The Australian Poker Championship, better known as the Aussie Millions, is the ultimate Poker Tournament hosted down under. Held at the Crown Casino in Melbourne Australia, the Aussie Millions is the richest Poker tournament to be held in the Southern Hemisphere, with the cash prize exceeding Australian $7 million in totality. The tournament was introduced in the mid of 1997 and the first main event took place in July 1998. The buy in was pegged at $1000 and the tournament had attracted 74 of the most seasoned ...

The United States Poker championship, held at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City is another upcoming Poker tournament. Apart from being featured at ESPN in recent years, the tournament attracts some of the best budding Poker stars. Since its inception in 1996, the United States Poker Championship has come a long way. Ken Flaton was the first ever main event winner of this particular tournament and was given a cash prize of $500,000.  The 2007 main event of the USPC was featured on ESPN and ...

The World Poker tour also broadcasts a number of additional Poker tournaments taking place throughout the world. The Caribbean Poker Adventure is one such stand alone Poker tournament which commands considerable air time on the world Poker Tour. Originally sponsored by Pokerstars, the CPA is one of the biggest independent Poker competitions in the world (apart from WSP and WPT). The event began in 2004, and the last event held in 2009 had registered a handsome headcount of 1400+. The last event held at a resort in ...

The series features a number of events and a number of multi player- multi table games. A few final events are televised and the main event is usually a classic Texas Hold’em up game. During the first few tournaments, the events were not organized on a freeze out basis and the final winner was decided on the basis of a secret ballot, if the game stretched beyond a pre-defined time limit. With time, as the headcount kept increasing to mammoth proportions, the organizers have introduced various rules ...

The World Series of Poker, another famous international Poker tournament held in Las Vegas is another important tournament of world repute. Being termed as the most hyped about international Poker event, the WSP is also the oldest and the most prestigious among the lot. The WSOP had started in 1970 and it took it more than a decade before it attracted a sizeable number of participants. It was only in 1982 that the tournament had registered more than 50 participants for the first time. With an immense ...

The World Poker Tour is one of the most well organized international events in the world today. This tournament features one of the most professional international players and Steven Lipscomb is attributed to be the man to have started the event in the US. Basically, the WPT is a collection of a number of Texas Hold’em up games. Although the game has an international outlook, yet it is quite an observable fact that the game is more focused towards the American audience and showcases American games. Some ...

Apart from all these venues, the Rio, Las Vegas is one place which tops the list of the most important Poker venues of the world. Most International Poker championships have been arranged at the Rio itself, making the convention center at the Rio the Mecca of International Poker.The world Poker Tour and the World series of Poker are two of the mot authentic and famous Poker tournaments in the world. While both are held at Las Vegas, Nevada, the World Series of Poker has a wider reach, ...

Each player buys-in and starts with the same number of chips. As and when a player is deprived of all his chips, (s)he is knocked out. Depending upon the position in which the player finishes, he or she is entitled to a cash prize (or no prize in some cases). The prize money in most sit and go tournaments is usually decided, depending upon the number of players that might have registered for the tournaments. Some sit and go tournaments are arranged on the winner takes all ...

Most often, stud and other versions of stud are deployed while arranging Poker Tournaments at the international level. Most common stud game deployed at Poker tournaments are seven card stud, seven card high-low studs, Texas Hold’em up and Omaha. Normally, in Poker tournaments, there is a time limit till the registration is open to all. After this limit, the tournament starts with all the players that would have registered till then. There is no upper or lower limit, whatsoever in major poker tournaments and it is open ...

With the advent of the internet age, Poker tournaments have gone online. People are not only indulging in multi-player online poker tournaments, but players are also found indulging in multi-table games. The term Multi table is used to refer to the situation wherein a single player is hooked onto more than one games at different locations in the world. Online Poker tournament sites and hubs have made multi table tournament a reality and often, players can be found hooked onto three, at times even four, live tournaments ...