- iPoker has published the detail of it forthcoming changes.
- Many high stakes tables will close, including all high stakes HU tables.
- Fixed Limit Full Ring games will be ended.
- SNG tables will become nine seat instead of 10.
- All games currently in USD will convert to EUR over the coming weeks.
iPoker has published more details of its planned changes that will see USD cash games removed and a reduction in game types and stakes offered.
On December 2, some of the “unpopular and less cost-effective stakes currently offered” will be removed, according to the announcement.
As part of the consolidation, all USD tables will be removed, leaving EUR and GBP tables only.
With two exceptions, all nosebleed tables across NL, PLO and fixed limit will be removed, meaning that 50/100, 100/200 and 200/400 will be dropped across the board. For NL heads up, tables 10/20+ will be pulled, making 5/10 the highest stake offered.
All Fixed Limit Hold’em full ring tables are also to be dropped.
The two remaining nosebleed games will be 6-max NL, at 50/100, and 200/400 Full Ring NLHE games.
Further consolidation of table types will reduce the offering to:
- Shallow (20 – 50BBs)
- Normal (40 – 100BBs)
- Ante (100BBs, antes)
- Anonymous (30 – 100BBs)
Time banks will be standardized at 20s for NLHE, 25s for Pot Limit Omaha and 20s for Speed Poker tables.
January 6 will see all Hold’em and Omaha games—including Speed Poker—from stakes $0.01/$0.02 through $0.50/$1 converted to EUR with all other cash games converted to EUR on January 13.
Conversion of Sit and Go (SNG) tables to EUR will start on November 25, and will continue until January 1. All 10-seat SNG tournaments will be converted to nine seat tournaments and all multi-table SNGs with 18+ players will be removed.
