Shortly after the required number of players have registered for a tournament, a dialogue box will appear informing you that the tournament is starting. Click on the Take me to the tournament button to be seated at the Game table.

Players' seats at the Game table are selected randomly, they cannot choose their own. All players begin with the same amount of money and the same amount of all-ins.

• Tournament money is not related to real money in your Poker Plex account.

• Tournament all-ins are not related to regular game-play all-ins

Players continue to play until they do not have sufficient funds to pay the low bet amount in the next hand. After a pre-set number of hands have been played, the bet limit will be increased to the next level. The table below shows the initial bet limits and the subsequent bet limits after the specified number of hands have been played:

The tournament will continue until one player remains, who will win first prize.

All other prizes will be awarded according to the player's finishing position in the tournament. Finishing position is determined by the player's starting balance during the last hand that he participates in.

If a tournament cannot be completed because of a system-wide problem the tournament will be cancelled. Players who participated in such a tournament will lose their house fee and entry fee if they were eliminated prior to the system outage. Participants who have not been eliminated will have their entry fees and house fees refunded automatically to their Poker Plex account. In addition, the accumulated entry fees of eliminated players will be divided equally among the remaining participants. In this special scenario the player's starting balance will not be considered. The house retains the house fees of the eliminated players.

Players who enter a tournament and do not participate will forfeit their house fee and entry fees. The entry fee will become part of the tournament prize pool and the house fee will go to the house.

If a player decides to sit out during one or more hands, blinds and antes will be taken from that player's tournament account balance automatically until he sits back in.

In Hold'em Poker there are two rules that apply in regular games that do not apply in tournament games :

• Rule 1
  A new player sitting between the small blind and the button cannot enter a hand until the button has passed him
  
  
• Rule 2
  New players joining a table must post a big blind