Key Takeaways
- When PokerStars launches its combined Spanish and French online poker network, it will come with its automated “Seat Me” lobby system, prohibiting table selection and automated seating scripts.
- “Today, we have achieved most of our initial goals with Seat Me; greatly reducing players’ ability to hunt specific opponents, completely preventing the use of seating scripts, and creating an environment where recreational players play more hands.”
- With the pending advent of European shared liquidity, which will soon allow PokerStars to share its player pool between its French and Spanish online poker rooms, the company was effectively forced to either roll out Seat Me to more markets or scrap it entirely.
When PokerStars launches its combined Spanish and French online poker network, it will come with its automated “Seat Me” lobby system, prohibiting table selection and automated seating scripts, the company has announced.
Seat Me launched on PokerStars Spain in early 2017, and remains the only implementation of the system to date. It removes the ability of a player to choose a specific table and seat at a cash game, instead presenting a simple “Seat Me” button to automatically take a seat at the best available table.
