Microgaming Poker Network (MPN) skin 24hPoker has just recently been added to the list of Rakerace.com’s partners with an inaugural €4,000 exclusive cash race in August. The room used to offer both its parent network’s Blaze Poker and Relax Gaming’s Fast Poker as fast fold games but, the latter network lacking liquidity, 24hPoker has decided to drop it and continue to offer Blaze Poker only, effective 31 July.
While “having multiple Fast Poker products has been a challenge” for the skin, MPN’s Blaze will definitely appeal to its audience with a new promotion, running from the last day of the month: €20,000 will be distributed randomly among players of the fast fold tables in instalments of €10 in every five minutes.
Meanwhile, the network has announced yet another feature to enhance the liquidity of its fast poker offering: the Blazing Cannon mini game comes from the plains of arcade gaming and is definitely a tempting addition to the general game experience, especially for newbies and recreational players. The mini game launches each time a player wins 20 raked hands. Using a cannon that fires blazing poker chips, players are to knock down “golden suit tokens,” which are “balanced precariously on top of a house of cards”.
With a maximum cash prize of €100, players are awarded proportionate to their performance in knocking down as many chips as possible. Apparently, operators are overly excited about the new feature, expecting player traffic to rise significantly with this unusual addition. True, this is a feature “the poker industry has never seen” before but what do the more conservative players say?
Most likely, they will, on the one hand, try to exploit the opportunity to their advantage, just as anybody else. On the other, the newly depositing casual and recreational players mean equally numerous chances for them to make some money, so our guess would be they get over the unorthodoxy of the new feature quickly. To look at it from another point of view, the Blazing Cannon mini game adds an element of chance, or gambling if you like, to the game, not unlike jackpots.
With no rake increase to cover the extra prizes, the only significant difference is that the distribution of the extra cash became more random and even from being exclusive to higher level VIP members. Also, the 20 hands mark to be won is not all that easy to reach, which gives an extra flavour of challenge to the game, not to mention the motivation to enter the free game again... just one more time.
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While “having multiple Fast Poker products has been a challenge” for the skin, MPN’s Blaze will definitely appeal to its audience with a new promotion, running from the last day of the month: €20,000 will be distributed randomly among players of the fast fold tables in instalments of €10 in every five minutes.
Meanwhile, the network has announced yet another feature to enhance the liquidity of its fast poker offering: the Blazing Cannon mini game comes from the plains of arcade gaming and is definitely a tempting addition to the general game experience, especially for newbies and recreational players. The mini game launches each time a player wins 20 raked hands. Using a cannon that fires blazing poker chips, players are to knock down “golden suit tokens,” which are “balanced precariously on top of a house of cards”.
With a maximum cash prize of €100, players are awarded proportionate to their performance in knocking down as many chips as possible. Apparently, operators are overly excited about the new feature, expecting player traffic to rise significantly with this unusual addition. True, this is a feature “the poker industry has never seen” before but what do the more conservative players say?
Most likely, they will, on the one hand, try to exploit the opportunity to their advantage, just as anybody else. On the other, the newly depositing casual and recreational players mean equally numerous chances for them to make some money, so our guess would be they get over the unorthodoxy of the new feature quickly. To look at it from another point of view, the Blazing Cannon mini game adds an element of chance, or gambling if you like, to the game, not unlike jackpots.
With no rake increase to cover the extra prizes, the only significant difference is that the distribution of the extra cash became more random and even from being exclusive to higher level VIP members. Also, the 20 hands mark to be won is not all that easy to reach, which gives an extra flavour of challenge to the game, not to mention the motivation to enter the free game again... just one more time.
24hPoker Room Review and Registration
