More poker competition leads to greater prizes
When online poker first started hitting our screens faster than a Renault Formula 1 crash there were perhap three or four poker rooms that really stood out. They got there first and quite rightly took ownership of the majority of players. Those poker rooms are still around today although they are starting to feel the brunt of other poker rooms that have now come onto the horizon as players seek fresh competition, new tournaments and a new experience.
The bigger poker rooms provide the bigger more world renowned tournaments but the smaller poker rooms are making their mark by offering different types of tournament with different styled tournaments and even better freeroll entry to gain these players. Some stay, others do not, some even have so many poker sites bookmarked they probably have difficulty in remebering all of their passwords, you could these players serial pokerists!
New poker rooms such as Cool Hand, Lucky Ace and WildJack have looked at the bigger of the poker giants and decided that they too could perhaps compete in this area by not offering the obvious in poker prizes but also good loyalty bonuses for sticking around including points picked up during gameplay which can then be used to purchase such items as t-shirts, mugs or even free entry to larger tournaments.
The question is how long can these prizes keep getting bigger and bigger? There will be a certain structure that will need to be adhered to else it could bring the game down, certain poker rooms obviously have great TV rights meaning there are likely to still be around in the distant future but the smaller poker rooms must be careful not to push to far to get a larger percentage of the world poker market.
The top 10 online poker rooms will always be basking in the sun as with every 18th birthday comes a posible new poker player who perhap will join their site, whether the smaller poker sites get their first is the main question that will remain unanswered for the forseeable future.
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Up to 200 strip poker players competed to see who would lose their shirts – and more – and who would scoop £10000 by retaining their clothes and modesty. The inaugural World Strip Poker Championship took place in London with players battling it out in games of “No Limit Texas Hold ‘em”. Players of both sexes from over 12 countries battled it it out for the Golden Fig Leaf trophy and the right to revel in the title of World Strip Poker Champion. Aside from strict rules governing the poker play, there were clear guidelines on the stripping element – most importantly that each player starts the match by wearing five items of clothing supplied by the organisers. “It’s brilliant, I can’t believe I’m in the Guinness World Book of Records, I’m probably the hairiest poker player to get in the Guinness World Records as well,” said the eventual winner John Young. www.itnsource.com Reuters RTV1373006
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