Quote:
Originally Posted by Randizzle
Out of that October 2016 post, only Beat The Clock has appeared for real money so far, but thanks to MicroMillions, it looks like now we've finally got an idea of what the other 3 will look like.
Disclaimer: I'm have no access Stars' confidential info and I have no bugs in their office, this is just my prediction based on the scarce public info.
All In
Its preview is in the play money MTT lobby - the 1M Friday Frenzy and the 10M Friday Freakout (
thanks to 7deuc3 for spotting them).
The small blind is 1 chip, the big blind is essentially infinite. It means that, in every hand, the BB is auto-all-in, and the only decision for the others is whether to call all-in or fold. There's essentially no blind growth because the BB is infinite for practical purposes, so you might wonder how fast the structure is. Well, such a tournament takes
very little time to finish - last Friday's 1M was over after 19 minutes with 84 entries - that's much faster than usual hypers and even faster than 36-man super-KOs with their crazy blind growth.
So far, these all-ins are scheduled re-entry MTTs, but I also expect a re-entry, on-demand (presumably), full ring version in the SNG lobby.
Duel Arena
This will be like MicroMillions Event #115 - HU Zoom total progressive KO, re-entry. The SNG version will presumably be on-demand starting when 8 players register. Non-Zoom dealing starts when the tourney is down to 4 players.
As in all total KOs, the entire BI goes to the bounty on the player's head, and as in all PKOs, one earns in fact half the opponent's bounty after knocking him/her out, while the other half is added to the eliminator's own bounty, though the new PKO display format shows only the half of the opponent's bounty that's up for grabs, not their entire bounty.
The winner will usually walk away with a heavy prize (incl. the entire accumulated bounty on their own head), so expect immense variance.
Spin & KO
I believe this format is going to be showcased by MicroMillions Event #31.
I think Spin & KO will be a 3-man SNG (in a blind lobby just like usual Spin & Gos). The bounty size will be unknown until a knockout happens. At that point, the one who has knocked an opponent out in 3rd will spin to determine the bounty amount that s/he will get immediately. Plus, thrice (or a fixed number of times) this amount will be posted as the 1st place prize to play for in the HU phase.
For example, in a $1 Spin & KO, the one who knocks an opponent out in 3rd will receive at least $0.50 and up to, say, $2500 (the top multiplier). Then the two remaining players will battle out for a prize ranging from $1.50 to $7500 depending on what the eliminator has spun.
______________________________________
Discuss which of the formats you like better, or suggest how these formats are going to look like or how Stars should improve them until it's too late...
I find Duel Arena (if it's released the way I've predicted) the most challenging and interesting of the three, I'm looking forward to crushing it
If Duel Arena is different from what I'm expecting, I'll crush All In or Fold instead. Spin & KO, the way I'm foreseeing it, looks almost like a traditional Spin & Go and thus a bit too unexciting to me, but I hope I'm mistaken and Stars' design of this format is craftier than what I could think of.
Last edited by coon74; 07-10-2017 at 12:02 PM.
Reason: just a typo