- Tournament Structures -

Anyone that has ever looked at the Tournament's page of any online Poker site as experienced some confusion. Every site uses its own brevity codes to make as much information as possible to the player. If you don't understand the possible structures, how can you make sense of these arcane brevity codes? These abbreviations can make the military acronyms look simple.

Both of these were found on a single online Poker site.

Turbo 1x1 $20 NL STT

Speed $15 NL - 6 Seats [STT]

Compared to that SNAFU is easy. Many Poker rooms aren't consistent within their own site.

Here we are going to break down the most popular structures, and hopefully armed with that knowledge you can decipher the Tournament board on most online Poker rooms.

You would think that selection of the game would be simple but it can be complicated. Anyone, that plays a lot of Tournaments, has ended up in an Omaha Hi8, instead of a Hold'em Tournament or at 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo instead of 7 Card Stud table. Then we will look at the price and the prize structures, which can be quite intriguing, when dealing with "Free Tournaments." Finally we will look at the starting stacks, blinds, and blind progression. Because these will affect our strategy as we play in the different free rolls available at online Poker rooms.

Sarge

Editors Note: jbharshaw has written articles for me for over two years now, and has his own poker information site at www.bestpokerguide.net