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What is SNAP Poker?
SNAP Poker is the fast-fold poker format from 888poker, designed to reduce waiting time as you’re dealt new cards the instant you fold! It’s faster and better than any other online poker software and can be played both in Cash game and Tournament formats. SNAP is also available on Mobile, so you can play the game you love whenever, wherever!
Here’s how it works
When playing SNAP poker, you’re automatically placed in a ‘Players Pool’ and randomly re-seated at a different table every time you fold. SNAP lets you ‘SNAP Fold’ before the action gets to you (out of turn) and within seconds, you’ll be dealt a new hand at new table with new opponents. However, other players on the table will not see that you folded until it is your turn to act.
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Fold, watch and play
You may opt to fold or ‘SNAP fold’ and continue watching the hand play out, by either clicking on the Fold watch and play button or by holding down the Shift key whilst clicking on ‘fold’ or ‘SNAP fold’.
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By choosing to ‘Fold watch and play’, a new screen will appear. In this screen you can watch the rest of the hand in ‘observer mode.’ In the original screen you’ll be moved to a new table, so you can continue to play.
Please note that it’s only possible to observe one hand at a time.
The “Fold watch and play” option is enabled for SNAP ring games only.
How to join SNAP games
You’ll see the SNAP tab on the right side of the screen when you enter the 888poker Main Lobby.
Click on it or drag it to the left and you will be transferred to the SNAP Main Lobby. Under the SNAP tab, you’ll find two sub tabs, with ‘Cash’ or ‘Tournament’ play options.
If you want to buy-in to a SNAP Cash game, start by clicking on ‘Cash Games’. Then just double click on a specific pool name, highlight and click on the ‘Join Game’ button.
Click on ‘SNAP Tournaments’ to see a list of SNAP Tournaments that are open for registration, including SNAP Sit & Go games. Simply choose one, buy-in and start playing!
You can also find a list of SNAP Tournaments including Sit&Gos under the ‘All games’ tab in the 888poker Main Lobby.
“Snap Poker,” 888’s version of fast-fold poker, is now available to select players for alpha-testing at the $.01/$.02 level according to PokerFuse.com.
With Snap Poker, 888 will join Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars, Microgaming, iPoker, OnGame, Party Poker, and Bodog as fast-fold poker providers.
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What is fast-fold poker?
In a standard poker game a player selects a specific table by sitting in an open seat or joining the wait-list and taking the next available seat in the game. This seat will be the player’s home for the entirety of their session.
In fast-fold poker you do not join a table; instead you join a player pool at a specific stake level. Each player is then randomly assigned a seat and as soon as a player folds or reaches showdown they are transported to a new table with other players from the pool who have also folded.
With fast-fold poker, players no longer have to wait for the current hand to end after they have folded.
History of fast-fold poker
Fast-fold poker burst onto the poker scene in 2010 when Full Tilt Poker launched Rush Poker.
With Full Tilt threatening lawsuits against anyone who copied their “patent-pending” product, it would take until after Black Friday (with Full Tilt poker in complete disarray) for poker sites to pluck-up the courage to launch their own fast-fold poker games, and end Full Tilt’s fast-fold monopoly.
How fast-fold poker modernized online poker
An online-specific innovation, fast-fold poker is one of the rare poker advancements that is beneficial to both the player and the poker site, as it accomplishes the difficult task of allowing players to participate in more hands per hour –which means more money for the winners, and more money for the poker room via the rake from all those extra hands.
Along with another Full Tilt Poker creation, multi-entry tournaments, fast-fold poker has started to create some distance between live poker games and online poker games, which is why some consider it among the greatest advancements in online poker since the RNG.
In the past the only difference between live and online poker was a lack of a physical opponent sitting in front of you, but with fast-fold poker, multi-entry tournaments, and the prevalence of HUD’s and tracking software, the online game is no longer a faceless version of live poker. The game has evolved to a point where it is becoming its own species so to speak, with players needing a completely different skill-set to thrive.
Online vs. live skill sets
While both require a player to understand the strategies and math of the game, the secondary skills needed to succeed in both arenas have become more and more divergent.
Live poker secondary skills include:
Patience
An Ability to deal with high variance
Hiding physical tells/spotting physical tells in others
Online poker secondary skills include:
Fast decision making
Ability to play high volume
Data collection and analysis
And fast-fold poker is the perfect storm for players who have all of these skills.