Extra Rules For Texas Holdem Home Tournaments
Extra Home Tournament Rules
When playing a Texas Holdem Tournament there are a standard set of rules usually followed, but sometimes there is extra information that is needed. Below are a few situations that may come up.
Buy-ins:
Players have to pay upfront.
Prizes:
The winners get prizes as soon as the tournament ends.
Settling Ties:
What happens if multiple players go all-in and it is the last hand? Who gets first, second and third place?
The players are ordered by how many chips they have.
Example:
Bomb: $1000
Club: $400
Hatchet: $500
Bomb goes all-in and both players call.
Bomb shows the winning hand.
1st Bomb
2nd Hatchet
3rd Club
Why? You can’t compare losing hands. The only way to resolve this, and the way that is used, is to rank the placements based on chips.
Late players:
At a home tournament, the best way to deal with this is to let the player play, but deduct the amount of blinds that have passed from his chips. Then have him sit at a table that needs players. If a player paid in advance but is late, deal him in and keep mucking his hand, blinding him off until he gets there or goes bust.
Dealer Button Assignment:
To decide who gets the dealer button, each player should draw a card from the deck. The highest card gets the dealer button.
Moving Players:
In multi-table tournaments, moving players should be done in the easiest fairest way. In each move to balance tables, someone always gets screwed. If a player moves too early he gets to miss his blind or take more hands before he gets his big blind. If a player moves too soon then he gets the big blind too often, which is a big penalty. Drawing for who has to move works but isn’t ideal. If possible use a tournament director and have him look at both table states and then decide who gets moved so the big blind is given priority.
