Online and Live Poker Tournaments

Poker tournaments are great because not only do they give equal opportunities to both amateur and professional poker players to get into one of them but they also provide an excellent venue for world-class players to display their poker skills to the whole world and become famous for playing their favorite casino card game.

Now that poker games have started becoming more popular over the internet, especially with the sudden spread of online poker rooms, poker tournament organizers have made it easier for poker aficionados to get into one of those celebrated poker tournaments by organizing the same for online poker players, meaning players can also play poker tourneys online.

Poker Tournament History

In 2003, history was made during the World Series of Poker tournament in the said year.  Chris Moneymaker was just a regular guy who had nothing better to do on his spare time, plays online poker and has a great time doing so.  Never did he realize that his excellent skill in playing poker would give him the opportunity to be amongst the crème de la crème of the poker world and play in the WSOP of 2003. What was even more surprising was that he won the jackpot prize of approximately over 2 million dollars and the much-coveted gold bracelet.  This phenomenon brought about a sudden surge in the popularity of poker everywhere, particularly poker games on the internet.

This amazing monumental event in the history of poker also gave regular Joes a small glimmer of hope that perhaps they could also get lucky with their poker playing and do another Chris Moneymaker.

Satellite Tournaments Online

Chris Moneymaker entered one of those satellite online poker tournaments which eventually led him to the WSOP tourney that he won.  This is why avid poker players on the internet are always on the lookout for such satellite tourneys and are always ready to enter one of these.

Major online poker sites have various online tournaments that every player can join – all within the legal age, of course, and provided gambling is legal in their state.  For fees ranging from a couple of dollars to those that are open for all via freerolls, there are regular poker tourneys that you can join.

Most major online casino sites have a listing of their schedule of tournaments, so it is always a good idea to check these out and see which ones you’d eventually want to join.