Poker Tournaments

Written by Stanley Majors


Most people believe that poker tournaments are forrepparttar most experienced and most aggressive poker players. But this is simply just not true. There are actually many more low-limit tournaments (that attract beginners mostly) than high stakes tournaments.

Low-limit Poker Tournaments usually only attract beginners becauserepparttar 136078 betting stakes are restricted to small amounts.

The basic structure of Poker Tournaments

Online poker tournament are events in which players compete to win a part ofrepparttar 136079 total prize pool. The general objective of each poker game is to collect all ofrepparttar 136080 chips in play. At every table inrepparttar 136081 tournamentrepparttar 136082 players compete until there is only one winner or until one ofrepparttar 136083 contestants loses all their chips. The remaining contestants then progress through torepparttar 136084 following round, until there are only a few players left inrepparttar 136085 tournament. These winners then play against each other atrepparttar 136086 winners table to determinerepparttar 136087 tournament champion. Depending onrepparttar 136088 tournament structure,repparttar 136089 prize pool may be divided amongrepparttar 136090 top ranked players, orrepparttar 136091 winner might take it all.

Elimination Tournaments :

Each player is givenrepparttar 136092 same amount of chips to begin with and play continues until one player has lost all their chips and is eliminated. Players are then reseated at fewer tables until only one table is left. The payout structure is set up to award allrepparttar 136093 finalists, with first place being awarded more thanrepparttar 136094 second and second more thanrepparttar 136095 third, etc.

Texas Holdem Poker Strategy

Written by Stanley Majors


Texas Holdem Poker is very easy to learn and for this reason you'll often find new holdem poker players at an online casino like Trident Poker, which offers Pot-Limit Poker tables as well as free online poker games. For this reason it can be quite easy to win if you follow this basic texas holdem poker strategy.

This easy Texas Holdem Poker Strategy should increase your win percentage by taking advantage of some ofrepparttar most common errors that novices tend to make.

To begin you need to consider how many players are inrepparttar 136076 poker room. The more players there are atrepparttar 136077 tablerepparttar 136078 more likely it is going to be that a simple 2 pair could win. Butrepparttar 136079 fewerrepparttar 136080 playersrepparttar 136081 higher your hand rank will have to be to win.

As a general rule you should fold if you are dealt two low non-pair cards, for example 9 and 8. Although there is still a chance that you may get a straight, by it is very unlikely that this will occur at a full table.

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