and eliminate the player vs bot since we don't know how fair would it be I still considering playing with other player.

[Poker Player]

- You don't need to deposit any Bitcoin to play- you can try a game for free.

How, play for free without depositing, a little complacent for me, please explain for real, could hurt me later, haunted by curiosity.

just a friendly welcome.

You haven't played online poker much, have you?

Poker rooms usually have a "play money" version where you play for no money. They simply give you chips that are not worth anything and if you lose them they give you more, usually up to a limit. It is like playing with your friends with some chips but without money. I guess they do it for people who don't dare with money, because a profitable percentage of those players end up depositing and playing with money.

The point is that it is very different to play with fictitious chips that are worthless than to play with money, even if they are insignificant amounts. The way of playing changes a lot.

If you want to see the play money version you can download Pokerstars for example and there you can choose to play with fictitious money.

The site doesn't ask for any personally identifiable information, so you are welcome to play anonymously if you wish.

This poses a problem, which is not unique to your site, but to all sites that want to preserve the privacy of their users: collusion.

Playing without identifying yourself in casino games is not a problem, because after all they are EV- games (or EV+ for the house) and you can't cheat.

On the other hand, in poker playing anonymously implies a great risk of people cheating, so you won't see me in those sites.

[nakamura12]

Checked the site and seems a bit simple though it doesn't attract me to play even you can play using play money or chips that has no value. Though I have played in pvp poker in a gambling site against different people and it is quite good to experience it but this one does compared to it as other poker players may cheat using another account when playing with valued chips or whatever the site use like their own tokens whatsoever. Promotions are bit less in my opinion or lacking the effort in promoting the site after launching.

[RapTarX]

Site seems very much simple & quite old school era. I'm not saying I don’t like such design; I'm loving this smf forum as well LOL. But with the competition, promotion in the market, I guess OP will have hard time establishing the site.
I haven’t created an account with the site yet. Can someone share whether there's board game (pvp but multi players). I'm looking for such poker sites. There are only few available options.

[iv4n]

Site seems very much simple & quite old school era. I'm not saying I don’t like such design; I'm loving this smf forum as well LOL. But with the competition, promotion in the market, I guess OP will have hard time establishing the site.
I haven’t created an account with the site yet. Can someone share whether there's board game (pvp but multi players). I'm looking for such poker sites. There are only few available options.

I haven't created an account as well, but why would we?! What is so great about this place that can make me want to play here?! Old school design not for sure, good tournaments with granted prizes?! There isn't any!

PvP but multiplayer?! You need to be more specific about what you want! Join Betnomi poker games, I know just one game left, but you will get a taste of nice poker and maybe there will be another tournament after this one!

[ScamViruS]

I visited your site, and its design seemed old to me. In order to compete with the websites that are currently on the market, you must further develop the design. Because if your website is not attractive then no matter how trustworthy it is, players will not be attracted to that website. Because there are a lot of websites in the market today that are offering something better, attracting players to a new website is not an easy task.

So try to develop the website in a more interesting way and design the forum's Ann thread creatively.

[khaled0111]

OP hasn't logged in for almost so not sure if he is still following this thread and reading our suggestions!
But in case he does, I want to know why the deposit page generates three types of bitcoin addresses (bech32, p2sh, legacy). I don't think this is needed since almost all wallets support segwit and hence only a bech32 address should be enough.
Also, when I tryed the game (for free), I noticed that the page reloads with each action (deal, fold, call..) which I found unpleasant.

[Kakmakr]

You know... the best sites are normally the ones where the "Player" are the designer of the game being played. A lot of ...let's call them investors, will pay a developer to develop a game for them and then the developer takes control and most of these developers will give preference to everything else and not the actual game play.

Your site looks simplistic, but the game play is very good and it is a pity that there are not more active people on the site. I love the fact that you can play via email and also against bots....... such an awesome feature.   

[Cling18]

The idea is not bad, but I think there will be quite a few people who are hesitant about this domain of paddloboat.ms
Nowadays it is.com if perhaps to a lesser extent .io   .ms exudes little confidence. However, if you can gain trust in the forum here and advertise, you can win a lot of players with it. Maybe play some freerolls for free so players can try the site without having to deposit money right away.

Honestly, people now are very skeptical that even domain is being checked. I think it's because of the previous scam history of fake sites that users are now being more careful. I guess proper advertising of the site would be a good idea. Gaining the user's trust is also a way of building an important good reputation.

[Coin_trader]

The idea is not bad, but I think there will be quite a few people who are hesitant about this domain of paddloboat.ms
Nowadays it is.com if perhaps to a lesser extent .io   .ms exudes little confidence. However, if you can gain trust in the forum here and advertise, you can win a lot of players with it. Maybe play some freerolls for free so players can try the site without having to deposit money right away.

Honestly, people now are very skeptical that even domain is being checked. I think it's because of the previous scam history of fake sites that users are now being more careful. I guess proper advertising of the site would be a good idea. Gaining the user's trust is also a way of building an important good reputation.

Actually, .com is pretty cheap and not gonna matter anymore because the name of the casino itself determines the premium of the domain unless all domain in comparison has same name then .com will always be the most premium since its a top level domain. But if we compared paddleboat.com to bitcoin.xyz or other unfamiliar domain then the website that name after Bitcoin will always be expensive because of its premium due to the demand of that name. Domain doesn’t matter anymore on the current valuation of website.

[khaled0111]

I love the fact that you can play via email and also against bots....... such an awesome feature.   

I just revisited the website to test this feature. I created a new game with friends and provided some of my email addresses. When I checked my email accounts, I didn't see any invitation emails. Not sure what's the cause of the problem, it could be a bug or just a problem with their email server/service provider. I don't think they want to keep their customers waiting for their friends who will never join because they didn't receive any invitation.
Also I noticed that if you create a new game and go back to create a new one the website hangs although it creates the table and you can access it only from the My games (!) menu!

[Maslate]

OP hasn't logged in for almost so not sure if he is still following this thread and reading our suggestions!

That's almost a month, this thread would be better if we have an active OP. so now, I have a feeling that OP is not part of the team or the company, or they just have a very poor marketing strategy. Some company take their time seriously in the forum as they know how big the market is, and I still believe in first impression last, so not good for the business.

[Kakmakr]

OP hasn't logged in for almost so not sure if he is still following this thread and reading our suggestions!

That's almost a month, this thread would be better if we have an active OP. so now, I have a feeling that OP is not part of the team or the company, or they just have a very poor marketing strategy. Some company take their time seriously in the forum as they know how big the market is, and I still believe in first impression last, so not good for the business.

If you read his previous posts.... you will notice that he is not a company or a group of people, but rather a single individual that created something that he loves doing. So I think he has a full-time job and he does this on the side .... so do not expect him to comment frequently on the posts in this thread.

This is a project of passion for good game play.... something that is lacking in profit driven projects that are out there now. I guess he will grow over time, if the project is a success...