A free idea for online poker sites for an awesome new feature
So my consulting days are over for the most part over within the online poker industry so this is a freebie for any site that wants to make it happen. It wouldn't be a life changing thing, but it would be a very cool feature that would lead to players spending countless hours making and deploying their own tournaments, while paying rake the entire time.
Create-Your-Own-Structure
Pretty simple idea and a pretty easy idea to implement in a hurry. Essentially structures are based in text files and formatted a given way and the software reads from those files when tournaments are deployed. All a site would need to do is have the software delimit the custom structure in a certain way from a GUIin the lobby and BLAM players have the ability to create every blind jump and every ante for X amount of levels. Then you allow them the ability to pick the level length (between 1 and 30 minutes) and there you have it. The software spits a structure file back to the server which them deploys it automatically. In a quick update you have given your users the ability to not only create new structures but to essentially test out new ideas for your poker room to see how wild and wacky levels effect tournament length and relative stack depth. All this and the players are paying you for the ability to essentially be your guinea pigs for any strange tournament structure you've ever imagined for your site.