Poker Tournament Play

Become the Best Texas Holdem Tournament Player You Know

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Poker Tournament Resources

Here are some links to helpful and interesting Texas Holdem tournament resources that may come in handy:

Rick Braddy's Texas Hold'em Radio Weblog
Blog discussion on Texas Holdem poker, tournaments and the like.

Texas Holdem Tournament Blog Spot
Blog discussion on Texas Holdem tournament resources and related information.

Free Texas Hold'em Poker Test
This site provides a free poker test. You answer some questions and it rates your poker skills in 8 different areas. You gotta try this one! Once you know what skills you need to brush up on, you'll be playing very strong right away by filling in those weak spots.

Texas Holdem Strategy Series - Aggressive Players
Learn how to win against tough, aggressive players in real tournament situations in this first in a series of articles.

Texas Holdem Strategy Series - Poker Tournament Fundamentals
Fundamental poker tournament strategies for playing and winning Texas Holdem poker tournaments.

Rick Braddy's Sit & Go Poker Tournament Video
Watch this poker tournament video from your Web browser, on your iPod as a podcast or on iTunes. It'll show you how to win and make money at poker tournaments. It's free of charge.

Texas Holdem Odds Calculator
Site dedicated to Texas Holdem and odds calculator software.

Best Ways to Boost Your Tournament Play

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Prepare Properly Before Playing in Tournaments

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Kinds of Tournaments and Where to Play Them

Playing in Texas Holdem poker tournament and satellite events is a great way to gain valuable experience and play against some awesome players.

First, let's have a look at the different kinds of poker tournament events you can find and participate in. As you'll see, there's no shortage of tournament opportunities to participate in:

* Online Events - these online tournaments are extremely convenient and therefore highly popular. There are a number of different types of online tournaments:

1) Sit & Go: the most popular one and two table tournaments are always running, so you can jump into a quick tourney anytime. This is a great way to "get your feet wet" with some tournament action.

2) Regular Poker Tournament: there are various online tournaments of every imaginable kind. A couple of my favorites are held regularly on Poker Stars and Party Poker sites - check web sites for more details. There are tournaments available with entry fees as low as $1 and higher.

3) Free-roll: these are "free", play-money tournaments held regularly on Poker Stars. This is a great way to practice tournament play without risking anything.

4) Four-player: these tournaments begin with 4 players split across two tables, where each pair of two players play against one another "heads-up", then the winner of each table heads-up match play the final table heads-up against each other. This is an awesome way to sharpen your heads-up play.

5) Heads-up: these tournaments are just what it sounds like - two players going heads-up.

6) Satellites: these are "qualifier" events, where the top N players in each satellite event progress to the next higher level, typically an entry into a bigger tournament event. Chris Moneymaker entered one of these satellite events on Poker Stars and ended up winning the World Series of Poker!

7) Private: some online sites (like Poker Stars) provide a convenient way to host your own private tournaments. This is a fantastic way to hold either a local club tournament or get together with a group of people from across the country or world and play together online periodically. I belong to a local club, and we play in person once per month, and online once per month - very convenient and a lot of fun, too.

* Private Poker Tournament - home games and local poker club events that are taking place in your local area. You either have to know someone or locate these tournaments through local resources and listings in your area.

* Casino Ship - public tournaments are often held on casino ships that sail from ports around the world.

* Casino Poker Rooms - most casino poker rooms now hold regular tournament events.

* Major Casino Events - the major casinos (e.g., Bellagio, Four Queens, Horseshoe Casino, etc.) hold tournaments on a regular basis. These major events are preceeded by a number of satellite events, where the entry fees are much more affordable, and you have an opportunity to leverage your play all the way into the big event. Check the casino web sites for poker tournament schedules.

* World Series of Poker - the original, most famous poker tournament event held each year at the Horseshoe in Las Vegas

* World Poker Tour - the latest in world-class poker tournament events, made famous by its regular TV appearances and large prizes

So, there are many different forms of poker tournament events to choose from. Next question is, what's it going to be like to play when you get there?

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A Must-Read for Tournament and Satellite Players

Championship Satellite Strategy, by Tom McEvoy and Brad Daugherty (2003)

I bought this book directly from Tom at a Texas Holdem tournament event hosted at the Four Queens back in 2003. It's a great tournament strategy book that I highly recommend for anyone engaging in online and offline poker tournament and satellite play.

It discusses the upsides and downsides of playing satellite events and explains the purpose satellite events play in the poker tournament world.

It outlines "10 Ways to Win a Seat for the World Series". It explains how satellite events work and important factors that need to be considered - when you should play in satellite events to save entry-fee money, how many one-table satellites to play, how much money to budget, and much more.

There are chapters on one-table satellites, limit and no-limit winning principles, winning strategies as you progress from round to round, and how to adjust your play at each level and for the number of players at your table.

Brad explains the keys to playing at the final table, including heads-up play.

Finally, there's guidance on how to make the most profits playing satellites by playing the right games at the right times.

If you're serious about poker tournament play, then you definitely need to have this in your hip pocket.

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