Online Tournament Rules
1. Tournaments will begin at the time designated in
the tournament details.
2. Players are assigned seats randomly and are not
allowed to choose or change their seats.
3. Late registration will be allowed up until 10 minutes
after the start of the tournament, unless the tournament
fills up or the first player is eliminated.
4. Players may unregister from a tournament up to 10
minutes before the start of the event.
5. There is a deal for the button at the start of the
tournament - high card plays the button for the first
hand.
6. The button moves in the conventional clockwise manner
so that no player receives the button twice in a row.
Occasionally a player will become the button without
having played in the blinds due to other players being
eliminated. This occurs commonly in online tournaments
and is due to technical software reasons. This may happen
to any player during the course of a tournament, and
therefore creates no long term advantage.
7. If two players should be eliminated simultaneously,
then the player with the most chips at the beginning
of the hand will finish higher.
8. When a tournament is down to the last two players,
the button will post the small blind and be first to
act in the initial round. The big blind will then be
first to act in the following rounds.
9. The tournament finishes when one player has won
all the tournament chips and is declared the winner.
10. Internet Issues and disconnections are a reality
of online poker. We will do our utmost to limit any
kind of interruptions during a tournament, but does
not assume responsibility for any problems unrelated
to the performance of the game server. We acknowledge
that certain Internet issues may be unavoidable and
allows extra time for disconnected players to reconnect
in the later rounds of a tournament. If a player chooses
to sit out or is unable to reconnect, they will still
have cards dealt to them and will automatically post
blinds and antes. Players that are unable to reconnect
during the allotted time will have their hand automatically
folded.
11. In the event of a server interruption all hands
will be 'rolled back' to the start of the interrupted
hand, and all chip stacks will reflect the original
amounts that existed before the hand commenced.
12. Any play that is deemed unethical, such as team
play, soft play, or chip dumping, will result in a player(s)
being disqualified from the tournament.
13. As players are eliminated over the course of the
tournament, tables will be consolidated to keep a full
complement of players. Players may be forced to post
the blinds when arriving at a new table. Table reassignments
are an inherent and random part of tournaments, and
apply equally to all players.
14. Players and observers are asked to use the chat
function in a friendly and considerate way. At no time
are players and observers allowed to discuss or comment
on live hands.
15. All prizes will be distributed according to the
specific details of each individual tournament. All
details concerning a tournament may be found in the
Tournament Lobby.
Exceptions to the above rules.
*Any rules pertaining to the button or button movements
apply only to Texas Hold’em and Omaha.
*Sit and Go tournaments do not begin at a specified
time, but rather when there are enough players to fill
a table. Additionally, Sit and Go tournament blinds
increase in relation to the number of hands played,
whereas Multi Table Tournament blinds increase at set
time periods.
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