Poker Matches
Match Poker is a way of playing poker, developed by the International Federation of Match Poker (IFMP), designed to offer poker as an official world sport. To meet the definition of “sport”, Match Poker has been designed so that a large part of the luck inherent in poker is removed.
In Match Poker, you will play the same cards, in the same position, and with the same flop, turn and river, as the players you’re being compared with. So your play is judged not on how much you won or lost on a hand, but by comparing your play with that of every other player who played those same cards.
A game of Texas hold 'em in progress. 'Hold 'em' is a popular form of poker. Poker is any of a number of card games in which players wager over which hand is best according to that specific game's rules in ways similar to these rankings. In poker, players form sets of five playing cards, called hands, according to the rules of the game. Each hand has a rank, which is compared against the ranks of other hands participating in the showdown to decide who wins the pot. In high games, like Texas hold 'em and seven-card stud, the highest-ranking hands win.In low games, like razz, the lowest-ranking hands win.
As a result of this innovation, Match Poker has been provisionally accepted by the governing body of world sport, GAISF, as the 7th world mind sport – alongside Chess and Bridge etc.
Click here to learn more about how Match Poker works!
Match Poker is a way of playing poker, developed by the International Federation of Match Poker (IFMP), designed to offer poker as an official world sport. To meet the definition of “sport”, Match Poker has been designed so that a large part of the luck inherent in poker is removed.
In Match Poker, you will play the same cards, in the same position, and with the same flop, turn and river, as the players you’re being
compared with. So your play is judged not on how much you won or lost on a hand, but by comparing your play with that of every other player who played those same cards.
As a result of this innovation, Match Poker has been provisionally accepted by the governing body of world sport, GAISF, as the 7th world mind sport – alongside Chess and Bridge etc.
Click here to learn more about how Match Poker works!
- Be able to measure yourself against your peers, your friends, and even against famous players
- Play tournaments that will qualify you to play at major championship events
- Have a lot of fun!
The biggest prize we offer is the ability to represent your country, state, region, gender, or age-group in major national and international events!
Our promise to you is that regular play on matchpoker.com should improve your game and help you become a very competent poker player.
We want MatchPoker.com to become:
The best site in the world for rating the skill level of poker players,
The “go-to” site for improving your poker,
The world’s largest community of poker players,
The most active community in poker skill and in the sport of poker, and
The only online site which allows you to officially represent your country in the sport of poker (potentially, one day, as an Olympian).
The best site in the world for rating the skill level of poker players,
The “go-to” site for improving your poker,
The world’s largest community of poker players,
The most active community in poker skill and in the sport of poker, and
The only online site which allows you to officially represent your country in the sport of poker (potentially, one day, as an Olympian).
We are very excited to announce the upcoming beta release of our app. This will give you an early look into the digital playing platform of Match Poker Online™.
Please sign up to the Beta to get your first look at a poker platform that will truly revolutionise our wonderful game.
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The online poker landscape changed a lot last year. When casinos around the world closed their doors around March all that we were left with was the online arena.
It wasn’t long before traffic figures were hitting five-year highs and people were saying the game was looking as good as it had in a long time. We had hit the jackpot out of a bad situation.
Heads-Up for Rollz
Something else that we saw start last year was the reinvention of the heads-up battle. Phil Galfond issued a public challenge to anybody brave enough to battle with him in a heads-up match playing high stakes PLO. It wasn’t long before we had a list of challengers. Heads-up for rolls challenges aren’t exactly a new concept. In the early days of online poker they were the playground equivalent of starting a fight over nothing. But that doesn’t get away from the fact that they are, in fact, one of the best measures we have in testing a player’s skill.
While Galfond was grinding his way to a 3-0 lead against top quality opposition others began to take interest in what was going on. Primarily, we guess, because of all the attention it was getting.
Doug Polk and Daniel Negreanu didn’t take long to negotiate their High Stakes Feud. Some might say Negreanu was a little hasty to give Polk everything he wanted/needed with regards to the format. Others praised his bravery. To take on Doug Polk in his favoured format was actually incredibly brave. Especially with the limited time to prepare to face a guy who was once considered to be the best in the world at that format.
Whoever came out looking the best from the rules negotiations, both players had done their job in talking up their chances. The fans were hungry to see this. In the modern internet age we have so many quality options for viewing the match with commentary. It’s as if the internet was made for this kind of thing.
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By the time Doug Polk was heading back into retirement with a couple of million extra dollars, the high stakes world was full of action seekers looking to fill this new gap in the market. The fans love this heads-up fighting.
So, next up into the limelight was none other than German tournament crusher Fedor Holz and Polish cash wizard Wiktor “limitless” Malinowski. For this battle we don’t know where to start, because it was born out of what looked like a joke.Around six months ago, Malinowski told Joey Ingram on his podcast that he would take on Fedor Holz at any stakes he wants, and he will get drunk while he is playing. Holz took to social media to challenge “limitless” while he was losing badly in his other match against Stefan 'Stefan11222' Burakov.
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The cat is now out of the bag, as we say. These matches have become so popular that we may have a constant stream of them for the foreseeable future. Any hint of a disagreement in the poker community will lead to one of these battles.
Maybe we will even see an invigorated heads-up cash scene some years after it mostly died out except for the high stakes.
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