Key Takeaways
- Partypoker announced its new poker tournament format, Sit and Go Hero, on the dot-com network last week.
- The global gaming giant also debuted a lottery sit and go format in France, but interestingly it did not use the Hero format.
- PokerStars was granted approval to stick around in the New Jersey online gaming market for at least another six months.
Partypoker
Partypoker announced its new poker tournament format, Sit and Go Hero, on the dot-com network last week.
The new variant borrows many elements from the runaway success of Lottery Sit and Gos, available on PokerStars, Winamax, Full Tilt, iPoker and elsewhere: Short-handed, winner takes all tournaments where the prize is picked randomly each game.
However, party’s format varies in two important ways: Firstly, games are four-handed, instead of the usual three. Secondly, the tournament randomly adds a bounty element: One player at the table has a bounty on his/her head valued at 25% of the prize pool.
