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Okay, you’ve decided you’re going to play some online poker. There are a lot of options of what game to play. Let’s stick to Texas Holdem and look at the variety of choices you have.

The World Series of Poker Main Event is a typical multi table tournament (except it’s the biggest of them all). The goal is to get all the chips. Everyone pays an entry fee, $10,000 for the WSOP Main Event, starts with the same amount of chips, and begins at the appointed time. Then you do battle until one player has won all the chips.

A slight variation from the multi table event is the re buy/add on tournament. This plays exactly like the multi table tournaments except for the beginning. For a pre determined amount of time, typically one hour, the players can buy more chips any time they have an equal amount, or less, than the starting stack size. After this time ends, you have a choice to add on more chips one time with any stack that you have. Then it’s back to the multi table rules.

The free roll is one of the ways online poker rooms try to keep their players happy. These are normally just multi table tournaments with one big difference. They have prizes, but are free to enter!

Instead of paying full entry for a tournament, you can try a satellite. In this format you will play for a seat in a bigger multi table event. For example, a $20 satellite for a $100 event one of every five players will be awarded a seat to the $100 tournament.

The Sit and Go format of tournaments is very popular. The main difference with Sit and Go events is that they begin when a designated number of players sit at the table. So, to play in a nine player Sit and Go you start when the ninth player sits down.

Then there is the hybrid, the multi table sit and go. Everything is like a multi table event except that, there are a precise number of entries, and you don’t have a set starting time.

The form of poker you remember from movies like The Sting, is the cash game. When you sit down to play in one of these games you’ll choose from these. The no limit, limit, and pot limit variations.

A more unique event that has shown on TV recently, is the heads up tournament. The idea is simple, you have a draw, like a tennis tournament, with let’s say 64 players. Opponents play heads up matches with the winners advancing. This continues, cutting the field in half each round, until you have a champion.

In addition to Texas holdem, five card draw, razz, stud games and more are offered.

That’s a lot of options. Try to make sure you have a good idea of the differences in these various games. It will be very frustrating to lose because you played wrong for the game you chose.

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