Tournaments

Pay a single amount to play for longer and have access to bigger prizepools; with tiered payouts, there’s more to be won.  

General tournament info

Tournament costs
To enter a tournament you must pay the buy-in amount which contributes to the prizepool, and a registration fee. The fee is usually 10 percent of the buy-in.
(E.g. A $10+$1 tournament has a $10 buy-in and a $1 fee. This means the total cost is $11).

Your ranking in the tournament
This shows where you finished in the tournament. If you have finished in a position which is awarded funds from the prizepool, the amount you have won will show also.

Division of the prizepool
Poker tournaments have a prizepool which is divided between a set number of top placed players. The biggest share goes to the winner. In heads-up, however, there is only one winner.  

Increasing blinds and antes
Blinds (or antes) are increased during a tournament in fixed intervals, to help keep them to a reasonable time frame.  Increase your chip stack early if you don’t want to be caught out!

Tournaments Types
Poker tournaments come in lots of varieties and so it’s important to choose wisely. Read the guide below to get an overview of the tournament types that we offer.

Guaranteed
Guaranteed tournaments state the minimum prizepool before the tournament begins, no matter how many players join. They may pay more, but never less than the amount specified.

Sit and Go
Sit and go tournaments (S&G) begin once the seats are filled, and usually consist of nine or ten players around a single table. However, two and three table S&G tournaments can exist.

Multi-table
Multi-table tournaments (MTT) have a set start time and allow a large number of players to compete. The prizepool is often bigger and so paid out to a greater number of people.

Satellites
Satellite tournaments offer seats to other, more expensive tournaments as prizes.  There may be several seats available.

Turbo
The blinds increase every three minutes in a turbo tournament and so these take less time to play. As decisions have to be made quickly, they offer some of the most aggressive action.

Short-handed
Short-handed tournaments have five players on a table instead of ten. This means the blinds come round faster; with quicker action, rapid decisions need to be made carefully.

Heads-up
Only two players sit down to compete for a single pot in a heads-up scenario. There is only one prize, and the last player standing wins the lot.

Freezeout
A knockout tournament is known as a freezeout. You can buy-in only once and when you lose your chips, you’re out of the tournament.

Freeroll
Freerolls tournaments do not require any buyin from the player. These are fully funded by Casino.com. There are prizes for the top finishers so hurry - they fill up fast.

Added prize money
Additional prize money has been added to the prizepool by Casino.com. In satellites, added money would mean extra seats have been added.

Rebuy
Rebuy tournaments allow you to buy back into the tournament if you get knocked out. This option is available for a limited amount of time; when the time is up you can make a last rebuy which is called an add-on.
After the rebuy period, the tournament will go on as a normal tournament, with players busting out as they lose their last chips. The rebuys and add-ons are added to the prizepool.

Add-on
Add-on tournaments allow you to buy additional chips for a specified amount of time in the tournament. Some allow unlimited add-ons, some allow a limited amount.

Variations
Within the basic tournament structure there is considerable room for variation and betting structures. Complete details of the type and variation to the game will be given for each tournament in the tournament lobby.