Online Poker Tournaments

If you are passionate about poker and everything that orbits around this game, you are in the right place. In fact, in this article we will go to see the main information for playing online and the differences with traditional poker, dedicating a large section to the most popular variants in the world.

Differences between online and traditional poker

From the point of view of the game formula, online poker tournaments do not present huge differences compared to traditional ones.

The main difference is the ease of access to the game through the digital version. In the virtual world, bookmakers study offers and offer them to the public day by day. Usually, the choice is very wide and also includes dozens of different poker tournaments, each of which is characterized by its own buy-in, times, rules and characteristics that vary from tournament to tournament.

In online poker tournaments, the share that is collected during the game contributes to increasing the final prize pool and, depending on the competition, it can occur in greater or lesser quantities but without falling below the 80% threshold. In most cases, the Return to Player (RTP) - or return to the player - can be even higher than 95%, that is, the tournaments that reach this percentage return almost the entire amount collected in the form of cash winnings.

Most popular types of poker

Knowing the characteristics of the various types of poker is essential to have more chances of winning. Whether it's traditional physical gambling halls or simple online sessions, we distinguish the following three among the major poker competitions:

Sit'n'Go, literally "sit and go". Here, the game starts only when the poker table reaches the minimum required threshold of participants: to take part in the tournament you have to pay a buy-in, so that all players receive the same number of chips. The sit'n’go is a tournament characterized by a particular speed and ends when only one player remains;

The Multi Table or MTT (Multi Table Tournament) version is one of the most popular both online and in traditional poker rooms: in this mode, the game moves to several different tables, until the number of players decreases until the final table, where it will be the winner is decreed. This tournament does not require a minimum number of participants and can last for hours. It is a sort of elimination competition, until the final table is reached. Payment of the buy-in is also required in this tournament formula. As far as the prize pool is concerned, in MTT tournaments it is usually linked to the number of players who join it, because to finance it would be a part of the share collected with the buy-in. However, in some cases, there are also MTT tournaments with guaranteed prize pools regardless of the number of players;