I can agree with this site needing some help. I would go on allvegaspoker daily and now I don't.

The first link in the AVP navigation is to the forum

@abercheese70
Me too.
AVP felt nice and friendly.
This site feels corporate and distant.

I agree with all of the comments so far. I guess that I hope this is a work in progress and that it will get to the same level as All Vegas Poker . . . and sooner rather than later. In addition the poker room ratings are so much worse than on All Vegas Poker.

I used to visit AVP multiple time per day and now i just dont bother. Deifantely going to lose a lot of readers

Sorry but I couldn't disagree more with you guys, and I assume you are just having trouble adapting to the change. AVP was simple but it had a few limitations that this site addressed:

1) I can now see upcoming tournaments in real time OR see the full schedule that AVP used to show. The AVP format never guaranteed that any particular tourney that ran on a Tue actually ran on the Tue I wanted to play. The new site has both views...today and always.

2) Mobile. Have you looked at this site on a mobile phone? Do you remember what AVP looked like on mobile?

3) TableTalk. I gotta be honest. I love talking poker, but I hate sifting through forums. They remind me of 1985. This TableTalk section kicks ass for questions on the fly. Easy to see posts and comments, etc. Unfortunately more people dont use this, but I'm sure that will change. Here we are.

4) TripReports & Commenting. Remember AVP's trip reports and how you couldn't comment on them without going through the forums? Remember posting a trip report and not knowing what it was going to look like when submitting? Or remember posting and Internet dying and losing everything? I created an AVP acct in 2010, went to write a trip report...lost it, and never bothered to submit another one. Writing posts on this site is very cool and you can see a preview and save drafts.

5) Beyond Vegas. I always liked using AVP for Vegas, but what about elsewhere? I much prefer one place to see everything.

6) Features. Favoriting rooms, checking in, asking questions. A list that shows whether or not cash games or tourneys are being run at any particular casino. All cool stuff that AVP didn't have.

7) Probably Improving. I have a feeling that this site will be continually improving just like any site. I've already seen a bunch of things improve.

8) AVP was better at some things. LasVegasMichael was a grand master ninja on Vegas. AlaskaGal and Clem and Minton - all great community members. I wish this site had more community like AVP did, and local experts in different places. Even though I didn't participate posting, I always like railing the conversations.

Instead of posting negative comments that give no feedback, why don't you try being more helpful and emailing them your feedback? I've sent two emails and got a response both times right away. and beyond that, consider the fact that atlas has everything that AVP had and more. #EndRant

It is difficult to do room research for trip planning purposes like I used to. I like how the forums were broken out by Strip rooms and etc. It shouldn't be this hard to use. I have some agreement with pootyhead...I used to visit more often. It isn't easy to use. Gamechanger, I agree with most of your comments especially regarding the limitations of the old AVP site. But, there was community and it was fun to follow conversations. It's just hard. This feels sterile down to the white and green theme versus the red and black.

@Phantom309 Well said

The part of AVP site I used to visit on my lunch hour each day at work was the trip reports. I enjoyed living vicariously through them and have learned several tips by reading them that I have used when I travel to Vegas. Now I can't even find where the trip reports are on site. I think they are all being throw in forum area as separate topics. For me I would like a separate area where trip reports are put or some way to sort forums for only trip reports. Like some other former AVP users I only check site every couple of weeks now and will stop check altogether if I can't find the part I liked most about AVP (finding trip reports) made simpler to find.

Hi Guys, I appreciate your feedback (not necessarily how it was presented, but lol).

We are aware of all of this, and I personally agree with much of what you said. This being said, we are addressing everything mentioned here and many things that are not mentioned, to continuously make PokerAtlas a better site and community. The beauty of web development is that it is flexible and 'easy' to make changes on the fly...whether fixing issues or releasing new features. This being said, PokerAtlas is built on a very complicated software (and display) architecture, so some of the 'easy' things aren't as easy. I won't go into details, but the shortest explanation is that everything we do needs to be accommodated for on desktop browsers, tablets, and mobile devices....each with different size screens and different browser functionality.

Enough of the technical crap.... This site is a work in progress, and always will be. So please understand that we are working very hard to continuously improve the user experience and preserve (and build on) our great AVP community.

Feedback and questions are always welcomed in any form.

Thanks,
Jon

That's nice. But can I safely say out loud what is so painfully obvious? Probably not, but I will anyway: Too bad most of the folks who were providing your content that most came for are now gone, with many of being shut out, unable to log-in, and now that weeks have passed many former viewers likely won't be back as folks do have other things to do & develop new habits. All things eventually come to an end, and while I'd like to think otherwise, this might be how this one ends: With a fizzle and a thud on a deserted island, but with lots of fine and well intended work on web-development bells & whistles that few will ever be looking at.

Ok I am all about second chances and seeing as how I am flying into Vegas this Friday ( I know lucky me) I promise to write a trip report upon my return. As it was stated earlier I think the best part of the site are the trip reports. I love hearing about getting raised when you have the nuts, brilliant laydowns and juicy no limit games. So I pledge to tell you all about my adventure and all my bonehead plays. One other thing, I realize the title trip reports sounds like it should be about people visiting Vegas but how about some locals try to share their stories as well. Its kind of depressing only reading trip reports every couple of weeks.

@Local Rock - I actually sent something to support about trying to mass e-mail old AVPers who have yet to log in with a way to be sure they can update their passwords and get in. They weren't sure how the logistics would work but seemed willing to look into it in order to keep more of the old timers. Also, had some other suggestions, which it sounds like they were looking at implementing. So, both the interface and the community could be seeing some upgrades.

Dave

So after pissing and moaning about the forum aspects being effectively dragged out to the desert & shot, thought I should cruise around to look at the bells & whistles of the content that I ordinarily wouldn't have any need for. Oh my friggin' Dog.

What is this ludicrous bullshit?

According to PokerAtlas: "Throughout the year, The Rio maintains its action on roughly 14 tables in its original poker room. The Amazon Room and other WSOP venues revert to their off-season functions. The spread of cash games at The Rio is commendable. Games run daily in the standard limit hold’em, no-limit hold’em, pot-limit Omaha and split-pot game fare. "

Really now? Seriously? There are rooms that are closed and converted to slots that come closer to that ridiculous fantasy. Has the person who wrote that ever been to the regular non-WSOP Rio poker room? I seriously doubt it. Attention visitors: You'd be nuts to use this fantasy "information" to plan a trip. It bears no relationship to any reality that exists or has ever existed in this century,

@Local Rock - C'mon rock, you're just being a curmudgeon. That entire paragraph is slightly more than half true. You just have to look at it the right way.

"Throughout the year, The Rio maintains its action on roughly 14 tables in its original poker room." - That's mostly true, throughout the year there are roughly 14 tables in the Rio poker room and some of them even have a poker game now and again to maintain the action.

"The Amazon Room and other WSOP venues revert to their off-season functions." That's entirely true, I've been to conferences run in those rooms and seen them running regularly.

"The spread of cash games at The Rio is commendable." -- okay, you call this "ludicrous bullshit"; someone being more charitable would call it "ludicrous bull...." ummm, I mean "truthiness"

"Games run daily in the standard limit hold’em, no-limit hold’em, pot-limit Omaha and split-pot game fare." -- This one takes a bit more parsing:
Games run daily - mostly true
in the standard limit hold’em - sort of true. I've played a limit game there (probably New Years Day 5 years ago), but I can say with confidence that at some point there has been a limit game in the room when the WSOP was not running.
no-limit hold’em - true, it's their main game
pot-limit Omaha - truthiness all the way
split-pot game fare - almost true; I'm sure there have been split pots, but only due to ties or chops.

See, so it's probably 55% true.

Dave

P.S. Where the hell did that rolling eyes emoticon thing go?

I liked the room ratings broken down by quality of: the room, competition, comps, etc. Alas, that is one more thing that they have "improved".