Abstract: A method for teams having one or more players each to play poker tournaments (101) The teams start with the same number of chips and, when the tournament starts, each team is allocated a certain number of seats (103) The chip stacks respectively allotted to a team's allocated seats belong to the seats, not the players (107) Players can be moved between seats, but players from the same team are not allowed to sit at the same table (215) When a player loses such that his or her chip count is zero (301), the team loses that seat (303), but the losing player can be moved to another seat at another table, if desired When a team has lost all of their seats, that team is out (307), (309) The size of the tables during the tournament may vary The ranking of the teams is based on their respective total number of chips, active seats or combination of chip and active seat totals