Tournaments are one of the most popular features of the Pokerspace community. There are several different types of tournaments held every day of the year on a broad range of poker rooms, which cater to the wide range of player styles and time zones found within the Pokerspace community.
After reading this article you should be able to identify where you can find Pokerspace tournament information, where to find the actual tournaments on the poker rooms, who is accountable for each stage of tournament set-up and finalization, why it benefits you to play in Pokerspace tournaments, and what kind of measures Pokerspace uses to identify and solve issues of non-members in exclusive tournaments.
Pokerspace tournaments can be found on the Tournament page under the Promotions tab. On that page, there is a list of tournaments called "Weekly Freeroll" tournaments, which are tournaments that do not require you to deposit cash to play in them. However, freeroll tournaments may have a PS Points buy-in. There is also a list of "Buy-In" tournaments, which require a real cash buy-in to register and play.
These two categories are essential in understanding how they are treated at the poker rooms themselves. While PSOP events require a PS Point buy-in, the rooms do not have anything to do with this buy-in and consider them freerolls. The same logic is true for Crew Cup events, PS Point Buy-in tournaments, and Members Only Freerolls. In each of these cases, Pokerspace handles the payouts of all the PS Point and cash prizes. Note that late registration is NOT available for freeroll tournaments.
The cash buy-in tournaments, on the other hand, require you to use your cash on the room to buy into the tournament. Pokerspace does not usually handle any of the cash payouts for these tournaments, but does pay out any added PS Point prize to those who place in the event.
The tournament page lists a week's worth of tournaments, each specifying which rooms they are hosted on. You need to have the correct information (username and email address) for that specific room inputted in your profile in order to play in the tournament. Note: It does not matter if you downloaded the room from Pokerspace; the information required is used for tournament results only. They allow us to match up poker room screennames to Pokerspace accounts.
Once you login to the poker room, find the tournament section, and navigate to the scheduled, private tournament section. Each poker network features its own specific tournament display, so login to the room well before a tournament begins if you are unfamiliar with the room set-up.
Pokerspace is a large poker community, and thus we have a large number of tournament requests constantly being sent to many brands for set-up. Know that as a team, we are diligent in requesting tournaments at least two weeks in advance to the date the tournament actually takes place. While Pokerspace requests the tournaments, we are not responsible for setting them up on the actual poker room. Be aware that sometimes it isn't even the poker room that sets them up -the poker network may be responsible for this step. Therefore, if something goes wrong in this chain of set-up, it is not always the fault of Pokerspace or the poker room. Mistakes and cancellations are usually found out fairly quickly, and dealt with in the best possible manner. If you ever notice an issue with a tournament contact support@pokerspace.com immediately.
While many communities offer tournaments, Pokerspace tournaments are quite unique. Many tournaments on Pokerspace offer a PS Point prize, which can increase your PS Point bankroll. Some of these tournaments require a PS Points buy-in to register and some don't. This requirement not only adds PS points to the prizepool, which can reach thousands of PS Points, it also adds protection against non-members overrunning our exclusive tournaments, since you must buy-in with PS points to access the tournament password and the prize is only valuable to Pokerspace members.
As well, our Member's Only Freerolls feature free money and a PS Point prize that are all manually paid out to our members only. These kinds of tournaments are held several times during the week, and protect the prizes so that they are only given out to Pokerspace members that paid the PS points buy-in.
While password sharing is against the rules of Pokerspace, it inevitably happens. Pokerspace has specific safeguards, including those discussed above, to protect members against non-PS members participating in exclusive tournaments.
One method is releasing the password only one hour before the tournament begins for all freeroll tournaments. Where this has proven to diminish the mass sharing of passwords, it cannot ensure that people will not receive the password and participate in the tournament. While coupons may solve this issue, we have been denied the ability to create coupons for every brand because of our large membership and the amount of tournaments we hold on a weekly basis.
Another method is manually paying cash and PS Point prizes to winners of Members Only freeroll tournaments. While it may take up to 2 business days to receive your prize money, it will ensure that non-members and those members who do not pay their PS Points to get into the tournament will be eligible for any prizes.
We respect our membership and any suggestions made, outside of coupons and re-scheduling every tournament, will be seriously considered.
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