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Series of competitive poker games

A poker tournament is a tournament where players compete by playing poker. It can feature as few as two players playing on a single table (called a "heads up" tournament), and as many as tens of thousands of players playing on thousands of tables. The winner of the tournament is usually the person who wins every poker chip in the game and the others are awarded places based on the time of their elimination. To facilitate this, in most tournaments, blinds rise over the duration of the tournament. Unlike in a ring game (or cash game), a player's chips in a tournament cannot be cashed out for money and serve only to determine the player's placing.

The most common playing format for poker tournaments is the "freezeout" format. All players still playing in a tournament constitute a dynamic pool. Whenever a player loses all his chips and gets eliminated, his table shrinks. To combat the constant shrinking of tables and avoid having tables play with varying numbers of players, players are moved between tables, with unnecessary tables getting closed as the tournament progresses. In the end, all remaining players are seated on just one table, known as the "final table". Most sit and go tournaments are freezeouts. In some tournaments, known as "rebuy tournaments", players have the ability to re buy into the game in case they lost all their chips and avoid elimination for a specific period of time (usually ranging from one to two hours). After this so called "rebuy period", the play resumes as in a standard freezeout tournament and eliminated players do not have the option of returning to the game any more. Rebuy tournaments often allow players to rebuy even if they have not lost all their chips, in which case the rebuy amount is simply added to their stack. A player is not allowed to rebuy in game if he has too many chips (usually the amount of the starting stack or half of it). At the end of the rebuy period remaining players are typically given the option to purchase an "add on", an additional amount of chips, which is usually similar to the starting stack. Another playing format is the "shootout" tournament. A shootout tournament divides play in rounds. In a standard shootout tournament, 2 10 players sit on each table and the table roster remains the same until everyone but one player is eliminated. The table winners progress to the final table where the tournament winner is determined. In a shootout tournament players are usually awarded places in tiers based on how many rounds they lasted and in which place they were eliminated. Shootouts can include multiple rounds (triple, quadruple or quintuple shootout) or feature several players from each table progressing (usually up to three). Shootouts are also a common format for large heads up multi table tournaments, although these may feature double or triple elimination instead of the standard single knockout method. A recent innovation is the "mix max" or "mixed max" tournament, in which the table sizes vary during the course of the event. A typical example is the mix max event held at the 2012 World Series of Poker, in which the first day of play was nine handed, the second day six handed, and the rest of the tournament heads up. This effectively made it a hybrid freezeout–shootout tournament, with freezeout play at larger tables and shootout play in the heads up phase.

While some tournaments offer a mix of games, like H. O. R. S. E. events which combine hold'em, Omaha, Razz, stud, stud eight or better, and dealer's choice events, at which one may choose from a similar menu of games, most tournaments feature one form of stud or community card poker, such as seven card stud, seven card high low stud, Omaha hold 'em or Texas hold 'em. Both Omaha and Texas hold 'em tournaments are commonly offered in fixed limit and pot limit, and no limit Texas hold 'em tournaments are very common (no limit Omaha is almost nonexistent in tournament play).

Informal tournaments can be organized by a group of friends. Casinos, cardrooms, and online gambling sites may offer tournaments. The venue will post tournament schedules on its website or in its poker room. However, these are not the only venues. Poker cruises offer tournaments at sea. Hosts of larger poker tournaments will often hold the event in the convention center of a casino; for example, the 2022 World Series of Poker was in the convention centers of both Bally's Las Vegas and Paris Las Vegas.

The largest and most well known tournament in the USA is the World Series of Poker, held in Las Vegas. The World Series was on ESPN from 1987 to 2020 before CBS Sports became the domestic television partner for 2021 and beyond. Since 2007, PokerGO has been partnered with the WSOP to provide live streams and on demand content. In the 1980s the Super Bowl of Poker was the second largest and most prestigious tournament. The 2005 World Series of Poker was the first held outside of Binion's Horseshoe Casino, though the final few days of the main event were held in the legendary Benny's Bullpen. Later tournaments have been held at one of the Harrah's Entertainment and later Caesars Entertainment properties; the Rio served as the venue from 2005 2021. The largest and most well known tournament in Europe is the European Poker Tour, which was founded in 2004 by John Duthie and is now the largest poker tour in the world by both total players and prize pool. The World Series of Poker Europe began in 2007 in London, moved in 2011 to Cannes, and moved again in 2013 to the Paris region. The largest and most well known tournament in Asia is the Asia Pacific Poker Tour Macau event. The largest and most well known tournament in Latin America is the Latin American Poker Tour Argentina event. The Crown Australian Poker Championship, also known as the Aussie Millions, is the largest tournament in the Pacific region. WSOP owner Caesars Entertainment and Aussie Millions host Crown Melbourne teamed up to launch the World Series of Poker Asia Pacific, which held its first edition in 2013. In addition to these events, there are other major tournaments throughout the year. The World Poker Tour is held at different venues worldwide and broadcasts a series of open tournaments throughout the U. S. and Caribbean with buy ins from $5,000 to $25,000, as well as European events with a €10,000 buy in. Some of these events are stand alone tournaments like the Caribbean Poker Adventure, but most are held in conjunction with a tournament series being held at the host casino, like the Commerce Casino's LA Poker Classic, the Grand Sierra's World Poker Challenge and the Bicycle Casino's Legends of Poker. A North American Poker Tour was launched in 2010. Atlantic City hosts The United States Poker Championship at the Trump Taj Mahal casino, which has been broadcast by ESPN in recent years. The main live poker tournament in Africa is the All Africa Poker Tournament hosted by the Piggs Peak Casino in Piggs Peak, Swaziland. The National Heads Up Poker Championship is 64 players compete in heads up matches single elimination style to determine a winner. It is one of the most prestigious heads up poker tournaments and it is the first tournament produced by a television network. The internet poker revolution has sparked online poker tournaments and series that have become larger than many live tournaments. The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) and the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) are two of the biggest online poker tournament series, with tournament prizes surpassing the million dollar mark. In 2022, after 17 years at the Rio, the World Series of Poker moved to Bally's and Paris.