Tournaments
Become the king of the hill in our varied daily tournament schedule!
Whether you like an old school traditional freezeout, or an action packed progressive knockout tournament, the Unibet Poker schedule has something for you. With nightly Majors and a Stellar Sunday, you’re always just one click away from big prize pools and big action!
At Unibet Poker we offer the following tournament formats:
Freezeout
The original tournament format. Each player gets a single entry into the tournament and when they’re eliminated there are no second chances.
Rebuy
Similar to the freezeout format but with the option to get back into the action, if late registration is still open.
Rebuy & Add-on
Functioning much like a re-entry tournament during the late registration period, a R/A tournament also allowed players to purchase an additional stack of chips at a certain point in the tournament.
Phases
Phase tournaments are normally split into two parts, multiple phase 1s and a single final phase 2. The objective is to survive the required number of levels in a phase 1 to qualify for the phase 2 and a piece of a big prize pool.
Progressive Bounty
The most popular online format today. When you enter a PKO tournament, a percentage of your buy-in (normally 50%) will go towards a traditional prize pool and the rest will go on top of your head as a potential bounty for other players to win.
The tournament formats are available for both No Limit Texas Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha and in Hyper, Turbo and regular speed level structures.
MTT fees
| Buyin | FO/RE/R&A Reg/Turbo | FO/RE/R&A Hyper/SS | PKO Reg/Turbo | PKO Hyper/SS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| € 1 | € 0.08 | € 0.04 | € 0.05 | € 0.04 |
| € 2 | € 0.16 | € 0.08 | € 0.10 | € 0.08 |
| € 5 | € 0.40 | € 0.22 | € 0.25 | € 0.22 |
| € 10 | € 0.80 | € 0.45 | € 0.50 | € 0.45 |
| € 25 | € 2.00 | € 1.13 | € 1.25 | € 1.13 |
| € 50 | € 4.00 | € 2.25 | € 2.50 | € 2.25 |
| € 100 | € 8.00 | € 4.50 | € 5.00 | € 4.50 |
| € 200 | € 16.00 | € 9.00 | € 10.00 | € 9.00 |
| € 250 | € 20.00 | € 11.25 | € 12.50 | € 11.25 |
SS denotes “shortstack” tournaments, which are tournaments that start with 50 big blinds or less.
Individual tournaments may be subject a rake structure that differs from the table above.
Every week, we guarantee at least €500,000 in combined tournament prizepools.
We run more than 2000 tournaments, every week
Our Sunday highlight tournament. A €20,000 prizepool and great structure tournaments.
Every 1st Sunday of the month, we run the possibly softest online €250 buyin tournament in the world.
Qualifiers running every day and starting from €0.04.
Frequently asked questions
This will typically be because the tournament has a cap on the number of players:
In rare cases it can also be caused by a small design quirk related to a player busting very early in the tournament, when the number of players was low. If a player busts early on, with just 5 players in the tournament, the number of entries will automatically be capped, so that 5th position won’t become a prize paying position.
The different rules of Omaha tend to cause some confusion about hand strength.
In Omaha you get four hole cards and you make your hand with two hole cards and three community cards. You have to use exactly two of your own cards and exactly three from the table.
We currently offer broke rebuy tournaments, but not true re-entry.
What’s the difference you say? With broke rebuy, you keep the same seat at the table, and the rebuy has to be performed instantly after losing your last chip.
With re-entry you’d be able to enter the tournament again at a later stage, and it’d be a completely new entry into the tournament: you’d get a new seat.
You might see re-entry tournaments on Unibet poker in 2025.
At the moment, we do not offer mystery bounty tournaments.
This is partly a prioritization question, but it’s also due to the format – in it’s current shape – being extremely flawed. It’s impossible to have attractive mystery bounties, without limiting them to for instance phase 2/ITM phase. This is how it’s currently done on all sites, but it also means that the players that are really being targeted with the format – the casual/recreational players – they are unlikely to ever experience winning a mystery bounty.
Furthermore, in order for the format to be attractive, a large main bounty is often advertised. This can be as much as 20-50% of the total prizepool of the tournament. Having such a huge share of the money tied to a single prize, that makes for a crazy variance format, and as it can also trigger right after ITM has been reached, it isn’t very attractive to the best players.
It’s ultimately a format that’s great for no one, and if we were to implement it, it’d be with a unique twist, to solve the above issues.