Tournaments, from one table to sixty

Pick a structure

Three ready-made structures cover most nights. Each shows how long it's likely to last for the players entered, and once it's running, when it should finish.

The Standard structure starts at blinds of 25/50, adds a big blind ante from level 4, and takes a five-minute break every six levels.

Or build your own

The custom setup has everything a real tournament director would want:

• Levels and breaks: every level's blinds and ante, how long each lasts, and when the breaks come.
• Starting chips and the entry, in chips, that goes into the prize pool.
• Rebuys: once a player is out of chips, or whenever they're below the starting stack, as you choose.
• Add-ons at the break, for everyone still in.
• Bounties: a prize in chips on every player's head, for whoever knocks them out.
• Late entry until a level you choose, with your yes for each new player.
• The prize split, from winner takes all to a deep payout.

The setup warns you about anything that would make a strange night, such as blinds more than doubling at once, or too few levels to finish.

One table or six

A tournament can be one table of up to 9, free, or with Premium, up to six tables of 2 to 10 seats, for 60 players. With more than one table, Poker Rooms does the tournament director's work:

• Tables are kept within one player of each other, and the smallest table breaks as players go out.
• On the bubble, tables play hand for hand, so nobody can stall into the prizes.
• Players meet at a final table, drawn at random.

Prizes, in chips

Every prize is paid in chips. The prize pool is exactly what went in: no fee or cut is ever taken and nothing is added. It's a game, and the chips have no value.

Part of the night

Start a tournament from a cash table's Ledger tab and each player's result goes into that table's ledger, so the cash game before and the tournament after settle up together. More on settling up.