The Poker Lab Rat

Ongame Network Ltd, a subsidiary of the bwin Group and one of the leading online poker platforms, has announced the release of Heat Tournaments.

Over twenty poker sites play on the Ongame Network, but the team at PokerLabRat.com considers that there are just two outstanding Ongame partner sites: European-Scandinavian Betsson Poker and UK’s Eurobet Poker.

Players at of these sites can now participate in online poker tournaments featuring multiple starting heats, or flights, just as in many major offline poker tournaments.

Each heat in a tournament event is scheduled to start separately from the other heats and will last for a specified period of time. Players still standing at the end of each heat will bring their chip stacks with them and merge with survivors of the other heats and play it out in final set at a later time or even date.

“The benefits of having the option to use heats when setting up tournaments are two-fold,” says Tomer Katz, spokesperson for Ongame Network.

“One, we can now do a better job of tailoring tournaments in accordance with the habits, geographical origin and overall scheduling demands of players. Secondly, players can participate in tournaments with even bigger fields than before without the drawback of having to dedicate more than a few hours at a time in order to be able to finish them.”

The first opportunity players have to experience the new format will be the “17th Grand Tournament” that plays on 28 to 30 September. For the first time ever, poker players will have a choice of starting this $200,000 prize pool tournament either on Friday 28 or on Saturday 29 September.

>>READ a detailed review of Eurobet Poker Site
>>READ a poker room review on Betsson Poker