“Do Poker competitions lead to Addiction or Strategy Learning?”

It seems that the participation of twenty five thousand students throughout America, who took part in the College Poker Championship competition, proves that these College Poker Championships are becoming more popular than ever among university students in the United States. The previous year’s participation increased by ten thousand more college participants.

A forty one thousand dollar scholarship is the alluring award awaiting the competition’s winner, and among the competition’s successive nine finalists a fifty two thousand dollars pot will be shared. Texas Hold’em, which is played at the contest, does not need any participation cost, and an imaginary, pre-decided sum of money is allotted in each round to each participant. The College Poker Championship is the hosting company which can be accessed on its web site where you can follow the postings, semifinal and final scores.

Next year’s competition is already being planned by the event’s organizers. However, minor changes are being made in the finals, as it’s being planned that the finalists actually face each other in the game. There’s a good probability that television will broadcast this final face-to-face competition.

It goes without saying, that the laxness whereby college students are occupied with online gambling does not exactly enthuse everyone. Four thousand five hundred students is the evaluated number of those who participated in the poker championships alone, and the public concern is whether gambling addiction could be the result of such encouraged gaming. Responding to this worry, Kerry Johnson, a College Poker Championship spokeswoman, claims that the students are not encouraged to gamble as a result of competition participation. She claims that by playing poker you learn it as a tool for strategy learning. Furthermore, it’s popularity in the classroom is proved by many instances. In addition, the sponsors point out that no cash payoffs are involved only scholarship prizes are awarded to the winners.