Tournaments / Heads-Up Display

We have added an image to show the 1^st and 2^nd prizes when only 2 players remain in a tournament. This will highlight the difference between the prizes, particularly for Progressive KO tournaments.

New Hero Player Pod Menu – Emojis & Phrases

We have added a new hero player pod menu that includes a range of new emojis and phrases for players to use at the table. Players can access this by left-clicking the top half of their player pod.

New Mobile Felt Tournament Display

Based on player feedback, we have updated the design of the mobile felt tournament info display and adjusted the process for which values are shown.

Loyalty Widget

There is a new loyalty widget in the desktop poker lobby – on tables and within the Promo & Rewards Hub – to make it easier to understand any progress made in the PokerStars Rewards program.

Players can do this by tracking the points earned and the remaining points, as well as the number of chests earned and their expiry dates.

• • All-in Poker has been added to our UK and COM websites.

• • Web Poker is now available on our RO website.

• • In our Romanian license, players can now play poker directly from their web browser, without the need to download or install any software or application.

Multi-Table Tournament (MTT) Estimated Duration

The tool we use to estimate how long an MTT will last has been updated. It can now predict the time taken to cash and reach the final table, allowing players to plan their playing sessions more effectively.

We have fixed several bugs, including:

• • Desktop (Mac): In-game sounds not audible on macOS Tahoe.

• • Desktop: Overlapping graphics.

• • Desktop: Crashing when using Tools or Player Notes Editor features.

• • Desktop: Chips blurring on big screens with high resolution.

Several compliance and regulatory requirements have been delivered across various licenses.

‘Transfer to Players’ removal – We have removed the Transfer to Player menu option from within Tools, in markets where this was available. This is still available within the Cashier.

Mystery Bounty / Bounty Stage Announcement – When the Mystery Bounty Stage starts, there will now be a “Top Secret” notification. This will make it clearer when bounties can be won, and players can adjust their play accordingly.

Improved Rabbit Hunt Experience – We’ve improved the Rabbit Hunt feature to give players more time to activate it and made it available for every post-flop hand. It can be switched on/off from within Poker settings. This improves the player experience by offering more chances to use this feature, which shows what card would’ve appeared.

Improve Show Cards Experience – To improve the player experience, we’ve extended the time the Show Cards option is available.

MTT Lobby Web Improvements

• • Enhanced search functionality

• • Addition of colours to the list of tournaments

• • Addition of Re-entry tag in right sidecar section

• • Introduced the ability to resize columns

• • Addition of State Filters (Late Registration, Running, etc.)

• • Power Path Overview tab is now available on COM and UK in all platforms

Web Poker is now available on .FR, .PT and .SE websites

In our France, Portugal and Sweden licenses, players can now play poker directly from their web browser, without the need to download and install any software or application.

Bug Fixes

We have fixed several bugs, including:

• • Various Filter and display issues on desktop.

• • Cookies consent message displaying multiple times.

For those using Home Games, we no longer offer the video chat feature. You will no longer be able to create or join video chat games. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

We’ve improved the cash game lobby that affects the way players take a seat on .COM liquidity. At specific stakes, table and seat selection will no longer be available. Instead, players will be automatically placed at a table upon joining a game. This will make the lobby appear much cleaner and make it less complicated to start playing.

Learn more about this update here.

• Several Compliance and Regulatory requirements have been delivered across various licenses.
• Spin & Go: As stack sizes are related to the multiplier size, we’ve hidden stack sizes until the multiplier is revealed, to prevent spoilers.

MTT Estimated Duration: We’ve introduced a new prediction tool that estimates how long a poker tournament will last. Using a specialised machine learning model, it will help you plan your playing sessions more effectively. You can check the estimate in the tournament lobby. The feature will be rolled out in Ontario initially and to all locations in the following weeks.

PC Desktop and Mobile app: minor fixes and graphical improvements. Including a confetti animation displayed within Hand Replayer, so you can relive that winning moment with some ceremony.

Spin & Go speed merge – From June 9 on .COM

We are improving our offering by merging Spin & Go and Spin & Go Flash into a single game of varying speed, depending on the prize pool multiplier:

• Faster games for the lower multipliers
• Slower games for the higher multipliers, to give players more time to think when more money is at stake
• Merging the two games will also reduce waiting times for games to start. The new structure will also be applied to Spin & Go Omaha.

You can learn more about the Spin & Go merge here.

♠ Several Compliance and Regulatory requirements have been delivered across various licenses.

We have fixed several bugs, including:

♠ Desktop: Crashing on Macs when reopening Hand Replayer in Home Game Stud 8-Player.

♠ Desktop: Mystery Bounty ‘How it works’ dialogue has been fixed.

♠ Mobile: Colour Coded Stacks not working on Play Money tournaments.

• Mystery Bounty is now available in BG License.

• All-In Poker went live in the following licenses: COM / UK / BE / DE / EE / RO / SE / DK

♠ MTT Lobby Highlights: We’ll showcase featured tournaments at the top of the lobby so you won’t miss the action. Simply click or tap on the tiles to start the registration process.

♠ MTT Web Lobby Icons: We’ve introduced a set of colour-coded icons for players to more intuitively identify the unique characteristics of our tournaments, like Table Size, Game Speed, etc. You can check what they all mean in the Icon Legend.

Website, Desktop software and Mobile app

♠ Several Compliance and Regulatory requirements have been delivered across various licenses.

We have fixed several bugs, including:

♠ Desktop: Time-To-Act Bar/Timebank Bar was overlapped by the Throwables menu icon.

♠ Desktop: ‘Promo & Reward’ Hub didn’t open on multiple screens and was locked in the Windows bar.

♠ Tournament Deal Interface – We’ve visually improved the interface of the tournament deal window to help simplify the negotiations to chop the prize money.

♠ New Cash Games Lobby on Web

o We continue to expand our Poker offering on web with the launch of a new Cash Games lobby in the UK, available for both desktop web and mobile web users. This means you can enjoy the purest form of poker without having to download any software.

o What to expect from the new lobby:

• • A quick seat format with random seat allocation allows users to join a table and start playing right away quickly.

• • 6-max Hold’em and Omaha games with stakes up to $0.10 / $0.25 (buy-in up to $25).

We have fixed several bugs including:

♠ Desktop: missing Color-Coded Stack setting.

♠ Desktop: Spin and Go table themes not updating.

♠ Desktop: hotkeys not working on All-in Poker tables.

♠ Various other minor bug fixes.

♠ Coloured Chip Values – We introduced a poker setting where players have more control over the colour of their chip stack value.

o   Players can now choose up to 3 thresholds instead of the default settings

o   Players can now choose a colour for each threshold

o   Players can now choose a colour for the Table chip leader setting

o   Players can setup different profiles for cash games, regular tournaments and KO Tournaments

We have removed several bugs including:

♠ Desktop: Mac, crash after changing language.

♠ Desktop: Fix Preferred Seat in Replayer

♠ Desktop: Spin n Go tutorial continues to be shown when player returns to Spin n Go Lobby.

♠ Mobile: throwables overlapping, Portrait mode.

♠ Desktop: We fixed a bug where the End of Tournament Dialog would show the PokerStars Icon with a yellow star instead of a white star when you would finish top 3.

♠ Desktop: We fixed a bug where the All-in Lobby would not display some buttons and/or text when using a small window and the banner was enabled.

♠ Desktop: We fixed a bug where sometimes the Timebank Counter background element would remain visible after the Timebank was no longer displayed.

All-In Poker by PokerStars is an exciting poker format, based on Texas Hold’em, with just two options for all players: all-in or fold!

The hand plays out according to Texas Hold’em rules, but with two significant differences:

– Players have only two options, pre-flop: to go all-in, or to fold.

– Every pot is ‘capped’, meaning that no player can wager (or lose) more than 25 Big Blinds in a single hand.

Available now on Desktop and Mobile clients!

Available initially on .COM, .DE, .EE and .RO licenses, with future rollouts to follow.

Based on the 3-players Spin & Go format players know and love, we have

launched Spin & Go Six in Italy.

It is still fast-paced with a randomly drawn prize pool. But it’s played with six players instead of three.

More players means more money to be won. Spin & Go Six replaces Spin & Go Max in Italy.