Key Takeaways
- A software update to the desktop clients late last week made tables that show players’ real names possible.
- Once the mobile apps have been updated to support the new tables, they will be deployed in full.
- Test tables were deployed at the micro-stakes briefly last week.
- The company previously indicated that it would initially trial real names at high stakes tables and online satellites to its live events.
Online poker operator partypoker has begun its transition to using real names at the tables instead of the usual screen names.
A software update to the desktop clients late last week made tables showing players’ real names possible, and PRO observed a few test tables deployed at the micro-stakes tables.
These tables were later removed. A partypoker spokesperson informed PRO that once the mobile apps have been updated to support the new tables, they will be deployed in full.
