This post was written in November 2019 when I was the Managing Director of Poker at Microgaming. At some point in our lives, we have all lost a bit of control. Maybe you hit the shops a little harder than you could afford. Maybe you… Read More »How We Made Poker a Little Safer
Every company I’ve worked for has had one thing in common – they all generated good ideas faster than they were able to make them a reality. Regardless of whether they were a small start-up or a huge corporation, they all had a backlog brimming… Read More »Don’t Make this Common Mistake When Prioritising Software Projects
‘Edge’ Loyalty ProgramFull Tilt PokerQ4 2011 to Q2 2012 One of the first things that I wanted to accomplish after I joined the Full Tilt Poker team in February 2011 was to revamp and simplify the loyalty schemes that the company offered to its players.… Read More »Design Portfolio – Edge Loyalty Program
One-Click Colour CodingFull Tilt PokerQ2 2011 Almost all online poker sites allow you to take notes on your opponents, so you can remember how they play from session to session. Along with the Ongame network, Full Tilt Poker was one of the first poker sites… Read More »Design Portfolio – One Click Colour Coding
Robocap (Dynamic Table Limits)PokerStarsQ1 2010 In a live poker game, you can usually only play at one table at any given time for reasons that should be evident. However, online there is no such restriction. You can play two, four, eight or even twenty-four tables… Read More »Design Portfolio – Robocap (Dynamic Table Limits)
Sit & Go Registration ImprovementsPokerStarsQ1-Q2 2008 A common problem that occurred on PokerStars in 2008 was that you would try to enter a tournament that had a maximum number of entrants (for example, a Sit & Go with a maximum of 9 players), but by… Read More »Design Portfolio – Sit & Go Registration Improvements
Text FilteringPokerStarsQ2 2008 PokerStars Tournament Filter with Text Filter at the Top It’s mid-2008. PokerStars is well-known for its wide selection of tournaments. In fact, there are now thousands of different tournaments every single day, and it is becoming difficult to easily find the ones… Read More »Design Portfolio – Text Filtering
Introduction This is the index for a series of posts which will come together to form a portfolio of the features I have worked on over the course of my career in software design. In my time in the industry, I have led the development… Read More »Design Portfolio – Index of Features