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P5 Poker Engine: Initial June Release
p5 engine articles:
08 June 2009: P5 Software Release in June
20 June 2009: P5 Software First Version Review
25 June 2009: P5 Software Upgrade 1
30 June 2009: P5 Software Upgrade 2
10 July 2009: P5 Software Upgrade 3
27 July 2009: Upcomming multi-tabling features
The ongame operators will rollover during a eight day period starting on 8th of June. This means that if all goes well, all ongame skins should be changed to the new P5 software by the 16th of June.
If you are using holdem manager, you can learn how to configure holdem manager to work with the new p5 software.
Sit down from the lobby - The direct seating functionality allows you to browse the tables of your choice, selecting your seat from the convenience of the preview in the lobby. You no longer have to individually open each table to check the availability of seats or table information.
Resizable tables - Now you can size your poker tables to suit you, conveniently placing them in and around your desktop. Plus, you can enjoy an enhanced Multi-Tabling experience with the resizable tables.
Tournament lobby information - The tournament lobby offers superb up-to-the-minute tournament information, including ranking lists, prize structures, add-on and re-buy information, blind level information plus an incredible real-time table preview. The new poker lobby gives you the opportunity to gather tournament data at a glance, without ever having to open additional browser windows to find much needed information.
Enhanced content panel - The content panel attached to each table contains three customizable fields. The upper section provides useful promotional information. The middle section is devoted to game information, and includes an actual artistic representation of action from the board. The bottom section is a chat field, where you can chat and converse with your opponents.
Sit & Go queues - Queues are used when you want to register to a not yet started Sit & Go. As soon as enough people are signed up to the queue the tournament begins. Example: You want to play a 5-seat NL $20 Sit & Go. So you find Texas $20 5-player with status 0/5 players in the list of queues and click register. The queue’s status now goes to 1/5 players. When four more players have registered to the queue, a table is created and you start playing in the Sit & Go. At the same time the queue status returns to 0/5 players.
Downloadable Mac client - The new p5 software has a Downloadable Client compatible with Macs running Mac OS X 10.4 or later. This Mac version is a full rich client version with no reduction of features in comparison to the Windows version.
Lobby filters - You can organize an overview of all offered games, setting your own filter to ensure that you can quickly and easily view the tables you are most interested in. These settings can be altered and applied at anytime.
Ante tournaments - When antes come into play, this means that every player at the table has to contribute a certain amount of money to the pot, whether they choose to play the hand or not. This means that before the hand even has started, there will already be a decent sized pot. The introduction of antes causes more exciting pre-flop play as it becomes much more interesting to steal the blinds as these now include the antes. Usually antes are introduced into the later stages of big tournaments.
Example: The blinds are 2000/4000 and the antes are 400. In a tournament with ten seats this means the pot will be 10000 (10*400 + 2000 + 4000) before any one has even acted.
08 June 2009: P5 Software Release in June
20 June 2009: P5 Software First Version Review
25 June 2009: P5 Software Upgrade 1
30 June 2009: P5 Software Upgrade 2
10 July 2009: P5 Software Upgrade 3
27 July 2009: Upcomming multi-tabling features
P5 Poker Software June Release
In June, ongame network releases their new P5 software. The new P5 software is a major upgrade both graphically and functionally to the poker software. That is a good thing: ongame has been know as a solid poker network with many players, soft games with plenty of fish, quality games with many different stakes but there was only one downsite. The crappy software. That is how many poker players on different poker forums described the software.The ongame operators will rollover during a eight day period starting on 8th of June. This means that if all goes well, all ongame skins should be changed to the new P5 software by the 16th of June.
If you are using holdem manager, you can learn how to configure holdem manager to work with the new p5 software.
New Features
Of course, a new system should bring more and better functionalities. We have received an overview of some of the new features.Sit down from the lobby - The direct seating functionality allows you to browse the tables of your choice, selecting your seat from the convenience of the preview in the lobby. You no longer have to individually open each table to check the availability of seats or table information.
Resizable tables - Now you can size your poker tables to suit you, conveniently placing them in and around your desktop. Plus, you can enjoy an enhanced Multi-Tabling experience with the resizable tables.
Tournament lobby information - The tournament lobby offers superb up-to-the-minute tournament information, including ranking lists, prize structures, add-on and re-buy information, blind level information plus an incredible real-time table preview. The new poker lobby gives you the opportunity to gather tournament data at a glance, without ever having to open additional browser windows to find much needed information.
Enhanced content panel - The content panel attached to each table contains three customizable fields. The upper section provides useful promotional information. The middle section is devoted to game information, and includes an actual artistic representation of action from the board. The bottom section is a chat field, where you can chat and converse with your opponents.
Sit & Go queues - Queues are used when you want to register to a not yet started Sit & Go. As soon as enough people are signed up to the queue the tournament begins. Example: You want to play a 5-seat NL $20 Sit & Go. So you find Texas $20 5-player with status 0/5 players in the list of queues and click register. The queue’s status now goes to 1/5 players. When four more players have registered to the queue, a table is created and you start playing in the Sit & Go. At the same time the queue status returns to 0/5 players.
Downloadable Mac client - The new p5 software has a Downloadable Client compatible with Macs running Mac OS X 10.4 or later. This Mac version is a full rich client version with no reduction of features in comparison to the Windows version.
Lobby filters - You can organize an overview of all offered games, setting your own filter to ensure that you can quickly and easily view the tables you are most interested in. These settings can be altered and applied at anytime.
Ante tournaments - When antes come into play, this means that every player at the table has to contribute a certain amount of money to the pot, whether they choose to play the hand or not. This means that before the hand even has started, there will already be a decent sized pot. The introduction of antes causes more exciting pre-flop play as it becomes much more interesting to steal the blinds as these now include the antes. Usually antes are introduced into the later stages of big tournaments.
Example: The blinds are 2000/4000 and the antes are 400. In a tournament with ten seats this means the pot will be 10000 (10*400 + 2000 + 4000) before any one has even acted.
Key strengths
The developers of the new P5 framework claim that the key strengths of their new software are performance, scalability, modularity and reliability. Let us take a look what this means.- Performance: By using transaction layers, the game speed should be unaffected by other database actions. Keeping track of all game data can lead to heavy database transactions. By using this new approach, game speed remains stable and system lag can be mimimized.
- Scalability: The P5 framework is build with scalability in mind. Good thing if the network increases to even more traffic. And more traffic is what ongame is aiming for with this new p5 release.
- Modularity: Different functionalities of the P5 system are build in different independent modules. This indicates that they are planning to be able to rapidly expand the framework.
- Reliability: Future upgrades and maintenance work should not translate to downtime. This hopefully means their will be no downtimes or interruptions.