PokerStars launches "Win the button" tournaments.

Win The Button” tournaments have today been added to the daily tournament schedule of the world’s largest poker site, PokerStars.

The “Win the Button” format of No-Limit Hold’em, which has proved hugely popular at PokerStars sponsored live events, rewards the winner of each hand with the dealer button for the next round, a large advantage that providing an added strategic element to each and every hand. In the case of a split pot, the button moves to the winning player closest to the left of the existing button. The player on the button gets to act last, which is a major benefit at the poker table.

This format was played in event 59 of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) and was hugely popular. The tournament saw ‘sousinha23’ from Hungary win $104,284.57 from a $707,400 total prize pool. Find the tournament report at the PokerStars Blog here.

There will be 11 daily “Win The Button” tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $2.20 to $162. In addition, there will be two weekly ‘majors’ held on Saturdays; one $55 buy-in with a $25,000 guarantee and the ‘Mini Major’ with a buy-in of $5.50 with a $5,000 guarantee.

Team PokerStars Pro Jason Somerville who trialled the format on his popular Run It Up Twitch channel said, “I love the interesting twist of Win the Button tournaments. I'm very much looking forward to competing in these tournaments more regularly. It’s awesome to see PokerStars continue to innovate and develop new fun-oriented tournament variants like Win the Button.”

DAILY SCHEDULE
0210 - $3.30 Re-Entry $750 Gtd
03:30 $4.40 8-Max R+A $500 Gtd
07:10 - $5.50 $1.5K Gtd
09:10 - $55 $4K Gtd
11:15 - $3.30 $2K Gtd
14:00 - $162 Ultra Deep $5K Gtd
14:10 - $3.30 $2K Gtd
16:15 - $11 $3.5K Gtd
19:00 - $11 R+A $1.5K Gtd
21:15 - $2.20 Re-Entry $1K Gtd
23:15 - $33 Re-Entry $2K Gtd

All times listed above are in Eastern Time.

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This sounds amazing..

I would assume 20bb+ open shoves will be quite popular?

Sounds Hella fun, surprised Noone thought of this sooner)

Feels like it would work well with big ante (the ante only tourneys basically)

Adds another strategic element to every hand

On September 29 2016 22:00 uiCk wrote: I would assume 20bb+ open shoves will be quite popular?

already are

basically identical to having a "rock" in a cash game

maybe their first decent idea since the takeover of Amaya

It would suck to be to the left of an aggressive player. BB every hand!


wait do blinds move normally? or just button? like action proceeds normally except it skips player with button then returns to him/her before blinds?

On September 30 2016 06:45 TimDawg wrote: basically identical to having a "rock" in a cash game maybe their first decent idea since the takeover of Amaya

thought the rock was more of a mandatory straddle after you win the rock in a pot but it doesn't affect button position?

could be multiple ways to play I suppose

I'd love to see a nosebleed game with those rules

lol this sounds like something we'd play in a home game while drunk for laughs

I admit. That does sound pretty dam fun. And as someone asked the blindsmove normally right?

On October 01 2016 06:34 [GiTM]-Ace wrote: I admit. That does sound pretty dam fun. And as someone asked the blindsmove normally right?

no, if the guy on the button wins again the hand while u are bb u post it again.

it also promotes action from bb vs button, its a good variant i have to admit, but not great when multitablin cause it requires more focus