Online Poker Tournaments

Multi-table poker tournaments are the gloss and glamour of poker.  High stakes MTTs like the Sunday Million and UB’s $200k Gtd get thousands of entrants each week, all competing for the $200,000+ in winner’s prizes.  A numer of poker sites even run their own tournament series, including the WCOOP, FTOPS and UBOOC, which contain hundreds of deep stack $200 buy-in events and millions of dollars in prizes.  You can make life changing winnings in a single day in these events. The Stars Sunday Million for example pays out over $220,000 to the winner.  Would you really not want to win this? 

By mastering these games, you can literally make a fortune and possibly even win a live package to  a major event like the WSOP.  Lot’s of fish and new players enjoy poker tournments too, which makes these games extra profitable to play in comparison to cash games.

This page lists the best poker sites for different types of poker tournaments.  If you’re looking for hyper agressive action, then the knockout bounty games are for you, but if slow and steady takes your liking then why not view the deep stack tournament page.

2010 Online Poker Tournaments Guide

• Overlay Tournaments
• Beginner Tournaments
• Guaranteed Tournaments
• Biggest Sunday Tournaments
• Knockout/Bounty Tournaments
• Deep Stack Tournaments
• Heads Up Tournaments
• Re-Buy Tournaments
• Steps Tournaments
• Easiest Tournaments
• UK/European Tournaments

Low Stakes, Mid Stakes and High Stakes MTTs

• High Stakes Poker Tournaments ($200+ entry)
• Mid Stakes Poker Tournaments ($30 – $200 entry)
• Low Stakes Poker Tournaments ($0 – $30 entry)
• Freerolls – (Free to Enter – Cheapskates)

About Online Poker Tournaments

Back in 2003, Chris Moneymaker’s 4-5 offsuit beat Sam Farha’s 9-10, establishing one of the biggest surprises and moments of poker – a WSOP 2003 Main Event victory. The American Dream of Moneymaker’s story from qualifying via a $40 PokerStars satellite and going on to win over $2.5 million in the WSOP is stated to have been the catalyst for the dominance and rise of online poker.

The majority of traffic online is centred around poker tournaments and more specifically multi-table tournaments (MTTs). MTTs start with anything from 90 – 7,000 entrants with prizes to the top places finishes. The boom of tournament was accelerated when PokerStars recently beat their own Guinnest World record for the largest ever online tournament when on July 19th 2009 over 65,000 players registered for PokerStars $1 buy-in $130,000 guaranteed event.

The main advantages of playing MTTs as opposed to cash games is the lower risks and substantial single event winnings. The winner of the PokerStars Sunday $1.5 million Gtd receives an $180,000 cash prize that can be won from just $1 in entry fees. Every poker site nowadays offers their own schedules of MTTs and structures. Players can choose from deepstacks, shootouts, turbo games, bounties, add-ons and re-buys.