{"id":80,"date":"2009-10-08T07:39:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T11:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/?p=80"},"modified":"2009-10-08T21:02:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T01:02:34","slug":"poker-satellite-tournaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/poker-satellite-tournaments","title":{"rendered":"Poker Satellite Tournaments: Shoot for the Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite tournaments have a lot of appeal among poker players, online and off.  A satellite is a poker tournament that allows players to buy in for as little as a few dollars and compete to win a seat in a huge online or land-based tourney with a much more expensive buy-in.  Of course, when huge tournaments like the WSOP or World Poker Tour are on the line there can be a massive number of players competing.  Therefore, it&#8217;s important to bring your top-notch strategy to the table if you want to win.<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of types of satellite tournaments.  The first is the &#8220;winner takes all&#8221; style tournament, in which only the big winner at the end earns a seat in whichever tournament is up for grabs.  Since you want to be the final player it&#8217;s important to play aggressively in this style of tournament.  Raise and double up frequently to make it to the final table and emerge the champion.<\/p>\n<p>I prefer to play in satellites that offer multiple prize packages.  These offer more winners seats in giant tournaments.  In these types of tournaments you can afford to play a little safer for starters, while you advance.  However, when it comes down to the end you&#8217;ll have to step it up and start playing aggressively.<\/p>\n<p>While it can be tough to win satellite tournaments, the prize is totally worth the fight.  Come in ready with your best strategy and prepare to shoot for the stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite tournaments have a lot of appeal among poker players, online and off. A satellite is a poker tournament that allows players to buy in for as little as a few dollars and compete to win a seat in a huge online or land-based tourney with a much more expensive buy-in. Of course, when huge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[11,40,43,45,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}