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• PokerRoom.com
Tournaments
• Multi Table
Tournaments
• Buy in and Fee
• Starting
Chips
• Starting
Chips Bonus!
• Satellites
- Tickets & Qualifiers
• Free Rolls
and Added Cash
• Scheduled Tournaments
• Sit & Go
• Re-buy and Add-on
• Hand by Hand
• Blind Increase
• Registering
• Tournament payout
structure
Online
Poker Tournaments
Think you’re a poker ace? Why not
pit your wits against other players in a
Poker Room Tournament?
Tournaments are played by a group of participants,
all paying a fixed buy-in and fee to a pool
(see section below), this pool is used to
pay the winner(s). All participants receive
the same number of chips (see Bonus Chips
section for exceptions to this) and play
until they’ve won all the other participants
chips – or until they’ve lost
all their own.
The tournament winner is he/she who finishes
the game with all the participants' chips
to themselves!
Unlike traditional ring games, the risk
in tournament play is limited to the initial
sign-up fee. With only this amount to lose,
tournament gaming makes an ideal starting
point for anyone wishing to experience the
potentially lucrative thrill of real money
poker!
Multi-Table
Tournaments
Tournaments are played on multiple tables
simultaneously, unless the tournament happens
to be very small in numbers. When participants
are ‘knocked-out’ of the tournament,
players are moved to other tables to keep
numbers balanced and games more enjoyable.
When enough seats are free a whole table
will be removed, until only one table remains…this
table will include the winner player!
Buy
in and Fee
To enter a tournament the player must pay
the buy-in (this amount goes into the prize
pool!) and a fee for the hosting of the
tournament. There is no rake in tournament
hands.
Starting
Chips
After you’ve posted your buy-in and
fee, each player will receive a number of
chips for the start of the tournament. The
number of initial chips may vary from tournament
to tournament but is typically 1,500.
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Starting
Chips Bonus!
In selected special tournaments, it’s
possible you’ll be awarded bonus starting
chips. These are added to the players starting
chip stack.
Satellites -
Tickets & Qualifiers!
For your chance to win the big prizes, you
can play in the big tournaments through
qualifier satellites. This way you can join
the really high stakes tournaments for just
a few dollars.
In the qualifier tournament, instead of
cash prizes, the winner is awarded tickets
to another tournament. The ticket is valid
as a buy-in, so you will not have to pay
any additional fee.
There are different qualifier tournaments
with different buy-ins. The number of tickets
awarded depends on the buy-in and the cost
of the ticket for the final. E.g. in the
$11+$1 Grand Prix Qualifier, there will
be a ticket for every 10 participants. (Ticket
prize of $100+$8)
Aside from the pure qualifiers, where all
the prize pool goes to qualifying tickets,
some of the other tournaments also award
tickets beside the cash prizes.
To play a tournament you need a ticket.
These are either transparently bought when
registering or can be awarded as a prize
in a previous tournament or some kind of
promotion. This way a chain of qualification
tournaments can be created, leaving a very
healthily accumulated prize pool at the
end.
All tickets will have an expiry period.
This will vary and will be displayed in
the information regarding the tournaments.
To start with, the tournament will have
a long expiration time to let players find
the correct tournaments.
In the client, a tournament to which you
have a ticket is denoted with an arrow in
the tournament list.
Free Rolls and
Added Cash a little extra from PokerRoom.com!
Occasionally PokerRoom.com adds a little
extra spice to tournaments in the shape
of ‘free-roll’. A free-roll
tournament is a tournament with prize money,
which is absolutely free to join! The purpose
of these tournaments is to help players
sharpen their tournament tactics, or perhaps
try a tournament for the first time.
Free-rolls are generally extremely popular
and you should be quick to register to avoid
disappointment.
Added Cash: An added cash tournament is
a tournament with prize money added by PokerRoom.com
on top of the regular prize pool! This is
a bonus for the participating players. The
added cash can be distributed between all
the cash winners, or sometimes only to the
gamer in pole position.
Keep an eye out for PokerRoom.com Added
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Scheduled Tournaments
For all major tournaments at PokerRoom.com
you’ll find a weekly schedule. Please
use this information to gain information
on current events and find the tournament
that fits your style.
Scheduled tournaments have a fixed starting
time and you can usually register prior
to these starting times. When the tournament
time approaches, all players registered
(up to the given limit) will participate
in the tournament. The length of tournaments
is dependent on the number of players.
Sit & Go
As well as scheduled events, you'll find
"Sit & Go" tournaments! These
are single table tournaments, normally with
10 players.
A Sit & Go tournament will start as
soon as all the seats are filled and the
prize pool is fixed.
Some Sit & Go tournaments are available
24-7 and some (like the special satellite
tournaments) are only available at certain
times of day. See the Sit & Go Satellite
Schedule for a complete overview of these
details.
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Re-buy and Add-on
During a tournament, if you run out of chips,
you’re usually knocked out of the
game. In some tournaments, however, you’re
allowed to post another buy-in to get more
chips when you run out.
Re-buys are limited though – both
in number (e.g. once in a tournament) and
in time (only within the first hour). The
re-buy will affect the prize money and it
is therefore not possible to make a re-buy
after the first winning person has been
knocked out.
It’s possible, if permitted, to make
a re-buy during the tournament, as long
as the players chip stack is less or equal
to, the starting chip stack.
An ‘add-on’ is a special re-buy
available at the very end of a re-buy period.
The add-on is available for all players,
regardless of the size of their chip stack.
There is no fee for the re-buy or
add-on.
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Hand by Hand
At the end of a multi table tournament,
‘hand by hand’ play is adopted.
This means that a new hand at a table will
not be played until the current hand at
all tables is finished – to ensure
all tables are played at the same pace.
Blind Increase
To compensate for increasing chip stacks
as players are eliminated, and to ensure
the tournaments will in fact end, the blinds
will continuously increase. This occurs
either after a number of played hands, or
with specified time intervals.
Registering
Register directly at a single table Sit
& Go Tournament by going to the table.
For scheduled tournaments, either register
in the client by going to the specific tournament
lobby, or via the PokerRoom.com website.
After the tournament starts, you’ll
be taken to the tournament table automatically
if your browser is open.
Tournament payout
structure
- Single-Table
Tournaments
The prize structure for a standard Sit
& Go single tourney is as follows:
1st place is 50% of prize pool
2nd place is 30% of prize pool
3rd place is 20% of prize pool
All
prizes are also minus your initial buy-in,
e.g. for a $10+1 buy-in tourney 2nd
place prize is $30 - $11 = $19.
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