Tournament poker?

[Zeke]

This computer I got today has some games including Poker Stars. So, I go in to play a single game. They give you $250,000 to start. I was down a bit but started to win. after 48 hands, I had eliminated all the players and my chip count showed 1.5 mil.

So, I am looking at all these statistics and whatnot and then it says the awards were 250K to me and 175K to 2nd place. I never thought of poker that way. I don't play cards at all, but if I did, I'd want to play straight up and take all the money. Or lose it as it were.
The question is, when you play in a tournament, how much does $250K in chips cost in real money? How much did I really win?

Another point is this: when I had an advantage of 1.2M over the last remaining player, I played it differently. After the ante I folded 4 out of 5 hands at the first 2 cards losing only my ante (which was up to 50K/100K back and forth). I watched what I had invested and waited for decent hands to bet. Had I known the opponent was still going to get 175K no matter what, I wonder why I spent so much time and effort to crush her. The computer player was Mimi Tran. I just read about her on the Net. One of the other computer players is her ex-boyfriend Barry Goldstein.

I wouldn't get passed the first table in real life.


I think poker should be played on a time limit. Clock stops and you get up and take what you have.