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• If 100 online players each pay an entry fee of 10p to play a tournament. ..added together = 100 x 10p, creates a £10 prize pool that the 100 players will play for.
• All the players at the tables are each given an equal amount of chips of say $1500 to play the tournament with and they all play poker untill each loses all their chips and is eliminated from the game.
• The last player left on the table with all the chips is the winner of the tournament and he or she wins the top share of the prize pool of, for example : 40% of the £10 prize pool, which = £4
• The remaining 60% of the prize pool is then shared among the runner ups with : 2nd place taking 20% = £2 3rd place taking 15% = £1.50 4th – 9th place taking 5% each = 0.50p per playerTournament prize money can be shared a lot further with less percentages paid per player and this means that more players get paid and generally at first if you can only win your entry fee back plus a bit more, then that is a good start. Use an entry fee of £1 or $1 per player in the above example and you can see immediately how the prize pool can get very big in percentage to your entry fee, very quickly, only problem is, when the stakes get bigger, the odds get smaller and that’s where tactics and clever play come into the equation for a better chance of winning something back ….and that’s the basics of any online poker tournament.

Larger entry fees and plenty of players means a big payout.
The more players who enter a tournament, regardless of entry fee size makes the prize pool larger PLUS it also means more players get paid so the payous are stretched out more. Big entry fee poker tournaments give huge prize pools and some players win life changing amounts of cash online from playing a poker tournament. The low entry fee tournaments normally attract a lot of players and these are an excellent way of gaining experience online without fear of losing much money. (5,000 players on a $1.10 entry fee and a guaranteed $5,000 payout is not unusual, win a tournament of this size and you could easily walk away with $2,000 cash in your account ). Tournament Entry Fee’s Explained. When you look at a poker lobby with all the tournaments listed, you will see that the tournament listing will show the entry fee price, this could read $1 + .20. This means that the tournament will put $1 of your entry into the prize pool and use the extra .20 cents as a commission to cover its costs for the facilities provided to you that enables you to play online.. In regular cash play poker the site will take a percentage of each hand raked and it is so nominal, players don’t even notice. This is the poker sites way of making their money so they can keep the site running. Fair enough. With the basics of any poker tournament being the same, the various types of tournament that plaers can enter may be divided into following : The main types of tournament structure are : HEADS UP TOURNAMENTS. One table but only two players who have each paid their entry fee. The headsup winner takes all the prize pool money.

(STT) Single table Sit and Go Tournaments :
Players pay an entry fee from as little as $1 and are playing poker as soon as the required amount of players have entered online. The required amount of players for a sit and go tournament can be as little as six or a maximum of 10 players on a single table and the prize pool will be divide between either the top 2 or 3 of the players, though some poker sites are allowing the top 5 players to share the cash which is great for new players who can get a taste of winning some money back early on. ( MTT ) Multi Table Sit and Go Tournaments or tourneys : Multi table tournaments or ‘tourneys’, can allow thousands of players to enter at once and because of the amount of players, multiple tables have to be implemented to allow all the players to be able to play at the same time. Players only play against the people at the same table untill they are eliminated or moved to another table. The winner is the last person at the ‘final’ table of 9 players generally, who will have all the chips and the biggest cut of the prize pool plus a big smile on his or her face.Poker Tournament Prize pools are sharedA MTT with 3,000 players who all pay a 10p entry fee, will have a prize pool of approx £300 and the prize money payout structure can vary between poker sites. ( Some poker sites have a minimum buy in of $1 and others £1 but eitherway the winner always takes the biggest cut of the cash which is then paid directly into the players account. ) The larger the entry fee and the more players who enter a MTT, the bigger the prize pool and more players get a cut of the prize money. Free online poker tournaments are not very common but they are aout there and one site in particular who offer regular FREE play tournaments is Poker Stars Each table plays its own poker and as players are eliminated from individual tables, the remaining players are then shuffled aorund the tables to balance out those eliminated in the play. Generally each table will seat 9 or 10 online players but what is known as ‘short handed’ tournaments are becoming more popular and instead of 9 or 10 players per table there will only be a maximum of six, which means more tables but less competition at each table so it really is a question of taste and poker style that will dictate which tyoe iof tournament a player will choose to enter. with ratios depending on how many players have entered. A ten player tournament will normally pay the top three players where as a Multi Table tournament will have a minimum player player payout ratio of say top 80 players getting a cut of the prize pool. The cost of entry fees start from as little as only 5p per player but high rollers can enter tournaments for fees of thousands of £’s or $’s.