What happens if a tournament is interrupted?
In rare cases a tournament may be interrupted due different causes. In such cases, payments will be made as follows (Player eliminated before the interruption will not be refunded in any case):
Heads-Up Tournaments
Both players will be refunded the buy-in + fee.
ALL SNG Tournaments
The remaining players will receive the following compensation:
- Buy-in and Fee is returned.
- Each player receives an equal share of the buy-ins from the eliminated players.
MTT Guaranteed Prize (where applicable)
Compensations will depend on what stage the tournament is at when it is interrupted:
If the prize money stage has not been reached:
(If the tournament is still in the re-buy stage then the prize pool will be the total of the buy-ins + add-ons. Once the re-buy period has closed then the prize pool will be the advertised guaranteed prize).
The remaining players will receive the following compensation:
- Buy-in(s) and fee returned
- The balance of the prize fund is paid out as follows:
- 50% of the fund shared equally among the remaining players
- 50% distributed proportionally in line with the players’ chip counts.
If the prize money stage has been reached:
The remaining players will receive the following compensation:
- Buy-in(s) and fee returned
- Each player is awarded an amount equal to the prize that the next eliminated player would have received if the tournament was not interrupted
- Of the remaining prize pool 50% is distributed equally among the players and 50% is distributed in proportion to their chip counts.
MTT No Guaranteed Prize:
If the prize money stage has not been reached:
The remaining players will receive a refund as follows:
- Buy-in(s) and fee returned
- The balance of the prize fund is paid out as follows:
- 50% of the fund shared equally among the remaining players
- 50% distributed proportionally in line with the players’ chip counts.
If the prize money stage has been reached:
The remaining players will receive a refund as follows:
- Buy-in(s) and fee returned
- Each player is awarded an amount equal to the prize that the next eliminated player would have received if the tournament was not interrupted.
- Of the remaining prize pool 50% is distributed equally among the players and 50% is distributed in proportion to the players’ chip counts.
Freerolls
If the prize money stage has not been reached:
- 50% of the fund shared equally among the remaining players
- 50% distributed proportionally in line with the players’ chip counts.
- If the prize money stage has been reached:
- Each player is awarded an amount equal to the prize that the next eliminated player would have received if the tournament was not interrupted.
- Of the remaining prize pool 50% is distributed equally among the players and 50% is distributed in proportion to the players’ chip counts.
- Twister Events
- In cases where the prize pool is less than €1,000:
- Remaining players receive a refund of their buy-in.
- Any remaining prize pool is then distributed in proportion to the players’ chip counts.
- In cases where the prize pool is €1,000 or greater:
- All remaining players receive a refund of their buy-in.
- All players receive 10% of the remaining prize pool.
- The remaining prize pool is then distributed in proportion to the players’ chip counts.