French market leader wanted a proof-of-concept in-client feature to provide a HUD and tracking statistics.
Ecology changes, including the clampdown on bots, resulted in a decline in online poker revenue in Q3 2019.
Affected players will have to change their screen names for a second time, almost one month to the day since the global change was required.
Extra cashback for table starters, changes to time-to-act policy at cash games and introduction of bounty satellites are some of the recent game changes introduced.
Rob Yong, GVC partner and leader of partypoker’s recent ecology changes, wants to “befriend our competitors and all work together” to fight the online poker cheaters and bots.
![“There’s nothing [surer] for me that the downloadable hand histories and HUDs won’t be around in poker in three to four years' time.”](/site_media/media/uploads/news/partypoker-players-live-with-huds_small.jpg "Partypoker defends HUD and Hand History Ban—and Plans Even More Ambitious Changes")
Operator says response has so far been positive and it plans an even bigger overhaul: Real names, live audio chat, face verification and more are all in the pipeline.
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HUD ban and forced alias change comes into effect, as operator prepares to switch all cash games to 100 big blinds buy-in.
In a reversal of a decision a year ago, MPN will allow players to request hand histories again—on the same day partypoker moves in the other direction.
As a part of partypoker’s ongoing changes to improve ecology, all cash games will have a fixed 100 big-blind buy-in by the end of this month.
The operator ultimately plans to require players to use real names at all of its online poker tables, but nearly 50 other changes are expected to be implemented in the next six to nine months.
Four years in the making, partypoker is finally taking the final step: Banning HUDs and all forms of third-party tracking.
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