PokerRoom Home Game Organizer 1.1

A poker tournament is like a usual game of poker - with a few important exceptions:
* Players are not allowed to buy more chips during the tournament. (However, see Re-buys and add-ons below.)
* A player who runs out of chips is eliminated from the tournament.
* Blinds and antes increase on a regular basis (see The blind structure below).
At the start of the tournament all players pay a certain amount, the buy-in. Each player receives a pre-defined number of chips, the starting stack. The buy-ins make up the prize pool that will be shared by the winning players at the end of the tournament.

Then the tournament starts. You play poker as usual. A player who loses his or her last chip is eliminated from the tournament and must leave the game.
To make sure that the tournament ends within a reasonable time, the blinds and antes are increased on a regular basis. A player who does not succeed in collecting more and more chips will eventually run out of chips simply by having to pay the increasing blinds.

In Home Game Organizer you are free to set up a blind structure that suits your game. There are a number of preset structures that you can use as they are, or modify according to your needs.
The payout structure defines how many players will win money in the tournament, and how much each of the winning players wins. For example, a common structure for a ten players tournament is to pay the first three players 50, 30, and 20 percent of the prize pool respectively. Home Game Organizer contains two preset payout structures, Standard and Flat. With 100 players, for example, Standard shares the prize money among the first ten players while Flat pays 15 places. In Home Game Organizer, you can set up a payout structure that you and your friends like.