Fast Fortune is a poker tournament for three players. That means that as soon as three players “sit down” for this sit-and-go tournament here at Juicy Stakes Poker a table opens and players get 500 chips and the chance to win from 2x the buy-in to 12,000x the buy-in.
Low Stakes and Three Players Create a Fast Game
This is the beauty of this particular tournament. You can only imagine how many Fast Fortune games are being played at this very moment all over the world! When three players sign in to play and choose their buy-in fee, the game begins.
At that point it is like a Texas Hold’em game at the very end of a big tournament except that the buy-in to Fast Fortune is never more than $5. The low-end buy-in is $0.25 and the mid-level buy-in is $1.00.
Most Games Have a 2x or 3x Prize Pool
That means that is the prize is 2x and you buy in for $5, you will win $10 if you win and lose $5 if you lose. In a game with three players who are approximately equal in skill, the expected wins would be 3 wins out of 10 games. The fourth winner would be determined by who gets lucky or who has better poker skills.
If you win the last game and three before it, you will win $40 and you’ll lose $30 on the games you don’t win. Not get rich quick territory!
Quick Tournaments are Fun, Exciting, and Helpful
So, the reasons to join the Fast Fortune tournaments are fun, excitement, and…they help players hone their poker skills. One aspect of online poker that players find hard to master is evaluating opponents.
Evaluating Hands and Players is the Essence of Poker
It is a lot easier to evaluate a hand than to evaluate an opponent especially if you can’t see them. At low-stakes poker, a lot of players tend to stay in hands that they should fold out of. If you are able to observe this behavior in an opponent, you might be able to win a substantial number of chips in a hand that they stay in and you win.
In short, the stakes are a lot less important than the real person who is playing the game. A quick poker game that is repeated again and again can give a player who is paying attention a lot of insight into opposing players.
Quick Study
We are told in Texas Hold’em that we should fold about 70% of our hands before the flop. If a player does that and doesn’t follow the course of the hand, he or she will likely miss out on clues about the opponents.
Here is where playing against only two others can be immensely helpful. At a table with 8 or more players, it can be hard to distinguish between players. It is easy to get confused as the hands blend into each other. Against two opponents, this challenge, while still real, is a lot more easily managed.
Evaluating Hands Quickly
The value of a hand is a function of the cards and your position in the betting. With just three players, position becomes a lot less important than the hand itself.
Value betting, when you bet to win money by inducing an opponent with a weaker hand to call or raise, involves knowing as much as you can about the opponent. You might have a powerful hand that is hidden well and want the opponent to think that his or her high pair is good enough to win the hand.
This is a skill that players in the Fast Fortune format can develop more quickly than in a game against more players, most of whom you don’t know.
Juicy Stakes Poker Offers Great Poker and More
We also run a casino. Your account at Juicy Stakes Poker can carry over to the casino site. Players who need a break from cerebral poker might pause to play slots in the casino. A few minutes of slots might relax your grey matter enough for you to return to the tournaments.
Juicy Stakes Poker carries many poker options. We run promotions so that you can play with our money for a time. Players who join Juicy Stakes are pleasantly amazed at the many poker choices they have!
