iPoker Releases Software Update to Prevent Hogging

The iPoker Network has recently released a software update to prevent hogging of heads-up games. The update, which includes a few other changes, has been rolled out to all skins on the network.

iPoker’s “Heads Up Hogging Prevention” is a tool that tracks players who sit inactively at too many poker tables waiting for weaker players to arrive and allows operators to restrict table access to such players. The tool has been invented to “keep the games flowing smoothly” and to maintain “a fast, smooth, and fair for everybody” pace of gaming. The update also includes certain capabilities that enable players to schedule breaks spanning more than two days.

iPoker has been launching a number of player friendly updates of late. One of its latest updates includes buttons on speed tables, enabling players to include another table at the same stake level, along with an arrangement to enable players to set lobby time according to their time zones.

Speed Poker is a relatively new addition on the iPoker Network. Bet265 Poker was the first skin on the iPoker Network to demonstrate its high-speed variant of real money online poker. Speed tables at iPoker are referred to as “Speed Hold’em,” but are listed under the Sprint option in the games lobby at Bet365. Currently, players at Bet365 Poker can choose from three micro-stakes levels, and reportedly, the most active of these levels is the $0.05/$0.10 PL Hold’em level.

Those familiar with high-speed online poker variants will find it very easy to play Speed Hold’em at iPoker skins. Although Full Tilt Poker bears the credit of introducing the first variant of high-speed poker called Rush Poker, a number of other companies have launched their own versions of high-speed online poker ever since.

iPoker is not the only network seeking to find effective solutions to the problem of getting a heads-up match started. Under the current system, a number of poker players can sit without playing and wait for soft opponents, instead of just plunging into the game.

Recently, PokerStars suggested a system of “match-making,” in which the operator matches players, to be introduced in place of the current system. MPN has totally uprooted the problem by replacing all its heads-up tables with Heads-up 8-Man Blaze.

PokerStars has also launched a brand new promotion this July to give players an incentive to play heads-up games. The online poker room has announced that it will reward players with bonus points whenever they play with the same opponent for more than 250 times.

The promotion aims to generate more heads-up action among regular players. Most of the high-stakes heads-up SNGs, and even the low-stakes ones, are “predatory,” as some players put it with players simply preferring to wait for softer opponents instead of just playing with one another. However, this promotion can only provide temporary relief against “hogging.”

Meanwhile, iPoker has already imposed restrictions on how many heads-up poker tables a player can sit at inactively while waiting for the fish. But nobody can say how far these “hogging prevention” techniques will be effective.

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