The Sunday Million to become a PKO permanently

The rise in recognition of PKOs has become so meteoric lately that we even have a nickname for non-PKOs now – ‘vanilla tournaments’, indicating they’re bland by comparability. 

PKOs are so standard that they’ve become the dominant format with many operators and are heading that approach for many of of the others. 

The most iconic on-line event in poker is the Sunday Million and from this weekend will probably be a PKO forevermore. The 16-year -old event will nonetheless have the $109 entry charge however it should additionally change from 9-max to 8-max, with a new blind construction. 

PKOs are standard with leisure gamers as a result of they reward early motion. They must also be standard with grinders as a result of, whereas there may be extra luck in them, they’re close to unattainable to absolutely clear up. They are solely going to become extra standard, until maybe in the event that they get usurped by on-line Mystery Bounties. 

This marks a main shift within the panorama of on-line poker tournaments. Is it now honest to say that PKOs are the ‘commonplace’ on-line format and vanilla tournaments are ‘area of interest’ by comparability?

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Barry Carter

Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy & the brand new guide Endgame Poker Strategy