If You want to Make a Million try a Poker Tournament

An online gambling phenomenon that has become a real grabber is the high stakes poker tournaments. Let's take a gander at some of the more popular versions of this endeavor. Here is a big ticket competition to consider that has become especially popular among the online poker set.

With its $1.3 million slush pool of prizes along with a reasonable only $1 000 plus another $50 buy-in, the PokerStars $1 Million Guaranteed tournament brought in an amazing but not overwhelming 1301 competitors. By the time the final table was reached after some really hot play, the value of an average stack of chips had reached an impressive $425,000.

When it was all said and done the two remaining players fought over a first prize valued as $262,151 and odd change. This is the kin of sum that you might expect to see played out as a large online casino’s progressive winnings.  The guy who came in in second place took with him to his home a respectable $161, 974.50. There were another eight finalists no one else of whom took home less than $18,000 in cash.

The thing is that even though this was a lucrative engagement it was not out of the ordinary. In fact it simply reflects what is happening on the Internet at online poker sets every week, things that are being missed because of the big fanfare that the larger events are getting, events like the World Series of Poker or the World Poker Tournament. Along with the more impressive tournaments that are being held by the big time corporations.

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