According to PokerScout, lottery-style games have dragged cash game traffic on the world’s online poker sites down 14% in the first half of 2015. As PokerScout explained, “Online poker traffic in the first half of 2015 was down 14% from last year, marking the fourth consecutive year of first half declines. The loss is the […]

If you’re not familiar with them, in PokerStars Spin & Go tournaments, the prize pool isn’t known by the players until registration has completed. They were thought to have more of a “luck” factor than skill with their winner-take-all format. However, a notable high-stakes sit and go player has, through a lengthy test, possibly shown […]

As you probably know by now, PokerStars, the largest online poker site in the world, bumped the rake in its cash games, tournaments, and sit and gos. The cash game players most affected are high-stakes grinders, those who prefer Heads-Up No Limit Games. PokerStars doubled the maximum rake to $1 for all No Limit games […]

The secret is out: Lottery Sit and Gos are popular. They caught on quickly when they were introduced by Winamaxin July 2013, again when they were launched by iPoker earlier this year, and yet again when Full Tiltand PokerStars.es got on board more recently. But they officially hit the prime time when PokerStarsrolled out its […]

Lottery-type sit and gos are the new big thing in online poker, the next wave of games to attract casual players after fast-fold tournaments. To review, lottery sit and gos are short-handed, hyper-turbo, single-table tournaments with small buy-ins ranging from $1 to $10. Typically winner-take-all, they feature randomly drawn prize pools that are announced once […]