In keeping with the competitive spirit of our cardroom, Big River Poker is proud to spread various tournaments everyday. Our most popular tournaments are our Multi-Table and Shoot Out poker tournaments and our Blackjack tournaments. Big River Poker also posts leader boards so our members can see which players are cumulatively doing best.

To enter a poker or blackjack tournament, select the Tournaments tab from the main lobby. Upon highlighting any tournament in this tab, you will see information about this tournament in the information box at right. Under the "State" column, look for a tournament which has a state of "Registering". Should you like to register in that tournament, double-click on it in "Registering" state or click on the "Tournament Lobby" button. This opens the tournament lobby. Click the Register button, and log in if you have not already done so. The software will confirm your registration. You may take your seat by selecting the "Take your seat" button. Check the tournament lobby for registration and seat times.

Poker tournament lobby used for illustration purposes. Blackjack tournament lobby very similar.

Note that for all tournaments and multi-table satellites, players are all assigned random seats to start the tournament. This is a countermeasure designed to prevent collusion. As is customary in poker tournaments, seat changes are not allowed. The button in hold'em and Omaha tournaments will be assigned to Seat 1.

As in a regular poker game, when it is your turn to act, you may check, bet, raise, call or fold (where applicable). You will notice another button called Time Bank when it is your turn to act, shown after you receive a time warning in the chat window. The Time Bank allows players extra time to decide on a course of action during a tournament, and will slowly deplete as it is used throughout the tournament.

Tournament Lobby
At any point during the tournament, players can check the tournament lobby for information about the tournament's progress. The lobby will show the current limit level for the tournament, information about players' stack sizes, and the breakdown of the prize pool.

Also in the tournament lobby is a player search function. The tournament lobby lists all players, and double-clicking on any player, or clicking on the "Player Info" button, will give you current tournament information for that player.

Specific prize money breakdown will be shown after the registration is closed.

Viewing a Tournament
A player in a tournament can observe any other table by double-clicking on that table in the tournament lobby's table list, or clicking the "observe table" button. Players who are not participants may also observe any table of a tournament.

Real Money buy-in tournaments
Standard Payout Schedule for MultiPlayer tournaments unless otherwise specified by Big River Poker.

Levels increase every 20 minutes in our real money tournaments.