What makes Blackjack Tournaments exciting and FUN is the competition among fellow players. Unlike traditional blackjack, where it’s you against the dealer, in tournament play, it’s player against player. There are two types of tournament formats, elimination and non-elimination. In the elimination format, players compete against each other at each table, with the player (or in some cases top two players) who has the most money advancing. The other table players are eliminated from the competition (hence the name elimination format). In a non-elimination tournament, players compete against all the other tournament players with the goal of trying to win the most money after several rounds. In this format, no players are eliminated. Of the two formats, the elimination tournaments are more popular.