Key Takeaways
- Unibet has introduced the Summer Knockout Festival, a poker tournament series with a €300,000 guaranteed prize pool.
- The eight-day series features 18 events split into two segments: Low and High, with buy-ins ranging from €5 to €250.
- Unibet also includes variations of the knockout format, such as 30% bounties, 70% bounties, and Shortstack PKOs.
- The series also includes a leaderboard, awarding an additional €7,000 in prize money based on the number of bounties claimed.
- The Summer Knockout Festival replaces Unibet’s flagship Unibet Online Series, which saw a decline in tournament traffic and prize pools due to regulatory changes.
- The Summer Knockout Festival will run from August 27 to September 3.
Independent online poker room Unibet has scheduled the Summer Knockout Festival, a fresh tournament series exclusively centered around the highly favored bounty format.
The series is scheduled to run, spanning eight days from August 27, featuring €300,000 in guaranteed prize pools.
This marks Unibet’s fifth online tournament series of the year and its second installment dedicated to the popular progressive knockout (PKO) format.
Per the preliminary schedule posted on Unibet’s official Discord channel, the schedule comprises 18 numbered events, each split into two segments: Low and High. This approach, commonly adopted by various online poker platforms, is aimed to cater to all types of bankrolls.
