Apoc

Not to be rude but all the comments of Copernicus are negative and not costructive. If you don't like anonimous play you can choose to play on other poker sites. The thing is, rec players don't like huds, maybe some don't even know what it is, but anyway they all want to play poker the simplier and fun way. Since rec players are a big part of a poker ecosystem, it is important to let rec players feel good about the enviroment. If you like to play with other players using fenquencies as you do, well you are welcome to go stars and play with russians. I agree that the skill in understanding frequencies and such is also a big factor, i feel you, but the more we go further with this kind of play, the more people are becoming like robots, trying to emulate the best gto style. If online poker continues to go this way (with solvers, huds, and all) it will die, there will only remain gto players and 0 fun players. If there are no huds in play, gto play has less value, and it is more fun since you don't have to do some plays that you "must" do in order to keet playing a gto style and don't be exploited. So rec players can also have fun playing with people and not with gto robots, and the most important part is that we all play the same fair game because if a player use a hud and the other player doens't, obviously that player has an edge on ther other. Huds are bad for the game now, it was fine before when the game was still fresh and new strategies could be implemented. But nowadays it only hurts the poker game. It's more fun to play without it, at least it is for me.
I really hope that Phil and his team will do their best to make RIO the most fun and fair poker site for all kind of players.

I want to leave a comment on what i experienced so far, i started playing 3 days ago, and played at least 1k hands.
- STP:I really like it, it is really fun, brings something fresh and also rec players would love it. I think it is fine as a rake system, and in the long run players will have similar rakeback, maybe better players >51% and others <%51 but anyway it adds new factors that impact the way a hand could be played.
The only thing i would like to change about STP is to cap it at max 50bb so that it is not needed to go allin with any2 because of the odds. I think it is already enough to bring in some gamble. 1000bb is really too much: i expect ppl to all go allin and who win, wins like a jackpot (1000bb + other players stack so maximum 500bb, that means 1500bb total...). So the one who wins is super happy while the others are super salty cause they also lost a stack in a situation that happens really rarely. Some ppl would like it but the most would hate it.

• Anonimous play and no Hud: I read a lot of comments regarding this, some ppl say that it is super bad and i guess they are regulars. Huds are not good for the poker ecosystem, they only bring gto boring players and scare rec players. Rec players are not stupid and don't want to play in an unfair enviroment so they dont' like hud. So anonimous play is a necessity to avoid exploting programs. Some ppl said you could also use third party huds, yes of course, except it can't collect stats forever but only for those anonimous player on that specific table! After you leave, or they leave, you won't know who they were!
  So Phil is right on this and i really do support him. Poker has to be fun. Huds are not fun, using tools to have edge are not fun, bots are not fun.
  More fun=more recs, more recs=more winrate and a good poker enviroment. Pokerstars is the exaple of the abominion poker has become nowadays, it is brutal to see how bad it has become. RIO is probably the last hope to at least make poker fun and playable again for both recs and professional players.

Regarding all the other issues, its a beta, i hope they will be fixed soon.

Really looking forward to see RIO grow. Poker is a game of players, if a poker site doesn't understand the players and help them to have a better playing experience, that is no fucking service other than dealing cards！