PokerStars Launches Bubble Rush Tournaments

Today, the world’s biggest online poker room PokerStars rolled out a new tournament aptly named Bubble Rush, where play starts off fast until players reach the money and slows down for the remainder of play.

The games which feature buy-ins from $0.55 to $33 during the week and up to $109 on the weekends are running around the clock with more than 20 events each day. Players can satellite in even cheaper with hyper-turbo satellite tournaments running before each event.

Players kick off tournaments with 10,000 chips and blinds increasing every three minutes in a hyper-turbo format. Once the tournament’s bubble breaks with the remaining players cashing, blind levels increase to “regular” times before increasing even further as the tournament becomes deeper.

Late registration lasts for 35 minutes with the time increase in blind levels after the bubble breaks and later on in the tournament varying for each event.

During the first Bubble Rush tournament, the $22 Bubble Rush, $10K Gtd, the time length for blind level increases grew from three to 12 minutes once the bubble broke a little more than an hour into …

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