PokerStars Software Improvements On The Way

Recently we announced the release of a new Full Tilt Poker software upgrade. Well wouldn’t you know it, but the buzz is now circulating the web that a new Poker Stars software upgrade is also on the horizon?

Although no official announcement has yet come out of the PokerStars brass, there’s enough talk about the look and feel of the PokerStars to come that it seems imminent.

Being discussed as likely improvements in the next (and likely soon-to-be-announced-and-released) PokerStars software are the following:

* multi-currency capability with Euros
* synchronized tournament breaks (prob. 5 mins. every hour at 55 mins. to the hour)
* a Mixed Holdem/Omaha cash game options (now that the 2009 WCOOP schedule features the game)
* Private Tables priviledges extended to low-stakes players
* easier registration

On the synchronized breaks – that feature in particular could be rolled out in a select few tournaments as early as today, August 4, in the regular Tuesday PokerStars update (a mini-upgrade of sorts PokerStars offers each week). Interestingly, the synchronized breaks will not replace any regularly scheduled breaks, and if a tournament starts at ten to the hour, there will still be a five minute break five minutes later at five to the hour.

On the Mixed Holdem/Omaha cash games – players can hone their skills in the game in the 2009 World Championship of Online Poker, Event #29, a $320 Pot Limit Holdem/Omaha Mixed Game with a $400K prize pool.

And as for easier registration – there will soon be a convenient time-clock counting down extended tournament registration periods and automatic registration into any tournament in which a player wins his or her seat via satellite.