Poker Strategy: Tournament Poker

Tournament strategy

Stake and chips

Without a backer, many poker professionals wouldn't be able to afford to play the tournament circuit

Poker players have been staked into tournaments since they first began, but the practice is now spreading to all levels of the game

‘I know you know this feeling... you know this feeling very well. I mean, you got your table all set up – your fork, your knife, your A1 sauce – you just don’t have the steak.’

So jokes Ed Norton’s character Worm, as he gets back into the familiar routine of extracting cash from his friend in seminal poker movie Rounders.

Well, I don’t know what the feeling of having my A1 sauce is like, mainly because I’m from England and we have ketchup, but every poker player knows the feeling of not having the funds to play in the game they’d like.

Thankfully, there’s a popular way of bridging this gap in the poker world, and that’s known as staking.

Email a Friend

To send this story to your friend, please fill the form below. You may also add your own message.