Speed poker
Speedpoker is a live version of Texas Hold'em that was inspired by online poker . It's a relatively new variant played in the Asia-Pacific Speed Poker Championship and two major television tournaments: The World Speed Poker Open and the MANSIONPOKER.NET Poker Dome Challenge . The Card Player Magazine anticipates the development of the Speed Poker the Australians Keith Sloan on. Although you can theoretically play any poker variant in the speed format, only the Texas hold'em variant has prevailed.
MANSION Ltd acquired the rights to Sloan's concept of Speed Poker and registered MANSION Speed Poker as a trademark.
The rules are identical to Texas Hold'em. The differences are mainly to be found in the time players have to make decisions. Each player has 15 seconds to play their hand before it is folded or checked. In addition, each player has an additional 30 seconds of extra time that they can use in a round of their choice. At MANSIONPOKER.NET Poker Dome Challenge the game is pot limit before the flop , but no limit after the flop , at the World Speed Poker Open there is always no limit .
As with every variant of poker, the rules of speed poker can vary depending on the tournament. However, Keith Sloan has three basic rules:
- There are six players and two dealers at each table
- Each player must make his move in 15 seconds
- If a player fails to make his move within the time limit, the hand is passed or checked
Tournament format according to Keith Sloan
A speed poker tournament is first played at several tables until there are only 36 players left. The last 36 players take the chips they have collected with them to the next round.
The six chip leaders are split at six different tables, as are the six players with the next highest six stacks of chips and so on, until all 36 players are split between six tables.
The winners of the six tables advance to the final. In the final, all players start with the same number of chips.
All players receive at least one (depending on the rules of the tournament) "Time Breaker Button", which gives the player an additional time of 30 seconds.