Typical poker tournaments continue until one player has all the poker chips and everyone else goes broke. But if the stakes just stayed the same, a tournament might last many years. It would be very hard to eliminate poker players. So, in tournaments, the stakes keep getting larger and larger periodically, until all but one player is gone.
But you know what? If you only have a small bankroll, you can make your own tournament any day. Buy into a small poker game and keep moving to a bigger limit every hour until you either go broke or win at the $5000/$10,000 limit or larger. You see what I am getting at, right? You are almost certain to go broke, but you might get extremely lucky and increase your bankroll hundreds of times. Most likely, you are going to end up miserable.
You did be surprised how many otherwise skillful poker players fail at poker, simply because they treat their bankrolls like poker tournament buy-ins. Sure, they don't do it all in one day, as in the exaggerated example I provided. But they keep promoting themselves to higher and higher levels that the size of their bankrolls can't justify. Almost all of them go broke, despite their poker skills. Please don't do that.
