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The Poker Grapevine – Zoom Poker’s Official Launch
Posted by: Jo Martin - Wed, 2012-05-16 11:36
PokerStars’ Zoom Poker, featuring a style of play based on the defunct Full Tilt Rush Poker, saw a successful beta-testing period, during which scores of players flocked to the site to take the new game for a test-spin. As the beta test was an obvious success, the site proceeded to the next logical move, officially launching the new Zoom Poker tables, essentially opening them up for higher-stakes real money traffic.
According to PokerStars’ statistics, the Zoom Poker tables dealt 300 million hands during the 2-month beta test. Zoom Poker only featured low-stakes
NL Holdem, but the world’s largest online poker operation could obviously not settle for such half-successes: the officially launched Zoom Poker now includes Omaha and Omaha Hi/Lo as well as 5-Card Draw and the limits have been raised as well: Zoom Poker players can now go as high as $2.5/$5.
According to PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu, the new Zoom Poker tables offer something for beginners and seasoned grinders alike. Beginners will be able to toss all the starting hands they hate into the muck straight away, without losing their patience, while grinders will be able to use the new features to get in hundreds of hands per hour to increase their hourly rates.
In addition to all the above detailed perks, Zoom Poker is now available on Android-based mobile platforms too. The new Android app is indeed quite a piece of work: it offers scrollable lobby menus, an auto-rebuy function and a whole bunch of other such improvements.
In other news: Groupe Bernard Tapie, the French conglomerate which recently gave up on its much-hyped plans to acquire Full Tilt Poker, has made on offer to Full Tilt Poker employees in Dublin to go work for a poker operation which will apparently be launched by GBT in Paris.
The employees promptly declined the offer though, probably pinning their money on the PokerStars deal, which is said to be progressing.
