PokerStars Software Update Features Notification Improvements

Last week, PokerStars released a software update that centered on improvements to its notification system. A total of three “focus improvements” were addressed, including the addition of a “New Tournaments Take Focus” option. This can be found by navigating to “Options” and then “Advanced Multi-Table Options.” What the new feature does is not steal your focus away from other tables in tournaments until it’s your turn to act. That way, you’ll know that a table popping up immediately requires your attention. All you have to do is select your action and then go about your merry way.

The popup saying you’ve been moved to another table in a tournament now just appears on the table itself. Finally, the notification letting you know that a seat is available “is now modeless, so it will not force you to act on it before you can act on your current table,” according to text found on the PokerStars Blog.

Outside of the three focus improvements to the PokerStars software, the room’s tech brains will slowly roll out an incremental time bank in tournaments. In addition, you can now take advantage of a larger notes icon in the new software, making this critical feature easy to see amid a maze of open windows. PokerStars adds, “We have added a nice coloring of the player circle/rectangle that will match the color of the note.” You can adjust the notes feature through “Options” and “Player Notes.”

A brand new VPIP stat can be inserted into the tournament lobby. Instead of the customary column showing players to the flop, you can include VPIP, or Voluntarily Put Money into the Pot. This will help you get a grasp on the relative tightness or looseness of a table. If showing VPIP sounds like your cup of tea, you can make the change by going to “Options,” “Lobby Display Options,” and “Show VPIP Instead of Players/Flop.”

Appearing in the schedule for the 2010 World Championship of Online Poker, or WCOOP, was a game called Triple Stud. While many thought it was a typo, the latest update to the PokerStars software revealed that Triple Stud games will begin being unveiled this month. Triple what, you ask? Triple Stud is a three-game mix of Razz, Stud, and Stud High-Low. It’s basically three different versions of Stud, as its name implies.

PokerStars’ latest software update also featured changes to the Black and Slick table themes. Finally, the window that displays your current stash of tournament tickets has been updated to show the events you can use those tickets on. This tweak will undoubtedly make it easier for you to spend your hard-earned tickets on the virtual felts of the world’s largest online poker site without giving the process too much thought.

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