Party Poker Texas Hold'em Tournament
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 4:19 pm
This appeared on a box near me a couple of days ago. Since I have a few quid of itbox''s money from previous tournament forays into Pyramids, thought it would be worth the investment of a few pounds.
At a £1 a go, it's a trifle steep compared to other games, but then I've been playing Merit tournaments for years and they've always been £1 a go. Most of the new Merits are £5 a go now, so I tend to stick to just the one box in the same location and battle it out with the gaffer. He tries extra hard against me since he knows what I do in other pubs.
At least this one is offering a £2k prize and plenty of prizes in the 00's.
The game is just normal poker except you can fold your hole cards from what I can see. You play 5 hands against what appears to be a varying number of computer opponents and the trick is to try and keep doubling through - not an easy feat 5 hands on the bounce. I managed it once in about 5 games and ended up scoring 23,000, which surprise surprise, meant I just missed out on the Top 100 and any potential loot.
What was a nice touch was that the box gave me a ticket with a sign-up code for Party Poker for $100. Obviously you have to put some dough in of your own when you sign up (I put £150 in), but sure enough they gave me the $100 and told me I'd gotta play 400 cash hands, but this is pretty much the norm in my experience of the laddies and william hill poker sites.
The main benefit from what I can see is that I've been playing online poker for a couple of years now, and I've never come across so many fish as there are on this poker site - i won the first 2 tournaments I sat down in without even breaking sweat.
Free Money? Discuss.
Soz for the long post but thought it might be nice to get back to actually discussing games on the forum rather than playing pub quizzes against each other and the endless wordup posts.
At a £1 a go, it's a trifle steep compared to other games, but then I've been playing Merit tournaments for years and they've always been £1 a go. Most of the new Merits are £5 a go now, so I tend to stick to just the one box in the same location and battle it out with the gaffer. He tries extra hard against me since he knows what I do in other pubs.
At least this one is offering a £2k prize and plenty of prizes in the 00's.
The game is just normal poker except you can fold your hole cards from what I can see. You play 5 hands against what appears to be a varying number of computer opponents and the trick is to try and keep doubling through - not an easy feat 5 hands on the bounce. I managed it once in about 5 games and ended up scoring 23,000, which surprise surprise, meant I just missed out on the Top 100 and any potential loot.
What was a nice touch was that the box gave me a ticket with a sign-up code for Party Poker for $100. Obviously you have to put some dough in of your own when you sign up (I put £150 in), but sure enough they gave me the $100 and told me I'd gotta play 400 cash hands, but this is pretty much the norm in my experience of the laddies and william hill poker sites.
The main benefit from what I can see is that I've been playing online poker for a couple of years now, and I've never come across so many fish as there are on this poker site - i won the first 2 tournaments I sat down in without even breaking sweat.
Free Money? Discuss.
Soz for the long post but thought it might be nice to get back to actually discussing games on the forum rather than playing pub quizzes against each other and the endless wordup posts.
But then, poker isn't skill, so it couldn't be an SWP if it was just true poker i guess.