[soulvamp]

When you login to Poker Stars, and you get that annoy box upfront that tells you all that crap you don't care about -- satellites are running for EPT Bumfuck, dipstick04 has just won the Sunday Million, etc.

Sometimes, when Poker Stars updates that thing and you are online, that window gets thrown in your face without warning -- it blocks out your game and interrupts you, and you have to close that damn window to get back to your table.

That is what the OP is talking about, not tournament announcements that you can block from popup windows or that appear in the chat box.