Tournaments

In Match Poker Online™, Tournaments function a bit differently to regular poker tournaments.

We’re not going to reward you for being a “luck box” – for hitting that one-outer and winning a mass of chips. We’re looking for the better poker player, not the luckiest. To win a Match Poker tournament you just have to play better than your opponents.

In Match Poker Tournaments, your score is determined by the Rating Points (RP) you win on a finite number of hands. These are awarded for playing skilfully, not just for getting lucky.. To learn more about Rating Points, click here!

We’re starting with 2 tournament structures – but there’ll soon be many more.

• Starts with 8 players at a single table.
• Lasts 32 hands.
• Players are progressively eliminated – based on who has the fewest Event Points after a set interval of hands.
• The last remaining player wins.
• Top four players are awarded a fixed amount of Rating Points*.

• 1st Place is awarded 70 RP.
• 2nd Place is awarded 40 RP.
• 3rd Place is awarded 30 RP.
• 4th Place is awarded 20 RP.
• 5th and 6th Places are not awarded any RP.
• 7th Place will have 15 RP subtracted.
• 8th Place will have 25 RP subtracted.

• Starts with 8 or 6 players at a single table.
• Lasts 25 hands.
• Players are not eliminated.
• The player with the most Event Points at the end of the 25 hands is the winner.
• Top four players are awarded a fixed amount of Rating Points*.

• 1st Place is awarded 60 RP.
• 2nd Place is awarded 35 RP.
• 3rd Place is awarded 25 RP.
• 4th Place is awarded 15 RP.
• 5th and 6th Places are not awarded any RP.
• 7th Place will have 10 RP subtracted.
• 8th Place will have 20 RP subtracted.

Tournaments offer the added advantage of a fixed reward of RP for the top 4 players. This can be very useful if the ranking algorithm has discerned your True Rank within our Ranking System, resulting in your rating points stagnating (this is explained in more detail in How to Gain Rating Points). To rise above that, you’ll either have to improve as a poker player (and we’ll do everything we can to help you do that) or you can earn RP, even above your True Rank, by playing tournaments.*

*This special opportunity to increase your RP by winning tournaments only lasts until you reach 18,500 RP – the final Silver Ranking Category. Only those skilled enough to have proven themselves to be Elite Players will be able to progress to the upper echelons of the Ranking System.

We are excited to reveal that we are already working on further tournaments, including Multi-Table (MTT) variations of both Scrap and Elimination – with greater prizes for the winners – as well as our brand-new format, Skirmish!

Skirmish

Skirmish is a very avant-garde format of poker, designed uniquely for Match Poker Online.

In Skirmish, all players play the same hand at the same time – it’s like all competitors are playing as the same person in parallel universes! All other hands are played by separate bots, programmed to play consistently, so that almost the only key variable in the game is how you played your cards.

This is the ultimate test of skill – with almost all the variables controlled for. The person who walks away as the winner is the person who played their cards with the greatest skill! There is little room for doubt.

This will form the cornerstone of our upcoming ‘Play With Your Friends‘, feature.