Running tournaments in your ClubGG club

What a club tournament can include

ClubGG's help center, the full settings reference, couldn't be read for this guide, so this table is assembled from release notes, blog posts and the help-center article titles that are public.

Plan it in five decisions

1. Field and time box. How many players do you realistically expect, and when must it end? A weeknight game that runs past midnight loses players for next week.
2. Stack and clock. Choose starting stack and level length together. The blind structure planner turns those into a full level table that finishes near your target.
3. Format. Freezeout for a simple night; PKO when you want action from the first level; a satellite when the prize is a seat in a bigger event.
4. Prize. Chips, a ticket, a title on the leaderboard — written into Custom Prize so nobody is surprised.
5. Schedule. One-off, or recurring so it reappears every week without rebuilding.

Multi-day events

Stack carryover means Day 1 can stop at a fixed time and survivors resume with the same chips on Day 2. Pick the Day 1 cut-off by level, not by player count — “we stop after level 12” is a promise you can keep; “we stop at the final table” isn't.

Bounties (PKO)

In a progressive knockout, as the format generally works, each entry puts part of its value on the player's head. Knocking someone out pays you part of their bounty and adds the rest to your own. ClubGG doesn't publish its exact split, so check the preview in the tournament form. In a play-money club, bounties are a pacing tool: they reward early aggression and keep short stacks from folding to the money.

Satellites

A satellite's prize is an entry to a target tournament. Inside a club that's a ticket issued through the Counter; ClubGG's terms say tickets have no monetary value. For the official WSOP-ticket qualifiers that ClubGG runs itself, see Road to WSOP Circuit.

A sample evening structure

Using the planner's defaults — 18 players, 10,000 chips each, 10-minute levels, three hours, 100-big-blind start, big-blind ante from level 4 — you get 18 levels:

By the last level the 180,000 chips in play are worth about 18 big blinds in total, so the game is short-handed and all-in heavy right on time. Add breaks yourself; the planner doesn't.

Final tables and deals

ClubGG's help center has a “Final Table Deal” article, which tells you deals are a supported idea, but we couldn't read how the in-app flow works. Whatever the button does, the hard part is agreeing what's fair. Chip counts overstate the leader's share; the ICM calculator gives the standard answer in seconds.

Keep prizes inside the rules

Looking for tournaments to play rather than host? Free ClubGG tournaments lists the ones ClubGG runs itself.

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