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Poker online tournaments typically have a fixed buy-in fee, so each player limits how much they can lose by playing the game. However, unlike a cash poker game, a tournament contender is going up against more than just other poker players. In online poker tournaments, you must race the clock too because the blind levels continue to escalate at fixed intervals.

It costs more chips to play a hand as the tournament progresses, and the blinds force each player to put in chips regularly. In tournament play, each player has to participate in the betting action more frequently than in cash games, where the blind levels are fixed and never increase. A cash game player can sit back and wait for good hands, and simply pay the fixed blind each time it comes around.

In poker online tournaments, each player’s chip stack is threatened by the ticking clock because if any player that does not win chips to build a bigger stack is going to lose more chips with every blind and eventually the stack erodes down to nothing.

Each time the blinds go up, any player who has accumulated more chips is in jeopardy. The smaller the stack becomes, the more handicapped is the player. Tournament players have to race the clock and play more aggressively to seek out any opportunity to win chips in order to survive the blinds.