Play Money – An ideal way to get in some playing time when a player does not have time to enter a tournament, or when waiting to get more chips for the Marathon Tournament or for another event to begin. These games are similar to play money tables at other sites. While they are generally for fun with nothing to win directly, Wired Ducks may periodically run promotions providing real prizes for Play Money play. Additionally, hands a player is dealt at Play Money games will increase the player’s monthly Player Rank, providing benefits including entry into exclusive free-rolls.

Sit and Go – These are smaller free-roll tournaments that start as soon as the required number of players have registered (generally between 10 and 100). As soon as one tournament fills, another event will generally be made available.

Note: To avoid players being overly aggressive in SNG’s by going all in just to double up or start fresh at the next tournament, players will only be allowed to join one SNG every thirty minutes. Therefore if a player loses all of his SNG chips in the first few minutes, a wait will be required before another SNG can be entered.

Scheduled Tournaments – These events occur at set times, and they have more players and larger pay-outs than sit-and-go’s. These tournaments may be hosted by a single sponsor, or by a combination of contributors. A weekly list of major upcoming events will be made available on this website and e-mailed to all players – although additional tournaments will be added to the list from time to time.

Most of these tournaments are available to all players, although some can only be entered by winning a satellite event, some are only available to players who have attained a specified player level through their amount of play over the current or past month, and some require an “upgraded” membership, available by providing demographic information.

Marathon Tournaments – These tournaments are played like ring games, as players can come and go as they wish, keeping their chips; however, cumulative chip totals are maintained for the entire event. Players who lose all of their chips in a marathon tourney will be allowed to re-load, as they could in a play-money event; however, after re-loading, this option will not be available again to the same player for a specified period of time. These multi-day events will often have a double prize structure, with both a normal tournament payout schedule as well as an entry into a special large-prize tournament for all of the top finishers.

Blinds do not increase with time, although players will periodically be re-seated to different tables. At each scheduled re-seating, and whenever a player joins or rejoins the game, the player will be placed in tables with players with similar chip stacks, and an appropriate blind level will be dictated for that table until the next re-seating.