Poker Tournaments

Types of tournaments

FREE TOURNAMENTS

Free entry, guaranteed prize pool

You can join these tournaments for free (no buy-in) and win from a guaranteed prize pool

GTD TOURNAMENTS

Guaranteed prize pool

GTD stands for ‘Guaranteed.’ These tournaments have a guaranteed prize pool, irrespective of the number of entries. With more entries, the GTD prize amount can also go beyond the original prize.

SATELLITE TOURNAMENTS

Smaller tournaments to join
bigger tournaments

Satellite Tournaments are tournaments with lower buy-in value and can help you win cash/ a free ticket to higher buy-in tournaments as prizes.

Multi-Flight Tournaments

Tournaments with Multiple
Flights (rounds or phases)

MFT’s are tournaments where players must play the flight tournaments to qualify for the main tournament. Each starting phase is played up to a cut-off point and all remaining players will qualify to the next phase along with qualified players from other starting phases.

How a tournament proceeds

Starting Time
The time at which your tournament starts

Levels
Increments in Ante & Blind values after regular intervals

Break
A short resting period for all players after a certain level

Elimination
At the end of each hand, the player who loses all their chips gets eliminated

Rankings & Prize Structure Explained

Poker Tournaments Terminology

Daily Leaderboard Rewards

Ante: Mandatory bets that are put in by all the players before any cards are dealt, after which small and big blinds are placed are called Ante.

Blinds: Automatic bets placed by the players sitting on the blinds positions (Big Blind & Small Blind).

Breaks: A 5 minute resting period for players which starts at the 25th minute of the hour is referred to as a break.

Buy-in: The currency required for participation is referred to as buy-in.
*Please note that this buy-in is different from other cash games since it is fixed and does not require a minimum and maximum buy-in.

Entries: The total number of players that have registered in the tournament.

GTD Tournaments: GTD stands for ‘Guaranteed.’ These tournaments have a guaranteed prize pool, irrespective of participation.

Max. players:The highest number of players allowed to participate in the tournament

Minimum players: Tournaments sometimes have a minimum players requirement for them to start. In case the minimum players criteria is not met, the Tournament gets cancelled.

Paid ranks: The total number of ranks which will be given a share of the prize pool are called paid ranks. Different tournaments will have different numbers of paid ranks.

Prize pool: Total amount of money that will be disbursed at the end of the tournament is called the prize pool.

Satellite Tournament: Satellite Tournaments are small tournaments which give a ticket to a bigger targeted tournament. They have a smaller buy-in value and give away cash/free tickets to the bigger targeted tournament.

Starting stack: The number of chips a player begins within a tournament is called starting stack.

Poker tournaments ranking follows the “leaderboards” structure. This is how we calculate ranks:

Players keep getting eliminated from the tournament when their chips get over.

Your rank will be calculated throughout the tournament based on your chips stack at that stage in the tournament.

The greater the chips stack, the better the rank.
Example: Player A with a 10,123 chips stack will rank higher than Player B with a stack of 10,122 chips.

Rankings will be updated at the end of each hand.

The hands for all the open tables will start at the same time as the tournament proceeds in the Hand for Hand stage where any elimination impacts a paid position.

Your rank will be finalized and the corresponding prize (if any) will be awarded at the time of elimination. In case of a tie between 2 or more eliminated players, a specific set of rules will be used to calculate the prize

Types of tournaments

Ways to Join a Tournament

Enter a tournament in 4 steps

How a tournament proceeds