Dowtown has got a point on "No Chat, while a player is all-in"
The rationale here is that the integrity of the game is at stake.
People trying to influence the outcome by telling their cards; therefore influencing the action of those that still have to act on their hand.

I believe players involved in an all in should be able to chat. Not other players. I would like to see that feature brought back. Don't really care one way or the other about the hands played.

I'm with handbone. Let those in players still in the hand chat.

I totally agree about the hands played badge not being conducive to improving a players game or really demonstrating a plus characteristic for a participant.

As for the all in chat ban, players not involved in the hand when it is one on one only, as in live play should never be allowed to chat.

One on one play should have ability to chat within their play as that is part of the legitimate game and strategic discerning of playing a hand during that circumstance.

On a side not, hope to

Since you took the number of hands off, I noticed a lot of players removing all of their badges. Are they trying to look like newbes or what? If they have any badges, they should be shown.

I have to agree with Logan here... only the people in the hand should be able to chat and maybe we should bring that much back. At a live table, chatting after someone just shoved on you is the best way to get some tells about their hand strength.

at poker stars, fulltilt ,and ap n ub poker sites u cant talk while allin ..i like it because u dont get the people telling u what they have in middle of the hands. or the person telling other players to call. it keeps the game fair..so if the only problem u have is u cant talk when a person all in.. look at both sides ..good move kenny..but i do miss the hands badge ..u could always tell the donkey by there hands ...guy has 60k in hands and 1 final table..beleive me that is a donkey....

How about replacing it with a "total tourneys entered" badge?

Great news. Now remove the all in chat ban. It serves what purpose?

The all in chat ban is great! Only the people in the hand should be able to chat. All of the other people not in the hand; their comments are BS! That is how it works live and should be the same way for online play. People have cost me chips on this site by interjecting comments about all in play when they were not even in the hand. Do that in a live game at a casino and you will be on the rail. Besides; people chat way to much on this site, in my opinion.

I really enjoyed knowing how many hands I had played. Please put that back and forget the badge.....

I agree with Marcazz about the NO CHAT while all in...cant tell u how many times I have had to retype something. It was fine before.....re think that Kenny plzz. :-)

I have an idea to figure out the donk/bad players to some that are real. Instead of the hands badge A comparison badge that shows amount of times you made SPOY compared to final tables. Sounds better than hands played to final tables comparison.

I was curious if we can get seperate badges for OMAHA Like seperate badge /trophy for winners of OMAHA and seperate Final Table badges for OMAHA

less information is never good....put it back

will u please hurry up with the table size. every other site allows u to enlarge ur table, old folks have a right to be able to see what the hell they r playing and it makes for a more realistic game.

WOOOOO HOOOOO. Awesome! Now is there anyway to put on a players profile how much money they have won?

great idea. now give us a fold and show option.

people and the no chat ai thing is a bit redick. lots of donks on this site say what they have, "I need to leave, so call my ai"
"I have 65o". why do you need to chat when all in? In a live game do you start talking and asking ?'s when you shove your stack 2 mins before the break? no, you just sit there and wait.
I know this isn't live poker, but think for a minute. do you really need it or do you just need to give a reason or a sh!ty remark.... shu t up and just play the game

ok move, but now you need to get rid of the people busted. I could tell a super loose player by how many hands played by how many people taken out. If I saw a black hand I knew the player was super agrv. loose preflp and like to psh after flp, trn. Lots of donks with big bounties!. just watch and see show downs.

I see the reasoning behind this now and agree. Now can we get rid of all those old Bellagio badges.

WOOHOO!!!
Holy cow man I almost fell out of my chair when I saw my shiny new WSOP badge! Check it out guys, I'm stylin now!

THX KENNY!!!

I always liked seeing the hands played badge....usually it was a donkey. I guess all the donks are in disguise now!

put the hands played badge back .

great this stat was pointless since it was one of two stats that were counted in all tournys. no reason for any bdges that do not reflect tru stats.

I used number of hands with bounties and final tables to estimate my opponents skill. Without knowing how much they play, the wins don't mean much.

way to go. can you now give the option to remove the Odds Calculator \ Hand Helper on the games?

About time u had a bunch of donkeys hoping they win a trophy for the most hands played Lol ty it was about time

I say, my friends and I had been having so much fun and laughter cuz the timing was impecable..after I wrote a blog about Hands played...but we will miss it. The one thing we are not very happy about, is the No Chat While an All in player is in progress. Almost everyone seems to be unhappy with it. Is there any possibility that you could take this into consideration pls? We really would appreciate it a lot. Thank you....

i agree maybe this will encourage better play from everyone oh yeah im thrilled to be able to be back with spadeclub and ky membership ban over with see ya at the tables

Arghhhh Kenny,

That sure wasnt nice, how on earth are the rest of the players gonna figure out I'm LAG. Miss that Hand Played already, so when are you gonna put it back on again. I use it for statistic. Hands played vs FT. Hope it's get back, you can reset hands played FT and whatever you can come up with once a year.

Just my oppinion.

OK, i still love man

The only thing I think I'll miss about having access to that info is the fact that it was easy to determine who the true "Donks" are. It was always a dead give away to read their hands played to bounty's ratio.....usually Blue/Black. But I understand and agree with the reason. Sad when a good badge goes bad, just sad

I was away from the site for a few days and was wondering what was missing. True the number of hands is and interesting stat but not and important issue to poker itself. It's ok with me with SpadeClub did here. Are you going to replace this badge with something different or just have no other badges. How about a number of final table badge ?