The Eliminator on WePlay: $5,000 every Tuesday
A 4 minute read · Updated 3 November 2026
Every Tuesday at 18:30 UTC WePlay runs the Eliminator: $44 to play, $5,000 guaranteed and a $20 bounty on every player. It opens WePlay's week of flagship tournaments, and a $4.40 satellite the same afternoon pays $44 seats into it.
What you get for $44
$20 of the $44 buy-in is the bounty on your own head, and the rest goes to the prize pool and WePlay's fee. The $5,000 guarantee covers the prize pool and the bounties together, and part of it is paid in tickets. With two players registered, the lobby showed it as $4,868 in cash plus two $66 tickets to the Monthly Mystery, which adds up to the $5,000.
| What | The Eliminator |
|---|---|
| Game | No-Limit Hold'em, seven players a table |
| Buy-in | $44, of which $20 is your own bounty |
| Guarantee | $5,000, bounties and $66 Monthly Mystery tickets included |
| Bounty | Every knockout pays at least $10, half of that player's bounty |
| Starting stack | 20,000 chips, or 24,000 if you register before late registration starts |
| Blinds | 100/200 with a 30 ante at the first level, so 20,000 chips is 100 big blinds |
| Levels | 8 minutes, with a break at 55 minutes past every hour |
| Re-entry | As often as you like while late registration is open; no rebuys and no add-on |
| Late registration | 2 hours 3 minutes, as the lobby gives it |
| Field | 5 to 3,000 players |
| When | Every Tuesday at 18:30 UTC, which is 20:30 in WePlay's schedule time (GMT+2); the lobby shows it in your own time zone, our Tonight page in UTC |
The bounties
Every player starts with a $20 bounty. When you knock someone out, the lobby says you are paid at least $10, half of that player's bounty. The other half is added to your own bounty, which is what makes it a progressive knockout, the same format as the Sunday Showdown: the players who knock out the most carry the biggest bounties later in the evening, and that changes which all-ins are worth calling. How we play bounty tournaments goes through it.
The $4.40 way in
WePlay runs a satellite to the Eliminator on the same day at 15:00 UTC, three and a half hours before the main tournament: $4.40 to play, with three $44 seats as the prize, $132 in all.
A seat won in the satellite is a ticket, and the Eliminator takes tickets: the lobby shows "Ticket Entry: Available". The Tonight page lists the satellite and the Eliminator in UTC, and how to play a satellite is a different game from the tournament it leads to.
What the lobby showed six hours before the start
Six hours before the start, two players had registered, and the lobby paid two places: $2,910 and a Monthly Mystery ticket for first, $1,918 for second. That is the guarantee at work, because two buy-ins are a small part of $5,000. Our arithmetic: 114 buy-ins of $44 make $5,016, and part of every buy-in is WePlay's fee, so it takes more entries than that before the players' money covers the guarantee on its own. Below that, the difference is money WePlay adds, which players call overlay.
The places paid grow with the field. The lobby says the payouts follow the number of players until registration closes, and late registration and re-entries keep adding entries for two hours after the start.
| Players | Places paid |
|---|---|
| 1 to 9 | 2 |
| 10 to 29 | 4 |
| 30 to 39 | 5 |
| 40 to 49 | 6 |
| 50 to 59 | 7 |
| 60 to 74 | 8 |
| 75 to 99 | 10 |
| 100 to 149 | 15 |
| 150 to 199 | 20 |
| 200 to 249 | 25 |
Our tips
- Register before the start. Everyone registered before late registration begins gets 4,000 extra chips, 24,000 instead of 20,000, which is 120 big blinds at the first level instead of 100.
- Set your number of re-entries before the first hand. Unlimited re-entry is a second chance after a bad start and an expensive habit after that.
- Count the bounty before you call an all-in. At least $10 of a knockout is paid to you on the spot, and that can turn a close call into a good one. The bounty calculator does the sum.
- Try the satellite first. For $4.40 you play for one of three $44 seats.
Tuesday on WePlay
The Eliminator opens WePlay's week of flagships: the MidStage Rush follows on Wednesday, the Predator on Thursday and the Sunday Showdown on Sunday, with the Monthly Mystery once a month. If you play it, tell us how you did in the Telegram group.
The Eliminator, its satellite and the daily tournaments are in the WePlay lobby, from a $10 deposit in USDT.
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Questions
When does the Eliminator start?
Every Tuesday at 20:30 in WePlay's schedule time, GMT+2, which is 18:30 UTC. The WePlay lobby shows the start in your own time zone, the Tonight page on this site in UTC.
How much is the buy-in?
$44, and $20 of it is the bounty on your own head. The satellite on the same day pays three $44 seats for a $4.40 buy-in.
Is the Eliminator a bounty tournament?
Yes, a progressive knockout. Every player starts with a $20 bounty, and a knockout pays at least $10, half of that player's bounty, while the other half goes onto your own.
Can I re-enter?
Yes, as often as you like while late registration is open, which the lobby gives as 2 hours 3 minutes. There are no rebuys and no add-on.
What are the Monthly Mystery tickets in the prize pool?
Part of the $5,000 guarantee is paid as $66 tickets to the Monthly Mystery, WePlay's once-a-month tournament with $15,000 guaranteed. There were two of them when we looked.