all-in question in Chinese poker tournament

[rchandra]

I remember from an old thread here that Chinese Poker is typically not played table stakes. You're expected to be able to cover 4 (or 6) points per opponent plus royalties/bonuses if applicable. How would this work when getting shortstacked in a tournament? Let's assume 2-4 scoring, no royalties/bonuses, T1000 a point and you only have T2000 against 3 opponents. Since sometimes you'd be able to cover and sometimes not, depending on how many hands you win, what's the procedure?

I'm asking for purposes of a CP game I'm working on, currently the tournament is headsup only so it just ignores the table stakes and you lose if you can't cover a loss.

[DaveH123]

The casino procedure is to use a dealer button which rotates between the players as usual. Hands are compared in a particular order: the dealer compares with the player on his left, then with the next player and then the last player; next, the player to the dealer's left compares with the player to his left and so on. If at any time during this sequence of payouts a player goes broke then the sequence of comparisons and payoffs is over for that player. Equally, if at any time during the sequence of payoffs the player doubles his original stake then the comparisons are finished for that player, regardless of whether a later comparison may be winning or losing.

[rchandra]

thank you very much, I had assumed that nobody knew or nobody cared as tournaments don't seem that common.