Heads-Up cash, nosebleed stakes and Mixed Games are removed and new measures to prevent the advantages of table selection come to Full Tilt.

Full Tilt have just announced a major overhaul of the way ring games are managed. In an attempt to make the game selection process less intimidating, rather than scanning a busy lobby, players will just be seated at the game and stakes they prefer.

The move is said to replicate the live poker experience. In a similar vein, when two ring games get short handed, the tables will be merged together, rather than left waiting to fill up.

Heads-Up games removed

In another significant move, heads-up cash games are being removed. In the words of Dominic Mansour, the Managing Director of Full Tilt:

Heads Up games were being adversely impacted by the minority of experienced players who targeted ‘weaker’ opponents rather than take on all challengers, and secondly, new players who tried out the Heads Up games found it intimidating and confusing (asking themselves “why are all these guys not playing each other?”). In short, Heads Up ring games just didn’t form part of a healthy poker ecosystem, which made our decision to remove them easier."

The new look Full Tilt lobby

Finally nosebleed stakes, Stud, Draw and Mixed Games are being removed.

All of these changes are said to 'level the playing field' for recreational players and is a direct measure to combat extensive table selection techniques:

We also recognize that in the past, a proportion of players have used extensive table selection to their advantage and that those players might not like these changes. Their advantage over other players will now be negated and we don’t think that’s a bad thing. Good things happen to those who play and we believe the changes we’re making will see even more good things happening to more players at Full Tilt.

The changes took place this morning after a server restart.

What do you think of the changes? Let us know in the comments.

Barry Carter Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2. Twitter

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