If that is more than your fellow opponents, you will advance. For example, suppose you have a starting bankroll of 5,000 chips and end up with only 500 chips at the end of the round. You don’t need to “win” a lot of chips to advance in a tournament. Bottom line: Your goal is to have more chips at the end of a round than your opponents. Nevertheless, it’s the goal of every tournament player to want to finish “in the money,” meaning making it to the final table. The latter usually receives the lion’s share of the prizes while the other finalists receive less. (Sometimes the top two players with the most chips advance.) The initial large field of players is eventually whittled down to a final table of six (or seven) players who play a final round to determine the overall tournament champion. The player with the most chips at the end of the round (which consists of a designated number of hands) wins and advances to play other table winners. You and your opponents start with the same bankroll and play the same number of hands. When you play in a blackjack tournament, you are competing against other players rather than the casino dealer.
