Mark and Tina
Napolitano of www.pokerpages.com have joined forces with Mike
Caro, Lou Krieger, Nolan Dalla, Rolf Slotboom, Barry Tanenbaum, Daniel
Negreanu and Jennifer Harmon to lend their expert views to poker
playing. The Poker School site is well laid out, and includes
articles and tests, but most significantly ongoing tournament
competitions.
Nothing improves
tournament play better than... actually playing in tournaments! And
at Poker School Online you have ample opportunities to do just that!
Every day you can polish your skills vs. other determined adversaries
in Hold 'em, Omaha and Stud tournaments to polish your skills for the
real thing and real money.
In April, 2002 they
started awarding League Points to people who lead three different
tournament categories which can be exchanged for buy-in's to major
poker events. As an example, the league winner of the "Gold League"
gets 350 points each month which (once you reach 500 points)
can be redeemed dollar for dollar for big event buy ins.
Besides the site
itself, what makes this place most worthwhile are all the people you
interact with. Some are friendly, and some will make you want to hit
them over the head with a bat, but they will ALL teach you something
about Tournament play and that is worth the $15/month price of
admission alone (less if you buy a year at a time).
The ranking system is
nicely done and gives incentive for improvement and you will see
improvement in your game from using the resources here.
The current Poker
School Online promotion is called The Big One III and features over
$100,000 worth of sponsorship awards that can be used in any major
tournament. The top prize in each of the three finals is 15,000
sponsorship points which amounts to $15,000 of tournament entries.
Enter the WSOP main event, the World Poker open, or any tournament
with a buy in of $500 or more with your sponsorship points!
The bottom line
is this: does Poker School Online work? Yes it does. Personally I've
improved my tournament play drastically from infrequent final table
appearances to frequent ones and what's more a very decent number of
wins. For $14.95 a month you can't go wrong.
