Players will notice that the tournament structures in almost all of this year’s Playground Poker Fall Classic events is a little bit different than in past Classics – we’ve implemented the button ante for all 16 side events. The one exception to this new rule will be the WPT® Montreal itself, which will follow the time-proven traditional WPT structure with “normal” antes.
An increasingly popular feature in big tournaments, “button ante” simply means that the player on the dealer button pays the equivalent of the whole table’s worth of antes on each hand. For simplicity’s sake, during the bulk of tournament play, the amount of the button ante is set as the amount of the big blind. There are a couple of exceptions related to the size of the button ante:
- In level 1 of each tournament, there is no ante
- During each level of play prior to the first break in a tournament, the button ante amount will be the small blind amount, not the big blind amount.
- Later in a tournament, if the entire tournament is short-handed, the TD will call for the button ante to be reduced to the small blind value. Please wait for the TD to announce this reduction if it is to be applied.
- In 6-Max games, the button ante will be the small blind value throughout the tournament.
