- The new , faster variant of the lottery Sit & Go goes live in Italy for real money on a trial basis.
- Spin & Go Flash borrows its format from Winamax’s Expresso Nitro.
- Players start with shallower stacks and blinds increment every minute.
Online poker giant PokerStars has launched a new, faster version of its Lottery Sit and Go game, Spin & Go Flash, in Italy for real money on a trial basis.
It comes just days after Poker Industry PRO and sister site pokerfuse exclusively revealed that the Flash variant was in the works. And just as predicted, Spin & Go Flash is heavily inspired by Winamax’s new Expresso Nitro in both structure and implementation.
The game operates around the same structure as the regular Spin & Go: three-handed tournaments, fast-paced, winner-take-all format where the prize pool is determined randomly at the start of the tournament.
However, there are two major changes that distinguish Flash and Nitro variants from the regular ones:
- Players start the game with much shallower stack: 300 chips (15 big blinds) instead of 500 (25 big blinds),
- Blind levels go up every minute instead of the usual three.
The result is a tournament that lasts just a few minutes.
Like Expresso Nitro, and unlike other Spin & Go variants on PokerStars, Flash does not occupy a separate tab in the lobby. Rather, the games are available right alongside traditional Spin & Go games. In fact, the entire “regular” Spin and Go tab is branded Flash, giving the impression that it is the default game.
