Tournaments
With the many poker rooms that have popped up and the major interest that has been generated in the poker industry, many poker sites have resorted to offering many different features to their members in order to keep them playing and in order to attract new loyal members. Such offerings include freerolls, bonuses, real money tournaments with guaranteed jackpots, Sit and Go games, promotions, exclusive satellites and more.
Risk-free poker
Freerolls and no deposit bonuses are ideal for attracting new poker players. They are completely financially risk-free and offer real money opportunities to new players. Freerolls are tournaments held by poker rooms daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly or even seasonally. These tournaments are completely free to participate in. However, they do have maximum numbers and as such, players must register to participate before the capacity is reached. These tournaments offer real cash incentives to the winners, usually the top 50 or so. The amount of money won however is not too much and therefore new players would have to play for elongated periods in order to make a bankroll that would be suitable to participate in higher limit games through the proceeds of freerolls. No deposit bonuses are real cash incentives offered to new players upon registration. These bonuses are completely financially risk-free and only require one to register with the poker site and claim. Most poker sites will however give some conditions before one can withdraw the funds. For example, a certain number of raked hands must have been played before withdrawing the funds. Other poker sites will disburse the bonus in batches in order to determine the loyal players and the pros before progressively disbursing the balance until it is all in the player’s account.
Stake your claim; real money poker
Real money tournaments are tournaments offered by poker sites which require players to pay a certain tournament fee in order to participate. These tournaments attract much higher rates of prize money but also have a considerable level of competition. Unlike satellite tournaments, real money tournaments are played as a competition, won and done away with until another tournament is scheduled. Satellite tournaments are progressive tournaments which progressively push the winners to other tournaments, eventually feeding successful players into major poker tournaments. Satellite tournaments are absolutely free to join with real money incentives for the ultimate winners who end up being sponsored by the poker sites.
Sit and Go’s
Another interesting feature that was organized by online poker rooms is ‘Sit and Go’ tournaments. These tournaments are played by those who indulge in other things and also wish to participate in the tournament. Sit and Go tournaments can be started off one morning and continued even for weeks. Unlike freeroll tournaments whereby participants start playing and end up spending hours on the tables, Sit and Gos can be stopped and resumed later. In busy poker rooms you can always join a Sit and Go table for a bite-size game at any time of the day. The prizes given in Sit and Gos are usually higher than normal freeroll games based on the fact that there are less players but the winner scoops the pot that’s been topped up by many rounds of betting with real money. Depending on the buy-in amounts, this could be pretty high. However, it is easy to choose a Sit and Go at a buy-in to suit your bankroll.
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