What to Play, Online Poker
Now, you’ve made up your mind, you will play some internet poker. You need to pick a game to play. Only looking at Texas holdem, let’s see what you have to choose from.
First there is the very popular multi table tournament. Here, you sit down with a group of players, maybe even thousands, and play until you lose all your chips or eliminate all other players. These can take hours to complete. The tournament lobby will tell you when tournaments will start.
A slight variation from the multi table event is the re buy/add on tournament. This plays exactly like the multi table tournaments except for the beginning. For a pre determined amount of time, typically one hour, the players can buy more chips any time they have an equal amount, or less, than the starting stack size. After this time ends, you have a choice to add on more chips one time with any stack that you have. Then it’s back to the multi table rules.
Most poker rooms offer free rolls. These are usually multi table events. They will offer cash prizes, even though there are no entry fees!
Players often would like to play in big events but can’t afford to risk the entry fee. This is where the satellite tournament comes in. We can suppose you want to play in a $1,000 tournament. You might find a satellite for this bigger event. Perhaps one costing $50 would be affordable for you. If one hundred players were in this satellite, five players would win the $1,000 entry for the big one you wanted to play.
Sit and Go tournaments are very common now in online poker rooms. These are mainly single table tournaments, ranging from two to ten players. They do not have an official starting time, but instead begin when the right amount of players have entered.
A combination, of sorts, is the multi table sit and go. Here, at least two tables, could be many more, are used. The tournament will have an exact number of players and start when the entries fill. After that, this will be just like a multi table event.
The poker we all play at home is the ring game. This is where you put your cash on the table and play for it. The three main formats are, no limit, pot limit, and limit.
A more unique event that has shown on TV recently, is the heads up tournament. The idea is simple, you have a draw, like a tennis tournament, with let’s say 64 players. Opponents play heads up matches with the winners advancing. This continues, cutting the field in half each round, until you have a champion.
In addition to Texas holdem, five card draw, razz, stud games and more are offered.
That’s a lot of options. Try to make sure you have a good idea of the differences in these various games. It will be very frustrating to lose because you played wrong for the game you chose.
Source: Recreation-and-Sports
