Full Tilt has had a Beta version of its software available with resizable tables for some time, but it’s now been officially released. This might seem like good news for someone who plays up to eight tables of poker at once, as this will make it easier to fit them on my screens, but the truth is that there’s a pretty substantial downside for me. Other strong players, some of whom play even more tables than I do, can now play more tables more easily on Full Tilt.
Party Poker was the first offer resizable tables, followed relatively quickly by Poker Stars. When Party closed its doors to US players, most of the people who wanted to play 12+ tables started playing on Stars. You can imagine that with very good players playing so many tables, it was sometimes tough to find a good game at Stars.
Full Tilt, on the other hand, continued to have relatively easier games, in no small part because they were not ‘polluted’ by the same good players sitting at every table. So while I am looking forward to being able to play a lot of tables without overlap, I could fit them all fairly well on my two monitors as it was, and I am a little concerned about the games getting more difficult at Full Tilt in the near future.
Still, this was something a lot of people had been asking for for some time, and Full Tilt deserves credit for responding to its players’ requests.