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PokerStars’ Home Games launched
Posted by: James Carter. - Fri, 2011-01-14 17:39
As innovations rear their heads all over the online poker world,
PokerStars have come up with a concept that is not only innovative, but is also likely to prove to be a huge hit with the masses. Their new home games feature allows players to create their own
online poker games and even clubs that only their friends and themselves can access: basically an online version of a friendly home poker get-together.
PokerStars has made it extremely easy for its users to create their own private poker club. All they need to do is to pick a name for it, together with an invitation code. After that, the club owner can customize his own lobby, where tournaments and home poker tables featuring the poker variants of his preference can be set up.
Inviting friends is a cinch as well: a club owner can send the club ID and the invitation code to all the people that he would like to join this club. Then, as the would-be members show up, all he has to do is to accept them.
Of course, setting up poker tournaments is quite probably the most important thing, but rest assured that’s just as easy as the whole setting up of the club: just choose a game variant, set the size of the buy-in, set the structure and the date of the event and the system will automatically send out the required information to your club members.
The overall simplicity of the setup process does not mean however that the administrator of the group will not have full control over the club's activities. He will be able to manage membership, pick administrators, set club seasons and customize the lobby.
The game management tools-set allows an administrator to set game details as well as event dates. Tables themselves can be customized with the name of the club on the felt. Quite probably the best thing about the whole setup is that it's all free: it won't cost the club over a penny to maintain and operate a potentially successful online poker operation of his own.
