a percentage of the buy in fee for example if the buy in fee is 100 the draw out fee may be 10 therefore if the tournament attracts 500 players the tournament prize pool is 50 000 and the draw out pool is 5 000 the operator retains a pre established percentage e g 15 or certain amount of the draw out pool which increases operator revenue at 115 the tournament begins at 120 draw outs occurring during the tournament are tracked draw outs occur when there are two or more players remaining in the hand but no more betting can occur that is one or more players remain and one or both players are all in or three players remain and two or more are all in in this embodiment at 125 players subjected to a draw out receive points based on a odds percentages as described below in one embodiment as shown in fig1 the points are calculated based on the odds percentages associated with the losing player winning the hand at the point in time when the betting ended for example a first player holding a pair of aces prior to the flop has an 81 06 chance of winning the hand against a second player holding a pair of kings who has an 18 55 chance of winning there is a 0 39 chance the hand ends in a tie thus if no.