Updated on 22 Feb 26 by
Barry carter
Poker Expert

partypoker add 'Big Blind view' to tournaments

We recap some stuff you may have missed, including a very expensive currency conversion and the GTO debate rages on.





See your MTT stack in BBs

If you have been playing PowerFest you will have probably already noticed a small but significant change at partypoker, you now have the option to view your stack in terms of big blinds, rather than the numerical value of your stack. 

Considering partypoker has a very smooth gradual structure it can actually be difficult to keep track of your big blinds (see the example below, not many events have a 4,600/9,200 level), so this will be very well received by MTT regs playing a lot of tables. 

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The Big Blind view at partypoker

Oops, currency conversion

We've all dreamed of sitting at a micro stakes limit table with a $1 million stack, like Steven van Zadelhoff did last year, but be warned, it's not always a zero risk show off:

Fuck GTO

GTO or exploitative? That's the debate everybody seems to be having, but (new to YouTube, not to high stakes poker) Charlie Carrel has had enough of it:

Fuck 10-to-1

Finally, in his own unique way, Jason Somerville returned to streaming last week and gave a creative explanation why 10-to-1 odds are not always as sexy as they sound:

Do you like seeing your stack in BBs?? Let us know in the comments:


Barry carter
Poker Expert

Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy, Endgame Poker Strategy, GTO Poker Simplified, Mystery Bounty Poker Strategy and Beyond GTO. In 2025, he won the Global Poker Awards for Best Book and Twitter Personality of the Year.