What Poker Tournaments .sattakingAre Available to Sites on the Stretch Network?

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Table Of Contents

• Freezeout Tournaments
• R+A Tournaments
• Re-Entry Tournaments
• Knockout Tournaments
• Mystery Bounty Tournaments
• Phased Tournaments
• Satellites
• Hybrid Tournaments
• TM Tournaments
• Spin & Go Tournaments
• Sit & Go Tournaments

Tournament poker is one of the most exciting online poker formats. Ever-increasing blinds forcing the action, combined with the chance to turn a small buy-in into a bankroll-boosting score, keep players coming back for more.

Online poker sites on the Stretch Network, one of the world's leading B2B platforms, can offer their customers 11 different poker tournament types, from traditional freezeout tournaments to jackpot Spin & Go games. What are those ten MTT formats? Let's take a look.

Freezeout Tournaments

There was a time when almost every online poker tournament was a freezeout. These events progress like any other tournament, but with one subtle difference: once you are eliminated, it is game over for good.

R+A Tournaments

As the name suggests, R+A, or Rebuy and Add-on tournaments, allow players to buy back in (rebuy) if they lose their starting stack while late registration is open. Once players reach the first scheduled break, they can purchase an add-on, an amount of additional chips for a set fee.

Poker rooms can limit the number of rebuys or allow an unlimited number. Popular formats include 2R1A, which means players can rebuy up to twice and purchase one add-on at the break.

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Re-Entry Tournaments

Re-entry tournaments seem to be the industry standard these days. Similar to rebuy tournaments, re-entry tournaments allow players to buy back into the tournament for the original buy-in if they are eliminated during late registration. Players can be restricted to a predetermined number of re-entries or let loose and allowed to re-enter as many times as their bankroll allows.

Knockout Tournaments

Knockout (KO) and Progressive Knockout (PKO) tournaments are immensely popular because players can win prizes without having to reach the money places. In a standard KO tournament, players win a set bounty each time they eliminate an opponent.

In a PKO, the bounty amounts continue growing. When a player eliminates another, they instantly win 50% of the eliminated player's bounty as a cash payment into their account. The other 50% goes to their own head, increasing their bounty and making them a more attractive target for others. Often, the final few bounties can exceed the first-place prize of the tournament!

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Mystery Bounty Tournaments

Mystery Bounty tournaments are the latest craze, with players falling over themselves to play them. As the name suggests, these tournaments have a bounty element, but the prizes remain a mystery until they are claimed. There is typically a jackpot bounty that may be worth 10% or more of the prize pool, plus dozens of smaller mystery bounties up for grabs. Eliminate an opponent to claim their bounty.

Phased Tournaments

Phased tournaments bring the live poker world to the online virtual felt. They feature several flights or Day 1s, granting players more flexibility. Typically, players can enter as many flights or Day 1s as they wish, with their stacks either combined if they make it to Day 2 more than once, or only their largest stack through with them, forfeiting the others.

Satellites

Not everyone has the bankroll to play in higher buy-in events, so they choose to try and win their way in via satellites. Satellite tournaments award seats, tickets, or sometimes packages instead of traditional cash prizes. Usually, all prizes are of the same value.

Hybrid Tournaments

Stretch Network sites can offer hybrid tournaments, which award prizes in the shape of tickets to another tournament plus real money. For example, the tournament may pay those who reach the final table a cash prize, but those finishing in the next 20 places a ticket to another event.

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TM Tournaments

TM is an abbreviation of Tournament Money, a currency that sites on the Stretch Network use. Instead of winning tickets and entries for future tournaments, players can win tournament money. They can save the money and spend it on tournament entries at a later date. For example, a player may win €110 in tournament money and use it to enter and use it to enter 20x €5.50 at their leisure.

Spin & Go Tournaments

Spin & Go tournaments are three-handed single-table tournaments in which the prize pool is randomly selected before the first hands are dealt. Most of the time, the prize pool multiplier is 2x, but it can be up to 1,000x the buy-in amount. The fast blind structure and winner-takes-all payout structure make Spin & Go tournaments exciting and popular.

Sit & Go Tournaments

There was a time when Sit & Go tournaments ruled the roost in the online poker world. Though they aren't as popular as they once were, plenty of people still play these tournaments.

Instead of having a predetermined start time, Sit & Go tournaments shuffle up and deal as soon as a fixed number of players buy in. They usually come in heads-up, six-handed, and nine-handed single table tournaments, but can also have 18, 27, or 45 players.