Bubble Rush Poker Meaning

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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 the tournament. Most of the 71 remaining players out of the starting 480 player field that cashed for the minimum of $44.45 were initially left in push/fold mode with the average stack being 8.5 big blinds and the chip leader holding almost 27 big blinds when the bubble broke.

However, due to the increase in blind levels slowing down and more than half of the remaining field being eliminated shortly after the bubble broke, the average stack more than doubled more during the next blind level.

With 27 players remaining, blind levels increased to 15 minutes and increased once again to an even longer 20 minutes when the nine-player final table was reached a little more than 2.5 hours after play began with the average stack at around 27 big blinds and the chip leader boasting more than 50 big blinds.

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The first-ever Bubble Rush tournament lasted a total of 3.5 hours after Germany's 'Rastabombast' and Netherlands' 'Can'tCrushMe' agreed to a heads-up deal for $1,566 and $1,529 respectfully. Other Bubble Rush tournaments could finish faster or slower pace depending on a variety of variables, however, they should always be completed quicker than a regular tournament with a similar number of entrants.

Bubble Rush Challenges

To help promote the launch of Bubble Rush, from now until August 28, PokerStars introduced Bubble Rush Challenges. Players that opt into the challenge will receive a ticket to the $7,500 Re-Entry Bubble Rush Freeroll the following day at 14:05 ET if they cash in any Bubble Rush tournament.

The challenge allows players to be awarded up to five tickets for the following day's freeroll by cashing in multiple Bubble Rush tournaments. Satellite tournaments are excluded from qualifying towards this promotion.

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A brand new tournaments at PokerStars - Bubble Rush - were launched only some days ago and have already got their own regular schedule and own tab in the lobby (Events- Bubble Rush). So what stands for a new form of tournaments and how successful may its launch be without PokerStars’ official press release? Let’s figure it out.

Bubble Rush at PokerStars: what is it?

Bubble Rush - are multi table tournaments on PokerStars that begin in a hyper-turbo format and slow down when the prize zone is reached. The players start the tournament with 10,000 stake and blinds levels increase every 3 minutes. As soon as participants approach the bubble (the prize zone), the gap between the levels reaches a 12-minute rate, and 20 minutes at the final table. The later the current stage in the tourney - the longer it takes blinds to increase.

At the moment you can play Bubble Rush tournament with Buy-ins from $0,55 to $33 on weekdays and with $109 buy-in on weekends. Moreover, all the tournaments have guaranteed prize pools.

Why will Bubble Rush tournaments be in demand?

Tournament participants often have to play long hours, but can’t even reach the prize zone. This is a primarily fact that pushes poker lovers away (according to PokerStars). So players choose fast games more often now (Spin&Go, Zoom Poker and others). The new edition is about to solve this problem: they shorten the game duration in tournaments a lot until participants get to the bubble. Also PokerStars offers players an opportunity to compete for money (during the ITM) in comfortable conditions with a slow tournament structure.

Is this format from PokerStars really that innovative?

The reduction of the tournament structure’s pace when the players get further is widespread means to solve the problem mentioned above. And Bubble Rush is not a pioneer for sure.

In 2013 Full Tiltlaunched Escalator tournaments with blind levels duration growing within the game.
In 2014 Full Tilt room announced their new Flipout tournaments, where the players go all-in until the final table is determined and then the game lasts in general pace.
In 2014 PokerStars launched Bubble Dash tournaments and included it into MicroMillions series. This form is very similar to Bubble Rush.

So what is the difference between Bubble Rush and its ancestor Bubble Dash? In general, they are clones, but new Bubble is more noticeable. First of all, Bubble Rush is promoted as a separate brand. Second, it has its own tab in the lobby (as well as whole WCOOP series). Third, it has a strict daily schedule. Meanwhile, Bubble Rush edition is nothing new in the poker industry and in PokerStars as well. So, we can sum up, that it’s just an enhancement of the previous format with a new marketing campaign.

Bubble Rush figures: how successful is the launch of a new format?

When this article was being written, only 7 tournaments in a new format had been held, without an official PokerStars press release. Let’s check, whether Stars managed to cover the guarantees:

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$22 Bubble Rush $10.000 GTD - overlay (guarantee was not exceeded and poker room added money to cover it) was $1,760
$2,2 Bubble Rush $2,000 GTD - prize pool surpassed the guarantee by $1,022
$33 Bubble Rush $20,000 GTD - prize pool surpassed the guarantee by $4,000
$3,3 Bubble Rush $5,000 GTD - prize pool surpassed the guarantee by $1,960
$22 Bubble Rush $10,000 GTD - prize pool surpassed the guarantee by $740
$2,2 Bubble Rush $2,000 GTD - prize pool surpassed the guarantee by $514
$7,5 Bubble Rush $3,000 GTD - prize pool surpassed the guarantee by $137

Only one tournament out of 7 didn’t manage to cover the guarantee, other ones did succeed. After a full launch of the marketing campaign with Bubble Rush announcement, PokerStars can easily expect that the amount of registration in the tournaments will increase.

Now we suggest you to look through these interesting figures:

During the first day of the 7 Bubble Rush tournaments 7,297 players joined and paid $64,473 to participate.
2 tournaments out 7 had Russian winners
The average duration of the 7 first tournaments - 4 hours 40 minutes
The biggest prize went to the Russian Mone-lol ($4,050,84)
Only 1 PokerStars team member participated in these tournaments (without a prize pool)
During first 7 Bubble Rush tournaments PokerStars earned $40,100,4

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