Poker Championships

Poker is a family of card games which involve individualistic or independent play and betting, with the winner determined by the combinations and ranks of the player’s cards. Poker games vary in terms of the number of cards dealt that are hidden until the end of each game. Betting has different ways in the game. In modern poker, betting begins with one of the players who makes an ante or forced bet during the first betting round. In a standard poker, a player bets that his cards or hand is the highest ranked among the other players. The hand consists of five cards but in a variant when the player has more than five cards, he plays the best five cards.

Poker game play rules. A poker player must know the rules of the game. In casual play, the right to deal a hand or the cards of a player rotates among all the players. In casinos, however, there is a house dealer who deals each hand but the dealer button which marks the right to deal is rotated among the players clockwise to determine the order of betting among such players. If a player bets without any opponent calling or matching the bet, the hand ends immediately without the need for the cards to be shown, and the bettors wins the pot. But at the end of the last round of betting, if there is more than one remaining player, a showdown is necessary to require players to reveal their previously hidden cards for the purpose of evaluating them, in which case, the best hand wins.

Poker variations. Poker has many variations but these variations seem to follow the same play patterns and use similar ranking systems. Card dealing and the right to deal the hand are important to classify the variations, such as straight poker, stud poker, draw poker, community card poker, and strip poker. Some of these variations are played in world championship games like the Strip Poker World Championship in London, England. This championship is held annually at Café Royal in Central London, with 10,000 sterling pounds in prize money for the winner, and another 10,000 going to a charity group chosen by the winner.

Other poker championships. There are countries that hold regular world poker championships. Australia is one where the Aussie Millions or Australian Poker Championship is held every year at the Crown Casino in Melbourne. Using the Texas Hold’em poker variant, the championship consists of a series of tournaments and is considered as the 6^th largest event in the world. The British Columbia Poker Championship is one of Canada’s biggest prize pools for tournaments in poker, which attract popular pokers from around the world. The Scottish Poker Championship is also an annual event at the Gala Maybury Casino in Scotland capital Edinburgh, offering affordable buy-ins for most poker championship participants. In Southern Indiana, United States, the Casino Center is the regular venue for the yearly Midwest Regional Poker Championship, which draws participation of popular poker players of Indiana state. One of such players is Vanessa Rousso, a French-US dual citizen who studies law at the University of Miami, and is said to have started playing poker at the age of five. An annual championship, the Australian Deaf Poker Championship is held regularly at the Adelaide Casino in South Australia for the deaf, hard-of-hearing and hearing-impaired poker player participants. Fore more details click here.