Scheduled Tournament Rules

1. Scheduled Tournaments begin at a predetermined date and time. Players are required to register in advance of the tournament. Players may register for a tournament either until the maximum number of players has been reached or 2 minutes before the schedule start time, whichever comes first.
2. Players who are registered for a Scheduled Tournament may unregister from that tournament up until 10 minutes before the scheduled start time. After the unregistration period ends, Scheduled Tournaments are treated as non-refundable. If a player unregisters from a tournament, the buy-in will be refunded in the same form as it was paid. For example, if a player buys into a tournament using Summit Points, his buy-in will be refunded as Summit Points.
3. If a player unregisters from a tournament to which he gained entry as a result of a satellite win or a special promotion, the buy-in will be refunded in the form of tournament tokens plus cash. For example, if a player wins a satellite to a tournament with a buy-in of $100+9, the refund will be credited as 1 Gold Token plus $9.
4. Shortly before the tournament is scheduled to begin, the registered players will be randomly seated among as few tables as necessary to accommodate all participants. Players have no control over either the tables or seats at which they are placed throughout the tournament.
5. Players are asked to be logged in to Everest Poker and ready to play ten minutes before the tournament is scheduled to begin. Players who do not show up for the tournament on time will have their blinds posted and cards folded until they join the tournament. Players who register for freeroll tournaments and fail to login to Everest Poker at all will be marked as absent and be removed from the tournament after 5 minutes. Absent players are not removed from tournaments for which they either won or paid their entry.
6. Players who sit out or are disconnected from freeroll tournaments for five (5) hands or ten (10) minutes will be removed on the basis of whichever period is longer. If a player pays any buy-in, either real money or Summit Points, and sits out or is disconnected from a tournament, the player will have the blinds posted and cards folded automatically until the player returns or runs out of chips.
7. In the unlikely event that a Scheduled Tournament is cancelled by Everest Poker due to technical, operational or any other reason, players who were eliminated before the cancellation will not receive a refund of their buy-in. Everest Poker will distribute the prize pool to some or all of the remaining players at its sole discretion. If the cancellation occurs before the tournament begins, all players will have their buy-ins refunded.
8. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, all players begin with an equal number of chips and the blinds and antes are raised at regular intervals. See our Tournament Structure for details.
9. Sit & Go Tournaments are played through completion without breaks. In Scheduled Tournaments, the tournament tables will have a five (5) minute break after each hour of play.
10. At the beginning of a tournament, each player is randomly dealt one card from the thirteen cards of one suit (for example, clubs ♣). The player who receives the highest card is assigned the dealer button.
11. Most Scheduled Tournaments are played until one player has all of the chips. However, in cases which a specific number of top finishers will receive the same prize, the tournament will be stopped once that only that number of players remain.
12. Each player has thirty (30) seconds to act when it is their turn to do so. If the player has an active Internet connection but does not act within the time allotted, their cards will be folded.
13. If a player loses their Internet connection or otherwise disconnect from the server, their blinds and antes will be posted and their cards folded until they are able to reconnect and rejoin their tournament.
14. In tournament play, Everest Poker observes a policy of no missed blinds in order to make sure that every player posts the big blind when it is their turn to do so. As a result, there are instances in which a player will retain the dealer button for more than one hand. There may also be hands in which a big blind is posted without a small blind, if the player in the position to receive the small blind was eliminated from the tournament in the previous hand.
15. For limit tournaments, each round of betting in a tournament is limited to the initial bet plus three (3) raises. This limit is removed if there are only two (2) players left in the hand. There are no bet limits in no limit and pot limit tournaments.
16. In the case of a split pot that is not equally divisible by the number of winning players, the player closest to the left of the dealer button will receive the remaindered chips.
17. In tournaments which rebuys are allowed, players are permitted to purchase another stack of chips for an additional fee. In most cases, the fee is equal to the portion of the buy-in contributed to the prize pool and the rebuy chip stack is equal to the starting chip stack. However, the number of times which a player may rebuy, the number of chips they receive, the rebuy fee and the currency options for that fee may vary. In all cases, players are permitted to rebuy only when their current chip count is equal to or lesser than the starting chip count.
18. If the tournament allows an add-on, the add-on will take place at the end of the rebuy period. Most of the rebuy restrictions also apply to the add-on, with the exception that a player may add-on regardless of chip count.
19. If more than one player gets eliminated in a single hand, the player who started that hand with more chips will be awarded the higher finishing place. If the eliminated players started with the same amount of chips, the higher finishing place is awarded to the player who joined the tournament first.
20. As players are eliminated from the tournament, the remaining players will be consolidated into as few tables as possible. When moving players from one table to another, Everest Poker will make every effort to insure that no player misses his turn at the blinds or pays the blinds an inordinate number of times.
21. Everest Poker will do its best to keep an equal amount of players at all tables. In cases when there are six or fewer players remaining at table, play at that table will be paused until such time as the tables can be rebalanced.
22. If a player wins a share of the prize pool when he is eliminated from the tournament, his account is credited with that prize after he leaves the table. In the case of rebuy tournaments, prizes are not awarded until the end of the rebuy period.
23. At any point in time during a tournament, the tournament software may start dealing hand-by-hand. Hand-by-hand dealing is when the software waits for all tables to finish the current hand before dealing the next. This process discourages players from taking as long as possible to play their hand in the hopes that a player at another table will drop out, also known as "slow playing".
24. When only two players remain in a tournament, the player who is next to receive the big blind will do so and the second player will inherit the small blind and the dealer button.
25. Everest Poker does not encourage, sanction, facilitate or enforce any deals or partnerships made among players. Players who engage in deal making do so at their own risk. Everest Poker neither permits deal making in the player chat at the table nor enforces any deals made between players.
26. Players are prohibited from discussing their cards and their opponents' cards, as well as the playing of the hand, until that hand has been completed.
27. Players who engage in unethical behavior such as soft playing or chip dumping risk disqualification from the tournament as well as the termination of their player accounts.
28. Players agree to adhere to the conditions of play outlined in our Terms of Agreement.
29. In case of disputes, all decisions made by Everest Poker are final.
30. At our sole discretion, Everest Poker reserves the right to modify these rules at any time.

Last Modified: 2008-02-11