These days, poker tournaments are getting larger and larger. There are satellites and super satellites and other events that allow you to qualify without even spending any money. What this means of course is that it is very common now for poker tournaments to have very large fields and events with 1000 players or more are common.

At first this may seem daunting to a novice player, attempting to win an event that has so many players seems an impossible task! Well the fact of the matter is, while winning any poker tournament is unlikely based purely on the numbers that are involved, the hurdle isn