Are you talking about in-person play or online? If online, the site wll have a tournament schedule posted and you simply apply for a seat. One of the bigger and better poker sties is PokerStars. Their rules are as follows:All tournaments will begin promptly at the scheduled time stated in the Tournament Lobby.Seats are assigned at random. Seat changes are not permitted.The button will be positioned at Seat 1 to start play.The tournament ends when one player accumulates all the chips in play. If the tournament is a satellite event, the tournament will end when all players have qualified for the target event (ie, if the tournament awards 5 seats, the tournament will end when there are 5 players left).If two or more players are eliminated on the same hand, the player with more chips at the beginning of the hand is placed higher. If players started the hands with an identical amount of chips, both players tie for that rank, and any prizes due to those players will be equally distributed between them.During hand-for-hand play (as described in rule #20 below), two players eliminated during a single"synchronized"hand are treated as having been eliminated on the same hand, even if they are at different tables.PokerStars uses a"forward moving button"rule in its tournaments. According to this rule, no player ever receives the button twice in a row; at the completion of every hand, the button is moved clockwise to the small blind. The implication of this rule is that when players are eliminated, there may be players who get a reprieve from one or both blinds.The forward moving button is common practice in online poker due to the technicalities involved in adjusting the blinds after players are eliminated. Since these are basically random occurrences, no player will receive any long-term advantage, and the rule is necessarily fair for all players.When two players remain, the button will post the small blind, and act first on the opening round.
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