Twice in the last 5 days, I had this happen, thanks to a bad design by Full Tilt and incredibly bad (or good, depending on your POV) timing from my opponent.
It's the river, I'm next to act, and I simply want to check behind -- I hover my house over the "check" checkbox, and am about to click it to enable it. Just as I'm pressing the mouse button down, I mean the exact, the very same instant, my opponent goes All In. In the blink of an eye, the "call" button appears in the very spot where the "check" checkbox was1 I then inadvertently end up calling an all-in bet, and loosing over one buy in each time.
I sent the issue in as a bug report to FT, calling it a design bug, because really that's exactly what it is: due to a poor design, users will at times, under the right circumstance, mistakenly click "call." The action for "check" and the action for "call" should never be in the exact same spot.
Now, at the stakes I dick around at online it's no big deal - after having this happen twice, I'm down the equivalent of a standard preflop raise in the live games I play. However, money's money, and I'd rather not give ten bucks to some idiot because fulltilt made a bad design choice. I'm sure if I was playing for larger sums this would have severely pissed me off. As it stands now, my only recourse is to never use the "check" checkbox.
Submit this as a bug to Full Tilt! http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/submitabug.php
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2 comments:
can't tell you how many times this has happened to me!
another issue is one that PokerRoom.com solved. They terrible mundane task of moving the mouse to check/bet/raise in Limit games.
Pokerroom had shortcut keys... f1 (check/fold), f2(bet/call), f3(raise)... you could sit and play poker for hours w/o moving your mouse or your hand... just click the finger you want.
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