With nearly half of our lessons already behind us, we can move on to some slightly more advanced topics. That is, we’re going to keep the level of instruction as simple as possible, but we’ll now assume that you’ve got some experience under your belt and you’d like to learn some more about intermediate, or even advanced, issues. In this section we’ll look at tournament play—that wonderful and challenging monster of the Internet poker world that everybody seems to be participating in these days. One thing we’d like to stress is that you should never rush into a tournament just because you noticed that Chris Moneymaker won a couple million dollars that way. Instead, you should enter a tournament when you’d like some good competition and for the thrill of the event. In the next five lessons, we’ll give you a general overview of what tournaments are about, and we’ll touch on no-limit and pot-limit games as well. Read on.

Lesson 11: Tournament Play I – So you’ve been playing Hold’em at your online poker room for quite some time now, and you’re thinking about signing up for one of those tournaments…

Lesson 12: Tournament Play II – Tournaments are hot stuff, and you’re really having fun. But as the tables fill up, you notice that things are getting complicated. Follow this link to get informed about what to do once you’re off and running…

Lesson 13: Tournament Play III – You’ve surprised yourself and you’ve reached the late stages of an online tournament. But the squeeze is on, and you don’t know how much longer you can survive. Here are some valuable hints to make your great run pay off financially…

Lesson 14: No-Limit and Pot-Limit – If you think the transition from limit Hold’em to no-limit and pot-limit is just a formality, you’d better think again…

Lesson 15: No-Limit Hold’em – No-limit Hold’em is fascinating. There’s no way around it. But it’s also potentially dangerous, so we thought we’d give you some pointers before you “make the leap”…