What is Team Poker®?

Payoffs for Teams and Individual Winners can vary based on Tournament Directors Option (e.g. 60% to Teams - $40% to Individuals or 50%-50%, etc.). Teams payoffs can be distributed equally among the total number of players per Team or as the Team otherwise sees fit. Individuals in Team Poker® can win prize money as part of the team or through their individual finish position.

All other Poker Tournament Rules and Structures (buy-in, length of blind, type, and structure, etc.) remain the same as in any Poker Tournament and they are the responsibility of the Card Room Manager or Poker Room Tournament Director.

TeamPoker® Tournaments can be run as “Home Game” version are used for large Tournaments. The TeamPoker® Store contains several Templates.

Team Poker® is Easy to Calculate: Team Poker® “Games and Licenses” in the Team Poker® Store provide the easy step by step approach “How To Run a TeamPoker® Tournament”. There are also some templates. It is Easy to keep score using the TeamPoker® Process; However, we added the KIDs "ALL-IN" Addition to add spice and to make it quick and Fun for The whole Family to Play and Learn Poker and the Skill Necessary to be a Tournament Champion. This Version can be adapted to be as easy and quick to play as you want using the optional playing variables and handicapping structures this KIDs All-In Version allows.

Why Team Poker®?

More of Everything: People, Interest, Money, Sponsorship. Adds spice to any Tournament or stand alone Tournament.

TeamPoker® uses the team concept to encourage synergism and camaraderie among players and extend interest in tournaments by the participants. TeamPoker® shall encourage and promote only the highest of standards of conduct. Any misbehavior or unethical behavior shall be cause for the immediate ejection from tournaments, games, or suspension from play.

The house may collect fees for running the tournaments whether internet play or live play. A certain percentage of house fees collected will be used to pay dealers in live action tournaments. A percentage of fees collected may be designated to go to charities.

Mission Statement & Game Plan

Promote and Provide the highest ethical and technically correct standards for all Poker Events that Team Poker® is involved in. Team Poker® promotes only fair Poker Play. Any form of cheating including sharing or coordinating of hands among players is strictly prohibited, and all TeamPoker® Events are to be structured to avoid Collusion, and these ways are discussed in detail in the TeamPoker® Material.

Team Poker Structures can be flexible enough, however, to allow for other variances in what typically is the standard Individual Tournament Play. Team Poker’s® goal is to promote Teams Playing in Poker Tournaments and using the team concept to encourage synergism and camaraderie among players, and introduce the Team Poker® Process and provide a new slant on the old game.

Another primary goal of TeamPoker® is to bring new players to the game who might not ordinarily play, but because of the Team Concept are more open to joining with old or current friends in the spirited competition of a Poker Tournament where the out come of their friends play helps to determine theirs and their Teammates Team Tournament Finish.

Team Poker® will strive to become a World Wide Production Event with Live Poker Room Action being Filmed and Produced on many levels.

Team Poker® will strive to bring Team Poker® to internet rooms and have these rooms support the live casino tournaments around the World.

A primary goal of TeamPoker® is to put Poker in the main stream of sporting events, and TeamPoker® will continue the push for Poker to be recognized as a Sport that uses a game of skill and luck to determine outcomes. Poker Teams can help minimize the luck factor. Poker Teams can help generate more sponsorship potential.

Team Poker® Inspires to teach poker to the new and old generations of players through such things as its TeamPoker® “Home Edition”, Kids All-In, Internet Free Play, Internet and Live League Play, Encourage Sponsorship, and general Team Synergism.

Finally and most importantly, Team Poker® encourages charitable contributions to tax exempt charities.

Collusion and TeamPoker® - Why It's Not A Problem

1. Cheating: - As in any tournament telling or signaling to anyone, or one of your own teammates, what hand you have, is cheating and strictly prohibited and cause for ejection from the tournament and all Team Poker events.
   
2. Collusion: - Webster Def.: n. Secret agreement for some wrongful purpose; as, a man in collusion with thieves. Players can collude and cheat in any tournament …but for the most part they don't.
   
3. Teaming Up: - As long as no one is cheating … “teaming up” against opponents can potentially happen and can add excitement to a tournament. Use your imagination with pros and ‘wanta bes' at the final table.
   
4. Structure: - The structure of TeamPoker is flexible and one basic approach is to avoid seating players of the same team together, either initially at the start, or as tables are consolidated. Tournament Directors and personnel can direct players of the same team to different tables, thus, minimizing teaming-up potential and teammates knocking fellow teammates out of Team Poker® tournament.
   
5. Payout: - Team Poker® encourages and allows for a percentage of the tournament funds to go to the individual winners as well as the teams.
   
6. Announce: - Whenever teams are first seated or a player or players are added to a table, the players on the same team are required to announce they are teammates. The dealers are responsible to monitor this. Players that do not identify this are subject to penalties and or ejection from tournaments, based on Tournament Directors discretion.
   
7. Known: - In Team Poker® it is understood that teams are playing other teams. Since this is known, teammates are known, it tends to negate collusion potential. This can be accomplished in several ways including uniforms/ outfits, card protectors, and icons to name a few. It is important that the dealers in Team Poker® maintain the knowledge and announce to the tables that team mates are on the poker table as tables consolidate and change, etc.
   
8. Gaming: - Since some teams / players may wish to increase their Finish Equalization Number (FEN) they may opt for less players in tournaments, thus, avoiding intra- team competition and collusion potential.
   
9. Stategies: - Team Strategies can include losing chips to team mates to keep them in the game or "taking it easy" on teammates. These strategies can be risky in Team Poker®
   
10. Internet Play: - Team Poker® internet play should take into account that players from the same team are playing in the tournaments. Therefore, icons must provide the identification of teams for TeamdPoker® internet poker play. It is understood that team mates on the internet may know each others cards, and Team Poker® players should take this into consideration and play accordingly.