Category Archives: Tournament Poker

Using strategy in razz poker tournaments

Tournaments are much different than regular ring games and so is the strategy. I wrote a few detailed guides about razz poker tournament strategy guide and strategy for razz poker sit and go games but I will go through a short summary of these here on the blog. Basically, a sit and go tournament works much the same way as a regular tournament. The only difference is that sit and go tourneys are inherently smaller scale contests while a regular tournament may accept 10,000 players or even more than 100,000 at a single time as you will find at Pokerstars. Also, regular tournaments start at a scheduled date and time whereas a sit and go starts immediately once the require number of people have registered and joined the event.

This page is about razz strategy when playing in these tournaments. The first thing you will notice is the very aggressive and reckless players betting away everything they have. One of the strategies you should do at the beginning of the round is to become a tight player and let these other reckless players drop out like flies for awhile. This happens in every single tournament where tons of people will drop out within the first few minutes of the game.

After about a half hour or so, many of the weak players are gone and players are warmed up and ready to loosen up a bit. Now there are two main goals in a tournament and the most important one is to make it to the bubble, which is where you

Pokerstars European Poker Heist and Robbery in Berlin Germany

This is sort of old news but it is actually pretty interesting. If you didn’t hear about it, 4 men ran into a major poker tournament with machine guns to hold up the place and steal the money. Some say they ran off with about $1.2 million worth of money laying around at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Berlin, Germany. Some new updates say they may have only ran off with between $100,000 and $400,000 instead, which is still some serious cash.

Apparently, one suspect was arrested and then set free after lack of evidence against him. Interestingly enough, this same suspect may have been involved in another robbery in 2004 with a major casino heist. In some sense, this heist sounds like something that would happen in the movies like with Oceans 11 or something from the old western days!

Although, you can’t blame the robbers since they probably saw all those bricks of $100 bills that you normally see in major poker tournaments! Here is one of those picture below:

poker tournament prize money

You can obviously see how tempting it would be for some of these guys to run off with just one of those bricks of $100 bills! 😉 The problem here is that the money is right there in cash. In other sports tournaments like the Super Bowl or the Powerball lottery, they just give out checks and the robbers wouldn’t be able to do anything like that. But when it comes to poker, people want to see the hard cold cash and all the piles of money laying around, like people normally do when playing poker.

Even at the banks, they don’t pile all this money out in the open. So in one way, they were just inviting a heist and it was actually an easy holdup to run in quickly and run out with the money. It makes one wonder if major poker tournaments or WSOP will be doing this tradition any longer, which would be sad because quite frankly, I think the big piles of money really adds to the tournaments. The World Series of Poker (WSOP) indicates that they will be beefing up their own security after this incident.