@CycleVancouver Sometimes the avatars are slow to show depending on your location. It's a long story, but it's down to something called a CDN (content delivery network) which means if you are in Canada for example, you are served images from a server in Canada, as opposed to the actual server in the UK.
This means, that even when you update your avatar, it will update in the UK and most of Europe instantly, but you will continue to be served the old image in Canada for a while (I just assume that's where you are) until the UK server refreshes the CDN.
To be honest this level of technology is probably not really necessary for PokerVIP, but we use it across all our sites and on the higher traffic sites that get say 75% of visits from USA, Canada, Russia and so forth, it makes a big difference and is impossible to operate without (So I'm told :p).