Some more online poker tournaments
$$$ Tournaments
This type of tournaments have a specific buy in amount. The prize pool for this type of tournament is based only on the number of players for the game.
FREEZEOUT Tournaments
In freeze out tournaments the player can play only with the chips with which he started playing. If he loses them to the other players then he is out of the game. He is not allowed to use re-buys.
In this type of tournament, tables are combined as players get eliminated. The game ends when one player wins all the chips.
RE-BUY / ADD-ON Tournaments
A re-buy in a poker game is a chance to buy additional chips. You can only buy the amount of chips that you bought at the start of the tournament and for the same amount. A re-buy in a poker tournament is allowed only when a player has lost all his chips to the other players.
Add-ons are very similar to re-buys. The difference being that you can take add-ons even if you have not lost all your chips in the tournament. Add-ons can however only be used to achieve the initial amount that the player started the tournament with.
In some tournaments, multiple re-buys are allowed, but some tournaments keep the re-buys restricted to one. In most cases, re-buys are allowed only within the first hour since the commencement of the game.
SATELLITE Tournaments
Satellite tournaments are those played to enter another tournament and are not played for money or prizes. These kinds of online poker tournaments can be single or multi-table tournaments. The winners get a chance to play in the bigger games usually with good prize pools.