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Poker Tournament Rules

Six-Max No-Limit Hold’em

The complete rulebook for the daily poker arena — structure, clocks, card visibility, balancing and payouts — plus the live desk showing today’s tables.

6-max NLHE20,000 chips15-min levelsTop 15% paid
Official rules · daily

How every poker tournament runs

10 token buy-in3 events daily≈ 2 hours each20s action clock

Registration opens two hours before each start; late registration and unlimited rebuys stay open for the first 45 minutes.

Tournament structure

  • · Six-handed tables — seats fill and balance automatically.
  • · 20,000 starting chips; blinds begin at 100/200.
  • · Blinds rise every 15 minutes through 8 levels.
  • · Events play to conclusion in roughly two hours.
  • · Daily start times: 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00pm, 11:00pm ET.
  • · Late registration + unlimited rebuys for the first 45 minutes; rebuys feed the prize pool.

Blind schedule

LevelBlindsLength
1100 / 20015 min
2200 / 40015 min
3400 / 80015 min
4800 / 1,60015 min
51,500 / 3,00015 min
63,000 / 6,00015 min
75,000 / 10,00015 min
810,000 / 20,00015 min

Action clock & time bank

20 seconds per action with a visible countdown on your seat. Running out of time folds your hand automatically. Each player holds a 15-second time bank — press the time-bank button to use it; it never fires on its own. A 5-minute break runs every 60 minutes, with play resuming automatically.

Card visibility

Your hole cards are visible only to you while a hand is live. Folded cards are mucked immediately and never shown. Every hand that reaches showdown is revealed. Admins can click any active, non-folded player’s cards to reveal them for monitoring only.

Table balancing

When seats open, tables are rebalanced so each keeps roughly the same number of players; short tables are broken and merged as the field shrinks. Moves are announced at the table, exactly like a live MTT.

Payouts

The top 15% of the field is paid, weighted toward first place, with the podium taking the largest shares. Cash events pay real money after standings are confirmed and identity checks complete; other events award tokens or non-cash prizes. Every event’s exact prizes publish in the lobby before you enter, and the per-player payout sheet is linked from Results.

Live poker desk

Today’s tables

No poker events match these filters today — check back before the 2:00pm, 5:00pm, 8:00pm or 11:00pm ET starts.

Tokens are promotional credits with no cash value, usable only for entries on this site. Poker results feed the separate Monthly Poker Leaderboard and never count toward trading standings. Questions the rulebook doesn’t answer are covered in the Rules FAQ.