Sep 2 2011
Tons of New Features Coming to PokerStars
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If you play most of your online poker on PokerStars, the biggest real money virtual card room in the world, you’ll be happy to know that the site’s software is receiving a major overhaul within a few days. Some of the features deal with strategy, while others relate to convenience or simply aesthetics.
Cash Game Lobby Improvements – Cash games can now be sorted by a new column entitled Type. The Type column displays the buy-in structure and the game speed.
Large Opponent Cards – Enlarges the size of opponent hole cards, making it easier to see at a glance who’s still in the current hand.
Full Hole Cards – Shows your entire hole cards instead of just their top half, making them easier to read.
Fold and Show – After you’re the last to act in a hand, you’ll have the option of showing one or both cards after you fold. You can select the cards to show simply by clicking on them.
5 Players in 4-Max Final Tables – All 4-Max tournaments will be sent to the final table when five players remain. Previously, 4-Max tournaments created an unfair situation by having one heads-up table and one 3-handed table prior to the final table.
Timed Tournaments – An interesting new tournament format in which play concludes at a pre-defined time. Once the clock reaches zero, players receive payments based on their current chip counts. These tournaments will be low-stakes-only initially.
Easy Seat – Perhaps the most convenient new feature, Easy Seat allows you to set your table preferences and automatically join ideal tables with the click of one button. This feature is built with multi-tabling in mind, so you could theoretically seat yourself at 20 different tables, all with the same stake levels, game types and speeds with just one click.
Other updates include new table themes with overhauled graphics, improved animations, bigger, more readable fonts and minor client/server bug fixes.
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