Types of Poker Tournaments

A poker tournament is a structured competition where players face-off against one another to accumulate all the chips. In a normal casino game each hand is unrelated to another. In a normal poker game, players can also quit whenever they want. In poker tournaments, players can not simply quit and cash out their chips. The play will simply continue until one player has accumulated all the chips.

Here are the different kinds of poker tournaments to choose from:

1. Elimination Poker Tournaments - this is the most common type of poker tournament. The structure of this poker tournament lets all players have the same amount of chips. The play will simply continue until one player has accumulated all the chips.

As players get eliminated, active players are asked to change seats into the fewer and fewer tables.

Even though the winner is supposed to accumulate all the chips, there is still a payout structure that rewards other players. For example if 95 players are in the tournament, the 9 players in the final table will also be given rewards. As the player finishes higher, he or she will get a bigger reward.

2. Rebuy Poker Tournaments – the structure of this poker tournament is for a given time, players who lose all their chips are allowed to “rebuy” more chips and Play poker tournaments on.

Rebuy tournaments have players that play more aggressive in the early part of the poker tournament. This is because they do not face the chance to be eliminated if they lose all their chips. Rebuy poker tournaments often lead to a larger total prize that is being played for the standard initial entry cost.

3. Shootout tournaments – the tables will not be reduced or combined as players get eliminated. Instead, each table will just play on to have a single winner. Eventually winners of each table will just face off in another table later on.

For example there are 16 poker tables. Later on, the winners of the 16 poker tables will meet head-on elimination style. They will knock out one another till there will be a winner at the finals table.

This type of tournament will last for several hours but still less than elimination poker tournaments.

4. Satellite Poker Tournaments – This kind of poker tournament is the preliminary or mini poker tournaments.

For example before the start of a tournament that has entering costs of a $1000 ten players will battle it out with entering costs of $100 each. The winner will advance to the $1000 dollar entering cost poker tournament.