Hello, would like to know how to make a shootout tournament in a live poker club witch has 4 tables. How to do the registration, what to do when i have 2 tables with 7 players each and another 3 players come and wanna to register to the tournament and so on...?
You have 4 tables, but for this tournament would you expect that you would use all 4? The way you phrase it it sounds like you'd expect 15-20, am I reading that correctly?
Let me get that information and I will reply again with more details about structure. If you're going to have 20 or less players you're not going to have a very good "shootout" structured tournament. Generally only the winner of each table makes the next table, but I think if you could get 40 then each table should play down to 2 and then reform at a final table of 8. I suppose it would be kinda fun to have 2 tables play down to 1 on each and then those two winners play heads up, too.
I like that even though you have a small room, you are still trying to keep things fun and interesting.
my question was more oriented on situation when odd number of players enters the tournament, is it ok that on table1 will be 8 players and on table2 7 players? Or when i have 18 player in tournament, its level 2 and 3 other players come to the club and wanna play, should i wait for another 6 players to open the 3th table or what, coz i dont think i can move players from table1 or 2 to balance the 3 tables, or?
For your first question, you can't help that you have an odd number of entrants, so 7 and 8 is fine. For your 2nd question, that just depends on if you set up your structure to allow late entries, and if so how long you want to allow them. I would say that if you allow late entries and it's still the late entry period you would seat them on one of the two existing tables. For a shootout tournament though (where each table plays down to a winnner or maybe top 2 spots and then the winners play) I would not want to allow too many levels of late entry. If it were me I'd say probably only 1st level for your size room.
thank you