Talk:Poker tournament

message: Someone should put up the distribution for T10, T100, T1000, and T10000 tournaments. Such as the cost of each blind (small, big), ante, etc. How many chips a person should have, with there being more of the cheaper chips and less of the larger chips, etc. 70.111.224.85 17:03, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Problem is, distribution and blind structures are not universal. There are some tournaments that start at t400, with 5-10 blinds, but by the end of the first hour are already up to 100-200, or 25-50 to 300-600; some tournaments that start with t10k start at 5-10, while others start at 25-25 or 25-50. In addition, there are factors (like costs of chips) that alter distribution. For example, on can start a t2k event with 8x25, 8x100, 2x500 OR 4x25, 4x100, 1x500, 1x1000 OR 10x5, 18x25, 15x100 OR.. (You get the idea.) D.valued 08:27, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tournament Chip Distribution 

message: I would like to know about bracelets. Can someone explain how many there are and what you win them for? Thx
216.0.105.50 01:13, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Normally you win a bracelet for finishing 1st in a tournament that awards a bracelet to the winner.  For example, all events in the World Series of Poker and World Championship of Online Poker award a bracelet to the winner.  Not all tournaments award bracelets; those that do are usually the major, high profile ones.  BTW runners up don't win bracelets, so just one per tournament.  Dave6 09:18, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bracelets 

message: I was curious tonight as to what the largest poker tournaments (in terms of prize pool), and I couldn't find this information anywhere on Wikipedia or anywhere else online, so I complied a list of the top 30 myself. I don't know how to make this information into a useful page on the site, so I'll just post it here and hope someone can find a way to use it. I got most of the information from the Hendon Mob database, and some of it from Cardplayer. The WCOOP numbers came from PokerStars' website. I'm fairly certain that I did not miss any tournaments that would qualify for the list, but one or two might have slipped my mind. All events are no limit holdem except for the 2005 WPT PPM (limit holdem) and the 3 WSOP $50,000 buyin HORSE events.
YEAR | EVENT | PRIZE POOL | WINNER
2006 WSOP ME $82,512,162 JAMIE GOLD
2008 WSOP ME $64,333,600 PETER EASTGATE
2007 WSOP ME $59,784,954 JERRY YANG
2005 WSOP ME $52,818,610 JOE HACHEM
2004 WSOP ME $24,224,400 GREG RAYMER
2007 WPT CH $15,495,750 CARLOS MORTENSEN
2006 WPT CH $14,671,250 JOE BARTHOLDI JR
2008 EPT GF $13,323,417 GLEN CHORNY
2008 WPT CH $13,216,250 DAVID CHIU
2009 EPT PCA $12,674,000 UNKNOWN UNTIL TONIGHT
2008 WCOOP $10,925,000 CARTER KING
2007 WPT FD $9,661,200 EUGENE KATCHALOV
2007 EPT GF $8,851,130 GAVIN GRIFFIN
2008 EPT PCA $8,562,976 BERTRAND GROSPELLIER
2006 WPT FD $8,482,650 JOE HACHEM
2004 WPT CH $8,342,000 MARTIN DE KNIJFF
2005 WPT FD $8,075,250 REHNE PEDERSEN
2005 WPT WPF $7,855,000 NICK SCHULMAN
2003 WSOP ME $7,802,700 CHRIS MONEYMAKER
2007 WPT LAPC $7,593,600 ERIC HERSCHLER
2007 WCOOP $7,495,000 KYLE SCHROEDER
2005 WPT PPM  $7,430,000 MIKE GRACZ
2007 WSOP E $7,404,476 ANNETTE OBRESTAD
2008 WPT FD $7,231,350 DAVID "CHINO" RHEEM
2008 WSOP 50K $7,104,000 SCOTTY NGUYEN
2007 WSOP 50K $7,104,000 KASEEM "FREDDY" DEEB
2007 WPT PCA $7,063,842 RYAN DAUT
2008 EPT BAR $7,063,791 SEBASTIAN RUTHENBERG
2006 WSOP 50K $6,864,000 CHIP REESE
2008 AUSSIE $6,819,940 ALEXANDER KOSTRITSYN  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.193.131.78 (talk) 11:38, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's here now List_of_largest_poker_tournaments_in_history_(by_prize_pool) and should be linked somewhere in this article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.131.63.191 (talk) 08:49, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Largest poker tournaments in history 

message: This entry completely lacks independent sources. While it is a legitimate entry, third party sources need to be added.HeartSWild (talk) 07:53, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Added an "Unreferenced" template for the time being, I might try to do something more at some point, too. JaeDyWolf ~ Baka-San (talk) 21:46, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Independent Sources 

message: There are a few online formats that are not included in this article. I play on Full Tilt Poker, and they have two versions I know off the top of my head that are not in the article. 
One is a cashout tournament, a multi-table tournament where half of the buy in goes towards a prize pool, and the other half goes towards the value of the chips in a "cashout" pool. In the middle of the tournament, any player can choose to "cashout" a certain amount of chips, receiving a payout based on the number of chips. Once the final table is determined, the remaining money from the cashout pool is distributed to the remaining players based on their chip stacks. The main prize pool distributes prize money based on where someone finishes. If a player cashes out all of his/her chips, they are then eliminated and assigned a place based on how many people are left.
Another type of tournament is a matrix tournament. For instance, in a 9 player matrix tournament, the same 9 players play four simultaneous single table matches against one another. 20% of each players buy in goes towards each table, and the final 20% goes to an overall pool. Points are awarded based on place and knockouts. The highest 3 point totals split the overall pool, and the top 3 at each table split each table's pool. They are quite exciting in the online world of poker. If you manage to win all 4 tournaments, you take the entire pool.
Not all of this detail is needed, but these are two types of tournaments which I think deserve some sort of mention. AlanDaTalon6789 (talk) 00:36, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Playing Format