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Preview: Special Poker tournaments draw a tremendous amount of interest from gambling patrons around the world. These special Poker tournaments are designed to attract players to the websites that sponsor them. Below is a brief list of a few of the most renowned special Poker tournaments.
Popular Poker Sites and their Signature Tournaments
Many of the best Poker rooms administer satellite tournaments with the winners of these tournaments receiving seats at big time Poker tourneys in some of the world’s most glamorous cities.
Among the most renowned tournaments are the European Poker Tour, ECOOP, the World Championship of Online Poker and the World Series of Poker. Popular tournament sites include 888.com, Titan Poker and Poker Stars.
- Titan Poker is a giant when it comes to Special Poker Tournaments. The popular poker room hosts the renowned ECOOP Series, wherein poker fans play in satellite tournaments for a crack at the more than $4.15 million in prize money. Titan also hosts several lesser-known, but no less lucrative, tournaments online, including the Asian Poker Tour, the Irish Open and the Aussie Millions. Buy-ins are generally pretty low, especially when one considers that prize packages for the above mentioned contests range from $1 million to $4 million, and are exceptionally well-attended.
- 888.com, online gambling pioneer, established their online casino presence in 1997. The popular site followed with a poker-specific site and established itself as one of the premiere tournament poker rooms. Weekly GTD’s and freerolls, as well as qualifying satellite tournaments for popular main events like the Aussie millions can be found at 888.com.
- Poker Stars is one of the largest poker rooms online and it draws huge numbers of gamblers to its special Poker tournament programs. The site features Poker tournaments for everyone, offering game variations like Texas Hold’em, Omaha Hi, Omaha Hi-Lo and Seven Card Stud in a variety of game structures, including limit, no limit and pot limit. Buy-ins are also wide-ranging and start as low as $5. The site hosts the APPT Grand Final Sydney Poker Tournament, an annual event that takes place at the end of each year in Sydney, Australia. Satellite tournament winners take home $8,500 and earn a seat at the APPT Grand Sydney Tournament where players vie for the $1 million Grand Prize.
Special Poker Tournaments Mold Champions
Peter Eastgate and Jerry Yang have captured the World Series of Poker championship the past two years. Both these gentlemen honed their skills by playing online Poker. They were both unknowns who came directly from the world of online Poker to beat the top names in the sport on the world’s biggest stage.
After watching the amazing achievements of Eastgate and Yang, online players all over the world now have role models to emulate. Players have the incentive to keep practicing and participating in special Poker tournaments online in the hope that fame and fortune will come their way too. After all, the last two WSOP winners came directly from online play and had no history of professional play outside the online Poker room.
