Rules of the Sunday tournaments carrying out on preference

Sunday tournaments on preference are held during 4 rounds under the Italian scheme within one day.

Players wishing to participate in a tournament come to the tournament hall within the period 11:30-12:00 (Moscow time) and press the button «Register». (Tournament halls are located in a «Tournaments» tab).

Players sitting and game start are carried out in an automatic mode.

The tournament prize pool consists of 100% of the players deposits + an additional prize pool from «FP CLUB» which is equal 25€. The prize pool is allocated between players who are the first 6 and in the ratio: 30%, 22%, 18%, 14%, 10%, 6%.

The basic conventions approved on the tournament:

• Preference version – Piter;
• Limit (in Russian «proschet») -700;
• Pool length - 33;
• The whist is equal to 1/300 part of a tournament deposit;
• Three outtricking without whist – is accepted;
• Whist-Pass-Half-whist on 6, 7 – no;
• 10 tricks contract – is whisted.

Game time in all rounds is 1 hour and 15 minutes. After time expiration the unfinished pools are calculated after finishing of the last deal.

A player has the right to leave the tournament at any moment pressing the button «To leave the tournament».

Player who left the tournament earlier can press the button «To register» at any moment and continue the participation in the tournament.

Following the results of each pool all players gain points which are calculated in the following way (see the table):

A player passed a round because of the fact that the quantity of players was not 3-tuple, gets a compensation of 9 points.

If during the game someone from players considers that the partner behaves incorrectly, he can stop the game giving a signal in a hall «Stop» (table number). According to this signal all players at a table are obliged to stop the game immediately and to wait for the arrival of the Judge. The Judge listens to claims of the player who stopped the game and makes a decision basing on the game situation. Players are obliged to obey to any decision of the Judge. At analysis of the conflict situation players are forbidden to end the game after the finishing of the waiting time of the player. For the violation of points of the Regulations connected with a signal «Stop» players can be fined at the discretion of the Judge.

The maximum lead time is 5 minutes. At excess of this time (except the situation considered above) players have the right to press «watch» near the nickname of the disconnected player and finish the game. The Judge or the Arbitrator of the tournament holds an arbitration of not finished deal. Whist compensation is awarded to partners of the disconnected player.

700 whists are awarded to the disconnected player.

In case of the player’s disconnection on the very first deal of the game the change of sitting is possible if free players are present. In this case the arbitration is not held.

The tournament player can be disqualified in a case:

• The lead time exceeding;
• Deliberate time delay;
• Simultaneous game at several tables of a game server;
• Unworthy behaviour (under Moderator notification).
• Insufficient deposit on the game account.

Disqualification is valid till the end of a tournament. At repeated violation the disqualification is also valid for the following tournament. Starting from the 3rd violation the player will be disqualified on the current and 2 subsequent free tournaments.

All Sunday tournaments will be added in the final scoring of the Sunday Club Championship.

Regulations of the Club Championship on Sunday preference

The championship prize pool is 100€ and is allocated between players who took first 6 positions in the ratio 90€, 66€, 54€, 42€, 30€ and 18€. At position sharing the prize is allocated between players equally.

1. The Championship is held within three calendar months (a game season).
2. The result of the player in the championship is defined as a sum of 7 best tournaments of the player during the game season.
3. During every month the tournament deposits increase in an arithmetic progression. On the first Sunday of the month the tournament deposit is equal to 3 euros, on the second – 6 euros etc.
4. Players are ranged basing on a sum of points in the championship scoring. At equality of points the position is shared.
5. The championship organizing committee has the right to make minor changes in the championship Regulations.
6. The winner of the championship gets an additional prize from «FP CLUB»: a book Encyclopedia "gambling house" by Dmitry Lesnoy. At position sharing a priority in a book reception has the player who played smaller quantity of tournaments. In case of equality of this indicator the quantity of victories, then the second, the third etc. positions is considered.

The organizing committee has the right to make changes to Regulations of tournament before the tournament start.

Prizes payment is held within 24 hours from the moment of the tournament end (if no appeals were taken).