The history of New England tournament poker has been a rollercoaster ride. Ten to fifteen years ago, the poker boom was in full swing. New England poker rooms were bursting at the seams with players. While there were far fewer rooms then, the ones that existed never lacked players. Even better, tournament buy-ins were generally…
Recently, we reviewed the current state of poker tournament structure assessment. The development of summary metrics for tournament structures (e.g., S-points) has added real value to evaluating the playability of one tournament vs. another. However, there are still gaps in these metrics. We investigated these gaps to help you better plan your approach to playing…
When you think of the Mid-Atlantic region, you may not necessarily think of poker. However, we have discovered that the Mid-Atlantic is actually one of the best regions of the country to live if you love poker. There are a surprisingly large number of places to play poker in this area, packed into a relatively…
If you are a cash poker player the best predictor of success is clearly how you play your hands. When blinds do not escalate and you can leave the table whenever you want, hand analysis and execution are king. In tournament play, choosing playable hands and executing them with skill is certainly critical as well….
Recently, we reviewed the national norms for poker tournaments. The purpose of that article was to give tournament players some idea of tournaments across the country to evaluate their own typical weekly games. However, both from our experiences traveling and looking at the data it’s clear that there is a lot of regional variation in…
Las Vegas is a poker player’s dream. With over thirty different poker rooms on the Strip and around town, many offering tournament action, how do you decide where to play? Let us walk you through some of the best poker tournaments in Las Vegas. We will help you find the cheapest Las Vegas tournaments, those…
Our most recent addition to Poker Pilgrims is our poker tournament information page. We include buy-ins, rake, evaluation of structures (S-point calculation), and most notably, the average number of entries (if available). All this data allows the user to assess regular tournaments across the United States. To that end, we thought we would share the…
The poker world has changed greatly over the past couple of years. Many poker rooms closed never to re-open again. By our estimate, about 24% of the rooms with 10 or more tables In the United States as of December 2019, are no longer open. Some rooms re-opened but removed tables. Many others with previously…
The vibrant New England poker scene offers a wide variety of options in a very small geographic footprint. In less than 4 hours you could drive from the room (with 6 or more tables) furthest north, Lebanon Poker Room, to the one furthest south, Foxwoods. The region’s largest city, Boston, sits dead center of the…