Tribeca sell out

[totalise]

Wonder how much it would cost to buy it.  Pab, you win about $500k a night, you can buy it and setup a proper poker-room.

[Wardonkey]

If we empty the bad beat tin, we'll cover it easily!

[byronkincaid]

$500K? Pab wouldn't get out of bed for $500K

[The Baron]

Pab won $500k at a 1/2NL game in Vegas.

[ACE2M]

Wonder how much it would cost to buy it.  Pab, you win about $500k a night, you can buy it and setup a proper poker-room.

i had the same thought, surprised if someone doesn't buy it but i imagine they wouldn't be able to run it for a few months so the migration of players wouldn't be affected.

small bug on stars is you can re buy if all in with less than a 1000 chips and if you win the all in you get the re buy to.

[ACE2M]

don't think it will affect bp poker but bowmans have recently sold all their sportsbook interests to bodog and bet365.

[bhoywonder]

i left betfred because of the clunky interface


i just keep coming back to blonde

so i too am gutted that we are going to lose the best software on the planet


funilly enough i always did ok  on betfred

[I, Zimbra]

First - M3, thanks, I didn't think it was possible to rebuy/top-up on Ipoker, at least I can stop looking for the button now

It would seem to me to be a major omission.

As for the loss of Tribeca, like a lot of other voices on here I will miss it - it has a lot of flaws, it's undeniable, but its speed and ease of use always compensated for that in my eyes. So many softwares out there - including Ipoker - seem very 'clunky' to me, 'heavy' is another adjective I'd choose. Tribeca always seems light as a feather by comparison, excellent buttons instead of the almost ubiquitous sliders, and very quick action.

Perhaps in time, I will get used to Ipoker, I'm not ruling anything out. The possibilities for running private tables and other things like stud tournaments are indeed an improvement (not to mention table balancing that makes sense), but it is very difficult to see what the merger will become from what Ipoker currently is at the moment, because the traffic is so very poor - especially at STTs.

Lastly,  I heard a rumour that Doyle Brunson's group might be planning to buy the Tribeca software from Playtech and use it to run Doyle's Room as a standalone site... if this is true, I can see Doyle's Room gaining a fair amount of business from disgruntled Tribecaddicts!

Thanks to Baron for keeping this thread going.

[Royal Flush]

Lastly,  I heard a rumour that Doyle Brunson's group might be planning to buy the Tribeca software from Playtech and use it to run Doyle's Room as a standalone site... if this is true, I can see Doyle's Room gaining a fair amount of business from disgruntled Tribecaddicts!

Where did you hear that? I pray its true!

[I, Zimbra]

whats gonna happen to the software? I am not up to speed with the whole sellout thing, so I dont know what is going on at all. Is there a thread/link that explains it?

There is a thread somewhere on here - can someone locate it & put up a Link to it for Totalise please? (Aaron?....)

Here's a thread that might qualify, entitled 'Tribeca Sold'. It's from about a month ago.

[I, Zimbra]

Lastly,  I heard a rumour that Doyle Brunson's group might be planning to buy the Tribeca software from Playtech and use it to run Doyle's Room as a standalone site... if this is true, I can see Doyle's Room gaining a fair amount of business from disgruntled Tribecaddicts!

Where did you hear that? I pray its true!

I was searching around t'internet looking for info on the merger, found said rumour (have no reason to believe it's anything more, yet) on a news bulletin, I'll try and see if I can find it again.

[I, Zimbra]

Whoops, over before it was even begun?

This isn't the article I read earlier today, but if this is accurate, it looks like the big man tried and failed.

http://www.egamingpulse.com/archives/1867-Doyles-Room-wanted-Tribeca-source-code.html

[I, Zimbra]

More news on Doyle's Room (I s'pose )

I guess what I read earlier today was an old bulletin; one of the reasons why I mentioned it was because I was hoping someone would either confirm or deny it for me, save me the legwork

Seems mad just to shut Tribeca down, if Doyle wanted to pay for the code to run his room... maybe that's the reason why I wanted to believe it.

[kinboshi]

I started on VC too - the interface is soooo nice on Tribeca.  Why do the other sites insist on using serif fonts for the cards.  We know the room is a metaphor for a real poker room, but it's not - it's on a computer and the cards should be as easy as possible to read and play.

Stars has a nice interface too, but I've got a soft spot for the Tribeca tables.  They just seem well thought out - and there are plenty of fish too (but I guess they are everywhere?).  Never been that keen on the Tribeca tourneys (except the Blonde ones of course!), much prefer Stars.

[suzanne]

I nearly got excited there zim.

Mid February WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP