WPN Announces "The Cage," a High Stakes Tournament/Cash Game Hybrid WPN Announces "The Cage," a High Stakes Tournament/Cash Game Hybrid
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Key Takeaways
  • Players who pay or satellite into the $5000+$100 tournament play a three hour 6-max MTT—or a “multitable cash game,” as the press release calls it—with levels of increasing blinds.
  • Each player receives 5000 chips and, if they have any stack remaining after the three hours is up, are paid back their chip stack in dollars.
  • The format’s success or failure—both in terms of total entrants and “rail” action—will certainly be of interest to larger poker rooms.

Americas Cardroom, flagship online poker room for the Winning Poker Network (WPN), announced Thursday a new format that aims to encourage high stakes action with a tournament-like format but a payout structure akin to a cash game.

Players who pay or satellite into the $5000+$100 tournament play a three hour 6-max MTT—or a “multitable cash game,” as the press release calls it—with levels of increasing blinds.