Grand Tour Pokerstars

Grand Tour is a new version of Spin&Go tournaments at Pokerstars. What are the differences between the Grand Tour and the regular Spin&Go? How is the bounty distributed in the Grand Tour? Reward for the head in the Grand Tour. Bekavac emerged from virtual cover to play in this past weekend’s Mid-States Poker Tour main event at the Grand Falls Casino, near Sioux Falls in northwestern Iowa. Bekavac fired at least two $1,100 Day 1 bullets in the event, according to a PokerNews update, failing to bag chips and advance to Sunday’s Day 2, where the money spots were. Amazing free mobile poker apps available now. Poker anytime, anywhere - Play a full range of games on the PokerStars app - directly on your device! Watch your favourite poker TV shows for free - download the PokerStars TV app and catch full-length TV shows, interviews and more. POKERSTARS NEW GAME GRAND TOURMUSIC BYFluffy by Smith The Mister Smith The Mister Free.

Dan Bekavac, the founder of the embarrassing Midway Poker Tour, recently returned to play in a live poker tournament while still refusing to reimburse or even contact players still collectively owed over $55,000 from his failed Chicago-area event.

Bekavac emerged from virtual cover to play in this past weekend’s Mid-States Poker Tour main event at the Grand Falls Casino, near Sioux Falls in northwestern Iowa. Bekavac fired at least two $1,100 Day 1 bullets in the event, according to a PokerNews update, failing to bag chips and advance to Sunday’s Day 2, where the money spots were awarded. Bekavac has been a regular participant in MSPT events, where he has won over $220,000.

Bekavac’s re-emergence onto the poker scene translates to more bad faith regarding his one-time promise to make things right concerning his jilted Midway Poker Tour participants. Twelve of the 27 players who thought they had cashed in Bekavac’s MPT event remain to be paid a combined total of $55,060, including event winner Renato Spahiu ($16,038) and runner-up Satoshi Tanaka ($10,974).

The Midway Poker Tour event, held near Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, also attempted to pay off those players who made the money with silver bullion, which was in turn discovered to be “valued” at a significantly overinflated price. Bekavac used the silver-bullion scheme in an attempt to evade Illinois charitable-gaming laws that cap the amount that can be won by gamblers in a single day or event.

Bekavac allegedly also jilted his partner charity -- a requirement for this type of event in Illinois -- leaving it to collect only a few tips donated by players instead of the thousands they had expected to receive from their share of the event revenue. Bekavac later blamed Illinois regulators for not allowing him to evade the state’s gaming regulations, which were designed expressly to protect the public from such occurrences.

The charity workers also found themselves forced to work the crazed MPT finale without guidance, since well-known tournament director Jeremy Smith (formerly of the Heartland Poker Tour) resigned from his duties before the final day, and Bekavac himself was a final-day no-show after his silver-bullion payout scheme blew up in his face.

Bekavac went silent regarding his Midway Poker Tour fiasco early in November, meaning that none of the players awaiting payouts have heard from him in three months. MPT event winner Spahiu told PN that being paid by Bekavac “is likely never to happen.” The sad truth of the story is that legal fees would likely eat up all or most of any assets recovered or seized, despite what appears to have been Bekavac’s blatant malfeasance. Meanwhile, Bekavac, according to a detailed poker forum posting from an embittered former life partner, allegedly continues to live a comfortable life on the foundation of a healthy military pension.

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PokerStars has just launched a brand-new poker game, a fresh addition to their exciting list of innovative poker variants! The new game is named the “Grand Tour” and is a cycling-themed game with over $100,000 in prizes up for grabs.

The Grand Tour is a 4-max hyper-turbo progressive knockout Sit & Go tournament that you can play for as low as $1. A play-money version of the game called “La Course“, is currently running at PokerStars’ French client.

A real-money version will soon be rolled out across PokerStars’ international dot-com market.

Grand Tour is played in Progressive KO format, wherein players go through different stages, dubbed “sprints“, until their bounty reaches more than $100 by the end of each sprint. The game is available in buy-ins of between $1 and $60, and players have the option to begin at the lowest level ($1), or go directly into the $60 buy-in where they’ll have more chances of finishing the race.

Players kick off the action with 1,000 to 1,250 starting sack, according to their chosen buy-in level. Starting bounties for each player will be equal to the buy-in minus the rake. The lower stakes will see blind levels going up every four hands, while blind levels at the higher stakes increase every six hands.

When you eliminate an opponent, up to 50% of their bounty will be added to your own bounty (60% at higher stakes). You may also get extra cash from that player’s bounty value through randomized bounty prizes which can be multiplied up to 6000x.

Your own bounty increases with every opponent that you knock out, and even if you end up being eliminated from the game, you won’t leave empty-handed as the money you earned from knocking out your opponents will all be yours. If you win a certain sprint, you will advance to the next sprint, and so forth, until you reach the finish line where your accumulated bounty will be added to your winnings and you ultimately become a PokerStars Grand Tour champion.

Innovation Continues At PokerStars

Severin Rasset, Managing Director and Commercial Officer for Poker at The Stars Group, said the Grand Tour is fast, competitive, and progressive and a first of its kind in the world of poker.

Pokerstars Grand Tour

Over the years, PokerStars has built a strong reputation of releasing new and innovative games. Last month, it also launched Swap Hold’em, a limited-time cash-game variant. Do check out the new game and see if you like it.