Originally posted by tonypmm
Oh, what a news masterpiece did you write to praise Spin & Gos 
It's worth adding, though, that:
1. I'd really prefer some 'card selection' mechanics like in The Deal (where one gets to pick 2 cards to remove, which of course changes nothing in terms of probability), e.g. where each player picks a card from the face down deck and the combination of the 3 cards yields a multiplier, as opposed to the spin of the slot. Picking a card allows a recreational to feel bigger control over the situation and less likely to consider the multiplier selection process rigged. I'd definitely adore it if Stars changed the multiplier selection this way.
2. Stars' structure of Spin multipliers is for nits 
- the probabilities of the top jackpots are so small that not hitting them yields only a <1% deficit in the overall ROI.
I can imagine you writing another article about 'The Mental Game of Blast' (the 888poker version of Spin & Gos), which is a whole new dimension of Spins - a hybrid of them and Beat The Clock*. Or at least 'The Mental Game of Microgaming's Timed HUSNGs' (or whatever they're called). And I know that the timer in Blast (the fact that all the players are automatically put all-in once 6/8/10 minutes elapse, with no deal possible, as opposed to an automatic chip chop in Beat The Clock) makes a lot of regs soooo uncomfortable and is thus a very efficient 'reg repellent' 
(as I call it; that's a word play on 'nit repellent').
The fact that the number of places paid depends on the multiplier in Blast is a decent 'reg repellent' too, as both HUSNG / Spin and STT regs have to learn to play under a payout structure yet unfamiliar to them - HU'ers need to learn ICM and STT'ers need to learn ranges in the chip EV mode - in order to be successful. On the other hand, this variety of structures makes many groups of SNG fans feel like home, as they can experience a familiar payout schedule at least once in a while.
* Well, on a historical note, though Stars' scheduled 'Time Tournaments' predate 888's BLAST, an older version of time-limited tournaments with fast-fold dealing have been 888's BreakFAST! tournaments ($1 SNAP MTTs that run during every synchronised MTT break but not at other times of the hour, where 1 rebuy is possible - a later addition, iirc - and the all-in phase starts after 6 minutes) that appeared at about the same time (July 2016) as Blast. Beat The Clock appeared later than BreakFAST!, though it's very probable that they had been developed independently of each other.
Happy Easter, I hope you have a nice time!
Thanks for all these ideas, I agree with your card match idea btw. The spin of the wheel is exciting, but agree about the illusion of control that comes with picking the cards. There have actually been studies that show something similar, but I cant remember where I read it.
Just for you, I am going to chuck a few bucks on 888 and try out Blast, might be worth another article as you have suggested.
When Spin & KO (a hybrid of Spins and KOs, I mean, a better one than Party's Sit & Go Hero that degenerates into an equivalent of a 'normal' Spin once the lone ( 
) bounty player busts or the game reaches HU) or 
I'm not so afraid of those who study on their own because their studies often lack systematism.
