Quick summary of key new features in the latest build:
1. 'Reset to Default Size' option in the layout menu. I mentioned this in an email while discussing something else and the developers had it implemented literally hours later. Those guys really are impressive sometimes!
2. Black Lobby Theme is now out of Beta, and becomes the default lobby theme. You can switch back to the Classic theme using 'Options' > 'Lobby Themes'.
3. Hand History Replayer (Beta). Finally! We've been wanting this since 2004 and at last we've got it done. It is still beta, so we're still working out a couple of kinks and we'll be adding new features (like, hopefully, the ability to open saved hand history files) in the coming months.
4. VIP Status display. Only available to a small group of players right now, but if all goes well it should be available to everybody soon enough. If you're SuperNova Elite and want to show it off, you'll be able to. Of course in true PokerStars style everything is optional so you won't have to be bothered by extra icons if you don't like them.
Something else that snuck under the Radar in the last release is this:
It's an option to let you easily register in 'busy' SNGs (you can also click 'Register To Any' in the lobby if the SNG you've selected isn't available for registration). If you're the kind of person who likes to play 24 $1 tourneys at once instead of concentrating on one $24 SNG, then this should help! The option is currently available in a small number of SNGs, and will be available in more when we're confident it works as expected.
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Originally Posted by Everybody in the universe
Auto rebuy, auto top-up
I submitted the design spec for this a while back and it's just waiting for a slot in the development schedule. It requires more development than you might think, but it is high priority.
A few other things mentioned in this thread have also been approved and are just awaiting development, such as colour-coded tables in the lobby, 'Don't Show Me Again' for common popups and so on.
A couple of other notable changes recently:
1. We just overhauled the Guarantee schedule. Almost all the guarantees were increased, the most notable being the Sunday Million (now $1,500,000 gtd) and the Warm Up (now $750,000 gtd).
2. We overhauled the play money tournaments. Maybe not a big deal to 2+2ers, come to think of it.
3. There is a 'Tourney' > 'Regional' tab as well as the ability to 'Hide Country Restricted Tournaments'. Now all those annoying German tournaments that you can't play can disappear!
4. We're still working on improving the 15% payout schedule (this is the one in use in the vast majority of our tournaments, including the Million and Warm Up). We've got it so that the tournament should pay 15% of entrants +/- 0.5%, which is a massive improvement (we were all a bit sick that one week where the Million paid 17% or so). The next issue to deal with is the 'second bubble' (in which the first payout tier, usually 1.5x the buy-in or so, is thousands of players wide while the next is 27 players wide) which is caused by the fact that the smallest increment we can divide the prize pool into is 0.01%.
As always keep the feedback coming!