Tournaments

  • Multi Table Tournaments
  • Buy in and fee
  • Satellites - Tickets & Qualifiers
  • Free Rolls and added prize money
  • Scheduled Tournaments
  • Sit & Go
  • Re-buy and Add-on
  • Hand by Hand
  • Blind increase
  • Registering
  • Tournament payout structure

Tournaments are played by a group of participants, all paying a fixed entry fee (buy-in) and a fee for the hosting of the tournament into a pool. This pool is used to pay the winner(s). There is no rake in tournament hands.
All participants receive the same number of chips and play until they’ve won all the other participants chips – or until they’ve lost all their own. The number of initial chips may vary from tournament to tournament but is typically 1,500.

The tournament winner is he/she who finishes the game with all the participants' chips.

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.

Qualifying tournaments “Satellites”

Big tournaments can be accessed through qualifier satellite tournaments.

In the qualifier tournament, instead of cash prizes, the winner is awarded qualification (buy-in) to another tournament. No additional fee is required.
The number of qualifiers varies depending on the different types of tournaments.

”Free to Enter” (Free Rolls) and “Guarantied prize” tournaments

A free-roll tournament is a tournament with prize money, which is absolutely free to enter.

Guarantied prize tournament are tournaments with prize money added by us 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 players in pole position.

Sit & Go

As well as scheduled tournaments, we offer "Sit & Go" tournaments, 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.

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 request 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, depending on the tournament set up) 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 how many chips they have left.

There is no fee for the re-buy or add-on.

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 bets increase

To compensate for increasing chip amounts as players are eliminated, and to ensure the tournaments will come to an end, the blind bets will continuously increase. This occurs either after a number of played hands, or with specified time intervals.

Registering

Players may register directly at a single table Sit & Go Tournament by going to the table. For scheduled tournaments, players may either register from the poker software by going to the specific tournament homepage, or via the website.

Tournament payout structure

  • Single-Table Tournaments
    The prize structure for a standard Sit & Go single tournament 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 tournaments 2nd place prize is $30 - $11 = $19.
  • Multi-Table Tournament
    For multi-table tournaments the payouts structures vary depending on the tournament. See each tournament for details.

Tournament rules


1. Tournaments will begin according to schedules. Should a player fail to be logged in at the time the tournament commences, he or she may forfeit their space at the table.

2. It’s not possible to change seats during a tournament, except when part of the tournament table balancing.

3. In a Multi Table Tournament, the seats are assigned randomly. At a single table tournament the player may select his or her own seat.

4. During a Multi Table Tournament the button that identifies the dealer is placed at a fixed position, in a Single Table Tournament however, the players high-card to decide who will have the button and act as the dealer.

5. The Tournament will end when one player accumulates all the chips in play.

6. Should two or more players be eliminated on the same hand, the player with more chips at the beginning of the hand will be placed higher. If players started the hands with identical amounts of chips, then both players tie for that rank and any prizes due to those players will be distributed equally amongst them.

7. When players that were supposed to make the blind bets in the next hand are eliminated, there may be players who get a reprieve from one of both blinds due to the fact that the dealer’s position will change anyway.

8. With only two players remaining, the dealer will post the small blind and act first on the opening round.

9. Disconnects:
• By participating in a tournament, a player accepts the risk of Internet disconnection, due to the problems with the connection between their computer and the servers or any other problem in the player's computer. We do not accept any responsibility for a player disconnect except in the case of a server crash.

• If a player loses connection, he/she will have an extra 30 seconds to reconnect on top of the regular time allotment for acting.

• If a player times out during a hand, whether connected or disconnected, his or her hand will be folded.

• If a player is not connected before a hand commences, he or she will be dealt cards and a blind/ante will be posted. There is no rule against choosing to sit out  (keep a seat at the table but not play)– a player doing so will continue to have blinds and antes posted, as well as cards dealt.

10. Unethical play, including collusion, may result in disqualification and the termination of the offender’s account.

11. As players are knocked out, the tournament tables will be balanced to ensure all tables have as equal an amount of players as possible. The balancing of tables is done randomly.

12. A bet and three raises are permitted in structured limit tournaments. There is no raise maximum in pot-limit and no-limit tournaments.

13. In the event of a server crash, the tournament will be restarted from the position it was halted. If that’s not possible, the remaining portion of the prize pool will be divided between the remaining players.

14. Prizes will be awarded in accordance with the prize list.

15. Players may not discuss a hand until all gaming action is finished.