About HollywoodPoker Tournaments

We have set up a breif overview explaining all the basics of how poker tournaments work. If you don't already know how to play poker you can visit our School of Poker and don't forget to read the tournament rules as well.

To participate in a tournament, you'll need to sign up, log in, and enable your account for Real Money. When that's done, go to the Tournament Calendar or Featured Tournaments and choose your competition! As a Real Money player we can notify you, via email, about new tournaments and when your tournaments are about to start. You'll never miss a big pot! Full details can be found on the Member Section.

That depends on what kind of tournament it is. Expect single table Sit & Go tournaments to take about an hour. Multi-table tournaments may take several hours.

Every tournament has a specific buy-in. In a $10+1 tournament for example the cost to play would be $11. $10 goes to the prize pool and $1 is the fee for entering the tournament. Tournament buy-ins range from free (freerolls) to over a hundred dollars.

You can play single table Sit & Go tournaments (for 2, 6, 10 or 20 players) and multi-table tournaments in Texas Hold?em, 7-card Stud and Omaha. Both Limit and No Limit.

You'll find a weekly calendar for all the tournaments in the tournament section of the HollywoodPoker website. From the schedule, you can go to the individual tournaments own page. There you can register and find information on buy-in and prize money.

The blinds in tournaments are increased as the tournaments progress so as to ensure that the tournaments do actually end with more players being eliminated and the remaining players having more chips on hand. The levels in single-table tournaments increase every 10 hands. In multi-table tournaments, they are increased approximately every 15 minutes.

A freeroll is a multi table tournament that is free to enter where you can win cash prizes. To receive this cash however, you have to earn Poker Points. See Freeroll FAQ section.

The chart below shows how you can easily qualify for big ticket events at HollywoodPoker.