Unlike in a ring game (or cash game), a player's chips in a tournament cannot be cashed out for money and serve only to determine the player's placing.
To facilitate this, in most tournaments, blinds rise over the duration of the tournament. The winner of the tournament is usually the person who wins every poker chip in the game and the others are awarded places based on the time of their elimination. It can feature as few as two players playing on a single table (called a ' heads-up' tournament), and as many as tens of thousands of players playing on thousands of tables. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.
