Team Poker

I heard that Chip Reese was an investor away from creating a poker league. Many of his ideas were very similar to the format rolled out by Dream Team Poker. The dream team, is your team, so I hope you got big time friends. The concept of team poker is good one. Big time pros got behind the idea as they didn't turn their nose up at the small buy-in for the event and a ton of them graced Caeser's in Las Vegas with their presence.

The results from the event where teams featuring Justin Bononomo and Jaime Gold have won the last two show skill is still important even in a team format. The fact that those two players have shady clouds hanging over their pasts maybe shouldn't be ignored either.

Dream Team poker works likes this, there are a ton of three man teams competing against one another in a poker tournament. Also, at stake are individual prizes as well as the team prizes. So, if somebody snaps you off and you are left cuddling felt, and as a team player you still got a chance to win some money.

The concept is a good one. Not only because it's a nice tweak on poker but it also shows a side of poker that's not in full view. In fact, it takes something from the shadows and puts the spotlight on it. Everyday non-team poker events have a lot of team poker characteristics. A ton of players trade percentages of one another in every tournament they play. Yet, nobody knows who has a chunk of who. Wouldn't it be nice if they just wore jerseys? Well, here they do. Course that wouldn't stop teams from teaming up with another. Though you can only divvy a pie so many ways.

Dream Team Poker gives the poker player that grew up in a team sport childhood a chance to not be the solitary card player and actual participate in a team atomosphere. That's great because even though many people have a shoulder to cry on over a bad beat they don't have any team-mates. It'd be nice to see the online sites experiment with this thought a little bit as they'd be able to manage a team tournament with ease and could even expand on it.

Why stop at three teammates. Why not five or seven or ten. Course, some online players might later regret informing the site, the network of ip addresses that form their team if those addresses every collude. But exposing cheating is always good for the game. Hopefully some internet poker site will make this available for all to play.