SEATING PLAYERS

Each table will seat a maximum of 10 players. Players will be distributed as evenly between all the tables.

DRAWING SEATS

You can draw seats 2 ways:

ARRIVING LATE

Any player that has prepaid to get into the tournament will have to right to have his stack on the table and be blinded down. He has the right to join the tournament in progress at any point as long as he still has chips. The status of other players arriving late will be determined at the hosts discretion. He may elect the player to post all his historical blinds since the start of the tournament.

DRAWING FOR THE BUTTON

Players will be dealt one card each and the highest card gets the button. Suits will determine a tie between 2 cards.

BUTTON POSITION

In a tourney you can never miss the BB so the button has to be adjusted. This happens often in shorthanded play. If there are 3 players left and the dealer gets eliminated then the button is placed after putting the BB in the right place. The next player due the BB gets the BB and the other player gets the button and the small blind. In heads-up play with two blinds, the small blind is on the button.

TOURNAMENTS TIES

If two players (or more) are in-the-money in a tournament and they go all-in and both get knocked out then the player with the most chips will place higher than the player with less chips. If they both have an equal number of chips and both get knocked out then they will finish in a tie.

DEALS

Private agreements by players in a tournament may or may not be allowed. If such an agreement is made, the director has the option of making sure it is carried out by paying the correct amounts. Any deal that excludes any active players is not allowed.

MOVING PLAYERS

When the difference in the number of players is greater than 1 then a player must move from the bigger table to the smaller table. It should be the player who is on the Big Blind.

COLOR UP

The lowest denomination of chip in play will be removed from the table when it is no longer needed in the blind or ante structure.

CHIP RACE

When it is time to color-up chips, the extra chips will be raced off. Each player will receive 1 card for each odd chip. The player with the highest card (suits will break a tie) will be dealt a higher-denomination chip. There will be a maximum of one chip going to any player. A player cannot be raced out of a tournament. In the event that a player has only one chip left, the regular race procedure will take place. If that player loses the race, he will be given one higher-denomiation chip and will still play.

BET SIZES

In limit games, an oversized chip will be deemed to be a call if the player does not announce a raise. In no-limit, an oversized chip before the flop is a call; after the flop, an oversized chip by the initial bettor put in the pot will constitute the size of the bet.

HAND-FOR-HAND

Hand-for-hand may be implemented to keep people from slowing down the game. This is where a new hand is not dealt until all the hands at the other tables are done. It keeps people from stalling until someone else busts out.

PENALTIES

Penalties available for use by the TD are verbal warnings, 10, 20, 30, and 40 minutes away from the table and may be used with discretion.