Poker Tournaments - Shootout Tournaments

In traditional poker tournaments the tables will be balanced and remain full. Players are moved and tables split to ensure every table is as full as possible at all times. Play is continuous until the winner is determined!

In Viva Macau's Shootout Tournaments players compete in several rounds of single-table tournaments, with winners from each individual table progressing on to the second round.

For example, lets suppose we have a Shootout Tournament with 100 entrants. Ten tables with ten players each begin the tournament. We may specify that the top three players from each table will advace, so only 30 players will participate in round two. Likewise, only the top three placing players will advance to round three, where the nine remain player will battle it out at the final table.

The number of advancing players will vary depending on the tournament - simply check the tournament details in the Viva Macau software to see the winner and payout structure.

Heads Up Shootout Payout Structure

	Number of Players
Place Finished	1 to 2	3 to 8	9 to 32	33 to 64	65 to 128	128+
1st	100%	75%	45%	35%	30%	27%
2nd		25%	25%	15%	18%	15%
3rd-4th			15%	10%	10%	8%
5th-8th				7.5%	4%	3.5%
9th-16th					2%	1.5%
17th-32nd						1%

Multi Table Incremental Payouts

Players Advancing	Pays 1st	Pays 2nd	Pays 3rd
3	50%	30%	20%
2	70%	30%

 

Players Advancing	Pays 1st	Pays 2nd	Pays 3rd
1	100%

Final Table uses Standard Tournament Payout based on number of players at final table.

Percentage of Total Prize Pool paid to each round

No. of Rounds	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4+
1	100%
2	70%	30%
3	50%	30%	20%
4	50%	25%	15%	10%

When this structure is applied, only rounds 1, 2 and 3 will received the guaranteed payouts shown in this table. The final 10% of the winnings will contribute to the payout for the rest of the tournament (round 4 and any subsequent rounds) and will be paid out using the existing MTT payout structure shown here: Standard Tournament Payout.

Example 1

$10+$1, 100 Players, 10 Player tables, 3 Players Advancing

Number of Rounds is 3, total prize pool $1000

	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3
Prize Pool	$500.00	$300.00	$200.00
Tables	10	3	1
Players	100	30	9
Table Prizes	$50.00	$100.00	$200.00
Split	50/30/20	50/30/20	70/30
1st	$25.00	$50.00	$140.00
2nd	$15.00	$30.00	$60.00
3rd	$10.00	$20.00

Example 2

$10+$1, 240 Players, 6 Player tables, 2 Players Advancing

Number of Rounds is 5, total prize pool $2400

	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5
Prize Pool	$1200.00	$600.00	$360.00		$240.00
Tables	40	14	5	2
Players	240	80	28	10	4

 

Table Prizes	Round 1 $30.00	Round 2 $42.86	Round 3 $72.00	Round 4 *	Round 5
Split	70/30	70/30	70/30		50/30/20
1st	$21.00	$30.00	$50.40
2nd	$9.00	$12.86	$21.60
3rd

* No payouts for this table as it now uses a standard MTT payout,which pays 50/30/20 for 10 players.

 

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