Ready for some more changes with the PokerStars software? Here's what the newest update has in store
Font Changes for Games
PokerStars changed the fonts for games to be more distinguishable and more friendly to people with various types of color blindness. Changes include:
• Ring games players are waitlisted for will be blue, bold and italics.
• Ring games players are seated at will be red, bold and italics.
• Tournaments playrs are part of will show the "State" column in red, bold and italics.
Find Seat
"Find Seat" has been opened as a feature to all real money players after making some back-end adjustments. The changes can make joining 24 tables or swapping tables easy as pie (really, really awesome pie).
To recap, when players select a full table in the lobby they will see a "Find Seat" button where "Seat Me" usually is. Click the button and the system will look for an empty seat at the exact same type of table.
Alternatively, once a player is seated at a table, he can press Ctrl+S or go to "Session Options" menu to be seated at another table of the exact same type as the one he is already playing. Players who have "Auto-Buy-In (Ring Games)" enabled won't even have to click any additional buttons! Click Ctrl+S again to will be seated at a third table of the same type.
Sit & Go's already had this feature enabled - Ctrl+S from a S&G tourney or accessing the "Session Options" menu allow you to join another S&G of the exact same type.
Volume Sliders
PokerStars has added a master volume slider for all PokerStars sounds and also individual volume sliders for each sound. They can be found under "Options" > "Sound Settings..."
Bracket for Heads Up Tournaments
PokerStars has developed the ability to display a bracket for Heads Up tournaments from the Tourney Lobby which will show the pairings of opponents and how the tournament has progressed. This is very similar to playoff brackets that exist in many other sports. The feature is in Beta stage and will be slowly added to selected Heads Up tournaments. For now the bracket will only be available after the tournament is down to 64 players.
Register to Any
There was an issue where "Register To Any" would open the S&G tournament lobby even if a player had "Options" > "Advanced Multi-table options" > "Auto-open Sit & Go tournament lobby" unchecked. This is now fixed so Register To Any won't open the Tournament Lobby with the Auto-open option disabled, reducing the number of clicks needed to join S&Gs through Register to Any or Ctrl+S from the table. "Requests" > "Registered in Tournaments" (or Ctrl+R) can be used to show the tournaments a player is registered for.
Other updates
• Font for the text within dialogs was changed to a font that is easier to read in the Windows client.
• Detached Chat minor updates - the window now can be detached on some themes directly from the table by using a button. Other themes will be updated with the January release.
• Bet sizing buttons have changed behavior for draw games - the first draw will show the pre-flop shortcuts, while subsequent draws will show the post-flop buttons.
• When Seat Me fails to find a seat at the selected table (if it had filled), there will now be a "Find Seat" button in the pop-up alert. Clicking Find Seat will take players to another table identical to the one where Seat Me couldn't seat the player
• PokerStars has a new mixed game combining two of the most popular game types - No Limit Hold'em/Pot Limit Omaha. No games are available yet, but they will slowly start appearing over the course of December.
The new font type is absolutely horrible. Give us, the players the option to change it back. If you want to lose customers you are going about it the right way. If you want to treat your customers as the ones paying your paychecks give us control of how your software looks and stop making sweeping changes without our input and option to keep it as it was.
still no NLH/PLO tables? if there are can someone please tell me where to find them
It is good now some clear type fixed after recent update, it is still plenty of clear type in other menus. Please make an option for fully old theme. Those blue [i]talic [b]old looks bad also. Restore the original... Just make an options for clear type... And let people configure there wait list colours.
The New fonts look ugly, clear type looks ugly, new colours look bad why didn't they keep it the why it was? It was better
The font changes look horrible on my netbook. The lobby games text is fuzzy and headache inducing. Please Please give us the option to go back to the old font scheme.
immediately following the update, my "Instant Hand History" stopped working properly. The top pane of the window is now blank, and the detail pane displays only the most recent hand. I have to close the window and reopen it in order for it to update.
Not crazy about the font/color changes either. Seems like change for sake of change without any real usability improvement.
Fwiw, I am a professional software interface designer.
I agree with every one about the new font please make a option to use the old font.
New fonts look ugly, clear type looks ugly, new colours look bad. Give the option for old fonts / colours.
I use CRT 90% of time, but on LCD it still looks worse.
It is not only annoying - it damages my eyes.
I like the updates , about the fonts , i use a laptop when i play and i don't have any problems reading.
The old fonts looked good with cleartype on or off. The new fonts look really bad with cleartype off, which I and surely tons of other people use, it really hurts my eyes and makes me not want to look at the lobby. It's nice that you're doing this stuff for color blind people but the blurriness of these new fonts actually causes pain to my eyes :(
Please make the new fonts an option, it is VERY annoying.
Damn, I don't like the new font. Could you please stop using fonts with anti-aliasing or just give us an option to switch it off.
Yes, please an option to the old type of fonts, the new is too blurry, both in lobby and in cashier. Very annoying change!
In my 23 years of experience as a computer systems analyst, I've always wondered why certain development teams have to go and MESS UP what has always worked perfectly well.
The new font is horrible and you've applied antialiasing to the font, and that makes it very uncomfortable to read on CRT monitors (yes, lots of us still prefer those to cheap LCD trash, specially for gaming) and also on many types of LCD's. There had to be an option to DISABLE the antialiasing and return to the previous font, or to select a font type.
It's also easy to notice the wasted space between tourney numbers and the left border, because the new font is much less wide than the previous, PERFECT one. Increasing the text size is NOT an option because it will make less items visible VERTICALLY and won't fix the blurred effect caused by antialising on the text font.
PokerStars has had the best client program for years, but it really seems you're determined to change that. First it was the new annoying default theme and default yellow circles around avatars of players with notes, which at least I could disable and revert to the classic theme, now this complete mess up with the fonts. Way to go (down)!
The italics is very hard to read, is there any way you could make it an option to use the old fonts?
I think italics is not necessary and does not look good like.