Hi Everybody,

Here I am ready to share my first impressions in this new site (for me) that is Perpetuum Poker.

As I've been playing there for only 2 days I can't say that my conclussions are close to be definitive but as a experienced player that have played in almost every poker net (stars, tilt, cereus, cake, ipoker, ongame and few more) I think I can address what we could see as a strenghts, small improvements and weaknes.

Lets start for the good things:
- As a mostly (I mean 90%) MTT player I'm happy to find that there are quite a lot of tournaments and with all kind of buy-ins. I can play small BI regularly and take some shots here and there because there is always a interesting tourney in the next 20 min.
- The average field of each tournament is really small compared to other sites (<200 vs >6000) so this give you more chances to get in the money.
- The average field of each tournament is weaker compared to other sites for the same and lower BI. I think this is a very important topic that will develop in further posts when I get used to the ranges of the players.
- Also, although I'm not a cash player, you have a lot of tables to play in very different stakes, that is always a good thing if you want to switch a bit from MTTs.

Now the small improvements:
- Time bank: Would be nice to have that extra time to take decissions. You have a good slice of time per hand but, sometimes (like lately in a tourney), you need an extra bit to think about the best action to take and the time bank would be perfect for that.
- Choosing a seat: If you multitable a lot, or making it simpler, if you just 4-table is quite difficult to track your cards and position from table to table (and even more in tournaments that you change the table and so the position). So being able to have a reference seat would make the game highly more dynamic.
- Late registration: Sometimes you open the loby and see marked in red a tournament that you would had been interested to play. If there were an option for late registration probably more players could join to the games.

And, at last, the weaknes:
Unsynchronized breaks: I think this is a weaknes because it make you a slave. If you are playing 3, 4 or tournaments at the same time you find that you can't have a one minute break. If the tourneys start at o'clock, past 5, quarter and half hour thre breaks will never be at the same time so you will never be able to leave for a drink or for a pee if you don't sit out. And this is a major inconvenience.
I don't want to tell anybody how to make his work but, as a computer science student, I give you my two cents.
No matter if you use functional or OO programming, I'm sure you will have a function/procedure/object that manage the tournament time. I guess that you have a countdown that looks something like this (in pseudocode):

IF 1_hour_counter = 0 THEN
break = true
manage the break
break = false
reset (1_hour_counter)
END IF

Instead of this you could easily make a system call to get the clok and if the time is correct the, go to break:

IF min_55 (system_clock) THEN
break = true
manage the break
break = false
END IF

Well, I hope some perpetuum poker staff read this and think about it.

And that's all for now. I'll keep blogging with my ups and downs in the poker world.

GL at the tables and see you soon.