Different Formats Of Poker Tournaments

There are many formats followed by online poker tournaments and the most popular format of poker is knock-out. This format is also called freeze out format. All the players who are part of this tournament form a dynamic pool. If any player loses all his chips, he is eliminated from the poker tournament and his table also shrinks. In order to make all the shrinking of tables equal, players are shifted from one table to the other table. This movement is arbitrary and any player can be shifted from his place to another table. All the unnecessary tables are removed from the poker tournament after one by one as players’ eliminate. When few players left in the poker tournament, all the remaining players are shifted to single table. This table is usually known as final table. Most of the poker tournaments are knock-out tournaments.

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There is another poker tournament in which player can re-buy his chips after losing all his ships and can maintain his position by avoiding the elimination. Such poker tournaments are called re-buy tournaments. But this elimination stops for specific period of time and after that time player eliminates from the game automatically and there is no option for the player to come back and re-buy chips. This period of time in which player avoids elimination from poker tournament is called re-buy period. In such tournaments, there is option available to the players to re-buy chips although they have some chips left with them. In such cases, the re-buy amount is simply added to the stack of the player. According to the rules, if a player has too many chips, he is not allowed to buy more chips.
There is another format of the poker tournament in which game is divided into different rounds. Such a tournament is called shoot out tournament. In standard format, two to ten players sit on one table and table roster remains same till the elimination of first player. After all the players are eliminated except the last one from each table, they are shifted to the final table and the winner of the final table becomes the champion of the poker tournament. Shoot out tournament consists of multiple rounds and elimination of the players is usually done using single knock out method.