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A lot of poker game tournaments have been announced on this board over time, and am I kind of wondering what makes poker games so inclined to the tournament and we don't see such competitions being announced for other games?

I can't answer you regarding other games, but regarding poker, what makes it so attractive to fish or recreational players is that it is the game mode where their bad play doesn't crush them fast. In a tight cash table, someone who sees the flop a lot and plays passively, the money usually lasts a short time, but in a tournament it usually lasts longer. Add to that the roulette effect when the blinds go up and people start going all in, which adds excitement to the game, and you have the perfect combination to attract an audience.

Because it is one of the gambling games which player can fight against player directly and there's a lot of possible interaction on this game compared to other games such as Blackjack, Baccarat, Slots and other gambling games. The only tournament that can be applied on other games is just wagering tournament which is not interesting to join because whales usually dominates this kind of tournament.

If you are interested on different games tournament, Your best chance is to join sports betting like this one https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5405399.0 which is sponsored by sportsbet.io with just a minimal entry fee to win such huge jackpot price.

Thank you for sharing this link with me, I have gone through the thread and i guess am going to participate in that jackpot but it seems to me that the thread is for premiere prediction and not a game tournament.

Exactly. If you also add possibility to "re-buy" and "add-on", the game is not so depressing. Could you tell from your experience, when you took part in one of bitcointalk tournaments, what % of players were - like you called it - "fish or recreational players"? I mean - are "internal" forum tournaments invaded by pros?

Definitely I do think that why Poker is so popular in the terms of tournaments is the basic fact that it is a social activity which enhances not only interactions but at the same time the players are able to not only practice their skills but also their luck here as well. It is rare to participate in online gambling and see that you are pegged against a player, enhancing interactions with an age old game which have been in the social circle also with the announcements you can see the rewards attached and also some players are able to practice their skills if they were playing it on a particular platform then you must understand that, they are very familiar with the rules and regulations therefore for them it would be even easier.

That's right. The twist of the game that's why it's more fun and the addition of trying to be better than the other guy with bluffs and unpredictability.
While if you do tournaments in Dice, Roulette, and other short games, it's difficult to find what makes it more competitive when it's all luck-based games.
I'd rather join a tournament predicting sports winners like a parlay than that because it requires analysis which for me is something I like to do.

I mean ask yourself, would you find a competition with Dice to be fun to watch? Where it's basically instant and even if you argue about using many rounds to determine the winner, it's still a boring process to watch. Poker on the other hand involves quite a lot of factors that enhance its own appeal, making it entertaining for both the players and the people who watch them play. The fact that the people are able to compete against each other and where winning and losing can happen regardless of how good one's hand is (e.g. bluffing) makes it really entertaining for most people. It's like watching a dark horse get the top in a competition, an unexpected but welcome surprise.

Aside from what poker players stated, other factors make poker the favorite for most tournaments, such as the ability for players to play against each other and having the chance to fill up if they get exhausted while playing the game. I have come across several tournaments being announced but have not heard of other gambling games I dont know why this is so but I can tell you are going to take part in the next tournament that will be announced in this forum.

Well, I guess there are a lot of possibilities to win or to lose and it's enjoyable to play with other players, game of chance as always to play is kinda boring. This one isn't a game of chance at all (sometimes you will feel that it is when you're too lucky) because it requires a lot of skills to play though it may vary when it's in online or the traditional one where you're sitting with other players.

Nothing beats a poker tournament as you are playing against real opponents there,it takes a lot of patience to win a Texas Holdem Sit n Go tournament for example.During such time you are also learning a lot if you observe what other people are doing in hands where you fold and see others how go and play in different situations.Chances are high to win here if you are extremely patient and only hit hard through all in when you feel that you are absolutely sure that your cards are a winning hand.

No other games offer such scenario as in this version of Poker the Texas Holdem a considerable amount of skill is prevalent compared to other games like roulette where no skill is needed except 100% of luck.

Well because perhaps the reason is playing offline and online poker games are almost the same --though you cannot bluff your opponent online still the concept of the game were still there that you can enjoy. There are other games aside from poker but I think the excitement and thrill were not there. So usually, a poker game will be the best choice because also you can increase your luck by picking a card.
A gambling casino that offers player-to-player games will usually have this tournament like chess or other card games that can be used as a tournament.

Yes, It’s a premiere league prediction tournament style. You will need to register on superbru which the link is available on the thread. It’s a point system prediction tournament and you can read the discussion in that thread to see what’s the final points system for the tournament.

I’m planning to join there too, I’m just still trying to fully understand football and team statistics before I commit on joining.

I was also one of the fans of poker gambling, although I am now more inclined to sports betting, but I can't forget the impression while playing poker.

Talking about tournaments, poker is indeed one of the best elements to promote poker through tournaments than other games, such as slots, dice and so on.
The reason:
• Hobbies, comfort, easy betting at the table, interests, the main factors of online poker being the choice of many men.
• Every game offered by online gambling sites is diverse, online poker can be an option for gamblers to play in groups, if they are tired of doing it individually, This is a method to overcome boredom in gambling, so it's no wonder that poker tournaments have so many fans.
• bonuses, online poker games also serve many features that can make users win in minutes.

What I said above, maybe you already understand, about the many poker tournaments here, the bottom line: online poker fans are bigger than any other game.

If you love to join tournaments dedicated to gambling, poker is the best ever even if you are a beginner, you can develop your skill over time to become a professional player. As for joining the games that depend on luck, I don't think it will be as entertaining as poker and sports betting.

If you take a look at all the poker series we have put together over the past years you'll see the interest level was not nearly what I feel it could have and should have been. All the series were a fairly small buyin with a fairly large possible payout. Very EV+ but most users seem to be only looking for freebies where they have to risk 0.

All of the previous series have been no limit texas hold em which is probably 1 of the most popular games of poker played. Really it depends on the decade you grew up as stud was a popular game in the 1970s-1990s, but once no limit holdem started growing it got huge. That is why all the series were geared around that game. If we tried to make a series of razz or badeucy we would probably not gotten more then 5-10 weekly players.

I personally love omaha hi as the pots get huge, but you need a large bankroll to play that consistently.

In addition to participating, you were involved in the organization of those tournaments... which is not easy and simple at all, as we have concluded many times! With sponsored games buyin was small, and possible payouts high!

With Texas, we drop to 10 players after a few weeks... with razz or badeucy I don't think we would have enough players for 1 table, and after a week or two we would have a max of 3-5 players! Hard truth...

That's because poker is an old game compare to casino games that we know online and many people knows and likes to play poker more than the other casino games but that is not true that other games don't have a tournament or competition. Try checking each of the gambling sites thread on this forum and you will see that they post their tournament or competition statistics.

If there are gambling threads that doesn't have those, you can try checking their websites directly. Poker is a skill based so this game was intense and perfect to have a tournament so that you can test your ability towards the other skilled players. It's not too late yet to learn and get involved, if you haven't yet.

Good points ops, the truth is poker gives the player the chance to use many features such as refill during the game, that is if a player's balance gets exhausted while playing the game the player can refill and continue playing that doesn't happen most of the time with other games, and that is one of the major reason why poker become the favorites in tournaments and series. Is poker the most popular gambling game, I don't think so.

For card games, poker is probably the most popular.
It may depends on personal preferences. One would like to play long, have at least a feeling that something depends on him. He would choice poker or other card game. Sports betting, may give some thrill, but probably not as much as playing against other player. And of course when we talk about playin it internet, there is always a question how reliable/fair the site is. Each time when you lose on river having AA you would ask that question ;)

Gamblers prefer poker the most among other card games because they find it thrilling and exciting. It's also easy to understand especially if you're a newbie in gambling. Its features offer entertainment and could easily be adopted and learned in just quite a short period. It could be a luck or skilled-based game depending on players handle it. For us to know if a casino site offers a play fair, then always pick reputable casino sites.

Poker depending on the variant is quite complex to play but the best known version is NLH, it is said that it only takes a few minutes to learn to play but a lifetime to master.


The poker is profitable at long way, you cannot measure yourself in the short term, for those who play cash with about 100 thousand hands you can see how your profits are going for those who have patience a million of hands would be a good measure to know if you're a winner in that period, but maybe a million other hands things will change, so you make adjustments.

That is why poker requires constant learning, reviewing your game, skills come from continuous learning from your mistakes and your successes. 
That's why you measure yourself in the long term.

In general, I guess it is primarily the game mechanics of poker that make it a good game for tournaments. Of course, I am referring to Texas Hold 'em because it is the most popular poker game and that's probably the kind of poker game which tournaments are organized here.

The good thing about poker is that luck does not determine everything that happens in the game. So everybody could maneuver each other regardless of their hands. Unlike other games, poker is not simply a battle of what cards you've got.

Because Poker is one of the most popular gambling worldwide , the support from poker players is unlimited comparing to other games specially Card games.
and also this has been in the field for long time now , biggest countries and biggest gambling supporter around the globe is promoting and conducting tournament from here and there .
though there are other games that has tournament but cannot compete with how Poker has.

I'd say it's because it's the most fun poker format. Tournaments attract a lot of people, and the more prize money the more people, like the lottery.

They have a format where you can play for a while when the blinds are small and then when the blinds get higher, it gets exciting: the aggression and people going all in.

It is usually more fun than other variants. For example, a table sit and go would be similar but on a very small scale. In a tournament, people usually play longer and there is more excitement.

Poker has always been very popular, I think that another tournament that can happen is with Black Jack, but I think that they mainly focus on poker because you can establish strategies to win and not everything is left to chance, because leave everything to chance I prefer to play slots which seems much more fun to me, however currently there are not many sites that do this type of tournaments and that emotion is experienced, in betnomi they are achieving good things doing poker tournaments, really It is very reliable, but more sites are needed where tournaments can be held at least once a day.

Poker tournament is popular and attractive because it is a pvp based game. Blackjack can be an alternative tournament but the basic mechanism of blackjack is against the house. Here in my country there are some other pvp cards games but most of this gambling games are played in real life. The card game called by Remi and I have experienced in Remi tournament although it was not using money as it was just for fun to celebrate Indonesian independence day in my village. I'm not sure if this remi game is also popular in other countries, but I think it can be a good alternative game for poker.

Aside from that, it's easy to play and be learned and that's why more poker players are coming into this gambling game because it's for everyone.

True.

Because you can apply all of those tricks that you've got like bluffing even if you've got the weakest card in the table.

To me the answer is very simple, in other gambling games you are playing against the house and not against other players so in a way you are playing against a faceless entity and it is very impersonal, however when it comes to poker you are playing against other players and if you happen to have a big win you will remember the username of the one you beat, on the other side of the coin if you lose an important hand you will remember the one that beat you and you will want to settle the score if you have the opportunity, so as you can see poker is a lot more personal which allows you to develop rivalries and this makes the game way more interesting for everyone.

Popularity and the demand is the reason why there’s a lot of tournament though this will still depend on the site, since they all have their own marketing strategy. You can also see tournament or contest in slots game the site just need to set-up the target multiplier. A lot of slots contest in games and round section where the top site hosting the games, especially on hitting the highest multiplier if you have extra money and want that extra challenge, you can also participate on that tournament and maybe if you are lucky enough, you might be one of the winner.

Poker is different, it requires critical thinking and many gamblers love this game because its also rewarding. Tournaments are already normal in any gambling site, this has become their marketing strategy to attract new players and of course to retain the loyal players.

If the reward is attractive, most probably many will join that competition, though I’m not sure if all the site will ask for the participation fee but if its none then better to join especially if you’re a poker player.

The nature of poker leads it to the creation of tournaments, while other gambling games are interesting on their own right their lack of a direct confrontation against other players means that at best you can create some indirect competitions that are not as interesting as what we see in poker, in which you directly face against your opponents and you can win or lose against them, this aspect of poker makes it special among other gambling games and it is one of the reasons for its popularity.

Poker happen to be one of the most fun giving casino games that allow for groups involvement in rhe games and i believe that is the reason why the popularity of poker tournaments is more than other games and this will continue as long as the excitement continue and casinos willing to offer a prize for the winner.

Poker is challenging mentally and physically I am not a serious poker player but all my friends who are very much into poker can testify that concentration and the level of skills you develop over the years of playing plays a crucial role in beating your opponent or the house, that is why we see tournaments in casinos and there are poker organizations for a poker tournament, there is little luck in poker that is why it is on the level of chess on sport category, I cannot think of other casino games that can surpass or even equal poker in making a tournament out of it.

All the other games in casinos are based on luck I cannot imagine a tournament where luck will play a major factor in the tournament it just got to be poker because if you want to play poker against another player, you're battling on who has the better skills in determining each other card and hiding your card from your opponent, that is why we have what we call a poker face a strategy used by players to hide their emotion, having a poker face for a long period of time is already a skill.

That's not really the case when we talk about online poker sites...
I think there is one more reason why tournaments are popular (maybe for some group of people even more than cash games) - they last longer! With cash game (not even talking about other casino games, like roulette etc), you may be out very soon, with tournament (especially on big tables, as on 6 person table it goes pretty fast too) you may wait longer for your "lucky hand".

Poker players love online tournaments because there are chances to earn big amounts with relative low investment.  ;) The spectators love to see these players battling it out, because the game is more based on skill.. and not so much on luck.

Also, Online poker tournament allows its players to compete for huge money from the comfort of their homes and the spectators are also watching them via live streaming from their homes.  :D

Watching someone battling it out against a Slot machine can become boring very quickly....  ::)

I can add that it is easier to play online tournaments. You can show your emotions and no one opponent can analyze you. It makes bluff much easier.
And i disagree with big wins without big investment. If you invest a little money you mostly have a long way to big wins. The same as in offline poker.

Do you know how long the tournaments with low buy-in and high payouts last? Late registration is 12h sometimes... and after that, you can add min +3h (depending on the number of players/if there are available re-buys/etc) before the end! So count it around 15h, a crazy working day!

That's why Bitcointalk poker games were great! Without late registration and re-buys... approximately 3h per game! And when you add sponsored pool it was a low buy-in tournament with possible high rewards! It's hard to find something similar around... to not say impossible!

Tournaments is a part of this game philosophy

I do think that it is highly because of the nature of the game itself.

Unlike other card games such as blackjack, etc., they fairly end quickly and the process is relatively simple compared to the techniques involved in poker. In addition, poker is one of those card games that mix luck, skill, and technique in order for you to win the game. Either you win due to the overwhelming card quality that you have on the pool, or because you bluffed the opponent even if your hand is bad.

This is a totally an off topic and low reply to the topic of discussion which is bordered around poker tournaments,  and from the look of things this comment does not meet up with this thread.

Back to the topic, reason why poker is popular in series and tournament is for the fact that poker is a more engaging game and can accommodate multiple players who can play against each other of the system. Some other games host tournaments but not as fun and exciting as poker league.

because you are not in the right board mate., check the Games And Rounds section here

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=71.0

there are so many games that had been announced and happened to offer different events for gamblers its just Poker is most of the time promoted here in this section.

and also because of the popularity of Poker that is why it keeps popping from most of the time.

Because it attracts a lot of players who are skilled in poker and can beat the house and their fellow poker players, like all the other members' opinions here we are in one in saying that poker involves a lot of thinking and strategy, one strategy and skill is how to look at your opponent's face so you'll have an idea on the card he is holding and make the opponent feel that you have a good or bad card, these are the things that you cannot apply on other games in casinos.

I also had time to attend training in the type of Poker game, it had been quite a while but the basics I learned turned out to be related to body language, eye movements, facial expressions, and mental things. Whether it's true or not, but the more often I see poker players at the gambling table, the fact almost all of them do have intuition in reading what cards the opponent is holding. Not a few are interested in the game of poker because it is quite draining of the mind and mental when it is in front of the table.

The truth is I didn't know that this game was popular in Indonesia, I understand that this Remi will be the same as the one called "Rumi" where I live? he consists of dealing 10 cards and putting together trios, strings, something like that, right? and what changes with the rounds? If a casino implements this type of game on their platforms, at least I will be hooked there and more if they do it or focus on PVP.

Another way to see Black Jack in PVP mode is like roulette in physical casinos, that is, they enter there and you can see the participation of other "real" users and thus gives them more emotion, it's like being in a casino physical but with the exception that it is digital (and I wish it existed with a personal Avatar and everything)

Because it is possible to run a tournament with poker and not with other popular games so casinos are doing it, there are lot of different kind of tournaments are happening somewhere related to sports and gambling so this isn't surprising. On the other hand poker got the structure for professionals to execute their skills and also the luck so everyone think they are better are high so the number of tournaments are also high.

This is what makes poker so exciting to watch, watching someone playing against a machine or a computer is nowhere near as exciting as watching that person playing against another one, I do not know exactly why this is the case but it makes it way more interesting and it gives poker an edge over other gambling games, maybe slots are way more popular than poker but poker is way more interesting to watch as the plays some of the world experts can make are incredibly impressive when we take into account the money they are betting and the level of their opponents.

^ It is definitely right, playing against person to person are very interesting to watch and that is why there is a live tournament of this game because this is not only focused on luck but also you can increase your chances of winning by the ability of your skills. It seems boring to watch if you are against the house edge though there are some people doing it and having a live video still tournament makes us excited.
Base skills games usually have tournaments not unlike those based on luck games.

all gambling game is rewarding lol ,
from poker to any card game., from Lotto to Dice game, from roulette to sports betting , all of those are rewarding lol.
you have already said that all games are rewarding so of course this is attractive , there are even million or dollars that had been given away to all poker competition all these years.

Short: Poker is one of the few (if not only) gambling where skill can prevail.

Better reward people for their skill than luck :)

Indeed and that is why crypto gamblers are totally involving and playing Poker than other gambling in the forum .
I once participated in poker tournament couple of years ago and yes there are good pot of wins but I loss my chance that time.
now I wanna play again in an open competition so i may add more skills to win this time lol.

Skilled prevailing or not? yet this is still gambling and when you called gambling there is still a big part of Luck to make us win.
I also knew that in many cases that Poker experts won because of the not so  good performance of the opponent and not because of their skillful way.
but all In all? indeed that Poker is one of the rare gambling areas when you can use big part of skill and small part of Luck.

If you notice there are many big tournaments for poker sponsored by exchange like FTX and other big groups as this game is really inclined up in having interest of the players and mix of strategy based experience coming from old days.If you have participated in them you know how much fun it is as in the past I have also taken part in some of the forum tournaments like on betnomi and SWC poker and it is really fun to play so this is why we see such craze for the game.

I cannot think of any other casino game where it can compete with Poker in terms of skill and endurance, it takes years of effort for you to sit and try to employ a strategy where your opponents cannot decipher what's on your card and for you to study the body movements and facial expression of your opponents, it's very similar to a chess game where the battle is on level of skill and trying to combat what your opponents next move, that is why I prefer playing a luck based game like Dice than poker, even though poker is more rewarding.

Same here. But for me I don’t have concern on poker skills but more on the bluffing and mind games because I can’t fake my facial expressions if huge money is involved or if I have the winning hand. I participate on poker table IRL and I can’t stand the pressure on playing against veterans players because you will always assume that they have the winning hand when they are giving you a raise war.

I quit poker for good and focus on Blackjack instead to avoid this kind of pressure feeling although poker gives a better winning percentage compare when dealing with the house because of the house edge.

BlackJack requires some skill to win profitably too, but it's a different set of skills from poker. In poker, I believe it's a mix of math, probability and psychology because you are also playing against another player. In BlackJack it's more on just the math and probability, but it can be a good card game for tournaments.

There's another casino game that requires skill to win profitability, and it's like BlackJack because it's more about just the math and probability. It's the dice game called CRAPS. Every gambler in the forum should play it.

Yes Exactly, poker tournaments are a much of fun, besides being able to get big prizes if win, poker tournaments can also train brain and train patience. Every decision we make whether it's fold call or raise must include smartly strategy and thought, this game also a lot interest of almost all card gamblers. I think the thrill of poker tournaments is when we are up against other table winners and we have to be able to read the opponent's playing patterns very smartly.

I don't mind getting the prizes for these poker tournaments. What I want is to look at those intense bluffing and just like watching the whole tournaments of these poker plays.
That's the fun that I like in poker when there are tournaments but when I play, I usually play on small timetables and I'm just amazed to see how much these pros put in the table and bluffs when the raise becomes high.

There's a good interest for poker recently, and that's why gambling site want's to take advantage of that and host a tournament so they can attract more gamblers. Though you can see in games and rounds section, many site also host tournament or promotions for other games, maybe you just need to explore to see other games as well. Some top site focuses more on this, it seems effective and that's why they are doing this almost every week.

There are competitions for other games here that are being held by different casinos. You can find them in Games and Round board. Some are free to enter (usually when the game is about prediction).
But if you're referring to games that aren't initiated by casinos except poker tournaments, it is because no one initiated it.

Poker game has always been a game of interest, as i can always remember during my childhood days that its the game of our town as a lot of people have been addicted to it. So the nature of the game itself is interesting and tempting. And for you to succeed and make profits in this type of game, aside that you are having a good position of your cards, you should also have your own strategies and techniques that will certainly work especially when having poker tournaments.

Aside from that, competitions can only be host by the casinos if there’s a demand for that games because if none, that may become a useless competition because very few gamblers will participate or none at all. Poker is a game of strategy, and having a competition with this game will be more entertaining, I watched some tournament before and I can say that the interest for poker game is very high, also its fun to watch Poker where you can also learn from the strategy of the gamblers.

Poker is not the only game that host tournament but poker seems to be the most popular among other games even though casinos also host tournament to promote both the casino and the games especially if the game is new the casino may want to host a tournament in that game in other to expose the game to players that may want to compete for the prize. So even though poker tournaments have been going on in the forum for a while now by some casinos such as the betnomi and the other popular casinos that have held tournaments on the platform.

 This comment seems off topic even though some part contain the topic of discussion, the thread starter does not include crypto currency in the thread so I wonder how you are able to ship in cryptocurrency into your comments.

Or are you trying to say that cruptocurrency have aid poker tournaments the fact that most of the poker tournament around here are carried out using crutpocurrencies like Bitcoin to pay out the price to their winners?
 I wish to see your reply for more clarification of the point you are trying to make here.

Poker is one of the few casinos games where you don't play against the house, you only play against other gamblers and everybody has the same winning chances. It makes it the perfect setup for a tournament because you can play with 2-10 people per table and can include a large number of players. The main thing about tournaments is the prize money and the more participants means the higher the price money. Another good thing about poker is the blind structure that keeps increasing, this means that games won't last forever and there is pressure on the players to keep defending their blinds. Maybe casinos could think of other tournament structure for the future, like who roles the highest numbers. But these games will always be directly against the casino and not so interactive.

I'm not sure what you mean exactly TBH but tournament are fun when they are board games. From what I have observed so far; there are not a lot of board games out there. Only poker is there and that's too limited; I can remember SwCpoker and betnomi if I'm not wrong. That's one of the limitations of having a tournament. I guess that's the reason.

People are competitive by nature, and while it is obvious we enjoy all the casino games there is no doubt that poker has a special place in the hearts of many gamblers around the world.

While there are other kind of competitions, when it comes to the different gambling games there is nothing like facing an opponent and then beating them, not only you get the joy of getting some money, you also get the joy of being able to beat your opponent, and this is a very powerful feeling for most people, which explains why almost all sport competitions revolve around the concept of beating your opponent.

where did you learn that there are no competition of poker that uses cryptocurrencies? just go around Games and Rounds and also check those legit gamblers here that loves playing Poker like yahoo26678 in which mostly joining poker competition.
I'm not sure what is your main plan in telling this but it looks like you have no deep understanding about poker games and tournaments going in cryptoworld.

our community itself here in bitcointalk is one of the biggest contributor or player of Poker competition in terms of crypto gambling .

Boardgames are fun and a great way to test your decision making skills and so far not just acquaintances can enjoy the game but it's mean to be a game for family. I was one of the participants of that said event and it was really a fun and memorable poker tournament we've had here enjoying with the forum members, though I stopped personally joining from the game considering the timing.

Yes, you are right, we must also recognize that there are many people worldwide who are fans of poker and who have great faith in that game, so much so that many seek tournaments to play, some or a large number of the community go to pokerstars.net but what I don't like is that they don't accept cryptocurrencies and that for me is what brings me down, for me the platform that does tournaments should be enabled 24 hours a day, doing tournaments every hour, or every half hour, I never know knows when a player feels lucky or wanting to play and wants to have access, I think that's what they have to keep in mind for them to grow.


I am fascinated by the game of poker, however when I play I can never reach the finalists, and I have read many tutorials, I have seen different manuals, and it is incredible, but I have a friend who is very good at playing poker and He is also very good at playing pool, in crypto tournaments when he plays he always comes out on top, the truth is I don't know nor can I figure out what he thinks and how he thinks when he plays, sometimes I think that what he has is a gift, at Just like in pool when he plays he is very good, I have asked him and he tells me that he plays without fear of losing, and he plays a lot with the psychology of others, that is the only thing he tells me.

Is FTX a gaming platform? or Exchange? I have seen in some sections of the forum dedicated to altcoins that they talk a lot about FTX, I am not a poker expert, I have seen tutorials that are exclusive to tournaments and apply a lot of mental strategy and that other players see, when we play in an online casino it is harder for our gestures to see us and more likely to win than to play against the machine.

I have not had the opportunity to play in a poker tournament, but I admit that it must be a lot of fun and at the same time feelings of strong emotions and fear will jump, when very large bets are made if the player does not have how to cover them, he can lose everything entry.

I've seen this in movies, but in movies where you see faces, to recreate this type of situation, just by making big bets I think you wouldn't need to see anyone's faces.

In poker there are many things, the straight, the trio, pair, flower and more, it is possible that someone new like me, should learn these things or the site can suggest the best play? It would be of great help and that they show the hand ranks and games.

I am also a person who admires poker players but I personally am not very good at it. I have even attended offline poker matches in several areas but that was also an event before the pandemic. What I watch turns out to be more difficult than what we watch in front of a screen. The real atmosphere clearly brings us to the moment when the players have the kind of strategy that is hard to guess.

Therefore, when I get to know online gambling, especially the payment using cryptocurrency, poker is one of the games that I will often visit.

It is very difficult to imitate poker, particularly the most known version of texas hold'em. There is a whole culture built on this game - should I say sport -  that comes back from a long time. Some say it begun in the very old China while other claim that the version that is closer to current is "poqe" played in France in the XVII century. However, it was in the US when it got to where it is today.

That is actually quite a good question. One that I have never thought of until now. If I had to make an educated guess, I would say that with poker games it does not feel like the players are entirely involved in a luck based activity like gambling but rather it feels like each player has a strategy behind each of his moves. There is even a psychoanalytic component players try to calculate. I guess this makes it fun to watch for observers. But that's just a guess of mine.

Then maybe you should learn more then? because it seems that you are not there to understand everything for gambling instead what you are pointing is something that you dont really know.

Gambling, poker and cryptocurrency are being accompanied each other nowadays and there are even tournaments happening from their part.

Same looks here because reading His post makes me think that if he really know  crypto gambling specially how this market supports poker , In Games and rounds eh can see some games running or those who had ended about poker.
similar occasion we can see because this has bringing more gamblers interested in using crypto than fiat or their credit cards.

and also this competition is getting bigger as what real life poker is gaining now.

How do you think, why big companies are not accepting deposits in crypto? I mean PokerStarts etc. Is it just a lack of provider? Or they are somehow obliged not to do it, because of some money-laundering rules?
Even PokerTracker is not accepting crypto ;-)

I think it is something as simple as they simply do not feel compelled to do it, if you take a look at the interests of those gambling with cryptocurrencies you will see that games like dice and slots are the most popular while poker has only a small amount of gamblers enjoying the game, so if this is representative of the overall interest of the community then those big websites probably do not see the need to adopt bitcoin yet and give that deposit option to their clients.

Even though games like dice and slot are most popular but poker in the contest is most favorable for tournaments even though there has always been a low turn-up from most gamblers on the forum. Cryptocurrency gambling has become very popular and some games do not attract many players I think poker is one of those games and that is why they always organize a tournament to attract new players to test the game.

I have mixed feelings. From one side I think they are somehow moderated/limited by local law they must respect, like accepting fact that they cannot provide service to users from some countries. From the other side it is kind of business where you may do a lot if you expect profit. Bonuses, lotteries, any ways to attract (new) players, just to get their money. At the end they always win, as players compete with themselves, house always takes it's part.
Maybe you are right, maybe it is too early, but we cannot ignore fact that there is a lot of people (and probably will be much more) who has some crypto-coins and would like to spend them, one way or another. And currently all they are able to do is to play dice, not serious poker with other players.

Bitcoin requires some investment. A company needs to educate its staff, set up wallets, make sure the security is tight. I think companies in general not accepting cryptocurrencies comes down to 2 main points:
They know it's going to cost them money and they have enough income without bitcoin payments.
They consider it a niche and don't see much profit coming in from this move. The bigger the company is the less inclined it will be because bitcoin is not going to be more than 1% of their total revenue.

It's because there are no PVP games for other games. Like in dice, the only thing that competition can be made is through wagering and amount of wins there.
In slots, the same goes there. Is there a PVP type of gambling with slots? None. So, it's the same for dice and unlike poker, there's really an interaction from each player at that one table. Don't compare them because there's a huge gap.

Dice and Slots are the most popular ? where did you get this data? don't  Poker had been covering the gambling industry for years now and those tournament that take place had been given millions of dollars for their players .
so i guess it is not right to  call those 2 to be most popular when poker is the only gambling tournament that is making big bags of money in path .

I think that dice games, slots and poker have been popular for a long time and each of these gambling games has fans who always come back to play the same game.
Tournaments for poker games attract many pro and non-pro players because they want to test their poker skills and win prizes.
But we do admit that cryptocurrency gambling has now become popular and dice, slots, and poker have benefited from the popularity of cryptocurrencies.
Maybe if we could play dice and slots like playing poker, where we could play at the same table, we'd see tournaments like poker already exists.

It is the other way around.

Why should they accept crypto deposits?

This is partly due to regulatory issues, but the important question here is whether these companies are losing a significant part of their business by not accepting crypto deposits, and the answer is that they are not.

it is correct , and poker makes big difference from their offering and this is also the reason why gamblers turn their gaming in Poker and participating in tournaments  because of those opportunity , they find gaming in this as a competition wise and improving their skills in card games.
Poker had been around for long and yes gamblers all around the world are engaging and enjoying all aspect of this.

I think gamblers don't find them boring in this game as compared to other games. Other games which are computerized are very boring to me and the amount of enjoyment is very less for me on these games.  On the other hand when I'm playing poker with another player I don't feel boring here and this creates an another excitement and joy in every gamblers. So I think gambling websites are bringing more poker games as per the demand of gamblers

If you have no other option, you take what they get. Have you ever seen a Japanese Pachinko parlor? It is crazy! One may say it is stupid and boring, but as gambling is illegal in Japan, pachinko is the only game allowed. Of course all that situation complicates everything (you cannot win any prize, all you get are "tokens", but if you only cross the street, you may exchange these tokes for something more real), but there is no alternative.

Well, it depends on what in your hands and your decision making after all, it also has variety of strategies and what fascinates me the most was the skill in bluffing. Bluffing is hard for yourself or to guess your opponent, I know myself I'm not good at it nor how to read the mind or facial expression of an opponent. I'd say everyone is unique, your friend may good at it but likely you have what you're good at too which he isn't.

There are some games that are very fun.  Gamblers are highly addicted to these games.  I play some games that are very simple.  I love playing these simple games.  I am very happy when I win gambling.  And sometimes it feels bad to lose gambling.  That's why I don't gamble much.  Try to stay away from gambling.

Poker games brings a lot of excitement every time we create a single move, as it could make us more lucky and win the profits eventually. And knowing mostly prefer to have a poker tournament maybe because the game itself takes a lot of time, showing all your strategies and skills to win, and of course luck as it’s also a game of chance and luck. Some may find it boring, but if you are a real gambler, you will definitely enjoy looking every player’s move.

Well, casinos can reinvent some way of tournaments and contests. But don't compare the different sets of games that they have and it's doable for poker. As you've said, it's been there for a long time and gamblers, online and offline, have been doing that for a long time.
It is very fun to watch tournaments when you're bored at home and you just sit down or lie on the bed. You'll see how good these pros are in tournaments.

^ Games that are based on skills are good to see that there is a tournament, I never saw a tournament that is based on luck.
I never saw a tournament on dice and roulette or etc., so a possible tournament should be player-to-player games. In most online games poker is very well known that can be played at tournaments, that is the reason until now it has existed.
I like to gamble in tournament shooter games online, like CS: GO or in Valorant games which are very common here in my country.

I think it depends on the person that is playing it. If you are a guy who like skill based games then you will enjoy it while for those who are less skillful they can find it boring. They will find their happiness on a simple game. What do you mean by computerized? All online games are computerized lol.

I think what you mean to say is randomized? What about plinko game? Or slot game? They are both randomized but they are fun even for a person who already preferred skill based games. This is due to their graphics and gameplay. Most crypto sites focus on wide range of games not only poker but for non crypto gambling sites, they can focus more on card games and poker can be the main star.

Someone can just have fun and make his own tournament for who's going to have the most wins with these luck-based games. Well, that's just a tournament to have fun and not an official one, unlike those poker tournaments that we're watching.

Esports gambling is very popular and common these days.

Agree with this when we are going to enter the tournament like games is based on 30%luck and 70 % strategy and skills because not all the time you can win even though you are a pro player but still if you don't have your lucky time then it's matter. But the best thing is if a player is skillful and have a good strategy then for sure the chance of winning is bigger than expected. About poker game it's good if a pro player played in tournament to compete other pro players.

I believe most games have divergence motivess and some games are most favorable to host a tournament on poker is the most suitable, I have witnessed a lot of poker tournaments on this forum and most time betnomi is among the casinos that have brought in the tournament and this also witnessed a low turn out from members here but may be as people are becoming more aware that there is so much fun in the tournament and the prize most times is mouth-watering.

Poker tournament always has some exciting rewards with them and there is craze for it that's why you see many players engaging in them because it's more of strategy based.You are right that betnomi has sponsored many such tournament and have personally participated in some of them but was not much lucky to win among experience players.

Playing poker is not easy, especially if we play in tournaments because, in that tournament, there will be a lot of pro players who often hide their abilities in playing poker. But hopefully, more casinos will hold poker tournaments so that more players will test each other's abilities to be the winner. Maybe for now, if you are interested in joining a poker tournament, you should practice your poker skills often because when the time comes, you are ready to play and maybe you can be the winner.

What a crock of shit. The pro's don't hide anything. When sitting at a table they know who are the strong players and who are the weak players. Against weak players it is not worth hiding anything or strategizing because their game defeats them (in the long run).


I don't know if you are referring to cryptocurrency casinos but fiat casinos have a very good variety of tournaments. Obviously, the bigger the casino, the more varied the offer.


Yes, well, practicing is fine, but it is precisely in tournaments where it is easier for players who don't know how to play much to beat the pros due to luck or short-term variance.

It is that in a poker tournament there are no boring games, always each table, each game is decisive, in each hand it can and is possible that a player leaves with no money due to high bets, this is a fact, it is you can clearly live when fox broadcast pokerstar.net world tournaments, currently i would like to see more casinos taking the reins and bring back everything related to poker, so far Betnomi has been one of the casinos that have made high level tournaments with very good prizes, if the casinos change their direction towards pvp poker games and bullfights, it would make them have more traffic.

Poker is entertaining to watch from a viewer's perspective who knows only the surface on card games. It's like watching a movie unfolding in front of you with all those intricacies, all those bluffs, and all those faces of people not trying to give out information on their position. Each round is intense and you can tell who wins what until after all the cards are laid down on the table. You can also see people winning against all odds even with a bad hand, and that isn't usually as exciting on other card games. Blackjack tournaments are also held, but poker has a lot of viewers that can easily get hooked onto it, so I guess that's why it gets a lot of tournaments.

I'm not sure an inexperienced poker player can tell the difference between a pro and an inexperienced poker player, especially if it's in a tournament. Maybe you have experienced it while playing poker or playing cards. I can say that because at least I've seen some experienced card players hiding some things in strategy.

Fiat casinos may have had poker games for a long time. Still, not all crypto casinos have poker games so if many have poker games, it will attract the interest of players who can play in fiat casinos to try a different experience in the crypto casino.

If they can practice before the tournament arrives, it can provide practice for them in strategizing to deal with opponents. In addition, they also need to have peace in playing gambling and do not need to rush to strategize.

That is exactly why poker tournaments are popular also the fact it is not only a matter of luck, there is also a percentage of skill on deceiving one's foes so they can commit mistakes. It is easier to relate to a player who uses their skills in a contest rather that someone who depends completely on luck, this happens in traditional sports like soccer and e-sports.

It would not be so exciting to me to see a handful of guys playing slots for hours in order to see who gets more profits vs others.

What do you mean by hide their abilities? They will definitely show how much experience they have with each hand on the table and it's upto to you how you manage to trick some other players even with weak hands while the other part is cards you are having that makes a strong pair or not but hiding abilities sounds weird to me as well.There are lot of tournaments if you seek for them.

Maybe what he meant is how they will hide their emotion and reactions so opponent wont read them that easy in front .
He might deliver a wrong word mate ,  because abilities cannot be Hidden as it will be revealed inside the table when the game started.

^ That is right, it was held here before and cooperating with the forum members.
I don't know either if there is can be a hidden ability in poker, poker kinda needs tricks, but if you cannot able to manage the weak hand cards, they will remain weak hand cards. If we will rate the percentage of poker based on luck which I think 60/40, 60% based on luck, and the rest if you can able to manage based on skills. sometimes though how professional a player your are if you always have weak hand cards it is better to have a break for awhile.

Professional poker players can analyze situations and circumstances more than anyone else, so they pretend to panic and can't do it. Perhaps this will be part of their strategy to get others to look down on them so that others can get caught up in their game.

Maybe it's not a trick or anything like that but it could happen to outwit the opponent so that the professional poker player can get a way to win.

It is always curious to read "the professional poker player...he is a machine, he knows what he is doing..." and so on.

A poker player who says or is a professional, basically he pays his bills and responsibilities, then they make poker his profession.

And in this line there are professional poker players who do their job well, others are very bad, others improve, others remain stagnant, etc.

It is a complex job not only because of the game itself, difficult to tackle in a few lines.
 In any case to summarize a professional poker player can be the "cousin" of the table ... and he does not know it, but the next day or when he analyzes the game he discovers it.

 Being the one with the least skills in a certain poker game with other rivals is not a bad thing or it is perhaps very common for many professionals, the issue lies in not knowing it.

maybe Innovating the game will help them garner more players? because boredom mostly is the enemy of gambling operators from their players and that will make them enjoy more  when there is new features with the same game.
but it is more fun if we will partake in one of the tournament mate as I've tried that twice  in my life lol.

The best poker players use every single resource available to them to obtain an edge over their opponents, for example even if you suffer a bad loss you can use this to your advantage, it is very common that after such loss a player enters into a state called tilt in which a player begins to play more aggressively in order to recover their losses as soon as possible.

While I'm not a great poker player I used this once to my advantage, after suffering a big loss I received a very good hand so I played very aggressively, this made it seem as if I was in a state of tilt and my opponent called all my bets thinking that I was making mistake after mistake, eventually I went all-in and my opponent still thought that I was making a mistake, to his surprise he found out that I had the best hand from the beginning, he lost and ironically he was the one to enter into a state of tilt after he lost that hand.

Professional poker players will know what to do, depending on the situation at the table. It was because he had a lot of experience that could help him adapt to the situation. That's not going to happen to poker players who don't have much experience because usually, they will look panicked and don't know what to do.

If someone decides to become a professional poker player, they are ready for everything and will always try to be responsible. They can also be wise in deciding something when they play gambling.

Professional means that they get money from the poker. It becomes a job. Of course they well-focused and more experienced players. And they get advantage the same as in any other job - their experience helps to analyze situation on the table fast and predict the next steps of the opponents. When the common player need time to think what to do, the professional make his bet instantly. The most interesting situation is when several professionals plays. In such situation they begin to think. When i understood how it works i stopped play poker - just sometimes $5-10 for fun.

It is not only more focused or experienced, I recently listened to an interview with a professional (female BTW) poker player. She spoke about the preparation and how professionals understand the game. One of the key things is that they will be playing 7 hours a day, mostly against a computer, exploring different strategies and "lines of game". It is becoming even more professional since the internet.

When they want to learn to be a professional poker player, they must spend more time learning various poker lessons and how to control themselves. Becoming a professional poker player means that they can also earn money from the game while continuing to learn. It is not easy because they should prepare many things before becoming a professional poker player, especially the time that must be spent to become a professional. But all gambling games have risks and the size of these risks varies depending on several things.

Yes I have also seen some of the professional videos in which they state how they manage to play well and training is the most efficient part and with internet it is possible to compete in the hard levels as well and you come to know different strategies that can be used during a game.Watch YouTube videos for such big tournaments and you will find out how big the pool is and how they manage to play in them by focusing on other players as well.

It`s the same as other professionals. They work(training) hard to get the result. And when we see it - no one think how difficult was to reach such results, often we even think "he makes it so easy, i think i can do the same".
Nowadays all professionals use computers in training - it gives huge opportunities. The poker and the chess are the main sports where the AI is the most useful for training i think.

There are some similar card games that you might find in a casino, but poker is pretty special in it's ability to work in a tournament format. Firstly it is quite a balanced game, in theory if all players played a perfectly logical mathematic game then bluffing and the psychology behind that is what creates the biggest skill difference. Secondly, it can stretch for a long time and is stretched even further when you start with many players (e.g. 9) per table and this can be expanded in a knock-out style setup across as many tables as you can offer. Then there are many auxiliary benefits, like a simple to understand format and an ability to control the tempo of the game with things like raising the ante or buy-in cost through different rounds.

Becoming a professional poker player is in fact very similar to becoming a professional trader, it is important to learn the skills necessary to profit from the activity but it is also very important to learn money management skills, and we know this is the case because there have been many cases of poker players that have an amazing ability to play the game but which they do not know how to manage their money effectively, and this means that their poker skill level becomes irrelevant and they also become long term losers.

Both are almost the same as professional poker players and professional traders are required to learn more from others, but the subject matters set them apart. But both must have good self-control so that they don't get out of line and still be able to play poker or trade well. And I agree that money management is also very important for every gambler because this will determine how much money they will use to gamble.

Learning from others and learning from past mistakes will really help you to develop yourself so that you can become a professional. But remember that everything takes time before you can become a professional. But if it is related to being a professional gambler, it will not be easy because apart from time, you also need to consider the financial issues that you will use to gamble from time to time. This may cost more money as we continue to gamble and can also trigger you to become addicted to gambling instead of becoming a pro.

have you partaking in any of those tournament? if yes then maybe you have already learn about the reason why this is the most famous tournament in terms of gambling specially card gaming?

If not then best if you try to participate so you can feel the ambiance and the lust to win one of the biggest reward in gambling history.

this forum or crypto gambling is completely supporting those tournament so let us not question those.
sure they will , and because this needs to risk their own money and poker is not that easy as many think off.

Well, poker is itself an icon in gambling and not just now, it's a lifelong one, it's a basic game that every player should have among their favorites, because strategy is a factor that every player must put before leaving everything in hands of luck, we have to look for luck, because if we have our knowledge as an ally, it is a matter of doing things very well to be successful, I think this is one of the reasons why many prefer games and tournaments of poker, besides, it cannot be deceived that the emotion of a PVP game with so many people gives much more elegance, because that way you know who is the best.


I have said this a couple of times, I don't know if you have played on a betcoinpoker platform years ago, it was a software that was declining and there were always live tournaments and you could play for free, and there were always tournaments where participation of some it was quite good, of course this is something that when they won the prize it was that if 100mBTC or something like that, there were tournaments where the entrance was paid, and but they were 24 hours a day, and it was very exciting, one could spend hours there playing Of course, this is something I say because I would like a casino and betting platform to take that initiative and launch it, it would be something very rewarding and with a clear traffic option.

It is true that people learn way more vividly from their own experiences than from the experiences of others, however the problem with this approach is that there are some mistakes which are so catastrophic that it doesn't really make a lot of sense to try to go through them on your own when you can learn from the experiences of others, so some sort of balance must be reached in which important but cheap lessons can be learned on your own while important but expensive lessons are learned from the experiences of others.

^ Different people have different approaches to gambling.
Because for me when you are called a professional gambler it means you have more experience in it than the usual gambler.
Though the Poker game has a large percentage of based skills game I think if you are not enough professional enough you cannot divert your weak hand cards into strong hard cards and can able to win your card. So games that have based on skills can be gathered in a tournament like a poker.

The more the experience you have, a big chance of winning is in your hands it because every experience a lot of things we discovered a lot techniques you've been encounter so expecting that you are much better than other who are less in experience. Skills are important in poker tournament and through skills you will be having a good chance of winning so without a doubt if you are skillful then your opponent is less of experience then you have good advantages.

I think that they do get over the psicological aspects very early or else they simply have to abandon. Most professionals take the game level to a point that is pure mathematics. In the same interview, she explained that during the game she just thinks of the money on the table as "firing power" or "fuel left" to be burned and decissions are purely intelectual.

I agree with you, for me slots and craps are individual games, it is very difficult to make an arrangement for it to be PVP mode, how could it be done to play with others? I would not understand, those are the things that should be taken into account, maybe something could be done with other games, with Black Jack you can do PVP tournaments, but taking into account all the things that can be done with PVP mode what will dominate the most will always be poker, poker is like more elegant so that it can be played, and the best thing is that it can be done simultaneously in a tournament, that is something that all this allows the game of poker.

I think that this is true for the most part of poker. But this is not about the bluff. I read several books about plying poker and tried to play as they teach. It really helps but i understood that i lost the interest. The poker became just a job. But i didn`t bet several thousands for one time. May be it gives other emotions.

Well, that's fine in theory, but we're all human and even the most seasoned professionals sometimes let emotions get in the way of their gambling decisions.

First I want to repeat a distinction that I often mention in these threads but that most people don't seem to understand: between professional and regular players.

Both types of players are quite similar in that they are long term winners, take poker as a job and take care to make the most rational decisions possible (EV+). The difference between these two types of players is that the professionals are dedicated exclusively to poker and the regulars have a main job but with poker they earn extra income. That and the level of income. The average professional makes much more money than the average regulars, who can be found in micro-limits (although these regular are often people who are learning).

A regular or professional poker player when he bets, if he does it well, is not thinking about the value of the money the chips have, he is calculating an EV+ move in the most emotionally neutral way possible. A recreational player or fish, on the other hand, is usually an occasional player who is thinking about the cash value of the chips, going up if he wins or going into tilt if he loses. In both cases he usually ends up losing soon because even though he starts with a winning streak, due to the feeling of confidence and thinking that he is on a "winning streak" he makes even worse decisions than he would normally make.

Yes, this is a very good way, but don't worry, there are many ways to learn to play with more precision, but it's good that you play and play because experience is also what makes a person grow, for me poker is It is a very popular game and it is excellent to bet on, poker tournaments have more chances of winning, you just have to play very discreetly so that other players do not take the routines or patterns with which you play, that is a very peculiar way of knowing how a person plays and how to play it, this is something that can be taken into account for every player.

Each person has his style of play and that is what everyone is looking for, to know how they do it to establish their strategy.


You are right, the psychological aspect I think has everything for the best decision making, I know that many people when they are on a good run only think that they will win and they will win, the concept they have about failure is very little, and really that is not wrong, they have an excellent positivism, but before winning every player must imagine a scenario where he fails because it is better to have his feet firmly on the ground.

However, the most famous poker players are people who usually have a lot of money to withstand any loss, perhaps that is one of the things why professionals recover quickly.

It is very common for a professional poker player to say phrases or habsurd things for anyone like "never mind, I lost playing well..." There are cooler (e.g.) that seem meaningless...for most but have EV+.  The long term defines the good poker player and is the reason for such phrases, because the professional or that player who knows what he does does not play with having luck in his favor plays with EV +.

There are actually more and more tournament formats becoming active every single day in the form of esports. These are essentially a form of electronic game just like poker is replicating the real world card games. They're also getting more popular with bookmakers as they can have huge fanbases that could potentially be drawn into placing a bet with the right sort of prompting. You used to only see games like Dota and CS:GO on most gambling sites, but there are more modern games being offered now at some of the biggest sportbooks like FIFA. I expect this market to get even bigger over time, the trick is the ability to prevent any cheating so potentially only live events where no tampering can happen will be tolerated.

Not really.

10 Poker Players Who Went Broke (https://www.casino.org/blog/10-poker-players-who-went-broke/)

These are just 10 but there are many more. Even Negreanu went broke several times in the past:

Being Broke but Never Quitting: The Years That Built Daniel Negreanu’s Career (https://somuchpoker.com/being-broke-but-never-quitting-the-years-that-built-daniel-negreanus-career/)

In the case of very high buy-in tournaments or even high stakes games, it is relatively common for professional players to play with the financial support of others (who provide part of the necessary funds in exchange for a share of the profits).

Poker as a career is not only about playing well, but also about having great emotional control and knowing how to manage your finances. Another very common thing is the players who become established and start earning serious money, many start spending as if there were no tomorrow, exponentially increasing their consumption and lifestyle, instead of taking advantage to ensure an economic cushion and a huge bankroll. Then come the rough patches and they have to go looking for financial support and stuff.

The tournaments in poker are very limited, seeing the comments of people who are very up to date with what has to do with poker, the forum is not interested in poker or is what active players are giving a very subliminal message, they care about is games where there are no complications and they can win or lose whether it is against the casino or not.

I have not seen game tournaments, a tournament for me is when people face each other, and they do not fight against a computer, or against a system, I have never been in tournaments that have the impression and communication with others, I think it is the most typical way to raise the adrenaline and with money, with poker I have not seen here but only against the computer and almost all casinos have poker games.

Without doubt, this is one of the strangest posts that this thread has and that I have seen in relation to poker.

In any case, your poker skills are measured in the game, not in what is said or intended to be shown in a comment, you can be a good connoisseur of the game and have exceptional analysis, it happens in many areas but that does not imply that in practice you have that skills, in poker, being an analyst or expert in the field does not guarantee the result as winning player in the long term, that in essence is the magic of poker, open to any type of player, even the fish are winners at some point.

On the other hand, online poker is played against another player, the forum has at least 7 registered series and more than 50 players have gone through these series, but that does not imply that there are more players, anyway, You want play poker!, it is very easy to do it, so not there are excuses if you feel like it.

That's probably because what you've written has more to do with quota than with contributing anything meaningful to the discussion.

Of course, tournaments are what they are, and not what they seem or fail to seem to him.


From your comments it is clear that you have played poker and understand it, so I doubt if this is a typo:

A skilled poker player tends to win in the long run. There are only a few exceptions:

1) That he moves up levels and ends up playing at a level where he has no edge. Therefore, assuming he manages his bankroll well, he has to go down a level.
2) He is going through a bad psychological moment in his life, which leads to alcohol or drug consumption and that affects his gambling.
3) In the case of big tournaments played live, the variance can last for months or years without significant results. Thus there have been a few players who quit the modality or poker altogether.

But a winning NL100 SH player, settled at the level for years and who wins at 6bb/100h, and hasn't dabbled in alcohol or drugs is always going to win in the long run.

Tournament can be also be a series of set games of different matches but same game, it can involve playing with the computer or with other player and a single play mode can also be activated, it has an unfinished task that always comes in episodes or stages, you build yourself with potentials, skills, weapons and all the requirements for engaging a battle and the tournament match start as an adventure that proceeds from step to step, most arcade games are found in this category, action/thriller and car racing games were also common in playing games in tournament.

You've never been on a poker tournament that involves real people I guess mate. I don't think you're aware on the bitcointalk poker tournaments that was held by forum members here and if really not, you may check this recent one: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5382245.0, this one isn't against a bot.

It depends on which kind of tournaments you are looking for, the large tournaments with thousands of players are rare and mostly publicity events. But there are quite a few smaller tournaments that have quite a high chance of finishing up in the money. For me the best thing are sit and go games with 30-100 players. They offer large enough price pools to make it worth playing a few hours and you usually have the option to rebuy if you fail with your first bullet. The good thing about these micro tournaments is that they are offered in different buyin sizes and run many times a day. There are fixed times and you can plan your evening accordingly. And when playing online you can play multiple games at once.

Both require knowledge and good analysis, but the fact that poker games are still luck based, no matter how skilled you are or how good in money management, there are always more visible inevitable losses for professional poker players than in professional traders. Because as long as it’s gambling that is a gamble of chance and luck, even professional poker players are still subject for losses.

You are thinking of a professional poker player, but not all poker players are professional, so the one that wins on the long run is a guy like Phil Helmut or Daniel Negreanu or Phil Ivey. Of course, those people will always end up earning some money when they get in, hell they are offered entry fee by others, just to share the winning pot if they win, meaning they may not even have to pay for anything anymore, they either win something or win nothing but not even lose anything.

So, if I start gambling poker, I would be terrible at it, and would lose in the long run, but those famous poker players would win, there is a big big difference.

Yes, that is the most correct and I think that this is the only way to see poker as one of the games that can be compared to chess, because it has a lot to do with its calculation, seeing poker in this way I think it is much deeper where emotions are left aside and it gives you that tranquility and peace of mind when playing, something very similar to when playing chess, the player does not think if he will win or lose, he only calculates each move and studies at least what he can do it in 3, 4, 5 or if I could see more moves, it's much better, I think that level of understanding refers, but to get there I think you need a lot of knowledge and experience.

What you say is very interesting and it makes a lot of sense when we play poker in a tournament that is online, that is like an all against all, we do not know who we are playing against, if they are professional or not, but there is something that must be taken into account that we can be novices and we can face a poker professional who lives from poker, then this is something that is both fair and undeserved, just because we are all in ideal conditions, and it is not deserved when it is up to a player to face a professional because obviously the professional would win, although in cards and poker much depends on luck.

Professional players base their strategies on averaging winning. Sometimes it may be as little as an advantage of 1 in 50 or 1 in 20 if playing with less experienced players, but that is it. This means that they need to play as many games as possible and make sure that the strategy is correct in each and everyone of them. Not an easy task and one that requires plenty of preparation.

No, I'm not just thinking of professionals, and it's something I've explained repeatedly. Twice in this thread. I am not a professional player, I am a regular player, known also as "reg" and I have earned money playing poker for years, which complements the money I earn with my main job and other sources of income, like the signature campaigns here.

So you don't have to be a pro to make money in poker.


LOL.

Yes, you better not play poker.

Have you just created this thread for your own benefits as to post your daily counts? because in your OP the topic stands as question but this post of yours seems to be you understand what you are asking for?
this sounds for me that there is no need for the thread to run as you already knew what is that?
poker is a game to gamble , so  like every games? there are different type of players in each games.

It has been quite a time that we have seen some poker tournaments on the forum and few months I have personally played the game on any site.But it was really good to participate along with the forum members like on Betnomi and SwC poker with some good rewards as well and there was lot of excitement among members in the thread about it.But when you play along the real players the situation is entirely different and you have to skillfully handle each hand to see if you can make a good pair out of it and your balance on the table.

It is pretty common in the poker world to stake each other for big tournaments. All the top poker players know each other and once you reach your first big payouts it becomes much better to spread your risk than to take it all on your own. In the big tournaments with hundreds of players the chance of winning is small, even for the professional poker player. He might make it into the money, but for reaching the first place you need to be lucky. And it also affects your strategy if you only play to reach the money, or if you want to win the tournament. Sharing some of their profits with other players helps to diversify risks and can lead to payouts even if you got knocked out of the tournament. Daniel Negreanu is doing that even for his fans, you can buy different structured packages before the WSOP each year and make a profit whenever he makes money in a tournament. It kind of similar when people at the final table make a deal among each other to split the money based on their poker rating and then only play for who gets the bracelet. Poker player are business man and are looking for ways to get the most money out of a situation. In tournaments once the rebuy phase is over things can go wrong very fast, imagine getting AA and the chip leader puts you all in preflop only to see his 99 hand hitting a 9 on the turn and you are out of the tournament.

I think it just doesn't get that much attention, that's the problem. Poker is not the type of game that ever saw that much attention from the crypto world and that's the issue, there has been a lot of poker websites in the crypto world as well, and they never grew that big, look at all the old ones and you will see how they work hard to get people and always end up failing.

You would probably need a lot of marketing, and I mean like millions of dollars to get a proper amount of people interested, and even in there you wouldn't know what to do afterwards when the money is over, and people are not staying. Hence, it's not a good idea to do it.

Poker series isa big way to spend money and mostly those who take part in tournaments are professional poker players who have loads of money to play around with, with what I have seen on this forum from a good number of poker tournaments hosted here, players are expected to stake an amount to share in the pool.

I don't know if the such a system of group games tournaments is available with other games but poker seems to be the most popular game in tournaments.

Gambling as a whole is addiction and we must have our stop limits and budget allocated towards it which must not be crossed in any sense as it could hurt you financially as well as in other ways also.Going bankrupt is very normal one and your life is also distributed so this should be avoided at any cost and not becoming too emotionally attached to the game.

If so, the key so that we don't go bankrupt and can enjoy gambling games is to learn to control ourselves in any gambling game because that can help us to avoid the addiction that has happened to many people. We don't need to chase defeat or victory because our goal in playing any gambling is to enjoy the atmosphere. But indeed, poker games can make us forget to control ourselves but that will also depend on each player. If they could handle it, they could stop before they lost a lot of money.

It is that things are very difficult to determine, if a player does not get along with his finances he can lose everything and that is something that should not be allowed, just as there are poker players who have a lot of money there are others who do not live According to what they win, it's incredible, but in the world there are people who are like that, however, in my very particular case, I would always like to be involved in poker tournaments to live those experiences more and to be able to come out as a winner one day, I have a friend who plays poker very well, and usually in every tournament he is if he is not 1st, he is among the first, sometimes worse people like him I think they even have a gift.


What you say is very true, I really have never gone bankrupt with games of chance, or making sports bets, but I know some cases of well-known colleagues who have had to live that bitter time, and it is difficult, because many they fall into depression and their families have to pay for places where they do sleep cures, according to doctors they say that sometimes addiction to casinos causes that to be worse than drug addiction, because a drug addict is only looking for money to get high, but that the addict to the games tempts against his own life when he does not get money, according to that doctor he assures that the best thing is sleep cures for the person so that he avoids doing something very ugly and disgrace his whole family, the bankruptcy caused by the I consider gambling to be something very delicate.


I have seen that the majority of the population in terms of Bitcointalk players, not all of them are so wealthy, but that we still like casinos a lot, and gambling, it is because we like to have a lot of fun, but at least I do not have as much money to allocate it to risk in a casino, and because of that I have developed many techniques to take advantage of my situation and get the most out of casino games, and that does not ensure that I have big profits, because you lose more than you win, but if we see gmabling only with another mentality, as well as fun, we will spend little and enjoy more, something that very few who have a lot of money and spend a lot of money and lose it to feel happiness.

We as gamblers are always bankrupt but the site/owner? never been lol not unless he knows nothing or not good in running their businesses .
I for once experience that  bankrupt when i visit a newly opened casino and all my funds even my ATM got busted  and that is the meaning that never I bring my ATM again in my gambling  activities because of that day.

because it is a choice that we have to make, such as choosing gambling for entertainment or to earn money for daily needs etc. it's only natural that if a gambler goes bankrupt in gambling it drains more money that must be lost in gambling and we will lose and the bookies will always win.
we can't blame anyone because we are in gambling at the poker table it is our choice to play gambling. whatever it is the purpose of gambling is one way to spend money slowly but sometimes to make rich when lucky to get a jackpot with a large amount.
and again, the main problem is not only poker, which can actually drain money in gambling, but other games may also be the same

Whether if we are playing for fun or money but if we don't have a control, it is always possible for us get addicted and lose more money. It's hard for a gambling house to go bankrupt because there will always be losers even if there are big winners so they can always cover up the winning amount plus they can also earn something.

Poker is not a fast game compared to dice, slot, blackjack and other casino games. If you have a good knowledge in the game, it can also make you lose less or even earn more out of it. This is why this game still remains while other games are banned on the streaming platform called Twitch. I guess you guys heard of that issue lately.

For those that choose gambling as fun they are lucky to participate in some tournaments as op mentioned and if you looking for the best poker site you can easily find them around. I have read through this topic and I have seen the various comments and suggestions, but we most know that not all games allow for group competition but in poker, one can easily play in a group.

I am struck by what they say about playing in a group, because playing in a group is a great option to be able to beat the opponents, and it is known that 2 ops have more bosses and think better than one, but the problem here is not that, but there is no platform that makes online tournaments to be able to play, all the casino games that are in the casinos are very good, and 100% realistic, but they are not live and against other people, if it were against other people one as a player would have more opportunity to win, and all those strategies that have been said could be applied, but where can you play live and have them be tournaments against others?

Well yes, if they do that type of strategy where they are averaged based on all the games played, then what should be sought is that it has a positive balance, that is, that they add up more profits than losses, something like that is how it happens with trading, when trading, market speculators have control of their profits and losses, obviously if they see that they have more losses they are not seeing trading in the correct way and have to rectify it, I think something like that can apply to poker or any other game in casinos, there must always be a balance in favor greater than the loser, otherwise I think nothing is being done.


Yes of course, there is no doubt about that, only that when we start looking for some poker tournaments it is difficult to find those that are reliable, it is very easy to find one where you deposit, but very few where they are honest and pay when needed make a withdrawal request, this is what we have to be careful of, that's why it would be very good if one of the platforms that we have as the best, could venture into the world of poker tournaments, without a doubt it would attract many people in the world, not only here in the forum but also outside, these are some of the many advantages that having a poker tournament offers.

Of course when we search on the internet it will be easy to find many things including poker tournaments but surely that is different from tournaments held in this forum where members who join will feel closer and can discuss in the tournament thread where it cannot be done if participating in out there

That's right, for me poker is one of the games that have the most power worldwide in terms of gambling, most "Old School" players only play poker and due to the low flow of poker games that exist in e world, or in some casinos they are on standby, so that population of players needs some action, that is why some choose to play on platforms, but they do not find it so attractive to play against the casino, it is better that they hold some tournaments or something more flashy, poker tournaments are very popular and I think they should take up that taste again and have the platforms organize them again.


I think that one of the reasons why we always focus on being able to give online tournaments that are in well-known casinos, is because of the trust and reputation that each of the forum sites lends, I know that there can be many sites on the web where they do online tournaments and they can be very good, but here most of the casinos are made with crypto, crypto is handled and there are sites that only accept fiat money, and that is something that complicates, it can be handled or not with some precision to Although there are reliable payment processors, however in my case, a platform that is good is pokerstars.net, but for convenience I prefer to stay with a well-known casino that is here in the forum.

I think all this is because it's more popular than the others. People like it more than any other also, skills and luck both are involved in these games, which makes it more attractive than any other, also people are more familiar with the rules of the games and have a better understanding of them.

I have a different perspective to the comments of the both of you, because i love playing poker games and i have seen a lot of other poker players who just do it as a pleasure and not with the mindset of making money out of it.
I believe that the reason why most tournaments are held in poker is because of it simplicity and ability to be played by multiple players, that is players play against each other unlike other games where there are always playing against the house.
And taking about addiction i agree with you on that one, as many poker players have suffered wide range of addiction.

Poker games are games that have more appeal to people, so they hold the event, it can be said that poker games have become very common things that many people know. As for other games, they are less attractive, so I don't think they hold events for other games.

One thing that the casino aim from tournaments is their own promotion and publicity, As you said that poker has more appeal to people and many gamblers know how to play it or at least the basic of poker that's why everyone can relate. A casino won't launch a tournament that only few people know or participate in because they will get less traffic from it compared in launching a poker tournament.

Well there are many things that are excellent from what you say, what happens is that sometimes it is like more exciting to participate in poker tournaments that are with many people and it is not only against the house, for me in particular, when I started in This world since 2017 saw more frequently the sites that offered PVP tournaments, now they are very few, does this mean that the directions or tastes for casino players have changed over time? In my case, it has happened like this, I see slots much more fun, of course not at first, but once you begin to understand the concept of slots well, everything changes, obviously if poker tournaments come out I would like to participate.


Yes, you're right, right now I've looked at what sites have poker tournaments but it's not like before, possibly Betnomi always does it, it's the site that handles the most traffic regarding poker, for me poker is a very good game, apart from develop certain skills, it manages to establish some bonds of friendship between the players, in particular I have always really liked this type of event, I do not have as much experience playing as others, I think that in some way a poker player who is very good will always be among the first places, the experience here can mean everything, I consider that I am missing a lot.

Poker is one of the few gambling games that you doesn't solely depends on luck. With experience, skill and practice, anyone can perform reasonably good at this game, but a lifetime to master. In a tournament, people usually play longer and there is more excitement.

The nature of poker tournament needs everyone to be player, where else games like baccarat or blackjack needs a banker for the game to be able to be played. PvP is definitely more fun than playing against banker for other games.

Personally I do like to play to earn from poker tournaments in Betnomi and Hunnypoker. Especially when there are faucet BUSD to be earned from the free roll poker tournaments happening without deposit.

The reason is simple. Poker is a game that is perfectly suited for tournaments and given that there are millions and millions of players around the world it is normal to find a lot of Poker tournaments in different operators. Moreover, Poker is perhaps the game that you will most of the times find in any casino and due to the seeh number of players operators can earn a lot from tournaments.

Well any game could be used in a tournament. The reason why OP is often seeing poker related tournaments is simply because more people are demanding for it or a casino initiated it which became a trend;happens often such as nowadays wherein sportsbetting is quite having a voice in terms of popularity. Poker tournaments are really 'something' for the fanatics of it but to those who are not into poker, it will be like normal poker game.

Some people are not into such game including me because it id quite boring (only on my perspectives 'coz the game takes long to finish and settings are often silent). I tried playing it but it is somehow hard for me to understand which is why I stopped and explored other gambling acitivities and games.

I was expecting a poker tournament like this, but I didn't really find it, even though I think this tournament can attract a lot of gamblers to play, I like the game of poker and I think a lot of people like the game of poker, to fill the holiday at Christmas at least there that promotion, I'll be monitoring this thread to see updates on poker tournaments when they become available

A while ago there was a poker tournament being held on this forum but that was a long time ago and after that no more. Poker is a game that requires skill and maybe that's the reason why there are not often or many who hold tournaments here, You can also check the games and rounds boards to see if there is a poker tournament being held.

last time i played on fortunejack and i'm sure maybe people have played there freeroll poker tournaments, but even that was a few years ago and i left my fortunejack account and re-accessed it lately, i just play poker on my phone app games from zynga even though it's a game that I like, hope there will be more freeroll free poker tournament promotions by Christmas or New Years

Well, despite the fact that many times they have clarified the difference between PVP and playing in a casino against the house, I still think that there are many more possibilities of winning a PVP poker tournament than many games against the house, first of all, I understand that In the long term, the advantage will always benefit the casino, while in a PVP poker tournament, the best player and obviously luckier will benefit, but it is much better for me and, as you say, it is much more "exciting" to play in PVP mode, although I have not really seen tournaments like this again, I have already apart from Betnomi who do not organize a good poker tournament.


I did not know that there was a poker tournament there, it really surprises me, where if I know that they always organize poker tournaments it is in betnomi, but the truth is that I have not been there for a long time, and it is a pity because the truth is that this is very interesting type of tournaments because I know that here in the forum there are many people who are quite fans of poker and I have seen in some threads that they have expressed their desire for a poker tournament, no matter the platform, I have distanced myself a lot from poker since I did not A software platform that was betcoinpoker served more, there were tournaments there and even for free where the winners were rewarded with enough mBTC.

around 2016 then fortunejack held a freeroll event and I've played there getting 1st or 3rd place in every tournament and getting free BTC there, if you search for this information on google you will find their old tweet here https://twitter.com/FortuneJackCOM/status/694582978865958912

but for now there is none I see there is a site like fortunejack holding a poker tournament freeroll event that even without a deposit I can withdraw bitcoins from the winnings

Unfortunately fortunejack casino site also doesn't host that event anymore even though it's a promotion that attracts a lot of gamblers too

The season of casino games is fast approaching and the tournament of casino always take effect on December for Christmas, i have pre ideas that some people doesn't know when this tournament of casino always come to the corner, but with this our preamble discussion announcement will put some people aware of this, so any one that Christmas casino tournament is unknown to, are the ones that this information will be of benefit to, like me, I'm warming up already

I remember those tournaments! I was an active poker player before kids, I had a lot of time for playing and I could play poker for hours. Somehow it seems to me that in those years there was much more action in the crypto poker world, first of all, there were players and sites were trying to attract players with various promotions. In the last couple of weeks, I have registered in several new casinos that also have poker, but without poker players.. and that on the weekend when there should be a crowd. Apart from Betplay which has some freeroll if we gamble $30 before the tournament, I'll try this on Sunday, if I don't forget about it. Last Sunday I forgot about it and I missed a game.

thank you for sharing the information, I'll look at betplay maybe I can participate in the poker tournament freerolls there, don't hesitate to share information about poker freerolls in this thread of course it will be useful if we poker players can find a place to play together, to be honest the tournament Poker has always been a good place to pit game skills

Could you write more about that? Is it like $30 every week before Sunday's tournament? Or you just need to spend $30 once and it gives you access to freerolls?
What is the table size, 6?

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I think they changed this in the past few days, now it's "you need to have at least one deposit within a week" as you can see. Except for these details about the tournament, I can't see any others, so I am not sure about the table size. But definitely, it's a fast game with 5 min. blinds and 20/40 starting chips... just all-ins through the game and nothing else, it's not the poker I like to play.

Bottom line, you can find lots of tournaments and do not have to go with the first one. Another matter is if it makes sense to you to go through the hassle of changing your platform, going thorugh the documentation process and the KYC, etc.. just to join a certain tournament. Also, your gameplaying can be different in a certain way because the feeling of the interface may be different.

I think that all poker lovers will always look for a way to play and play on those platforms where they offer online bullfighting services, now I wonder, if the demand is so good, why not make a platform or software where only play poker? as before it was in betcoinpoker, it was a nice platform, I had a lot of doubts that maybe it was from betcoin, but I think it's not like that, in their thread I asked and they didn't know how to tell me well, of course I asked this a long time ago, but It's a shame because there were free tournaments and the winner only started to win mBTC, of course there were tournaments that were paid, but there were many tables and many tournaments that were generated, I really miss that platform.

I have also taken part in many poker tournaments and got one of the NFT also giving holders access to lifetime free poker tournaments with exciting rewards and have been lucky to win 2-3 games till now and have exciting prizes from it but the market has made those funds considerably low but poker games are always fun.

Quite disappointing, in my opinion. I would understand if it would be a 'normal' tournament, but as usual, when there is something for free it attracts people who knows nothing about it and then the game turns into lottery.
So, that's not for me, that promo does not convince me. But I appreciate they propose something different than others.

When you see things like that, I also think the same as you, I don't find a promo like that attractive, honestly it's something that also disappoints me a bit, a good poker tournament could happen in one moment or several times of the week or a weekend that is when the players stop working and it takes them time to enjoy themselves with the family and have time to watch TV and be able to do exceptional things, however I would give credit that they always offer something different, but It would be much better if this time they could offer more, because we all know that there is always an advantage for the house in the situation that is, we must give more incentives to the players to come closer.

I believe the Betnomi poker tournament will come around soon if going by the usual way of operation the casino also conduct a poker tournament around this period of the year, but we must also expect to see other casinos introducing tournament for either poker or other games that players may find interesting.

But until then always participate in tournaments that are organized by reputable casinos betnomi is one of the such reputable casino for poker rounds.

If you're referring to the Betnomi poker series, I don't think we will see that again. As I wrote in their thread a few months ago, there is no more enthusiasm... It started well, some people decided to sacrifice their time to edit the spreadsheet for free (calculate points, follow every game even when they are not playing, and keep track of everything), with sponsorship the final table was more than +ev for those who qualified... Despite all the good things, there were not enough people interested!

I participated in the Betnomi poker series, and before that in the Bitcointalk poker series. The unique concept and some people made it even more amazing with additional stuff like free tickets, lottery tickets, kicking out a selected player for additional reward, and some other stuff. I don't believe we will have something similar in the future.

Since I came on board the forum I haven't witnessed any poker tournament and just as the poster ahead of me stated the level of interest from poker games lover has dropped why I agree that it is because we have quite a good number of casinos around the forum and managers who are willing to monitor the entire round and awarding points.

Motivation from the players who are active in here is what will prompt the casinos to organize such events.

Well, I will have to thank tho all for sharing g your ideas and discussions on this discussion thread poker tournaments as one of the most popular competitions in the gambling industry will continue to get promotion and support from every player in the industry.
But in the main time, I will have to lock this thread now to avoid it turning into a mega thread.