If you get a chance to take a cruise vacation, you might consider taking a poker cruise as it is a wonderful way to do something you love while on an adventure. Poker tournaments themselves are a bit of an adventure, standing out from cash games with their organization and feeling of being a part of something as everyone strives against one another to make the money. Cruise vacations are fantastic adventures that combine visiting exotic ports with luxury superstar treatment aboard. Putting the two together is poker magic.

A cruise has something for everyone. For some it is the excursions to draw them on the cruise vacation. For others being on the ship itself is the big draw, with fancy dinners, pool decks, and Broadway style shows all in the middle of nowhere. For those fascinated by cruise activities, however, there can be some deadtime which can be filled in the casino - although most cruise ship casinos have devoted room to blackjack and slot machines over poker for years. As with other industries, however, the cruise ship industry has been swayed by the global popularity of Texas Holdem.

If you're planning a cruise trip, check with the cruise company to find out if Holdem is a part of the activities onboard. If you are a real poker fanatic, then check out places like cardplayercruises.com, that can offer you seats on ships that have dedicated poker rooms and hold routine tournaments during the voyage. On those occasions such as the PartyPoker.com Million V, an entire ship will be chartered and filled with poker rooms. Expect to find a poker cruise to be like a weeklong poker series with all the luxuries of the cruise vacation thrown in.