Originally Posted by FTPDoug

What's in the update:

A. Rush Poker: I'll try not to be too over the top here (too late, my tweets betray me), but we think this is a good one. I really encourage you to just jump in and try it out, as words do little justice trying to explain how this game plays.

Very briefly - In Rush Poker, you are constantly involved in a hand. As soon as you fold, you are taken to a brand new table and dealt a new hand. A single table of Rush Poker will play approximately 2.5-4x faster than a normal ring game table (it all depends on how often you fold).

Lots more info here: http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/rush-poker/details

Quick tip: If you don't like the transition (moving from one table to the next) animation, there's an alternative "Fade" transition which you might like better (you can sit out to change it or just go to the Misc tab under the table Options).

Just three stake levels to start today, and it's not available in Classic View (so use Standard or Basic).

You won't know just how fun it is until you give it a shot!

B. Ring Game buyin changes: No Limit and Pot Limit games are having their buyin ranges changed. We are doing this based on both popular demand and our own internal analysis.

Old games -

Cap: 30bb min, 30bb max for Hold'em, 40bb min, 40bb max for Omaha
"Normal": 20bb min, 100bb max
Deep: 50bb min, 200bb max

Normal and Deep tables had a 5:1 and 4:1 ratio between the max and min buyin. We felt this ratio was too high. So the new buyin ranges are:

Cap: No change (already at 1:1 for max/min)
Normal: 35bb min, 100bb max (now under 3:1)
Deep: 75bb min, 200bb max (now under 3:1)

What about people that like to buy in for 20bb, you might ask. Well, that brings us to...

C. Shallow tables: We've introduced a new table type called "Shallow" which has a 20bb min and 40bb max as its buyin range. We debated this quite a bit (our other option was to lower the min buyin at Cap tables to 20bb) but ultimately decided Cap was a different enough game from what Shallow will be that it was worth creating the new type of table. So while I apologize for the addition to lobby clutter (although with the Standard View lobby you can filter to your heart's content!) I do think this was the best way to provide the vast majority of players with the game of their choice.

D. 7-Game/Mixed Hold'em changes: A few months ago a number of well reasoned 7-Game players brought up the point that they thought 7-Game was favoring the NL/PL player more than the Limit player because the NL/PL rounds played so much bigger in the same game. We did some analysis on the games and determined that they were right. So we've changed the games a bit. Instead of a 2:1 ratio of Limit blinds to NL/PL blinds, there is now a 2.5:1 ratio. There's still a slight favoring of the NL/PL games in terms of how big the game plays, but since there are 5 rounds of limit and only 2 rounds of NL/PL, it all evens out. PLO actually skews those numbers for 7-Game, so Mixed Hold'em (which is also changing to a 2.5:1 ratio) is very close to even now between Limit and NLH.

E. Bet slider changes: We've added an option in the Bet Slider Options to increment (with both mouse click and mouse wheel) in small blind steps instead of big blind steps.

F. Bug fixes: A bunch of bug fixes, but of most interest here is that we believe we've fixed both the "invalid bet amount" popup on ante tables bug and the new table not appearing when you get moved tables in a tournament bug. Please let us know if you still experience either of these.

Not that I need to say this, but please give lots of feedback about these changes, obviously there are some big ones. B, C, and D were all done based on player feedback and a thorough analysis, with the driving goal being how to best make the games as fair and as fun to play as possible. I hope that we've succeeded in that goal.