PokerStars Head of Poker Communications Lee Jones announced that PokerStars 7 will be the online poker site’s only client available starting early next year.
Speaking at the European Poker Tour Prague, Jones addressed the changeover to PokerStars 7, which has been taking place over the past several months. Jones notes that PokerStars 7, not PokerStars 6, is now the default when players download the client. He also said that about 70 to 75 percent of players are now using PS7.
Here is some of what Jones had to say:
Eventually PS6 is going to go. We don’t know the exact dates, it all depends on how things roll out. We have been very slow about this…we want to make sure we give everybody a chance to be familiar with the new client, to use it…we make sure we find bugs, they get fixed.”
You can watch the full interview with Jones below:
Some of the new features of PokerStars 7 include:
QuickSeat – A simple-to-use lobby that allows players to sit down at a game of their choice with just one click of a button, which is particularly good for recreational players or those who want to get straight into a game.
Favorites – a new tab that enables players to select and store the exact games and tournaments they regularly play, reducing the need to navigate the lobby each time a player logs in. This can be customized over time, by adding or deleting tournaments, games and tables.
Apps – a new easy-to-use bar that sits at the side of the lobby for non-playing functions. It replaces the Options and Requests menus in PokerStars 6.
Live events – a dedicated tab that displays all the live events to which PokerStars is running satellites, with simple maps of destinations and the qualifying paths of how to get there.
Chip graph – a new feature that tracks a player’s progress through a tournament, in addition to showing the ‘average chip stack’ and ‘largest chip stack’ graphs throughout the tournament.
Jones noted that if you like the PS6 functionality, you can actually configure PS7 to work like the old version.
Here’s a walkthrough of the new client, also with Jones:
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