Online Poker Tournaments
by Jerry "Jet" Whittaker
Jan 14, 2007
Online Poker
Tournaments:
Poker is the game that
is played online as well as in conventional casinos.
Poker is a game played all around the globe. Poker fans
are increasing day by day. Poker has sub-categories,
which have varied sets of rules. The basic rules remain
the same. The main three categories of the poker are:
Community Card poker, Stud poker, Draw poker.
There are special
tournaments arranged by various casinos or online sites
in which people actively take part. The participants
compete against one another. There are various
tournaments that are arranged by online sites for people
to participate in it. They provide a lot of
entertainment. There are different types of poker games
along with the popular ones that are included in the
tournaments. Some of them are Texas Hold'em, Omaha
Poker, Stud Poker and many more. The tournaments offer
limits or no limits on the pots that are played for.
Atlantic City and Las
Vegas are the major hosts of these tournaments and host
these kinds of tournaments every year, every season. Las
Vegas mainly hosts the two of the most famous
tournaments: The World Poker Tour championship
and the World Series of Poker championship. There are
even types of tables on which you can actually play
single games or multiple games. Free entry is allowed
for all the tournaments that is held online.
Poker Tournament:
Almost each player has
to start with an equal amount of chips. Online poker
rooms do not offer limited re-buys. When a player looses
all of his chips, he is eliminated. A person is
considered as the winner if he wins all of the chips.
The prize money is split in three parts and given to the
winners of the finals of the tournament.
Online poker
tournaments are the ones that may or may not offer
the exact amount won. There are some profits of the
hosting company, which calculates its own cut and then
splits the rest of the win or pot to the winners. Poker
tournaments offer a lot of fun and entertainment for the
poker fans. Some people come here to learn some of the
basics from the experts while intermediate people come
to learn some advanced techniques from them. People are
very keen about these events and the poker lovers as
well as the casinos look forward for these kinds of
events. One may find regularly or daily tournaments over
the Internet on the online sites.
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