Taking Notes in Zoom Poker

Why should I take notes?  Taking Notes on how your opponents play is crucial to becoming a big winner at any stakes. Knowing how your opponent approaches certain situations will allow you to take advantage of their play and eliminate most of the guessing work. Depending on the time of day and the stakes that you play in Zoom Poker, the player pool will be around 100-600 players. The smaller the player pool, the more frequently you encounter the same opponents and the more important your notes become. Below is a list of tips for taking notes in Zoom Poker: Sit out next hand If you are playing 4 tables of Zoom Poker it can be very difficult to take quality notes and play at the same time. Don’t fall into the trap of taking notes...

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How to Set Up Hot Keys on PokerStars

What are Hotkeys and how can they help? Hotkeys are shortcuts where we can set certain keys to carry out certain actions. If you are multitabling Zoom Poker, things can get rather hectic with action at every table. There is a limited amount of time for you to act before your time bank is activated. We want to use that time to think rather than to fumble around with the mouse trying to aim for specific buttons. By using Hot Keys we can reduce the time we need to execute a decision. By reducing the amount of time to make our decisions (e.g. folding preflop), we can play even more hands. In order to set up Hotkeys we first have to go to the PokerStars Lobby. We select the 'Options' tab and then proceed to click 'Hotkey Settings (Beta)...'....

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What is Zoom Poker?

What is Zoom Poker? Zoom Poker is Pokerstars' variant of Rush Poker which was offered on Full Tilt Poker two years ago. The concept is the identical however the game play and software runs much smoother.  In Zoom Poker, rather than play on a single table against the same opponents at a regular cash game. You play against a pool of players. When you begin playing Zoom Poker, you are given the option to fold your hand immediately before it is your turn to act (unless you are the big blind). Once you fold a hand or the hand has finished, you are immediately put onto a new table with new players and dealt a new hand. When you fold your hand before it is your turn to act, the other players will not know this until the action gets...

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