2010
03.16

Online Poker Championship

The more folks there are playing poker, the greater opportunity you’ll have to win a big pot. This is core to what makes gamblers register for a net poker tournament over and over again. It is not just the glory of acquiring a win in a tournament, but the possibly to really nail the big money. There can be poker tournaments of just a couple of games or epic tournaments consisting of hundreds of tables.

An online poker tournament operates very much the same way as a Las Vegas casino tournament. Players have to qualify in order to enroll in the tournament and then have to defeat opposing players to make their way up the ladder of the tournament. At any given moment throughout the year, there is a web poker tournament available.

If you like a specific style that you wish to wager on- for instance, holdem- you’ll need to hunt around a Holdem tournament. As Texas Holdem is one of the more popular poker variants available on the internet, you will be able to find a texas hold’em tournament throughout the year. Just be sure that the virtual poker tournament attracts a number of players.

A web poker tournament often are as challenging as a tournament at a real life betting house, so do not enter a tournament lightly. The opening qualifying game is designed to weed out the rookies, so you will have some assurances that the skill level will be aggressive. While you want the opposing entrants to be beatable, a challenging tournament leads to higher stakes and larger payouts.

2010
03.16

Pai Gow Poker Game Rules

Let us become versed in some different types of poker other than texas hold’em, 7 card stud, 5 card draw and omaha/8. Yes, double-hand poker. Now you must be wondering that pai gow sounds a bit Chinese; well you are right, this game is a mixture of the Chinese game pai gow and poker
Clearly this is not one of the most popular varieties of poker but still widely played. It can be enjoyed by up to 7 players. It is played with one deck of 52 cards, including a joker. Interestingly, joker can only be used as an ace, or to complete a straight, flush, straight flush, or a royal flush. The important thing here to remember is other than the normal ranking of hands we’ve one more winning hand that is "Five Aces" (5 aces including the joker). Surprisingly, five aces defeats all other hand including royal flush. Each gambler is given seven cards. The cards are aligned to make 2 hands; a 2 card hand and a 5 card hand. The five card hand must be better or be equal to the two card hand.
After setting up the two hands, the cards are placed on the table with the faces down. Once on the table, you can’t change them. The croupier will turn over their cards and arrange his hands. Each competitors hand is compared to the dealer’s hands. If the player take 1 hand and loses the other, this is referred to as "push" and absolutely no cash is exchanged. If croupier wins both hands then the bettor looses their bet the opposite is correct if the player wins both hands. Now if the hand is a draw, the dealer wins all. After the hand is played, the next person clock-wise gets to be the dealer and the following hand is given out.