[Phenom Poker] Official Thread

Don't forget we have two big freerolls over the next week!

If you're a current player with Gold Tier or higher, there's a $5k freeroll TOMORROW!

For ALL players, we have a $25k freeroll next Sunday the 15th.

If you're brand new and want a juicy deposit bonus, use this link and get 150%: https://play.phenompoker.com/register?r=...

For current players, there's a reload bonus of 100% going on, check your rewards tab!

Hey Mike is there any way for a new player to try the site out? I want to see what's up but not sure I want to deposit just yet. LMK

First, nice name. Second, the site doesn't offer free money games, BUT I think I can help you (and anyone, really) out.

FREE $5 TO TRY THE SITE (note this is straight from me, not a company thing)

If you are a completely new player and you sign up using this link: https://play.phenompoker.com/register?r=...

You can DM me your username and I'll double check you've been added to the site and I'll shoot you $5 on Phenom so you can get a feel for it without having to deposit. Games are available as low as .02/.05 so you can check things out.

I'm not expecting 100's of people to jump on this, but if somehow it gets out of hand I'll stop it at the first 100 people.

Yeah dude! Sent you a DM.

I can't DM you, but I signed up with your link.
My username is FRANTZ.
I hope it's ok.
Thx.

Hey Frantz, just sent it over. Hope you like what you see!

Got the $5, thanks! Tried out some .05/.10 PLO. Love the way the site looks but wish there were more NL games going. I'll be playing in the freeroll next week and then maybe I'll see about a deposit. I'll reach back out if I need help.

I won't be back until they get more players. With only a few played the RNG will not be 100% what it is supposed to be. I get it if they dealt a completely random game winners would crush losers and most new sites can't withstand that. Sad but true

U with ur Rng blablabla. Just play poker and focus on decisions.

U won't be happy anywhere with that attitude. Sad but true.

I mean it's a solid room this days...

I am happy. I am just telling u all news sites have this wild variance due to RNG inconsistency when they don't have much volume. When volume picks up I expect it to not be as bad

No I don't believe in what u are saying.

The sites traffic does not change anything in card distribution. If u can't get enough volume then it's recommended to mix other sites.

Back in the early days of online polka I spoke directly on the phone with a site that audits online poker sites and people at the sites. Before the games got crazy you could actually get people to respond to you and things like that. I have had multiple people tell me that the random generator outcome depends on the volume of players playing at the time. This is not something I made up this was people at poker sites and people that audited poker sites

Hahahahahaha. Ok bro.

Imagine in the early days of online poker "unregulated sites" having audits when no one was forcing them to do so lmfao!!!!!!

PokerStars got audited all the time in the early days. As far as the full tilt audit they probably got audited also for their random number generator. They never got audited for where they were putting their money that's something completely different

Do you think they care about you? As long as you keep playing they're not going to make any change that isn't good for them. If you can mess up and make mistakes and keep the game even and not be a winning player then they'll keep it exactly the same as it is. You understand online poker sites do not want winning players. So if by making a change your win rate is going to go up they most likely aren't going to make the change

Yeah you're thinking waaaayyyyy too heavily about that. Its simply an issue of priorities and right now getting a full tournament slate together is No. 1. Customizable card backs is on the roadmap.

yes, I do think they care that I get tired of looking at purple everything and close out their client after two hours vs playing eight hours a day at global.

They don't have enough volume for u to play 8 hours. What games are u playing on phenom and what games are u playing on global?

not that I have to explain anything to you but you're misunderstanding so here goes. I play two 4 hour sessions per day. when I do global is my main home but I have four lobbies open and I'm constantly looking at all the lobbies and swapping in and out tables. after a while I just close the purple lobby because I'm tired of looking at it and its tables.

like I originally posted, it wouldn't be so bad if when I sat down at the purple tables I didn't have to actually do a full glance around the table every time the action is on me to see who still has cards because they blend in. on my other sites I don't have this problem.

I may be in the minority but it's very much not an enjoyable experience visually to put in volume there which is why I said what I said.

as for what I play? you a fed or something? want my tax returns while were at it?

I haven't had this problem for weeks. They changed the circle un-customized avatar to be a dark almost black color, the cards stand out fine in front of them:

Is this not what you are seeing? Also you can change the color of the table too if you don't like the purple

nope. it's less bad when someone has their badge tier on but as you can see with S1 its horrible. I only play NLH and I nine table so the tables are quite small. I obv don't have all those extra cards pouring out over the avatar.

look, all this discussion around this issue is silly, imo. literally just asking to be able to change the card color so there's some contrast and its not so monochromatic like virtually all other poker software since forever.

I'm def not a dev but I would imagine this sort of thing could be done it what? two hours tops? maybe I'm way off.