About CardRoom.com Tournament Features

The CardRoom.com tournaments run similarly to the regular poker games with a few minor differences. Unlike a ring game, each player is allocated another thirty seconds, to act after receiving a time warning in the chat window. This "Time Bank" allows players extra time to decide on a course of action during a tournament and is depleted based upon usage during an event. For every tournament, 1 second is added to each player's "Time Bank" after each deal with a maximum of 30 seconds at any one time.

Another important aspect to the CardRoom.com tournaments is the "Hand-for-Hand" feature. Immediately before players start placing "in the money," the game will play each hand individually. This feature prevents remaining participants from deliberately stalling the game to wait for other players to be eliminated or "go bust" before them. For example, if a tournament pays the top nine players and there are only ten remaining, each hand will be played one at a time such that the table not involved in the hand will be in a holding pattern until it is their turn.

In the actual tournament "Game Table" screen, the player can click on the yellow "Stats" tab in the upper-left hand corner to get their current position in the tournament, as well as the highest, lowest, and average stacks of the other participants. The "Stats" tab will also provide specific quantitative data about the player during that tournament.

Additionally, players can request a tournament history by selecting "Tournament History" from the "Requests" menu in the main "Lobby" screen.

About Tourneys

Ready to step it up? Enter a CardRoom.com Tournament. Similar to the regular poker games, tournaments have a few differences you should be aware of:

• Time: After receiving a time warning in the chat window, players will have an additional 30 seconds to decide their move. This Time Bank is cumulative for the event, and each players "bank" receives one second after each deal, with a max of 20 seconds at any one time
• Hand-For-Hand: In tournaments, a set number of top finishers earn cash prizes, or "in the money." Immediately before that number of players is reached, the game will play each hand individually, so that only one player can "bust" at a time, affording every player an equal chance to finish "in the money"
• Tournament Statistics: In tournament play, the yellow stats tab contains additional information, including their current position in the tournament, as well as the highest, lowest, and average stacks of the other participants