Monday, October 20, 2008

Online Poker Tournaments

Online poker tournaments have become increasingly popular over the past few years in large part because of high-profile, high stakes poker games broadcast on television. Poker tournaments are competitions played by up to 1500+ players all playing the same game at the same time. Poker tournaments provide inexpensive and fun ways for beginning poker players to gain experience playing poker. Tournaments are a lot of fun to play in and offer large prizes to the winners. This article will explain the different types of tournaments to get you going.

Games Played

Although many different types of poker games are available at casinos, poker tournaments usually stick to the basic variations of poker. Tournament poker games are usually limited to: Texas Hold'em, Omaha, 7-card Stud and 5-card Stud.

How to Play in a Poker Tournament

While each tournament is slightly different, some components are consistent. In every poker tournament that you could play:

  • Players are all given the same number of tournament chips to play with.

  • All players start tournament play at the same time.

  • Tournament levels increase at regular intervals (sometimes a fixed time is given for each level of play and sometimes the playing level is increased after 10 rounds) and for every increase the ante and blinds double.

  • Players play until they run out of chips. The last player remaining ends up with all the chips and is declared the winner of the tournament.

  • After the winner is determined prize money is distributed according to the rules of the game. The very top players win the bulk of the prize money. Usually 1st place winners get about 40%, 2nd place winners get about 20% and 3rd place winners about 10%. The number of winners that share the prize depend on how many players entered as well as the game played. The amount of the prize money is set by: the number of players registered, the buy-in fee and any additional money raised selling re-buys and add-ons.

3 Comments:

Blogger id said...

WOW very interesting article!!! Did you write this informative masterpiece?

-id

October 21, 2008 at 7:02 PM  
Blogger Cory Albertson said...

I did not. I posted it on request from the site that is linked to.

October 22, 2008 at 9:34 AM  
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