Pokerstars trials new poker formats at EPT

Sunday May 8,2016 :  RINGING THE CHANGES IN POKER
 
Pokerstars trials new poker formats at EPT.
 
Innovation is always interesting, and Pokerstars used the recently completed European Poker Tour festival in Monte Carlo to assess player reactions to a few new ideas for the game.
 
The company's ideas chief Christin Maschmann was on hand, poker table and all, to personally talk players, reporters and the just plain curious through a range of new concepts for the game that included:
 
* Pick’em Hold’em
 
* Blind Defender
 
* Texmaha
 
* One-Eyed Hold’em
 
* Random Board Hold’em
 
* Holdaha aka Omaxas aka Omahaxas Split
 
* Arch Hold’em, and
 
* Personal River