Overview

Tournament is a poker game in which players start with an equal number of chips and continue to play until one player has collected all of the chips.

Tournament is the most thrilling part of the poker game allowing considerably increase one's bank.

Each tournament has a buy-in as well as a fee. Minimum buy-in is put into the prize pool of the tournament, fee is kept by El Dorado Palace. The size of the prize pool depends on the number of participants playing in the tournament and will be completely paid to the winners.

Each player is dealt the cards. The player having the highest card combination starts the game as a dealer. Each player's goal is to collect as many chips as possible. Players who lose all their chips leave the game.

Type of tournaments

El Dorado Palace offers two types of tournaments:

1. Scheduled: These tournaments have a fixed time of starting and always are announced in advance. Player has to register to take part in tournament. The registration closing time is announced in the lobby and ended usually a few minutes before the tournament start.

   There are many types of tournaments which can be considered as Scheduled, for example Regular Buy-in tournaments, Guaranteed tournaments, Freeroll tournaments, etc.

   Guaranteed tournament is a tournament with guaranteed prize pool. The wining sum is fixed and does not depend on the number of players. To start the tournament the minimum number of players is necessary.

   Freeroll tournament mean that player's participation is free of charge; the prize pool is provided by Casino. Freeroll tournaments are held to attract new players or for those players who have played a specified numbers of hands and allow to win without money investing.

2. Sit and Go - These tournaments are available 24/7. They start as soon as the number of registered players amounts to a specified level. The standard poker tournament rules apply to all tournaments in addition to any rules which apply to a particular tournament.

Buy-Ins

To take part in tournament a player has to make the payment consisting of Buy-In and Fee. Fee is always included in the Prize Pool.

Payout Structure

Payout structure is dependent on the number of players.

Place	Number of players
	1-4	5-8	9-29	30-39	40-49	50-59	60-69	70-79	80-89	90-99	100-199
1	100%	70%	50%	46%	43%	40%	36%	34%	32%	30%	27%
2		30%	30%	26%	23%	21%	20%	20%	20%	20%	18%
3			20%	16%	13%	12%	12%	12%	12%	12%	11%
4				12%	12%	11%	11%	11%	10%	10%	9%
5					9%	9%	9%	8%	8%	8%	7%
6						7%	7%	6%	6%	6%	5.5%
7							5%	5%	5%	5%	4.5%
8								4%	4%	4%	3.5%
9									3%	3%	2.5%
10										2%	2%
11 - 20											1%

Place	Number of players
	200 - 299	300 - 399	400 - 499	500 - 599	600 - 699	700 - 799	800 - 899	900 - 999	1000 - 1999	> 2000
1	25%	23%	22%	21%	21%	21%	21%	21%	19%	19%
2	16%	15%	13%	12%	12%	12%	12%	12%	11%%	11%
3	10%	9%	8.5%	8%	8%	8%	8%	8%	7%	7%
4	8%	7.5%	7%	6.5%	6.5%	6.5%	6.5%	6.5%	5.5%	5.5%
5	6%	5.5%	5%	4.5%	4%	4%	4%	4%	4%	4%
6	5%	4.5%	4%	4%	3.5%	3%	3%	3%	3%	3%
7	4%	3.5%	3%	3%	2.5%	2.5%	2.5%	2.5%	2.5%	2.5%
8	3%	3%	2.5%	2.5%	2%	2%	2%	2%	2%	2%
9	2.5%	2%	2%	2%	1.5%	1.5%	1.5%	1.5%	1.5%	1.5%
10	1.5%	1.5%	1.5%	1.5%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%	1%
11-20	1%	.9%	.9%	.8%	.8%	.7%	.7%	.7%	.6%	.55%
21-30	.9%	.85%	.8%	.75%	.7%	.65%	.6%	.6%	.55%	.5%
31-40		.8%	.75	.7%	.65%	.6%	.55%	.55%	.5%	.45%
41-50			.7%	.65%	.6%	.55%	.5%	.5%	.45%	.4%
51-60				.6%	.55%	.5%	.45%	.4%%	.35	.35%
61-70					.5%	.45%	.4%	.35%	.3%	.3%
71-80						.4%	.35%	.3%	.25%	.25%
81-90							.3%	.25%	.2%	.2%
91-100								.2%	.15%	.15%
101-200									.1%	.07%
201-300										.05%

Cancellation Policy

If tournament is cancelled because of technical reasons, any players who were eliminated before cancellation will lose their buy-in and entry fee. Remaining players will have their buy-in and entry fee refunded. The buy-in monies from the players already eliminated will be evenly divided between the remaining players, regardless of the chip standing at the time of cancellation.

Sit and Go Multi-Table & Multi-Table tournaments

If tournament is cancelled because of technical reasons, any players who were eliminated before cancellation will lose their buy-in and entry fee.

Remaining players will be refunded:

1. The prize money that would be awarded to the next eliminated player from the tournament will be awarded to all remaining players at the time of cancellation
2. Of the prize pool left after distribution according to point 1, 50% will be distributed equally between all remaining players and 50% will be distributed on a percentage basis according to chip count at the time of cancellation.
3. Also the player's entry fee.

Disconnection Policy

Disconnect protection is not available in any Sit & Go, Single-Table tournament, Multi-Table tournaments. Your hand will automatically be folded if you lose your connection.

Blind Structure

Blind Structure is dependent on the achieved level.

Level	small blind	big blind	ante
1	10	20	-
2	20	40	-
3	30	60	-
4	40	80	-
5	50	100	-
6	100	200	-
7	150	300	-
8	200	400	-
9	300	600	-
10	400	800	25
11	500	1000	50
12	600	1200	60
13	800	1600	80
14	1000	2000	100
15	1500	3000	150
16	2000	4000	200
17	3000	6000	300
18	4000	8000	400
19	5000	10000	500
20	7000	14000	700
21	10000	20000	1000
22	15000	30000	1500
23	22500	45000	2250
24	45000	90000	4500
25	75000	150000	7500
26	150000	300000	15000