Irish social mobile poker games developer KamaGames announced Thursday that it has launched a significant update to its flagship title Pokerist, along with a brand new game, Split Bet Poker, and the addition of the popular Multi-Table Tournaments (MTT).
MTT is the latest tournament type available to KamaGames’ 530,000 daily active players. Particularly suited to more experienced, committed and high level players, MTTs have always been popular in the real money online poker rooms, but have not appeared in a social casino title until now, the company claimed in a statement.
MTTs are played across a number of different tables simultaneously, meaning there can be several hundred players playing in a tournament. As the tournament progresses, the number of tables reduces as more and more players get knocked out until only one table and subsequently one player is left. These tournaments follow traditional poker mechanics, which allow players to design a long-term strategy and potentially win 20-times their initial buy-in.
Launched recently into the Pokerist app, Split Bet Poker is played with three player cards and two community cards. When the player’s cards are revealed, they have a chance to take back a third of their bet if they have a weak hand. Then, when the first of the community cards are shown, they have another opportunity to take back a further one third of their bet if the odds of a win do not look good. The player also has the option to keep their full bet in the game too with other players also laying down extra side bets.
Split Bet Poker is one of the most favourable games for players as they can scale back bets in the middle of a deal and, best of all, the payouts can reach up to 1000:1 with the highest combination.
Andrey Kuznetsov, CEO of KamaGames, said: “Having over 530,000 Daily Active Users means there are host of different kinds of players who enjoy our games. This means that as an operator, we need to offer them a wide variety of tournaments, games and different ways to play, allowing every player to choose the content that suits them and their playing style”.
A spokesman for KamaGames revealed that during a two week softy launch of the Multi Table Tournaments, the following statistics were apparent:
* The number of concurrent players online increased by 17 percent;
• MTT has proven to have game mechanics suitable to mobile devices. This has been shown via the average number of players reaching 400 with a playing duration of between 20-25 minutes per tournament
* Current game mechanics featured in Boost Poker and the company’s various Party Modes assume that players could take risks and go all-in at the beginning of each round, however, results show that MTT is completely different in nature. Players take their time and choose a more strategic approach to get to the final table and potentially win the tournament. This adds a completely new type of play to the existing portfolio.