To enter a typical tournament, a player pays a fixed buy-in and at the start of play is given a certain quantity of tournament poker chips. Unlike in a ring game (or cash game), a player's chips in a tournament cannot be cashed out for money and serve only to determine the player's placing. To facilitate this, in most tournaments, blinds rise over the duration of the tournament. The winner of the tournament is usually the person who wins every poker chip in the game and the others are awarded places based on the time of their elimination. It can feature as few as two players playing on a single table (called a ' heads-up' tournament), and as many as tens of thousands of players playing on thousands of tables. JSTOR ( August 2010) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ģ006 World Series of Poker Main Event A home poker tournament in progress.Ī poker tournament is a tournament where players compete by playing poker.Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.
