888Poker Ontario has figured out a way to bring some of the excitement of a prop betting sheet into the realm of online poker with the launch of the Card Strike promotion.
The bingo style-game gives players a grid of 16 cards which the player fills up by checking their hold cards off as they appear. If you fill out the grid in time, you win a randomized cash prize.
As well as launching the Card Strike promotion, 888Poker Ontario has also undergone a major change in its tournament offerings, having dispensed with the classic sit’n’go format.
These changes have both been made as part of 888Poker Ontario‘s efforts to improve the user experience.
How Does 888Poker Ontario’s Card Strike Promotion Work?
The Card Strike promotion is a completely free bingo-style game that runs peripherally on all No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha cash game tables.
Every player is given a hand limit and sixteen cards on a two-by-eight grid. Every time your hole cards match one of the cards, that car is marked off on the grid.
If you fill the grid before the hand limit runs out, you get to spin a wheel to determine your prize. The biggest prize is $10,000 with the size of the potential prizes and the odds of each prize bracket adjusted by the table’s buy-in.
The higher the stakes, the better your chances of spinning up a big prize.
It’s a clever little extra feature that costs nothing to opt into. The 888Poker Ontario client even fills in your grid as you go, making this an easy and fun spin on a cashback promotion.
To play, the only effort you have to make you have to do is be in Ontario and load up the 888Poker Ontario client.
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Spin’n’Goes Killed The Sit’n’Go Star
The 888Poker Ontario client is also changing its on-demand tournament offerings. The poker site quietly killed the standard sit’n’go a couple of weeks ago. The goal of this change was to improve the liquidity of 888Poker Ontario’s more popular Blast tournaments—the Blast Tournament is 888Poker‘s spin’n’go product.
The change to the tournament platform was made without notice or fanfare on May 2.
Eliminating less popular formats is a good strategy in smaller jurisdictions like Ontario. With a smaller player base, poker operators have to work hard to ensure players can easily find a game. Too many options would risk players being spread too thin and result in long wait times while tables fill up.
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