A Single Table Tournament is launched once the required number of players has registered. A Multi Table Tournament is launched at a specific starting time.

To join a tournament, players pay an entry fee before a tournament starts. There is no rake for tournaments. Instead, players pay a small fee on top of the entrance fee which goes to the house. Winnings are awarded to the top finishers in the tournament using a predetermined prize structure.

Players do not have an option to choose a seat at a table; instead they register in a tournament and wait to be assigned a seat. The players are seated at random around the table and each player is given a predetermined number of chips.

In a Freeze-out tournament, players cannot buy more chips during a game. Once players lose all of their chips, they are out of the tournament. A tournament listed as a Re-Buy tournament will give you the option to purchase more chips for the same amount as the buy-in, when you lose your stack.

A tournament finishes when one player has won all of the chips.

Play is the same as for Cash Games with the following exceptions:

• Players must always post blinds on their turn. They may not leave the table. If they are disconnected or stop playing, the blinds are posted automatically from their stacks, and the hands are automatically folded.
• Every player must post a big blind followed by a small blind once around the table. In some situations (when either the player currently on the small blind or the big blind is knocked out) there may be a “dead dealer button”. This means that the dealer button does not move to the next player, but instead stays where it is. This is because the big blind and the small blind must not miss any player at the table on its way around. Another consequence of this is that sometimes a small blind is not posted.
• Once a player has lost all his/her chips, in a freeze-out tournament, he/she cannot buy any more and is automatically removed from the table.

Timeouts and disconnections

If a player times out during a hand in a tournament, the hand is folded if a bet has been made, or checked if no-one has bet (regardless of whether the player is connected or disconnected).

Registration cancellation

If a player wishes to cancel his/her tournament registration, he/she is able to unregister at any time during the registration period. The player will then receive a full refund of his/her tournament buy-in and entry fee costs.

Cancellation or Failure

If the tournament is by some reason cancelled by the house, the buy-in and entry fee costs will be automatically refunded or at a failure manually refunded within 48 hours.

Tournament Status

A tournament can be in several states and information about this is shown in the lists of tournaments in the client.  Please find some tournament status definitions below:

Register -  The tournament is open for registration.
Waiting - Registration to the tournament has not yet opened.
Running - The tournament has started.
Finished - The tournament has finished.
Canceled - The tournament has been canceled by the gaming operator.