The Poker Mag

Poker – In recent times, there has been a growing series of tournament types which offer something a little different to players.

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One such tournament that has emerged in recent times, is the bounty tournament. You can find this type of tournament at many online poker rooms, and it entails bonus payments being made for the elimination of players.

This can be done by either awarding a percentage of the prize pool for each player eliminated, or it can award a partial payment, with the remainder of a single buy in amount being put onto the bounty of the player who eliminated them. This means players left at the end of a tournament will have bigger prices on their heads. Sometimes you will find prizes are paid for positional placements also.

Other new online tournaments include the double or nothing games. These involve half of the field of players in an STT format being paid double their entrance fee, with the othe half that are eliminated obviously winning nothing. These new online tournament types give players a chance to experiment with different types of play and find the games that are best suited to them. Other new tournaments online include large scale series of poker tournaments akin to the WSOP, only on a smaller online scale. This gives those who play solely online poker, or are strong at that format, a chance for recognition and life changing wins within the confines of online play.

Durrrr versus Antonius Latest atrik Antonius is the first Full Tilt Pro to have taken on Tom Dwan in his challenge which he has opened to the poker world. The action kicked off several months ago, and has been running intermittently since.

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During the first 12,000 hands or so, the lead moved back and forwards between the players, with no clear leader emerging. With so much money on the line, it is perhaps not surprising if the poker players were playing a little on the cautious side, but after 12,000 hands, a trend began to emerge. Patrik Antonius moved to between $500k and $600k ahead. These may sound like huge sums of money, but in the bigger scheme of things, this was a defecit that durrrr certainly had time to overturn.

And so it proved, after about 14,500 hands, the tables turned, as Durrrr began clawing the hundreds of thousands of dollars back, reaching the evens mark a little after 16,000 hands.Twere a few blips afterwards but generally, durrrr has pulled out a strong lead since then, reaching around 1.3 million profit at one point. The last poker session to have taken place was a fairly long one, with over 3,000 hands played. Currently, durrrr sits on a lead of over $700k, but with the challenge having not reached halfway yet, Antonius still has time to turn it around.

Online poker has developed and changed the face of poker in some ways, although some formats remain the same with online play as they do with live play. The standard cash game, single table tournament, and multi table tournaments are present in both cases, although playing at a computer can afford you interesting opportunities.

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Most online players will have heard of, or indeed tried out multi tabling, and it has become the standard way for poker pros online to ensure their edge in skill translates into profits. You can open one STT, play it, and get unlucky to not cash, but we know that luck evens out over time…or tables.

If you are playing ten tables at once and are one of the most talented players on each of those tables, theoretically, as luck evens out, you should emerge in profit overall. This was demonstrated earlier this year by Bertrand Grospellier who broke the world record for the number of Sit and Go tournaments opened, played, and completed in one hour. This seems easy on the face of it, but when you consider that to break the record you have to finish in profit, the challenge gets a little trickier.

Grospellier managed 62 tables within that hour, finishing in slight profit for the session, which considering how stretched your attention would be across so many tables, is a remarkable achievement. This record was made by Grospellier as he sat in front of four monitors, being cheered on by fellow professional poker players during a break in his EPT schedule in May. Guinness World Records are verifying the record, which shows an extraordinary amount of concentration and poker talent.

Throughout July, Bodog.com have been running their own mini poker series for their players online. There is a tournament leaderboard working in conjuction with this promotion, which offers a seat in the final tournament of the July mini poker series at Bodog.com. Victory in this tournament will win you a seat in the WSOP main event next year.

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The mini series consists of several poker tournaments played over a few weeks, with the top 30% of finishers in each event being given points for the leaderboard. The best players are invited to take place in the semi final, and those that go far enough in this event, will come back for the final.

It is not just a straight battle for the WSOP main event seat at Bodog.com however, as there are other prizes that do not quite manage to win the prize package to the main event. 2nd and 3rd places pick up prize packages to the Bodog.com poker open taking place later in the year. 4th and 5th places will be given seats to the semi final of Bodog.com’s ‘Flight Club’ promotion. 6th place down to 9th receive $162 for their efforts too, and so you have a good chance of winning a prize if you make it to the final.

If you manage to win the WSOP main event package, you will be sponsored by Bodog.com, and the prize package total value totals $12,000. This represents a great opportunity to go to the biggest event of the year with Bodog.com.