Thu, 03/17/2011 – 12:09 – PokerPages Staff

Playing in poker tournaments is not just for the high rollers.  Even the beginner poker player can enter if you know enough about poker betting.  Tournaments are numerous and can be great fun for anyone to play in.  Sit and Go tournaments, for example, are fast, easy to get into, and can be found at just about any time of the night or day.

In a standard tournament, basic poker rules apply.  Everyone begins with an equal value of chips for betting and when a player’s chips are used up, he or she is out.  The winner is declared when there is just one player left with chips remaining.

At PokerStars, you will find a list of tournaments that you can enter.  The tournaments each have their own lobby, which includes information on payouts and tournament status.  Use the button marked ‘Tournament Info’ on the lobby page to get the details.

On the PokerStars site, you will find their tournaments listed as well as poker information, named players and their winnings, and which tournaments are still open for you to join.  Note that the list also tells you which specific games will be played in each tournament.  The bets structure and buy-ins are also specified.

When you find one that interests you, go to the lobby for that tournament and register.  You will need to have a login for the site before you can register.  When your registration is complete, you will be given a seat at the table.  You must keep that seat throughout the tournament.  Play will begin when all registrations have been completed and players are seated at the table.

To learn more about poker games, poker bets, and tournaments, visit PokerSchoolOnline.

Fri, 03/04/2011 – 22:54 – PokerPages Staff

#5 – Cannes
To the dismay of the WSOP Europe’s traditional hosts in London, in 2011 the new venue for the tournament will be this impressive and classy casino with its generous and plush poker room in sun-drenched Cannes.  Much bigger than the UK venue, Casino Barriere de Cannes Croisette is ideal to absorb the burgeoning success of the tour.

#4 – Dublin
Dublin is the centre of a thriving poker playing community in Ireland, and it plays host to the infamous Irish Open every year, along with several other major poker tournaments.  Players from around the world converge on the beautiful Irish capital in droves – a highly recommended destination, we think.

#3 – Melbourne
Home of the fabulous Aussie Millions poker festival, Melbourne’s magnificent Crown Casino is a glittering palace of poker-playing luxury, offering quite possible the biggest and most scintillating gaming facilities you’ll find anywhere in the Southern hemisphere.  A stunner.

#2 – Macau
This place generates more revenue than the infamous Las Vegas Strip and some would even place it ahead of Vegas as the gambling capital of the world.  The surging successes of the various Asian poker tours have helped place it there and the 53-story Grand Lisboa Hotel-Casino, with its exquisitely “oriental” architecture has become an international hub of poker activity.

#1 – Las Vegas
It’s still the most unbeatable place on earth for playing poker.  Home to the daddy of all tournaments, the WSOP, “Sin City” is bursting with fabulous casinos and cardrooms at every turn.  Open day and night, it has more tournaments and cash games on offer than any place on the face of the planet.