How to enter: tournament formats and registration

01Identify the tournament format

An MTT usually starts across multiple tables, which merge as players are eliminated. A Sit & Go commonly starts when the required number of players enters. Turbo and Hyper generally mean faster blind progression; check the exact structure.

02What to read before registering

An event page should state the game, start time and time zone, eligibility, entry fees, starting stack, level length and registration closing conditions.

• Check whether late registration is allowed and the final level at which you can enter.
• Re-entry: usually means registering again after elimination during the permitted period and returning to the tournament with a new entry.
• Rebuy: when allowed, purchasing additional tournament chips during a specified period and subject to chip-stack conditions, usually while continuing the original entry.
• Add-on: an opportunity to obtain additional chips at a specified stage of a tournament; eligibility does not necessarily require prior elimination. Fees, limits on use, chip amounts and deadlines for all three options depend on the event announcement.
• Read the rules for cancellation, refunds, disconnections, pauses and rescheduling.
• Check prize distribution, simultaneous eliminations and the official dispute process.

03Conduct during a tournament

Act in turn. Do not collude, play for someone else or borrow another person's account. Follow the event's official rules for final tables, hand-for-hand play, action clocks and breaks.

Live tournaments may refer to Poker TDA rules, but the organizer must state whether they apply, which version is used and how any online rules differ.

04Royal Poker tournament entry

This website displays confirmed, published events only. Once registration opens, the event card links to the platform for account login and registration. Your entry is confirmed only by the platform's confirmation page or account record. Unannounced schedules are not shown as open events.