- Available in cash games, exclusively at PokerStars, 6+ Hold’em is your chance to play an action-packed variant loved by high-stakes players around the world. Let’s face it – fives, fours, threes.
- The world’s leading online poker room PokerStars has launched a 6+ Hold’em (Short Deck) version of its immensely popular lottery-style Spin & Go game across its dot-com player pool. Launched on July 25, 6+ Hold’em Spin & Go’s are available in five different buy-ins: $1, $3, $15, $30, and $100.
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Pokerstars 6+ Hold’em Spin and GOs were launched on July 25, 2019 . The 6+ Hold’em Spin & Go’s are available in 5 different buy-ins :
$1, $3, $15, $30, and $100. The $100 buy-in comes with a potential first-place prize of $1 million.
Pokerstars 6+ Hold’em Spin and GOs Structure
Just like the regular Spins, 6+ Hold’em Spin & Gos are three-handed,fast-structured, winner takes all format where the prize pool is determined randomly before the game starts. The payout ranges from 2x to 12,000 times the buy-in.The blind structure is different. It follows the “Button Blind” structure where every player pays an ante and the button pays an additional live ante.Same as cash games and tournaments
Pokerstars 6+ Hold'em
6+ Hold’em Spins are raked at the same rate as charged in the regular spins. $1 and $3 buy-ins have 8% rake, $15 and $30 buy-ins are being raked 6% and the $100 buy-ins have a 5% rake.
6+ Hold’em Spins also follows the new payout structure. Recently, Pokerstars made big changes to the payouts of all Spin & Go games in a bid to lower the variance. The operator removed 4x and 7x multipliers and replaced them with 3x and 5x.It also reduced the probability of hitting 2x multipliers.
Countries that have access to Pokerstars 6+ Hold’em Spin and GOs
As of now, the game is available in most PokerStars jurisdictions where 6+ Hold’em is offered barring Italy and Sweden. The game was first trialed in Denmark before releasing it worldwide. It’s now available on .COM, .EU, .NET (play-money) as well as in countries like UK, Estonia, Romania, Russia, Belgium, Bulgaria and Denmark.
PokerStars becomes the first and only operator to spread the action-filled pack game of Short Deck in three-handed hyper-turbo randomized-prize pool format.
6+ (Short-Deck) Game Format Origins
Short Deck has been around the poker community for several years. However, the game gained widespread popularity over the past year after it made its first televised appearance during the 2018 Triton Super High Roller Series in Montenegro. The game is played similarly to Texas Hold’em, except the lower-ranked cards—deuces through fives—are removed, leaving a deck of 36 cards. Due to fewer cards, hand rankings are slightly different. Equities run very close to each other, meaning there is a lot more luck involved; hands like JT and AK are of equal value pre-flop. The game has proved popular both live and online, with short deck events now a staple of most of the high stakes live tournament series.
Pokerstars 6+ Hold'em Cash Out
6 Plus Hold'em Pokerstars
In January, PokerStars launched its own version Short Deck called 6+ Hold’em in cash game format. Soon, the room spread the format in tournaments in both MTTs and Sit & Gos and it was even part of SCOOP and the ongoing MicroMillions series. 6+ Hold’em Spins become the fourth lottery sit and go format for the operator following the regular version, Max, and Omaha versions.