Cash Poker Tournaments

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Winning poker means working on a game where you really need it. This can help you: setting realistic and achievable goals, poker theory; analysis of the game using special software, individual or group training with a trainer (Cash; MTT; SnG), tilt tolerance; Improper training - actions that do not increase the expectation of your game. Free poker tourneys are yet another exciting type of poker tournament. The best part is they are 100% free to enter and players can win real cash in the process. Players can easily get started – no money down – and build a bankroll in double-quick time. Free poker tourneys also award tournament tickets and other prizes to top-place finishers. Free poker tournaments are open to all eligible players in New Jersey. If you would like to enter free tournaments that have cash prizes, please read more about our poker freerolls here. PokerStars is the largest poker site in the world, and by a pretty wide margin.

If you've ever seen PokerStars' live or online poker coverage, there's a strong chance that you've seen tournament play before. Events such as European Poker Tour (EPT), PokerStars Players' Championship (PSPC) and the World Series of Poker (WSOP) focus on tournaments with major prizes and glory going to the winner.

The biggest ever poker success story comes from a tournament in 2003 where Chris Moneymaker qualified to the WSOP Main Event for just $86 and went on to win the event for a cool $2.5 million.

Tournaments are scheduled with a stated buy-in, start time, prize structure and starting stack (the chips you can play with). Playing online poker tournaments for a living. Your buy-in will consist of a contribution towards the prize pool and a smaller fee towards the casino or poker site.

The objective of playing in a poker tournament is to be the last player remaining in the field, but once you lose your chips – and if there is no opportunity to rebuy – then your tournament is over.

At regular intervals, the compulsory blind levels will rise, which means the minimum bet-size escalates and players will have to continuously spin up their stack to be safe from elimination. These intervals are determined by the ‘speed' of the tournament. Furthermore, after a set number of blind levels, antes are introduced – this means every player starts to pay a fraction of the big blind towards the pot in every hand.

You may have heard of the popular Sit & Go and Spin & Go games, and they are also types of tournaments. These are not conventional tournaments as they start as soon as the predetermined number of players is reached, and in single table tournaments they will be over much quicker than a scheduled tournament. It remains that players will buy in for a certain amount and receive the same amount of chips to use to work their way through the competition.

There are certain nuances to poker tournament play that will see you adapt how you play. Here are some examples:

• Freezeout tournaments: You only have one buy-in, so make it count
• Rebuy tournaments: Everyone has at least one more chance to enter should you bust out, so players may be more aggressive from the start.
• Knockout tournaments: You receive a cash prize for eliminating other players, so look for those opportunities.
• Satellite tournaments: The prizes is an entry to a bigger tournament. If the top prize is the same for a number of players, focus less on being 1^st and concentrate on surviving into those prize places.

Cashgames

Cash games are the purest form of poker. This is the game commonly seen in movies where the hero sits down at a game already underway and starts playing. This happens because unlike tournaments, cash games have no natural start or end time – if there's a seat open, you can play, and you can leave whenever you like. This is unlike tournaments as you don't have to wait for a certain number of players to buy-in, or for the start time to come around.

You can buy in for any amount between the lower and upper limits of the table. This is where the fiction of movies diverges from reality, you can't throw your car keys into the pot – you can only use what you have bought in and is sitting in front of you. Nor can you use stacks of cash – the cash you use to buy in is exchanged for chips worth the corresponding cash value.

Unlike tournaments, going bust in one hand isn't necessarily the end of your game. If you can afford it, you just pay for a new stack. Similarly, blind levels will not change from the level of the table you sit down at, and you'll be able to continue playing for however long you like, so long as you still have chips to play with.

Cash games come with their own different types of games also. Not as varied, because cash game is a standard that is difficult to disrupt, but for instance there are Zoom games on PokerStars which see you moved to a brand new table with a new starting hand as soon as you fold. There are also differences in sizes between the tables; you can play at tables with six players, tables with as many as 9 or 10 players, or heads-up against just one other player.

Which should you play?

This question is up to you. Which game sounds like the most fun to you? Better still, try out each of the games with play money on PokerStars and see which suits you better.

There are other bankroll and playing time considerations – which we will cover in What is the Best Poker Game For You? – but the most important aspect to deal with right now is making sure the game of poker is fun for those playing it.

Test your knowledge with our short quiz below

Mid-Week $1,000 Cash Tournaments

The weekend poker tournaments on ClubWPT™ are legendary but did you also know we have some fun and exciting $1,000 No-Limit Hold'Em Cash tournaments during the middle of the week?

That's right! We're spreading a $1,000 guaranteed prize pool cash tournament nightly Tuesday thru Thursday to satisfy your craving for poker on the virtual felt – right from the comfort and safety of your own home.

East To West And 80 Cash Payouts In Between

The U.S. is a big country with several time zones and in order to spread the love around, we're offering these mid-week $1K tournaments at three separate times, as a way to give most of our players the benefit of playing early evening in a great $1,000 cash tournament during the middle of the week.

Aptly named East, Central and West respectively, they all start at 8:00 PM local time on their corresponding day of the week. And with the top 80 finishers earning a cash payout in each tournament, what's not to love?

Dates & Times

Cash Games Vs Tournaments Poker

• $1,000 EASTERN: Mondays @ 8:00 Eastern Standard Time(8:00 PM in the Tournament Lobby)
• $1,000 CENTRAL: Tuesdays @ 8:00 Central Standard Time(9:00 PM in the Tournament Lobby)
• $1,000 MOUNTAIN: Wednesdays @ 8:00 Mountain Standard Time(10:00 PM in the Tournament Lobby)
• $1,000 PACIFIC: Thursdays @ 8:00 Pacific Standard Time(11:00 PM in the Tournament Lobby)

Which should you play?

This question is up to you. Which game sounds like the most fun to you? Better still, try out each of the games with play money on PokerStars and see which suits you better.

There are other bankroll and playing time considerations – which we will cover in What is the Best Poker Game For You? – but the most important aspect to deal with right now is making sure the game of poker is fun for those playing it.

Test your knowledge with our short quiz below

Mid-Week $1,000 Cash Tournaments

The weekend poker tournaments on ClubWPT™ are legendary but did you also know we have some fun and exciting $1,000 No-Limit Hold'Em Cash tournaments during the middle of the week?

That's right! We're spreading a $1,000 guaranteed prize pool cash tournament nightly Tuesday thru Thursday to satisfy your craving for poker on the virtual felt – right from the comfort and safety of your own home.

East To West And 80 Cash Payouts In Between

The U.S. is a big country with several time zones and in order to spread the love around, we're offering these mid-week $1K tournaments at three separate times, as a way to give most of our players the benefit of playing early evening in a great $1,000 cash tournament during the middle of the week.

Aptly named East, Central and West respectively, they all start at 8:00 PM local time on their corresponding day of the week. And with the top 80 finishers earning a cash payout in each tournament, what's not to love?

Dates & Times

Cash Games Vs Tournaments Poker

• $1,000 EASTERN: Mondays @ 8:00 Eastern Standard Time(8:00 PM in the Tournament Lobby)
• $1,000 CENTRAL: Tuesdays @ 8:00 Central Standard Time(9:00 PM in the Tournament Lobby)
• $1,000 MOUNTAIN: Wednesdays @ 8:00 Mountain Standard Time(10:00 PM in the Tournament Lobby)
• $1,000 PACIFIC: Thursdays @ 8:00 Pacific Standard Time(11:00 PM in the Tournament Lobby)

Tournament Details

• Please see our Official Tournament Rules for more information.
• *Dates and times of ClubWPT online tournaments are subject to change without further notice. Please check the poker lobby for the most up-to-date information.

Payout Structure

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