Two months back I had heard about the concept of fast fold poker games. At that time all that I could understand was that the player can do a Fast Fold if he doesn't like his cards and if so then he would be moved to a new table where game once again begins.
This whole week I have done nothing but to study it more and to think of the changes that I need to put to integrate it.
On a Fast Fold table (it goes by other names like Zoom Poker, Rush Poker), a player can indeed do a Fast Fold but then he can also have the option of not going to another table. He has to express this desire like pressing control key but once he does this he will see two tables open up for him. One is the old table where he has done Fold but which has not yet been announced to other players. So he can watch the whole game if he so wants to.
The player can express his desire to move to a new table by either pressing on Switch Table button or the game would automatically move him when he presses Fast fold. However if a new table can't be conjured, the player will keep on seeing the "Initializing table" for some seconds.
The least number of players that I saw on a new table had 2 members. The most that I saw was 6 players. But then I understand that there could be up to 9 or 10 players too.
For some time I was confused about the status of big blinds. Then I found out that the players are put in a list. Everytime a player makes a big blind he is moved to the back of the list. On a table the game checks how many players are there who have to make big blind. A new player has to make a big blind when he joins table. An old player will do it only after some hands have been completed. Care has to be taken that all players make equal amount of big blinds. That is why I think that it is better if a table has minimum of 4 players. If I allow table with 2 players, then a player will be paying big blind for many hands.
Same thing has to be done for small blind. For dealer, it is random. Anyone can become dealer. Similarly any player can sit on any seat.
The move time has to be reduced by half so if normal table sees 30 seconds as move timer a fast fold table will have only 15 second as move timer.
If a hand finishes on a table, all the players are moved to a new table. Care is taken that these players don't play with each other. Again I see issues if we keep less number of players in the pool.
If there are less players who can be seated on one table, then game is continued on that table itself. At least this is true for tournaments. For ring table also I can use this concept.
The game essentially remains same. Only change is that players move about on various tables a lot. However this causes a lot of changes to player strategies. Lot many pundits claim that it is better to play aggressive games on fast fold tables for hands duration is going to be shorter. That could be true. Game play isn't the same with the normal tables. Perhaps when we work on bots, we will have to add this logic to them, to fold when cards don't have a pair even after flop.
This whole week I have done nothing but to study it more and to think of the changes that I need to put to integrate it.
On a Fast Fold table (it goes by other names like Zoom Poker, Rush Poker), a player can indeed do a Fast Fold but then he can also have the option of not going to another table. He has to express this desire like pressing control key but once he does this he will see two tables open up for him. One is the old table where he has done Fold but which has not yet been announced to other players. So he can watch the whole game if he so wants to.
The player can express his desire to move to a new table by either pressing on Switch Table button or the game would automatically move him when he presses Fast fold. However if a new table can't be conjured, the player will keep on seeing the "Initializing table" for some seconds.
The least number of players that I saw on a new table had 2 members. The most that I saw was 6 players. But then I understand that there could be up to 9 or 10 players too.
For some time I was confused about the status of big blinds. Then I found out that the players are put in a list. Everytime a player makes a big blind he is moved to the back of the list. On a table the game checks how many players are there who have to make big blind. A new player has to make a big blind when he joins table. An old player will do it only after some hands have been completed. Care has to be taken that all players make equal amount of big blinds. That is why I think that it is better if a table has minimum of 4 players. If I allow table with 2 players, then a player will be paying big blind for many hands.
Same thing has to be done for small blind. For dealer, it is random. Anyone can become dealer. Similarly any player can sit on any seat.
The move time has to be reduced by half so if normal table sees 30 seconds as move timer a fast fold table will have only 15 second as move timer.
If a hand finishes on a table, all the players are moved to a new table. Care is taken that these players don't play with each other. Again I see issues if we keep less number of players in the pool.
If there are less players who can be seated on one table, then game is continued on that table itself. At least this is true for tournaments. For ring table also I can use this concept.
The game essentially remains same. Only change is that players move about on various tables a lot. However this causes a lot of changes to player strategies. Lot many pundits claim that it is better to play aggressive games on fast fold tables for hands duration is going to be shorter. That could be true. Game play isn't the same with the normal tables. Perhaps when we work on bots, we will have to add this logic to them, to fold when cards don't have a pair even after flop.
