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Caesars Building Partnerships with Global Gaming Brands
This week Caesars Interactive Entertainment (CIE) announced that they extended two existing partnerships. CIE has been working on building the World Series of Poker brand online this year in regulated markets. The new partnerships will ensure that the WSOP brand is further marketed online in regulated markets.
Caesars Extends 888 Partnership
888 Poker has been proving software to the current WSOP online poker room. The WSOP online poker room isn’t available in the United States yet. The new partnership will … Read the rest
Barry Denson Plans to Set New Record for Playing Poker for the Longest
Barry Denson, a poker player from the UK, has announced that he plans to set a new record for playing poker for the longest. On the 1st of July, he will play at G Casino, Manchester. The game will go on for five days. Most of Denson’s activity at the felt has been in live poker league tournaments.
Help for Heroes, a charitable organization that assists injured people in the armed forces, will benefit from the money made during the … Read the rest
Card Rush Promotion Running at PartyPoker
PartyPoker is running an attractive promotion called Card Rush in February. It will start on the 1st and continue for the rest of the month. Real money players of the site will have an exclusive opportunity to win prizes and freeroll entries through the promotion.
Card Rush promotion operates in a simple manner. Every time a player earns 15 Party Points, the poker site rewards him with a Card Rush ticket. On scratching the card, prizes are revealed. Every card … Read the rest
Tournament Poker 101
For most of poker‘s history, there was no tournament poker. This may come as great surprise to many current players, who may have only played tournament poker in their experience with the game.
Others, who have only seen poker on television, have been introduced to the game through tournament poker and would like to get started playing tournament poker themselves. If you are ready for tournament poker, here are a few things you need to know.
Chips Lose Value as the Tournament Progresses
Your concern in tournaments is always the size of your chip stack relative to the blinds. As the blinds rise, the value of each individual chip decrease, since they represent a smaller portion of the blinds.
What this means is that your chips have the most value at the start of the game, so you should be reluctant to risk them in anything but the highest edge situations. As the game progresses, you need to be more liberal with your willingness to put chips in the pot.
Survival Is Key
While some players pursue a hyper aggressive strategy of trying to amass as many chips as possible,
even if that means an early bust out is likely, a proven winning strategy is the one employed by champions like T.J. Cloutier and Phil Hellmuth.
These Texas holdem tips teach a slow, steady amassing of chips, avoiding big confrontations unless you have a monster hand or it is necessary. While any small edge is good enough to put all of your chips in during a cash game, in a tournament, you need to consider that being on the wrong end of a hand could mean the end of
your tournament.
Tournaments Are an Endurance Test
In a cash game, you can sit down or get up at any time. Tournaments require that you play until you are out of chips or have them all.
Although you can always leave your seat to go the bathroom or walk around, you cannot simply cash out and leave the game. If you play a tournament, be sure you have the time and patience to play many hours of poker.
