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Poker Tournaments for You This Week
There is never a dull moment in a poker player’s life. Obviously, the main reason for that is the constant existence of poker tournaments and poker events that one can participate in. These events are not just for making money, but also to have some fun and get better at the game in the process. Several live poker tourneys are lined up for this week and the coming weeks. Here is a note on some of the tournaments you can … Read the rest
2012 PokerStars Macau Poker Championships Announced
PokerStars is one online poker room that never takes a break from hosting tournaments. The poker room recently released details about its upcoming event, the PokerStars Macau Live Tournaments. The Macau tournaments hosted by PokerStars is one of the biggest and richest poker events held in Asia. It includes 4 major poker series – Macau Poker Cup (MPC) Red Dragon, Asia Championship of Poker, Macau Poker Cup Championship or MPCC and the yearly Asia Pacific Poker Tour event at Macau. … Read the rest
The $30,000 Winner Wednesday Dozen Unveiled
Winner Poker has partnered with pokernews.com to bring a new promotion to its new members. The online poker room announced its new promotion called Winner’s Wednesday Dozen Freerolls, which literally lets you win free money. The new promotion is open to all the new players who register with Winner Poker and make a deposit. The promo will run for three months, and all you need to do is play poker and earn as many Winner Points as you can. Here … Read the rest
Tournament Poker 101
Friday, November 7th, 2008 by Phil
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.
