Regular

Non-guaranteed tournament with a prize pools that is determined by how many players take part in the tournament. The prize pool grows with every player that joins in.

For example, if the buy-in price for a tournament has an $11 buy-in ($10+$1), $10 is added to the prize pool for every player that joins, re-enters, rebuys, or adds-on. If 100 players play in the $11 tournament the prize pool will be $1,000.

Guaranteed

Guaranteed tournaments have a guaranteed minimum prize pools up for grabs, once the minimum amount of players have registered prior to the tournaments schedule start time. If the amount of buy-ins, rebuys / add-ons or re-entries from players exceed the guaranteed amount, the prize pool will grow accordingly.

Freeze-out

A freeze-out allows you only one entry into the tournament, once you have lost all you are eliminated conversely if you knock a player out, they’re not able to rebuy or re-enter.

Rebuy

Rebuy tournaments allow you to rebuy the starting stack chips once you have run out of chips or have less chips than you when you started the tournament. If you get knocked out or have less chips than you started with, within the rebuy period, you can hang on to your seat by paying the rebuy fee.

Rebuy periods differ by tournaments, the tournament description will provide the amount of levels you are allowed to rebuy, as well as the amount of times you are allowed to rebuy for. At the end of the rebuy stage, an add-on break starts, the amount of chips available to add onto your stack differ by tournament. Once the add-on period is over, players can no longer buy-in or rebuy into the tournament.

Re-Entry

Re-entry tournaments are similar to rebuy tournaments in the sense that you get a second chance if you get knocked out but only if you are eliminated during the late registration period. The amount of times you can re-enter into a tournament is dependent on the tournament, through generally up to three re-entries are permitted. The price of Re-entry is the same as the initial buy-in.

Multi-entries

Multi-entries is supercharged seating! You can hold more than one seat in the tournament at the same time! The multiple seats you are on will never be on the same table. If you have more seats than there are tables available, your seats will merge their stack together, giving you a single seat with an impressive chip stack.

Bounty Tournaments

In a bounty tournaments you get an additional cash prize when you eliminate a player. A cash bounty is placed on every entrant in the tournament. The winner of the knockout tournament, wins their own bounty. At the start of the tournament, you pay an extra buy-in. This extra buy-in is the bounty on your head. We offer two types of bounty tournaments. Progressive Knockout and Bounty Builders.

In a Progressive Knockout, you only receive part of the bounty that’s on the player’s head (generally 50%, differs by tournament) the rest of their bounty gets added to the bounty on your head. The more players you knock out the bigger your winnings will be, and the larger the bounty on your head will grow. This continues until the 1st place winner knocks out the 2nd place winner, at which point the first place winner will take the full bounty. Bounty Builders give you the full bounty amount when you knock a player out.

Satellites

Satellites tournaments offer players a chance to win an entry into a larger tournament at a reduction of the fee. Satellites typically don’t typically include cash prizes, but they’re a great way for players with smaller bankrolls to gain entry into larger tournaments with impressive prize pools.

Time limited

As the name suggests time limited tournaments end after a set amount of time. If you survive the fast paced action at the time of the tournament ending, you are awarded a portion of the prize pool dependant on the amount of chips you have in relation the other remaining players.

Anonymous

Player`s identities are hidden from each other during the course of the tournament, this format can be applied to various tournaments, for instance you could have a knockout re-entry tournament which is anonymous.

Boost

The Boost Poker table will look like a regular table, but players who fold their cards are immediately moved onto a random table against different opponent`s before the hand is completed. Boost tables offer the option to stay and watch the hand play out, but you don’t need to wait around for your next hand.

Shootout

In Shootouts, play continues on the same table until only one player remains at that table. Players are not balance around as other players are eliminated from the tournament. The winning players from each table are then seated at new tables, where the play again until there is only one player remaining.

Stack Sizes

In a short stack tournament the starting chips are less than you would usually get on a relatively similar tournament with a regular stack size. Short stack tourneys are ideal for players who want to play quicker games with quick knock outs.

Deep stack tournaments are the opposite of a short stack tournament. You start with more chips than you would in a regular tournament, but so does everyone else. It’s a good game for players who like to take some time to get settled or who want enough chips to play around with.

Mega stacks can be thought of as the marathon tournament. With up to 4 times as many starting chips as regular tournaments, mega stack tournaments are the perfect place to settle in and get to know the other players’ play styles, tells and overall personalities.

Speed

Slow tournaments are for players who want some more time to settle in and strategize on their own time. We classify slow tournaments as any tournaments with blinds going up every 12-15 minutes.

Regular speed tournaments are about what you expect from online poker. Blinds that climb fast enough to keep the player count going down while still giving you a chance to settle in and get to know your competitors. The regular speed blinds usually go up every 10 minutes.

Ideal for players who want to play faster tournaments, the turbo tournament has blinds going up every 6 minutes.

Hyper tournaments are perfect for aggressive players who love high paced action. Blinds go up every 3 minutes and often combine with short starting stacks to make knocking out other players a breeze.

Seating

Heads up refers to tables where two players play against each other. In a tournament setting you will play against 1 other player until one of you get knocked out. The winner then moves on to another table to play against someone else.

Tables sizes various from 4-Max all the way up to a full ring (9 seater) each tournament will display the amount of seats on each table.

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