Top Poker Rooms
|
||||
| Poker Room | Bonus |
Score |
||
 |
PKR | $800 |
9.20 |
|
 |
SB Poker |  |
$600 |
9.05 |
 |
Titan Poker | $500 |
8.95 |
|
 |
Everest Poker | $200 |
8.90 |
|
 |
Carbon Poker | |
$600 |
8.80 |
Poker Room Reviews
Poker poll
Online vs. offline tournaments |
| Written by Mihaela Florea |
| Wednesday, 15 June 2011 12:15 |
|
The major poker rooms, already popular in the online environment started to increase the prize pools and the number of tournaments available for both new and regular poker players. Eventually the major poker rooms ended up offering all kinds of tournaments with small prize pools nonstop, and one huge tournament with a prize pool worth millions, once a month. The growing popularity of poker also contributed to the development of live games. Besides the famous World Series of Poker Tournament, other live poker events were created as more and more players participate in these tournaments. Many poker rooms and casinos created their own international, regional or local tournament series. The interest for international poker tournaments has grown especially after major televisions broadcasted the main events of such tournaments. The number of players increased and the poker rooms and casinos do their best to satisfy the new created demand for poker tournaments. The best advantages the online tournaments have are the accessibility and the extremely large offer. Basically an online a tournaments starts every few minutes whether is a freeroll, a guaranteed or a sit ‘n go. A disadvantage for online tournaments is the prize pool. The abundance of tournaments is based o small prize pools so the payouts rarely reach several hundred dollars. The live poker tournaments can make you rich and famous, being for many young poker players the only way to enter in the world of famous poker players. A great disadvantage is the buy in which can be a small fortune for big tournaments such WSOP, but some poker rooms offer an alternative for this problem: the qualifying online tournaments with prizes consisting in buy ins and even travel packages to these big poker tournaments. |
Poker is nowadays among the most popular games worldwide. Its popularity has increased as well as the whole gambling industry. The high number of new poker rooms fighting against the major poker sites to attract more players led to a fierce competition.