Party Poker Introduces New Features: Synched Breaks, Table Stacking, More

Party Poker has just issued new online poker software with some major player-friendly improvements, among them a new Stacked console view for multi-table playing and synchronized breaks for most tournaments.

The new Staked console view at Party Poker is a great innovation that allows players to input their position at each table and then have the console stack those tables accordingly, with alarms alerting the player when it’s time to act at a particular table. The Stacked console view (as distinct from the alternative Tiling or Cascading consoles) allows a player to view much of the table information and even take their action at a table from the Stacked console without having to switch over to the actual table.

The Synchronized Breaks concept is a familiar one to most online poker players. It was instituted in many other rooms, as it is now at PartyPoker, to allow tournament players a chance to get up and take a short break from the action. These come every hour at fifty-minutes past the hour (or five minutes to the hour, whichever you like better). The instances in which the synchronized breaks will not take place are in the first levels of any tournament (or the first two in any Turbo tournament), or if late registration is still open for a tournament (even if it’s already begun).

These aren’t the only improvements with the new PartyPoker software upgrade though. The late registration period has been pushed back in some tournaments (as late as 6 levels). And the PartyPoker lobby will now display a deadline for players to un-register from a tournament and still be able to get their money back.