Yeah, no issue playing the NJ sites. I signed back up in mid-April, because our monthly poker game (ongoing since 1985; I joined in 1987) would've stopped. We all (7 of us) signed for a "home game" and played for play chips, but all agreed that it was a given dollar amount per chip. Only annoying thing was they still took a rake, so we had to subtract that out at the end of the night. We played a bunch of games we usually play: omaha hi/lo, hold-em, stud, draw, 2-7 triple draw, etc. and even figured out a way to play a no-limit tourney at the end of the night.
Was a lot of fun, but then one of the guys in the group, who is a gamer on Steam, went ahead and took their "Tabletop Simulator" poker game, which was kind of clunky as-is (allows players to have chips, bet them, deal and stuff, but it's 100% manual, so it's slow) and wrote a bunch of code to greatly improve the game. Now it will automatically deal all down cards (up are manual) and all community cards (both were a pain in the *** one at a time), he put in buttons to allow us to bet in all of our denominations (instead of manually selecting/dragging in chips), he added buttons automate folding and showing of all cards, and he added a feature to collect the pot and split it if needed.
Pretty slick and it's now about as fast as our home game and we can all play all the games we do, which include some oddballs that aren't on any commercial site, i.e,. 3-card hold-em (where one gets discarded after the flop), 2-3-5, 1-4-1-push, and several stud games where we allow replacing a card for a few dollars; we even play draw poker where there's a 2nd draw of one card only for $5 (most of our games are $2-4/3-6 level with a big win/loss for the night being $300 or so - nobody gets killed, but you can win/lose a few $$ - I'm well ahead, lol). We're now playing weekly and we're all on Skype, so we get to visit a bit too and insult each other all night. I imagine we might do on line once a month and in person once a month when this is all over, as not having to drive to the host's house and then home late is attractive to some of the crew.
