The bumhunting problem, even more present at heads-up tables than at ring games, might be addressed at long last at PokerStars as well, by launching Heads-Up Zoom tables.

A recent trend, extremely harmful for poker, is bumhunting: regulars of a given stake, usually mid or higher, sit at tables but refuse to play against each other and prefer to wait for recreational players. In a way, they hunt weaker opponents, hurting the economy of the game, its integrity as well as the rooms’ interests, as players so discouraged are prone to leave the game for good. Bumhunting has been recently going more and more out of control and several rooms have already taken steps to prevent players from abusing the system this way.

PokerStars is one of the latest rooms to address the issue, by introducing the Heads-Up Zoom tables. Expected to hit the client next month, this fast-fold HU game type throws players into one pool, where they are faced a different opponent in each hand, keeping certain players from being able to limit their operations to opponents preferable to them.

Heads-up games used to be particularly affected by this phenomenon with several dozens of players occupying tables but refusing to play. With this development, recreational players will feel less intimidated by regulars and others can get action, who would not cheat but are turned down by fellow players.

Other rooms and networks have reacted to the challenge in different ways; iPoker, for instance, monitors players through the Hogging Prevention system, while Microgaming has discontinued normal heads-up games altogether and narrowed its offering to HU 8-Man Blaze games only.

 

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