Chip Purchase Option
Overview
A chip purchase option is an option by which a player can receive chips to use in the tournament. There are three types of chip purchase options in the application:
- Buy-in option: The way by which a player enters a tournament
- Add-on option: Typically an option available to all players
- Rebuy option: Typically an option available to players that have either busted out or dropped below a certain chip level.
All three types of options have the following attributes in common:
- ID: A unique identifier for the option, used in various parts of the application.
- Name: A name to help easily distinguish an option from other options of the same type.
- Cost: The cost of the option to the player.
- Chips: The amount in chips that the player receives for purchasing the option.
- Pool: The amount of the purchase price that goes to the tournament prize pool.
- Rake: The amount of the purchase price that goes to the house rake.
- League: The amount of the purchase price that goes to the league prize pool.
- Quantity purchased: The number of times the option has been purchased in this tournament.
Add-ons and rebuys have additional attributes that are specific to those option types.
Chip purchase options are managed in a tournament's chip purchase
options panel.
Simple Tournaments vs. Standard Tournaments
In simple tournaments, the
purchase quantity for each option is set by you. You simply
increment/decrement the quantity as needed and all associated data is
updated.
In standard tournaments, you
are managing players. Therefore, the purchase quantity for each option
is updated as you purchase buy-ins for players.
See also