3-card poker tournament I
3-card poker has long been a popular game with gamblers frequenting to the casinos in Las Vegas and for them especially 3-card poker tournaments have become an important occasion. While increasingly buy-in system like other major poker tournaments is being introduced for players interested in participating in these competitions, many other casinos only allow gamblers who have won sizeable payouts in regular games a chance to enter. The main attractions of these 3-card poker tournaments are the simple rules of gameplay and the huge pot.
The tournament consists of either one or sometimes more than one rounds of play. In case of more than one playing rounds, the gamblers play a certain number of hands and their stock of chips is counted at the end of the round. The individual score of the players are calculated to arrive at his final score. The six bet players contend for the jackpot in the final round. Here all the players start as equal contenders for the prize and their winnings from earlier rounds is not brought forward. All major 3-card poker tournaments, participated by as many as 100 to 200 gamblers, has provisions to award a prize money to the other five finalists along with the jackpot to the winner.
The basic tactics for being a winning 3-card poker player in tournaments is the same as regular casino play. So, anyone who does not have a queen, 6 or 4 card in his hand should opt for folding his hand as his ultimate aim is to win big and not all individual hands. It has been estimated that placing more money on stake for either ante or pairplus games does not entitle a big payout and may even cause the gambler to lose. So it is imperative to wager equal dough on both versions of play and also to keep the bet size low so that losing a few hands would not mean needing to drop out from the whole round.
