Quote from: SlothyPanda on April 02, 2019, 01:51:54 AM

Quote from: Samarkand on March 23, 2019, 02:06:42 PM

Quote from: SlothyPanda on March 22, 2019, 07:23:17 PM

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There is another site, which I shall not name here, with a wider variety of mix games and structures that is stealing your market share.

Do you have any plans to add more mix games to the lineup? Games like Archie, Dramaha hi/2-7, double board Omaha, super/pineapple stud hi/hi-lo, etc.
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None of the mix games that you mention is running on the poker site that you refer to.
What would be the advantage for SWC in offering additional poker variants when they already
have one of the most manifold poker environments in terms of available game types?
What would be the advantage in adding a game like Double Board Omaha when at the current time
only 1 single table of regular PLO is running (2 guys playing Heads-up)?

Are you familiar with this site? You say that none of these mix games run on Kings, but I am playing now and they are currently running two full tables of Crazy Mix (15 game mix with all the variants mentioned and then some) as well as another table heads up. It is the norm for 1-4 of these tables to run around the clock on Kings, as well as other mixed formats, to run around the clock on all stakes from 4/8 to 30/60 USD. Also, not sure what one table of PLO has to do with double board Omaha as part of a mixed game rotation. Apples and oranges.

If anything, the situation is the opposite of what you describe. SwC has a hard time getting any mix games to go regularly. For instance, right now there is one person trying to start a 2/4 mBTC lowball mix. Bringing more mix games into the line up could only help increase traffic and visibility as Kings players would see that they have another viable action for mixed game action.

I really wish that SwC would respond on their basis for *not* considering offering these games. It would be helpful to foster mixed game traffic, which in turn brings more traffic to other games as well as these players also enjoy playing the more standard forms of poker. I really hope that this can be considered. I personally would help spread the word if SwC were willing to show mixed players that they care as much as Kings does about keeping the game lineup fresh and competitive.

I think you're both partially right. Non-NLHE games are definitely the biggest strength SWC has over any other sites out there right now and they should play into it. But as of now there are too many more important issues to put too many ressources into developing new games imo, it has taken them literal months just to bring back NL27SD. And while the mixed game crowd tends to bring decent bankrolls, you have to acknowledge that the attainable player base is very limited when compared to NLHE/PLO. These games are just more popular, whether we mixed game folks like it or not.

The Big Game Mix was a decent addition, but it's not running because mixed game players want to play. well, a mix of games, and that one is way too small. 11-game does run but many more "traditional" people won't play it because they find FL games boring. I wish they would give a bigger big game mix a chance. Adding more exotic games should definitely be on the roadmap, but I doubt it's gonna be top priority.