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I beta test poker rooms all the time (currently beta testing another site)... my post was meant to be amusing - cause stuff like this is expected....
I restarted a couple of times and had buttons for a little while. I read your post so turned off chat, but the lobby wouldn't close (every time I tried I got an exception error). I closed every other program I had running (XP system with over a Gig of memory)...
I went through the same thing at Poker.com, Games Grid, Poker4Ever and Tropical. Unfortunately, the only way to test the software is by people playing and the only way people will play is if you pay them.
PitBull is the most recent example of this. They started with $25 freerolls every hour and had less than 100 playing. The amount playing grew so they upped the freerolls to $50 to be sure they got enough players. It also didn't hurt that they gave away $10. Now I have seen as many as 300 playing in their freerolls and slowly they are getting some cash players (got to do something with the $10 and the freeroll winnings
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Spades has the potential... they are just in Beta right now and this stuff is going to happen ---- alot.