06-22-04, LearnTexasHoldem:
WPT Final Table Chip Count
It gave the starting chip count for the players, and each had a different amount sometimes one player would have double the chips of another.
I understood tournaments to work as follows:
You pay your entance fee and get a set amount of chips the same as any other player. And so any winnign player at a table would have the same number of chips to finnish as any other.
How do these sometimes large differences come about and is it fair that some players at a final table have such a lage advantage in starting chips.
Thanks for all the information your site provides; highly useful.
Mike
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Answer: You are correct Mike that each player has an entrance fee and they all start out with the same amount of chips.
For example, let's say they each get $10k in chips to begin with to match a $10 entrance fee. What happens though is that since there are hundreds of entrants, by the time the last ten people are at the final table, all those chips have been won by the remaining players. How many chips you see on the final table is how many total chips were started in the tournament. How they are distributed depends on who has won the most.
When the tourney begins there can be 50 tables full of people all with $10k chips. By the end we just have one table with all the chips, it doesn't reset each time. What you win on the other tables carries over until you either win the whole thing or are busted out yourself. A tournament can last a day, a few days or even a week. It's just like golf in that your score for the previous days carries over.
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