Tournament Variations
Is there a desire to change your poker tournament to something a little different? Do you want a change from the basic limit, pot limit, and no limit choices in betting available at your tournament? If so you can think about incorporating some of the following ideas to make small changes to your weekly poker tournament.
Bounty Playing
If you have the experience of one player dominating your tournaments you could consider placing a bounty on him/her. As an added incentive for others to knock him/her out of the tournament a bounty (equal to his/her buy-in) is paid to the player who knocks off the reigning champ. The bounty can be raised by the tournament organizer by setting aside a portion of the entry fees charged.
Extending the Tournament through the use of re-buys and/or add-ons
If you want your tournament to last longer than they normally do then you should consider using re-buy and/or add-on options.
A re-buy option allows players to re-buy chips when their chip total is getting low. Thus the player will not have to resign from the tournament because they have lost all of their tournament chips. There are some common limits placed on the re-buy option such as; players may have to have lass than a preset chip count before being allowed to re-buy, re-buys may be allowed only for a certain number of hands or for some set time limit. Tournament re-buys have to end some time during the tournament or no players would ever be eliminated. The re-buy option is seen as a good method of re-involving any player who has lost most of their chips during early tournament play.
An add-on option is another way of re-involving players who have lost most of their chips during early tournament play. The add-on option allows any player to add to their chip count before the tournament goes into the final stretch. The add-on option is usually available to all players once, at a predetermined time, during a tournament.
Shootout Tournaments
A multi-table tournament usually involves moving players from table to table to balance out the tables in an attempt to keep the tournament fair. There is however another method of keeping the tournament fair that doesn't involve the moving of the players, the "shootout tournament". When playing in a shootout tournament each table plays as if the tournament involved only their table. The table plays until one player is declared the winner, of that table. Then the winners from each of the tournament tables are brought together at a table to play each other to determine the overall tournament winner.
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