# Tournament Standings Window

The tournament standings window is an auxiliary window that can be opened when you are playing a tournament. This window provides useful information about the tournament that is updated in real-time as you play to help keep you informed on the current state of the tournament.

Once a tournament is started, this window can be opened manually by selecting the Tournament Standings... menu item under the Lobby menu in the main application window (or, by using the Ctrl-T key shortcut). Depending on your preferences, this window can also be set to open automatically once a tournament starts by selecting the Show window at tournament start checkbox located on the Options tab of the Tournament Standings Window itself. By default, this option is selected so it will automatically appear at the start of each tournament you play.

The tournament standings dialog has its information separated out into six different tabs: Summary, Standings, Stacks, Levels, Payouts, Options.

### Summary Tab

The Summary tab contains some very useful summary information about both the tournament itself and how you are currently doing. At the top is the title of the tournament you are playing. This title is the same title that appears in the lists of tournaments that you use to choose a tournament to start in the Tournament Lobby.

Following the title are the following entries:

Buy In:
  your buy in for the tournament. Format for the buy in is the total amount of the buy in followed by its breakdown of prize pool and house fee amounts respectively. So, a buy in entry that says $6 ($5 + $1) means that it cost you $6 to enter the tournament of which $5 goes to the prize pool that can be won and $1 goes to the house as some sort of fee that is not allowed to be won.
Prize Pool:
  Total number of dollars available to be won in tournament.
Positions Paid:
  Number of finishing spots where a player wins money.
Ranking:
  Your current ranking in the tournament out of the total number of entrants.
Players Left:
  Number of players not busted out of the total number of entrants.
Next Position Pays:
  The prize given to the next player to bust.
Chips in Play:
  The total number of chips in the tournament.

The next section tells you the size of the largest, average, and smallest chip stacks left in the tournament.

The next section gives you information specific to your chip stack including the size of your chip stack, its percentage of the total chips still in play, its ratio in regards to the size of the average stack, and its ratio in regards to the size of the current big blind size.

The next section lets you know the current level of the tournament and the size of the ante if there is one as well as the corresponding blinds for the level.

The final section contains a quick summary paragraph of additional tournament information including things like the number of chips each player started with and how fast the levels increase.

### Standings Tab

The Standings tab contains a standings table where every row shows some summary information for every player that entered the tournament. There are four columns in the table: Place, Name, Chips, Result. Rows are sorted in ascending order by each player's place in the tournament. The standings table is color coded to visually separate areas of the table. Green rows indicate players that have not yet busted out of the tournament while red rows indicate players that have busted. Each color can appear in either a lighter or darker shade as well, and the lighter shade is used to indicate places that are in the money (either tentatively, if that player is not yet busted, or guaranteed, if that player has busted) and the darker shade is used to indicate places that did not make the money. In addition, your entry in the table will appear in bold text to make it easier to find.

The Place column contains each player's current ranking in the tournament. A player's place is primarily determined by their chip count. The higher the player's chip count, the higher their place in the tournament standings. For player's that are not busted this place is their tentative ranking amongst all entrants in the tournament. As players bust, their tentative ranking turns into a finishing place since they are no longer active in the tournament. For players that bust, the hand on which they busted out on is used to determine their finishing place. If more than one player busts out on the same hand, their chip counts at the start of the hand are used to break ties for finishing places. If more than one player should bust on the same hand and have the same number of chips at the start of that hand, then those players finish tied for the same place. The Name column contains each player's name. The Chips column contains each player's chip count. The Result column contains the amount of profit or loss the player made by entering the tournament and finishing in their particular finish place. The Result column will only have filled in entries for players that have actually busted out of the tournament.

### Stacks Tab

The Stacks tab contains a graphical plot of the chip counts for all active players. The chip counts are presented from left to right in ascending order. The heights of the chip counts are graphed proportional to the current chip leader. The stack corresponding to your chip count (or all chip counts tied with you) will appear in a lighter color than all other chip stacks. If you want more information about a stack, you can hover over a bar and a popup will appear letting you know the player's name and exact chip count represented by the bar. In addition, if the application determines that the scale of the graph can allow additional information to be presented, the graphical plot may contain a black horizontal line to indicate how large the big blind is in proportion to the stacks (and possibly additional horizontal white lines representing subsequent multiples of the big blind), as well as another black horizontal line representing what would be the height of the currently average stack.

### Levels Tab

The Levels tab contains a table of all the levels that make up the tournament. Each row in the table corresponds to a level in the tournament and as a tournament progresses the current level proceeds from the top of the table down towards the bottom of the table. The current level's text is written in bold. The Level column contains the level number. The Blinds column shows the amount of the small blind and the big blind for that level. The Ante column shows the amount of the ante for the level.

### Payouts Tab

The Payouts tab shows you the net prize for each non-zero paying finishing spot in the tournament. Each row represents a payout amount for a particular range of finishing spots. The Place column shows the range of finishing spots corresponding to the payouts in that row. The table is sorted in ascending order of finishing places. The Payout column shows what percentage of the total prize pool each player would win. The Prize column shows the actual gross winnings each player would win.

### Options Tab

The Options tab contains two options that allow you to control how you want the Tournament Standings Dialog to automatically open. If the Show window at tournament start option is selected then the window will automatically open when you start a tournament. If the Show window after each bust option is selected then the window will automatically open each time some player in the tournament busts. The initial defaults when you first get the program are set so that the window automatically appears upon tournament start, but will not appear each time a player busts.