Key Takeaways
- PokerStars has deployed yet another twist on the classic Hold’em for real money cash games.
- The existence of Swap was first revealed by PRO some seven months ago.
- Players see when opponents change their cards, and how many were switched out.
- It can be done at any point in the hand, even half-way through a betting sequence.
- It is the eighth new format introduced in this manner by PokerStars in the last two years.
Online poker giant PokerStars has deployed yet another twist on the classic Texas Hold’em for real money cash games.
Swap Hold’em, which allows players to change one or both hole cards at any point in the hand, was first deployed in the UK market for real money and the dot-NET client for free-play.
While the press release earlier this week stated that it would come to other markets in “due course,” almost immediately the game was made available on the dot-com and dot-EU clients, PRO understands. Belgium and Estonia are also slated to get the new game .
