pls remove the “invite” or shorten the time of that function to one blinds.
The seat marked as “invite” remains empty for some 15 minutes.
And you can not “join a waiting list” as a seat is empty.
Sometimes 2 seats are marked after another as “invite” and noone can join the table for 10-15 minutes although 2 seats are empty.
Whoever introduced that really bad function some months ago did something wrong and we suffer.
Hi PeterPan4711, 
I am sorry you seem to misunderstand how the invite function works.
The invite overlay is there for you to invite people from your friends list. If a player does not have anyone in their friends list the overlay is not displayed for them. Other seated players will see an invite overlay only if they have folks in their friends list. No friends = no overlay.
Players who are not seated at the table are not able to see the invite overlay and it absolutely does not block or stop anyone from joining the table or sitting in that seat. As a matter of fact, if someone does sit in the seat with the invite overlay the overlay will move to another empty seat if one is available so that you may still afford yourself the opportunity to invite a friend to the game if you so desire.
If you happen to see a seat with the invite overlay for an extended period of time it is only because no one has tried to sit in that seat. It will remain visible to you as long as you are sat at that table and no one selects that seat to sit in.
You are correct that you cannot join a waiting list when there is an empty seat as there is no waiting list to join, you simply need to select the seat and join the game.
I hope this has helped you to understand how the invite function works and will relieve any worries you may have.
Cheers!
ps… the video below shows two players sitting in the “invite” seat two different times:
everything you typed is false
try to join such a table
we are suffering since it was implemented
I also told how to correct it
try to join the 100/200 table Missisipi River 2 just now…
there is an empty seat since 10 minutes
you only get a message
Unable to reserve your seat. Please try again
That has nothing to do with the invite function. That is another error. I have encountered it occasionally myself. It has always resolved itself. The system thinks there is a player (mattapoisett) in that seat.
@grapevine or @Tiandra can one of you pass this along to the tech team??? It has happened before. Thanks! 
This is not new, it is a (very) long time problem. I saw 4 years ago the same. A player sit alone on a head up table, but Lobby shows 2 players on table, and > 100 players wait for a seat. Other table sizes the same. The invite button came much later. I reported this many times to support. Tech team can delete the ghost player, but they can not fix the problem.
It is one of the 1000 things on Replay, lol.
he still shows as playing in that seat
I disagree.
There was no problem before the “invite” feature was implemented.
Btw, I have never seen > 100 players waiting for a seat.
The “invite” feature is like a sabotage act vs our loved site. Nobody uses it, but it makes a lot of players unhappy. It has to be removed, just to see if everything is ok then.
It is worth a try by the admin.
You can look to this thread:
Not 100 there, but i saw > 100 too. And 4 years ago the same. Invite came later.
