All hail the online poker tournament! The triumph of the tournament in the modern day casino poker scene is one of those things that everyone accepts, but few people have really studied. It feels natural to enter a high stakes tournament these days, complete with television coverage, where the pot is divided up according to the final standing. With tournaments seem inseparable from poker today; there was a time when their two paths would never have crossed. I am referring to the days of yore, of home games and poker tables, of classic casinos and all men games. Before you discount these days into the far inaccessible past, you need to remember that this was only 40 years ago! After all, Texas Holdem didn’t even hit Las Vegas until 1967. Classic poker days are not too far behind us.

Undeniably, the tournament is the predominant mode of playing poker today. It unites the universal dream of easy cash with the excitement of an entire day devoted to the world’s favorite card game. While I would like to claim that it is just these factors that have cemented the role of the tournament, credit must also be given to the modern media. The media has spun poker into the nation’ craze, created celebrities that draw more followers to the felt, and televised games to make people from all around the nation feel like they are at the table. The triumph of the tournament was a manufactured creation, not a natural evolution of poker.

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