Types of Tournaments on Natural8

By Mrinal Gujare

13 Jan 2025

Mrinal Gujare 13 Jan 2025

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Natural8 is Asia’s biggest online poker room with a wide range of tournaments and promotions running throughout the year. In this article, we’ll take a look at the tournament varieties available for players to grind on.

As Asia’s leading online poker platform—Natural8 offers lucrative tournaments and promotions apart from competitive rewards. For players who are getting started with online poker, this article serves as a guide for the tournaments that are available on Natural8.

Guaranteed Tournaments

In guaranteed tournaments, a specific prize pool is assured, such as $50K. This amount is distributed as promised, even if the total buy-in collected does not meet the guaranteed sum.

Regular tournaments typically add the buy-in amounts to the prize pool. However, if the buy-ins exceed the guaranteed amount, the prize pool increases accordingly. The guaranteed prize for each tournament is mentioned in the tournament lobby.

Freezeout

A Freezeout tournament is a single-elimination format where players can only buy in once. At the beginning, each player receives an equal number of chips (starting stack). If a player loses all their chips, they are eliminated and cannot re-enter.

Progressive Knockout (PKO)

In PKO Bounty tournaments, each participant has a bounty on their head. When a player is knocked out, half of their bounty is added to the bounty of the player who eliminated them, while the other half is awarded as an instant cash prize to the eliminator.

Mystery Bounty

Mystery Bounty tournaments add an intriguing element to regular bounty events. Players earn rewards for each opponent they eliminate, but the bounty values remain undisclosed until collected.

Rebuy

At the start of a rebuy tournament, players receive equal chips. Participants can purchase additional chips equivalent to their starting stack when their chip count falls to or below this level. The rebuy period and limits vary by tournament and are detailed in the lobby.

N-Stack

In N-Stack tournaments, players receive multiple chip stacks (denoted as 'N') upon registration. They can choose how many stacks to start with and reserve others for later use.

Reserved stacks can be added anytime before late registration ends or by a specified time, after which they are automatically added to a player's stack.

Satellite Tournaments

Satellite tournaments offer a chance to win entry into marquee events at a lower cost. These qualifiers typically run 30 to 90 minutes before feature events and can be turbo or regular speed. Winners secure seats in target tournaments without paying full buy-in fees.

Tournament Overlays

Tournament overlays occur when there is a shortfall between a tournament's guaranteed prize pool and the actual contributions from entrants. For instance, if a $1,000 guarantee attracts only $900 in buy-ins from 90 players, there is a $100 overlay.

Flipout

Flipout tournaments are unique all-in formats where players automatically go all-in every hand until a winner emerges.

This format removes decision-making from players, relying purely on chance. Registration is required before play begins, but players do not need to be logged in during the game.

Sit and Go (SNG)

Sit and Go tournaments begin once a predetermined number of players register. These events have no set schedule and commence as soon as enough players have signed up.

Freerolls

Freerolls are poker tournaments that require no entry fee, allowing players to compete without any financial commitment.

Shootout

In shootout tournaments, players must win their table outright to advance to subsequent rounds or the final table.

Unlike other formats that balance tables by merging them, shootouts require playing out each table fully before progressing.

Hyper Turbo and Turbo Tournaments

These fast-paced tournament variations feature shorter blind levels and quicker decision times. Turbo tournaments typically have 5-minute blinds, while Hyper Turbos feature 3-minute blinds.

Private Tournaments

Private tournaments on Natural8 are exclusive events either designed for specific groups for promotional purposes or open to all Natural8 players.

To get started with Natural8 tournaments, players can register on the site using Natural8 bonus code MAXBONUS for a welcome bonus up to $1000.

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