Poker Tournaments

Poker is the most common and most famous card game in Las Vegas and internet casinos. Different poker games have become people’s no 1 choice for entertainment and casino gambling. Poker has turned into a great success and great business from merely a cheat game of bars. The reason of the huge popularity of poker, both in land casinos and online casinos, is easy poker rules and high winning percentage. Quite easy to learn and within the shortest possible time, one can be a master of the game. Due to this huge popularity, different poker tournaments are arranged on regular basis to satisfy poker crazies. Poker tournaments are structured competitions where players compete against each other for entertainment, and jackpots. There are different types of poker tournaments: Elimination Tournaments, Rebuy Tournaments, Shootout Tournaments, and Satellites.

Live Poker Tournaments

5 Star Classic
(Bellagio Casino, Las Vegas Nevada) Bellagio's site has the schedule up for 2004 as well as lists of the leading money winners for their tournaments to date. PokerPages has fantastic reports and results up from the 2003 tournament that went on in April.

British Open
(Grosvenor Victoria Casino, London England) Held in March, the 2004 tournament schedule can be found on the Grosvenor site as well as PokerPages. Check the second link for results in April. Poker Images has some pictures up of the 2003 tournament, including the winner Jac Arama.

Five Diamond
(Bellagio, Las Vegas Nevada) Held in December, The Five Diamond World Poker Classic is a part of the World Poker Tour. You can see a full listing of the WPT events on their site. Because this just closed, the 2004 schedule is not up yet, but you can check out the winners from 2003 on the Bellagio website.

Legends of Poker
(Bicycle Casino, Los Angeles California) This tournament is in July through September and was a huge deal last year. Read the article written on the Bicycle site about the tournament. They also have the winners listed on their site. We like it when casinos have good sites. Makes finding information so much easier. They added a charity component to the tournament which was really nice.

WSOP - World Series of Poker
(Binions Horseshoe, Las Vegas Nevada) The World Series of Poker is the "granddaddy of all gaming events". Visit Binions, host of the WSOP, for schedules, history, and general info.