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.
The classic tournament format. These are events where you start at a designated time, buy in for a stack of chips, and play until you run out of chips or players. Tournaments take quite a while to complete.
Still a multi table event, there is also the re buy /add on format. Here, for a designated amount of time, usually one hour, you can buy more chips whenever your chip stack is at the original buy in amount, or less. After the first hour, you can add on by buying more chips. Then the rest of the tournament is like a normal multi table event.
The free roll is one of the ways online poker rooms try to keep their players happy. These are normally just multi table tournaments with one big difference. They have prizes, but are free to enter!
Another very popular style is the satellite. In a satellite you are qualifying to play in a bigger tournament. Let's say you want to play in the WSOP Main Event. You don't have $10,000, but you are willing to risk $1,000, to try to win a seat. You can play in a $1,000 satellite to try. If forty people enter this event then exactly four seats to the Main Event will be awarded.
The Sit and Go format of tournaments is very popular. The main difference with Sit and Go events is that they begin when a designated number of players sit at the table. So, to play in a nine player Sit and Go you start when the ninth player sits down.
A combination is the multi table sit and go. Here we have at least two tables and as many as twenty. But, the tournament doesn't start until the designated amount of players have entered.
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.
If texas holdem isn't your game here are a few of the other games offered. Omaha, Omaha hi-lo, stud and five card draw.
As you can see there's a lot of choices. Learn the game before you play. Losing, because you didn't know the particulars of the game you're in, will be very irritating.
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