partypoker prepares online cash games with fixed buy-ins, a new tributary into live events, and a Brit wins a million bucks on a $5 SPIN.

It’s judgment day at partypoker as player aliases change in a bid to render heads-up displays (HUDs) useless. It’s one of the fifty-plus changes partypoker plan to stop the rot caused by grinders who have become more proficient at finding leaks than a Welsh gardener.

This morning, as the barista blew his Samaritans balloons with the professionalism of a Big Top clown, I read a Pokerfuse exclusive declaring party’s intention to implement a 100bb fixed buy-in rule for online cash games.

The pesky short-stackers are salad cream, and this idea is mayonnaise. Plenty will hold the same hymn sheet on this one in another popular move picking up a head of steam throughout the poker community.