Online Poker Rooms Tourneys Pull'Em In

Published: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 Online-Casinos.com

ONLINE POKER ROOM POKERSTARS 'DEEPSTACK TOURNEYS PULL'EM IN

Skill a greater factor, says manager

Online poker room Pokerstars, already a serious contender in the online poker gaming sector has been boosting their players involvement with a series of shootouts, headsup competitions, short handed tables and other innovations to keep the poker action fresh and thrilling.

One of the most popular of these activities is the daily and sometimes more frequent DeepStack poker games, where players start with over three times the amount of chips received in sit-and-gos or regular multi-table poker tourneys. The blind structure is more generous, too - starting at $5-$10, and escalating every half hour, it gives players more time to manoeuvre and play up to $5,000 in chips to their own strategies.

Pokerstars online poker room manager Lee Jones says "I think the very serious online poker player, the student of the game, prefers this kind of event. It does make skill a greater factor, and of course, you pay for that in a longer time commitment."