Poker is a game of luck so there can be infinite variations to it. But when you talk about the poker tournaments, a lot of things do change. Poker tournaments are one of the most popular poker formats available online. Live tournaments have now been transformed with more variations then one could possibly imagine. This article too is in regard with the same topic. Here we will be discussing about the Poker Tournament Variations available at present. A few tournament variations for the concerned game are given below. Have a look at it, as it might help you in understanding the tournament variations for poker more deeply.

  • Rebuys Tournaments – Here the rule is, if the player losses his chips in the first hour of the game, then he can buy some more later on.
  • Freezeout Tournaments – This is the basic type of poker tournament which supports only one stack of chips for each player, and once you lose it you will be thrown out of the game immediately.
  • Satellites Tournaments- These tournaments are picking up too fast in the online gaming scenario. Users like taking part in satellite tournaments the most as it conveys large lot of competitors in every single game played. The number of participants are way too more than any other tournament as the only requisite to be eligible to play the game is having an account with the online casino site and a specified amount of credits attained.
  • Single Table Tournament – Or we can call it STT. It includes only three players.
  • Shootout Tournaments – Here only one table games are played. The top three players who succeed through the first level reach to the next level and compete again. This way the whole game comprises of many rounds and the one who succeeds through all the levels gets to the final round and eventually wins the tournament by defeating all its competitors.
  • Double Shootout Tournaments- These tournaments are used as qualifiers, where winners of first nine tables meet in the final showdown or we can say “final table”.
  • Knockout Bounty Tournaments – These tournaments are comprised of the games having prize pool where players receive some payment for every player they defeat or eliminate. This way a large sum of money is attained by the winners and runner ups too. The large sum earned by the subsequent winners is known as bounty payment.
  • Pure bounty – Another variant of the same knockout bounty is pure bounty with a slight difference in the prize pool system. There would be no pool prize to fight for. Here the winners get the prize for knocking out their opponents irrespective of the number of opponents they defeated to reach the finals stage.
  • Steps SNGs Tournaments – Under this variant only one-table games are played  in which a player moves up to attain a predefined buy-in ladder so as to finish in the top spots , which means that the player has to attain and win the buy-in ladder to hop on to the top spots. It has other variants as well like 5 table SNGs, 10 table SNGs and 180 table SNGs, all varying upon the type of table games and number of players involved.
  • Freeroll Tournaments – This tournament is the most popular amongst all the Poker Tournament Variations. It involves no cost to enter in the game unlike other tournaments and gives away real cash prizes to the winners. That is the reason a large number of casino games players try to take part in such extremely lucrative tournaments where they doesn’t have to pay even a single penny. The risk factor in such games is far less than other games as no guarantee or fee amount is demanded from the players.
  • Short-Handed Tournaments – These are also known as “6-max” where only six players are required to start the game.
  • 4-Max – Similar to the “6-max” pattern, here only four players are required to carry out the game initially.
  • HellKat – It is a unique form of part poker where all the one-table games involved are timed, which means there is time limit to all the one-table games to be played there. The rule is that the player having chips in the last fifteen or thirty minutes of the game would be declared as the winner.
  • Turbo- Here the players are pressurized to make early moves due to speedy blinds forces.
  • Super Turbo – It’s a variant of Turbo. Here the game gets really crazy as along with the phenomenon of speeding up the blinds forces players are offered Rebuys too.
  • Cash Out – Here the game is given a unique tilt, by allowing the players to quit and take cash value of the chips held by them whenever they want to.
  • Heads Up – Involves two-table games with multiple rounds.
  • 2 Table Tournaments – Here about eighteen to twenty player SNGs are involved with the availability of only 4 paying places.