Online Poker is heating up!

Online poker tournaments have added new dimension to online entertainment. And the Heat is on.

'Heat Tournaments' that is. This is how it works; each heat in a tournament event is scheduled to start separately from the other heats and lasts for a specified period of time. Players still standing at the end of each heat will bring their chip stacks with them and merge with survivors of the other heats and play it out in the final set at a later time or even date.

According to Tomer Katz, spokesperson for Ongame Network “The benefits of having the option to use heats when setting up tournaments are two-fold,” He added; “One, we can now do a better job of tailoring our partners’ tournaments in accordance with the habits, geographical origin and overall scheduling demands of their customers. Secondly, players can participate in tournaments with even bigger fields than before without the drawback of having to dedicate more than a few hours at a time in order to be able to finish them.”

Ongame Network partners have over twenty sites and Customers can now participate in online poker tournaments featuring multiple starting heats, or flights, equal to major offline poker tournaments.

Let the games begin! The new format will launch for the 17th edition of the acclaimed Grand Tournament, Hosted by Ongame Network from Sept.28 to 30. For the first time, poker players will have a choice of starting this $200,000 prize pool tournament either on Friday Sept. 28 or on Saturday Sept.29.