PokerStars shelve Beat The Clock

Less than a year after its launch, Beat The Clock has been put to bed after failing to capture players’ imagination.

PokerStars timed Beat The Clock tournaments are no longer available after being removed from the poker room’s lineup.

According to PokerStars, the move to stop the clock games is designed to cater for the ever evolving requirements of the modern day online poker player and allow them to concentrate on new formats.

Their statement reads;

“We [PokerStars] will be making some changes to the client which will involve the removal of Beat The Clock. PokerStars has decided to shelve the timed Sit & Go format to make way for new products that we wish to feature more prominently within the client. This decision has also in part been dictated by the need to cater to evolving player tastes, which inevitably change over time.”

The five minute long Sit & Go Zoom games were launched under one year ago in November of 2016 following a successful trial in the Russian market. The tournaments would run for five minutes with all of the remaining players left in the game after that period paid out according to their stack size.

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