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Posted Mon Mar 07, 2005 1:55 pm GMT by jacatone
How does tournament Poker differ from regular games? Thanks.
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Posted Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:23 pm GMT by Dave B
Quite a bit.
Posted Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:55 pm GMT by Soup_dog
| Dave B wrote: | | Quite a bit. |
LMAO Thats the same thing I thought when I first read this. It would take a lot of space to completely answer this question.
Posted Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:06 pm GMT by jacatone
The answer can't be that complicated. Are tournaments mostly limit/no limit. Are they a series of elimination tables, etc. Maybe someone has a link to a site that better explains it.
Posted Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:31 pm GMT by Soup_dog
Yeesh.... the structure depends on the whim of the participants. It can be fixed limit, no limit or pot limit. Heck, it could even be any particular style of poker you want. Omaha, Hi/Lo Omaha, Texas Hold-em, Stud, etc.
Anyways, what usually happens is that there is a particular "buy-in" or entrance fee to get into the tournament. This fee could be just about ANYTHING. From a few dollars to 10's of thousands of dollars. All of these "buy-ins" go into making up the prize pool for the winners. Again, the prize pool is left up to the discression of the person running the tourny.
Now, each player in the tourny gets the same number of chips to use for betting. (Again, director's discression on the chip amount.) A blind's structure is established with the blinds being raised every x number of minutes, and or hands. (At the director's discression.)
As play continues during the tourny and players are knocked out of play, players from a full table are moved to other empty seats to keep the number of players at a table as even as possible. The player to be moved is usually randomly determined.
So you see, there are MANY variables involved, that need to be carefully considered when setting up a tournament. I know there are a number of sites that offer software for running home tournies but I honestly have never looked any of them up.
This is just a "broad" stroke at the subject but I would be glad to try and answer any specific questions you might have about a particular aspect of tourny play.
Posted Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:03 pm GMT by jacatone
Thanks, Soup-dog you've been helpful. I'm a craps dealer for casino party companies in the Los Angeles area and Hold em seems to becoming very popular so I'm trying to learn it.
Are no limit games generally the norm for tournaments since they quickly eliminate players? How does the buy-in process work? Do the remaining winning players simply take their chips to the other tables or are they restricted to a limit? Thanks.
Posted Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:18 pm GMT by Soup_dog
Well... I wouldn't say no-limit games are the norm. They just seem to be the most popular right now. (Thats the game everyone sees on ESPN, so they think they are going to be the next WSOP champ. :D )
The way the buy-in works at our tournaments is we have someone sitting at a desk near the entrance. As each person comes in and registers, they pay thier "buy-in" and are given the chips they will be using in the tourny. Usually the player will double check the chip count before leaving the registration table just to make sure a counting mistake hasnt been made. (In our tourny, we pay $30 and receive a $1000 in chips.)
As far as "remaining winning players"... I'm not sure what you mean. These chips are ONLY good for play in THIS tourny. The chips cannot be removed from the site and they cannot be "saved" for next weeks tourny. All the players in the tourny play until there is just "one man standing". Once someone has won all of the chips, he is declared the winner and paid the 1st place prize pool. There are provisions where the last two players can "decide" to split the prize money, but thats fairly rare and another ball of wax entirely.
Posted Mon Mar 07, 2005 7:27 pm GMT by howzit
Get your feet wet . . .Any poker website will host tournies throughout the day and you can give it a shot for as low as $1 or $2.
Some sites to play at if you don't have an account already:
pokerstars.com
ultimatebet.com
partypoker.com
fulltilt.com
pacificpoker.com
You'll find almost every type of poker being played in a tournament fashion. No limit hold'em, Limit hold'em, Stud, stud hi/lo, omaha. . . . .and so on.
GL.
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