Knockout Poker: PokerStars Restyles Bounty Tournaments with Major New Product Launch Knockout Poker: PokerStars Restyles Bounty Tournaments with Major New Product Launch
Key Takeaways
  • PokerStars unveiled a new poker game, Knockout Poker, which promotes bounty-style tournaments in sit and go and multi-table format with a new design and lobby system.
  • In all Knockout games, 50% of the prize pool goes to the top finishers, and the other 50% is split evenly across all players as bounties.
  • PokerStars has created a new game brand, which will be promoted “actively to new players,” explicitly to to help grow the game of poker.

PokerStars unveiled Friday a new poker game, Knockout Poker, which promotes bounty-style tournaments in sit and go and multi-table format with a new design and lobby system.

In Knockout Poker games, every player has a bounty on their head, claimed by the player who knocks them out of the tournament. In all Knockout games, 50% of the prize pool goes to the top finishers, and the other 50% is split evenly across all players as bounties.