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Poker
Tournaments
Poker
Tournaments are a great way to immerse yourself in an
intense day of poker. Most tournaments operate by charging
a buy-in and a fee, generally noted like this: “$6+$1”
- which means you pay $6 toward the prize pot and $1 to
the poker room for hosting the tournament.
Once the
players have bought-in to the game, each player receives
the same number of chips and regular poker play commences
and goes on until 1 player has won all the chips. That
player takes the prize pot.
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Most
tournaments increase the betting limits in each round to
speed up the tournament, so read their specific rules
before starting for details.
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Most
tournaments don't charge a rake fee on tournament
games, so make sure you don't play where they do.
Here's a
list of some great daily poker tournaments you might want
to try:
* Single
table means that if you take all the chips at your
(single) table, you win.
** Multi
Table, means that there is more than one table involved in
the tournament, and therefore more people. In a
multi-table tournament, as people run out of chips and
drop out, they merge tables until there is one player left
- the winner.
*** Some
poker rooms run both single and multi table games,
either concurrently or at different times.
In addition to smaller
daily/weekly/monthly tournaments, some poker rooms like
Party Poker
host very large events, including qualifying rounds for
the "Party Poker Millions" tournaments, with huge prizes
for those that work their way up. |
