Poker Tournaments and Satellites

Online poker is one of the most dominant and fastest growing businesses not just for online gambling but for all of e-commerce, period. Online poker has, it can be argued, revolutionized the entire online casino gambling revolution and is what is most synonymous with online casino gambling.

For those who don’t know, online poker is just like regular table poker at a Las Vegas poker room except that it is played online by all of the players that then wager and play their hands in same time. Online poker offers every kind of poker that a traditional brick and mortar poker room will offer and some unique versions of poker that are not offered. The most popular games, Texas hold ‘em, (both limit and no limit), Stud, Omaha, and many others are all offered for both cash games and tournaments.

Tournament action is particularly popular online s all of the online poker rooms offer tournaments at every time, day or night, to meet the world wide global demand. Tournaments offer different variations as far as limits, buy- ins, and re-buys and there are online poker tournaments that are perfectly tailored for every taste and budget.

A popular form of online poker tournaments are known as “satellite” poker tournaments in which players compete to then move on to a bigger event, often in person, such as the World Series of Poker and or the World Poker Tour. It is interesting to note, in fact, that the last several World Series of Poker champions all came out of online satellite poker tournaments.

Posted: November 1, 2008