Today on Bill's Blog you can read about his wishlist for poker software features.
While the poker software is reasonably good, I mostly agree with him that its lacking - particularly in notifications, watchlists, and instant messaging. I'd add regular messaging (ability to send/receive messages, start discussions, etc) as another weak area for the software.
It seems that there is such a "land-grab" going on right now for online poker, that the online sites are currently working on "get the site up and get players". And from a business model, that is probably the right thing to do.
But if software arrived that really did fix the gameplay problems, and also integrated notifications of games, players, tournaments, and specials such that you didn't have to weed through tons of random noise, I think it would fare pretty well!
One other feature I'd like to see would be a sidebar which showed all the details from the last hand. Each of the poker sites is sooo anxious to move to the next hand that you can hardly tell what happened.
Lastly, I'd like the game to auto-mark players I've already played against. It should keep track of when, where, and how we fared without my having to do anything. Some of the sites do allow you to pin notes to other players, but the interfaces so far are pretty clumsy.
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