Poker Knockout Tournament
A freezeout poker tournament is the most common kind of poker tournament. You pay your buy-in and get your chips and play until you run out of chips (or win, of course). Players cannot rebuy into the tournament if they run out of chips. Once the chips run out for a player, it's over. The World Series of Poker Main Event is a freezeout tournament. Knockout tournaments are like regular tournaments, except that in the knockout format a percentage of the prize pool is awarded in bounties (typically either 20% or 50%.) Everyone has a bounty on their head, and by knocking out a player you get to keep their bounty. At first glance, it doesn’t sound like rocket science. Knockout Poker tournaments are special MTT and Sit & Go tournaments where the prize pool is split, with a part going to the overall total, and the other part distributed among players for each opponent they knock out. Unlike traditional MTTs and Sit & Go’s, you don’t need to finish in the money to earn a prize. For example, a progressive knockout tournament with a buy-in of $11 could be broken down as follows: $5 allocated to the tournament’s prize-pool, $5 allocated to knockout bounty and $1 is tournament’s fee. When the tournament starts, the bounty on all players’ head is equal and worth $5.
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In Knockout Poker tournaments, a chip bounty is placed on every player who registers. Every time you eliminate somebody, you win a prize.
How Knockout Poker works
Knockout Poker tournaments are special MTT and Sit & Go tournaments where the prize pool is split, with a part going to the overall total, and the other part distributed among players for each opponent they knock out.
Unlike traditional MTTs and Sit & Go’s, you don’t need to finish in the money to earn a prize. You can boost your chip bankroll every time you knock out an opponent during each Knockout Poker tournament.
To get started, select the ‘KO’ tab in the main game lobby. Then you can choose your game type, buy-in and game speed. When you’re ready, click the ‘Register’ button, and start to KO the competition!
Once you have chosen your buy-in and the game type you want to play, you will be seated at a tournament table.
As soon as you knock out a player (or players) you will get a notification at the table telling you how many players you have eliminated, and how much chips you’ve won as a prize.
Knockout Poker structures
Knockout Poker tournaments are available in a wide range of formats, including Turbo, Hyper-Turbo and Regular.
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