Poker Entry Fee
Introduction
Any truly competitive poker player must surely want to play in poker tournaments. Whether they consider themselves still to be somewhat of a rookie or an advanced poker player, there’s always a casino or online poker tournament starting up somewhere or other, which will suit both their level of experience and pocket. Accordingly the prize money on offer in tournaments can also vary widely and whilst paying an entry fee of a few dollars and only the final table being in the payout seats might not be over upsetting, pay an entry fee in the thousands of dollars and you might well expect to have a better chance of at least recouping some of your money.
Casino tournaments and the affect of entry fees on the play
Excuse me miss - what’s the entry fee?
For a casino poker tournament the higher the entry fee the tighter everyone will play. After all you’ve just paid a stack of money just to sit down at the poker table, so you don’t want to be walking away early and absolutely no one wants to be the first to leave. Even becoming the short-stack has been known to send some players into melt-down, unable to make any sensible decisions. With so many sessions to follow expect raises and re-raises to be treated with extreme respect. Of course, knowing that if you are confident of your own poker abilities or are naturally and automatically a loose player – then you really could clean-up with so many tight players around the table.
Online tournaments and the affect of entry fees on the play
For some, rather unfathomable, reason online poker tournaments do not attract the same level of tight play – even if the entry fee is a large one. Quite possibly a reason for this is that there are simply so many online poker tournaments and, being online, somewhere in the world there’ll always be another one to play in tomorrow. Whereas for a casino tournament you’d have purposely made your way to it, be it at your local casino, one in Las Vegas or abroad etc. The net result of this is that online poker tournaments see quite aggressive play, even in the early stages – perhaps time to tighten up a bit yourself?