Poker Tournaments for Beginners

As the game of Poker is scaling new heights, casinos and resorts where the game is played together with the media have left no opportunity untouched to accrue contemporaneous benefits. This is evident from the increase in number of Poker tournaments.

Since last decade there are significant number of Poker tournaments held in the local and the national level. The exceptionally played poker games in these tournaments are- Seven Card Stud, Seven Card High-Low, Omaha Hold'Em, and Texas Hold'Em, community poker etc..

Poker tournaments can be of different kinds. For example - shootout tournaments in which the tables together with players aren't eliminated but are still there until one player emerges as a winner. Unlike to this are the elimination tournaments were the game starts with all players having equal quantity of chips and prolongs until one player manages to get all the chips. Here the tables are removed and in the end one table is left. All those who live in the game until the table get some type of reward to cherish. Such tournaments don't have any re-buys but the'Re-purchase' tournaments offer the opportunity to re buy the chips once they're all gone. The chips should be bought by paying additional money. So the game continues for extended and there are small odds of being segregated in the game.

Apart from this there are also satellite games in some areas of United States such as Las Vegas. These tournaments involve a group of people who each and every places in some of his money.

The fortunate winner receives a fantastic amount (more than a thousand dollar) to invest in additional expensive large-scale crucial tournaments.

Normally the prize money for the poker tournaments comes from the entry fees. This fees is most commonly called the'buy- in' fees. Sometimes the money flows in from an outside source or agency. However, this amount becomes invested in purchasing the invitations only. The purchase brings you a calculated number of chips to begin your game with. These chips act as your 'play money'. Play money can be purchased only in're-purchase' tournaments.

The gambling on these tournaments can be of 3 types:

· Structured Betting - stakes can only be of a Specific amount

· Semi structured gambling - the bet can vary to some extent and not more than that.

· Non structured gambling - there is no fixed limit to wager. It's in the discretion of the player to wager as much he needs.

Then there are two primary approaches to decide upon who will be the winner - Fixed Winnings and Proportional Winnings. The former are those in which the organization holding the championship ahead determines upon the winner. While in the latter the winner is calculated proportionally. These are divided between the players left in the conclusion proportional to the amounts of play money each has collected during the game.

The escalating popularity of this game and the rising number of tournaments have attracted players from all around the world. It's a result of the fascinating and mouth watering level which one gets on winning the tournaments which girls in addition to celebrities too wish to try their fortune.