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About the pokerstars sunday million tournament

October 20, 2008

Pokerstars sunday million

Guaranteeing a hefty one and a half million dollars, the PokerStars Sunday Million is the largest online poker tournament!
By playing a guarantee of $1,500,000 on this event PokerStars is forced to offer a prizepool of this size regardless of the amount of entrants participating!

The Sunday Millionss the tournament is called in the lobby starts every Sunday at 9:30PM GMT. With a buyin of $215, this tournament may not be suitable for everybody’s pocket, although there are numerous ways to snag yourself an entry ticket on the cheap and we’ll suggest the best Sunday Million satellites to you further on in this article.

One of the reason for the continued success of the PokerStars Sunday Million is that it is set up in a way that benefits players of a high skill level.
Ten thousand starting chips and fifteen minute blinds allow players to ease their way in to the poker tournament without feeling pressured by short blind levels.
The payout structure rewards players finishing in the top fifteen percent of the total number of participants, although to get in to the serious money you’ll have to make the top five percent, which is by no means an easy feat to accomplish.
If you happen to make it this far, your sight should be set on the final table, which will normally mean a minimum of a five figure payout!
As with most online poker tournaments the payout structure is top heavy, meaning that the prize pool is awarded heavily in favour of the top performers, and this is shown with the amount the winner takes home.
A typical 1st prize given to the winner is often around twelve percent of the total prize pool, which works out at a mouth watering $180,000!

PokerStars Sunday Million Satellites

PokerStars is by far the best site to play at if your on a small budget but still looking to win in a online poker tournament.
PokerStars offers satellites to the Sunday Million that range in buy in from $2.20 right up to $70, with the satellites with larger buyins awarding more entry’s and lower buyin tournaments awarding fewer. We suggest you ensure you read the rules prior to registering, to make sure you know the exact details in regards to the awarding of prizes.

The PokerStars Sunday million Sit and Go triple shootout satellite is the cheapest Sunday Million satellite, with a buy in of only $2.20.
As soon as 216 players have registered for the tournament, it begins.
Although this may seem like a lottery more then a tournament to many players as you will encounter many weak unskilled players here!
The top 2 players receive a Sunday Million entry token, whilst third place picks up $2 for their efforts.

Our Favourite Sunday Million Multi Table tournament satellite, is the $39 tournament which runs daily at 5:35PM GMT.
The tournament provides entrants with a slow structure, 15 minute blinds.
Although this tournament attracts players of a higher skill level then the $2.20 triple shootout, you’ll still find some weak opposition enter.
For every six entrants one PokerStars Million tournament entry is awarded, so you’ll need to finish in the top fifteen (ish) percent to guarantee yourself a place in the coveted PokerStars Sunday Million!

Sit and go strategy

October 15, 2008

A Sit and Go Strategy

Sit and gos can be a very profitable form of poker for a player with the right skills how also uses these sitandgotips.
Since sit and gos are always exactly the same, once you have a winning system in place the only thing holding back your profits are how many sit and gos you can play.
Sit and goes always have the early stages, middle stages, and late stages, and if you can master each stage of the poker tournament you will see increased profits and a steady stream of income.
This article will teach you about each stage, and how to dominate sit and goes from start to finish.

Early Stages

During the early stages your main goal in the tournament is to maintain your chip stack.
Since most players will be playing really aggressive at this stage, it is to your benefit to sit back and watch a few players knock each other out.
This will give you a better shot at making the money, and will help you avoid any bad beats early on because you wont be gambling with the maniacs.

An example of a hand where you should take it easy is if you have KQs in the big blind, and there is a raise and reraise in front of you.
Since it is almost a guarantee that this is going to be a huge pot, you may as well save your chips because if you miss the flop you will have to toss the hand away anyways.

However, even though you should be protecting your stack, there are some situations in sit n go strategy where you will need to get your money in.
If you have JJ and a maniac makes a raise in front of you, dontt be afraid to reraise him/her or even get all in if it comes down to it.
Since you have determined he/she is a crazy player, and you have a quality hand, it makes sense to get all your chips in preflop if you can do it heads up.

Middle Stages

This is where you want to start accumulating chips so you can take over during the late stages. To do this, start utilizing blind steals and continuation bets to pad your stack and eventually build it up to at least double your starting stack.

The best times to steal blinds are when you are in late position, preferably in dealer position or the cut-off, and action has folded around to you.
I like to wait until antes are in effect as well because it adds quite a bit of chips to the pot.
Once action folds to you, make a raise of 2-3x the big blind.
The reason you are making the small raise is because if the blinds have garbage, they will fold, but if they do re-raise you, you only lose 2-3 big blinds instead of 4-5 big blinds.

Continuation bets are bets that you make on the flop after you raised preflop. Whenever you raise with a big hand during the middle stages, and get called, you will want to make a continuation bet to continue showing strength.
This bet should be  a ½-a pot sized bet, and should force other players out unless they hit the flop hard.
If another player does stay in, make sure to slow down on the turn, but you still may be ahead.

Late Stages

The late stages of a sit and go are where things start to get tricky, because this is usually right around the bubble, and stack sizes are getting smaller and smaller compared to the blinds and antes. Because you have fewer chips relative to the big blind, you need to play more aggressive to accumulate enough chips to stay alive. To do this, continue blind stealing, and also add the re-steal to your repertoire.

The blind steal will be the same as what I talked about above. However, the re-steal is basically a defense against a blind steal, and should be used against aggressive players who are consistently stealing your blinds.
The best time to do this is when a very aggressive player has raised your blind at least twice in a row, and he/she does it again.
Make a re-raise of 3-4x their original raise, even if you dont have a hand. They will respect your re-raise and fold, which will add a nice boost to your stack and help to push you into the money.

Once you reach the money, continue playing aggressively to put the pressure on your opponents, and dont be afraid to get your money in if it comes down to it.

Hand rankings in poker

October 15, 2008

Royal flush The daddy of all poker hands, a royal flush is a straight flush involving the 10, Jack, Queen, King and Ace. Â

Straight flush A straight (see below) but with all the cards in the same suit.

Four of a kind Four cards of the same rank, for example four Queens.

Full house A combination of a pair and three of a kind.

Flush Five cards of the same suit, for example five diamonds.

Straight Five cards in sequential rank order, for example 8, 9, 10, Jack and a Queen. An ace may be used as both a high and a low card.

Three of a kind Also called trips, this is where you have three cards of the same rank, for example three sevens.

Two Pair Two sets of cards of the same rank, for example two queens and two sixes.

Pair Any two cards of the same rank, for example two Queens. The ranking of pairs mirrors that of the cards in general, so the strongest pair is a pair of Aces and the weakest a pair of 2s.

High card The highest ranked card is an Ace, and the ranking runs from the Ace down through the picture cards all the way to 2.

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