This year, poker is played hard…

Filed Under (Uncategorized) by admin on 21-10-2008

The year 2008 promises to be hard for poker players. The tournaments that are starting seem to encourage competition at the highest level. Everywhere the trend is the knock - out, the coup grace. This is the time when veterans of poker remember that “before, taxing his opponent was equivalent to score a goal. The money was left on the second place, and the simple pleasure of the game was over. But it was also a question of ‘machismo that players depart, as they gain experience. But what would you do if machismo and money went hand in hand?

2008 will probably be the year of tournaments where the knock - out is at great cost. Get ready for blows! Here are some clues so as not to miss: for example, Crypto logic network has launched a Headhunter tournament in the poker rooms such William Hill Poker. In this tournament, the pot is divided in a special way: one part is reserved for normal payments and another is reserved for bonuses that will be pocketed by a player whenever he “sprayed” an adversary. This means, in short, that as the tournament progresses, the value of those remaining increases. In this way, the value of a player who eliminates another player in an advanced stage of the game is bigger than it did at first.
And the news does not stop. This year, Irish Open, one of the largest poker tournaments existing, announced the first event type “scalp” which was never held. Each player managed to make another bankrupt, receives 30 Euros. This will, undoubtedly, an exciting event to play and even watch..

And the story continues.. Full Tilt Poker has also set up a series of tournaments “knockout”, where 20% of the pool is used for such awards. It will also be another coup de grace. The tournaments’ knockout ‘may ultimately prove profitable, even if only for a few.. They generally have relatively low stakes, which is ultimately a good thing because it will bring more players in a game. It would also be interesting to see the pros react to this kind of tournament. Who knows, maybe one day we will have a bracelet for the WSOP scalps?

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