Learning to play Poker

A Beginner's Guide to Multi-table Tournaments

Beginner’s Multi-table Tournament is a guide to help you comprehend the most basic aspects of multi-table tournament play. Multi-table tournaments are probably the most fun of all forms of poker and learning how to play them is essential to success. As soon as you reach your first final table, you will know what we are talking about.

How to Play

All multi-table tournaments start at a designated time found in the weekly tournament schedule or in the game client. To participate, players must register at least five minutes before the tournament is due to start. This is also done through the schedule or directly in the game client. Some tournaments are absolutely free to enter, so called freerolls, while other requires the player to cover a buy-in and a small fee. A typical buy-in tournament is $5 buy-in and $1 fee ($5+1).

All the buy-ins are collected into a communal prize pool while the fee is the cost for participating in the event. The number of participating players varies greatly from around 50 to 2,000!!

You can find all types of multis in the poker rooms: Hold’em no limit & limit, 7-card stud and lots of Omaha Hi & Hi/lo pot limit events. Multi-table tournament variations.

The Goal

A percentage of all contestants in a multi win money from the communal prize pool along an increasing scale. In a 100 player tournament typically the top ten finish “in the money”.

After Registering…

As soon as the registration process closes, all registered players will take their randomly distributed seats. A game window will appear notifying you to sit-in on your assigned table.

Each player begins with an equal amount of chips. The amount may vary depending on the tournament. These tournament chips have no real value outside the tournament and the values they represent do not in any way represent any eventual winnings from the tournament.

Players are eliminated one by one when they have no chips left. And as the number of players still left in the tournaments drops, players are automatically moved between tables so that all tables remain balanced and equal. So don’t be surprised if you all of a sudden find yourself at a completely different table than you started at.

For each ten players that are eliminated a table is removed from play redistributing the players to other tables. This process continues until only one final table remains. And play on that table continues until one player has won all the chips and is victorious!

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