ONLINE POKER TOURNAMENTS

ONLINE POKER TOURNAMENTS
Online poker tournaments are currently one of the most popular poker games around. Online poker tournaments have several benefits over live poker tournaments. Online poker tournaments can be played from the comfort of your own home and don’t require you to drive out to a casino. Online poker tournaments also draw more players, and because of this online poker tournaments have bigger prize pools. Because online poker tournaments draw so many players from around the world, they will also feature weaker competition, and more soft spots. Perhaps the truly great thing about online poker tournaments is that they are running every single minute on popular sites like Pokerstars and Full Tilt Poker. Online poker tournaments are so plentiful, that you can find time to play in one regardless of your schedule. And you’ll also have a huge choice in what kind of online poker tournament to play, as there are several different types. Below are descriptions of the various types of online poker tournaments available for you to play.

MULTI-TABLE ONLINE POKER TOURNAMENTS

. The most common of online poker tournaments is probably the multi-table tournament. This type of online poker tournament probably resembles a live poker tournament the most. Multi-table online poker tournaments start with several player, all of whom had to pay the entry fee to enter the online poker tournament. Each player receives the same amount of starting chips as the others, and the online poker tournament is played until one person remains. During these types of online poker tournaments, players will be forced to put in blinds and antes, and these blinds and antes will increase incrementally throughout the online poker tournament, becoming very large towards the latter stages. During multi-table online tournaments players are eliminated as they lose their chips and tables are often broken up to even out the other tables. Eventually the last player left with all of the chips is the winner. Cash prizes are awarded in these multi-table online tournaments to the top finishers, which is determined by how many players entered.

REBUY ONLINE POKER TOURNAMENTS

Rebuy online poker tournaments are played just like the previously mentioned multi-table online poker tournaments, with one major difference. Rebuy online poker tournaments offer a player to immediately rebuy more chips to double his stack before the first hand even begins, which could give him an advantage over his opponents if they decide not to rebuy, or vice versa. Also, in the rebuy online poker tournaments, anytime a player falls below a certain amount of chips, he is allowed to rebuy the original starting stack. Rebuy online poker tournaments offer a lot of sloppy and loose play in the early stages because many people have no fear of being knocked out because they know they can rebuy. This type of online poker tournament usually allows players to rebuy as many times as they like before the first break, which happens an hour into the tournament, and after the first hour will generally allow one more add on to a player’s stack.

DEEP STACK ONLINE POKER TOURNAMENTS

Deep stack online poker tournaments are online poker tournaments where the player starts with several more chips than normal online poker tournaments. In deep stack online poker tournaments a player may start with as many as four times the normal starting stack of chips. The blinds and antes generally stay the same as in your average online poker tournaments, but the extra starting chips allow for a lot more play. These online poker tournaments are great for both the patient player, and the more skilled player because it takes much longer for blinds and antes to start affecting stacks and alter player’s strategies.

6-MAX ONLINE POKER TOURNAMENTS

While most multi-table online poker tournaments are played at tables consisting of nine or ten players, 6-max online poker tournaments only have a maximum of six players at a table at any given time. They play just like other multi-table online poker tournaments, but because blinds come up much more frequently, and hands that are normally only good or decent can suddenly increase in value with a short table, these online poker tournaments play a lot faster and a lot looser. Protecting your blinds and knowing when to apply pressure and when to back off are even more key in these types of online poker tournaments.

SIT & GO ONLINE POKER TOURNAMENTS

Online card rooms like Full Tilt Poker and Pokerstars offer a form of online poker tournaments that a live casino can rarely provide. The sit & go online poker tournament. These online poker tournaments have a predetermined amount of players, anywhere from two players to one hundred and eighty players, and as soon as the predetermined number of players fill up, the tournament begins. These online poker tournaments are available twenty four hours a day, and are extremely popular among online poker players because of the wide variety of buy ins and the convenience to play anytime they want. Sit & go online poker tournaments play just like the other online poker tournaments, with escalating blinds and antes, and a prize pool reserved for the top finishers, but with fewer players.

SHOOTOUT ONLINE POKER TOURNAMENTS

A strange combination of sit & go and multi-table online poker tournaments is the shootout. In normal multi-table online poker tournaments, tables are broken up and players are moved as people start to bust out. But in shootout online poker tournaments, tables keep the same players until only one is left. The winners of each table then combine into a new table, and so on and so on until one final table remains, and eventually a final winner. Some shootout online poker tournaments will award only one winner, and some will award multiple players depending on the number of entrants and prize pool.

FREEROLL ONLINE POKER TOURNAMENTS

A great way for the beginning player to gain experience and free money is by playing in freeroll online poker tournaments. Freeroll online poker tournaments are free to enter, and usually will pay the winner and top finishers cash prizes. Because these online poker tournaments are free, they are filled with inexperienced and or losing players, and usually filled with thousands of entrants. That makes these online poker tournaments very tough to play, but they are well worth it if you end up cashing or winning, because they cost no money to play in the first place.

SATELLITE ONLINE POKER TOURNAMENTS

A great way to enter online poker tournaments without paying the full entry fee, is to win a satellite online poker tournament. A satellite is just like any of the previously mentioned online poker tournaments, except the people who win or place in a satellite get an entry into more expensive online poker tournaments instead of actual cash. Satellites are not only used for players to get into higher buy in online poker tournaments, but also to win seats for higher buy in live poker tournaments, like a WPT or WSOP event. Many satellite online poker tournaments simply stop after x amount of players are left, and all of those predetermined amount of players gain entry into the event they were playing the satellite for, so the goal isn’t necessarily to have the most chips by the end of it like most online poker tournaments, but to make sure you outlast however many players.

TURBO ONLINE POKER TOURNAMENTS

The turbo online poker tournaments can be like any of the previously mentioned online poker tournaments, the only difference is that the blinds and antes increase much faster than in their normal counterpart games. Because of this, these online poker tournaments are much faster than your average online poker tournaments, and can seem much more hectic. Blinds rise at a rate so fast that soon most people have very few chips in relations to the blinds, and all in moves are happening all around. Many say that a lot more luck is involved in the turbo online poker tournaments, because you’ll so often find yourself in all in preflop situations, and won’t have as much creativity or play as in normal online poker tournaments. Every single previously mentioned online poker tournament can be played as a turbo, and some players prefer these turbo online poker tournaments due to the short time frames and exciting wild play.