888poker Introduces the Lottery-Style BLAST on July 25

On Monday, July 25, the world’s second-largest real-money online poker room 888poker will be introducing an action packed game dubbed BLAST, where players can quickly win huge amounts of money for a small buy-in. Sarah Grant and Kara Scott discuss the game, and why it’s so exciting for poker players of all skill levels below.

BLAST is an exciting four-max super-turbo lottery-style sit-and-go with buy-ins at $0.10, $1, $5, and $30, where the prize pool is determined randomly once all players are registered. Most of the time, the prize pool players will be striving for will be double the buy-in, however, players can boost their bankrolls in a big way with the randomly determined prize pools hitting as high as 10,000-times the buy-in.

There are a few big differences that make this fast-paced game standout to other similar games on other poker networks. Other sites mostly offer three-max games with players starting off with 500 chips, while BLAST features four-max games with players beginning play with a much deeper stack of 1,500 chips.

Perhaps the biggest difference is that BLAST features a very unique countdown timer, where after a certain length of time play ends and every remaining player …

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