The Best Deals for Your Tournament Dollars: Guaranteed Tournaments

Tournaments, Tournament Deals
June 29 2008

Online poker sites host a wide variety of poker tournaments. There is just about any type of action you can think of online: Sit and Go tournaments, multi-table tournaments, head-to-head, short table, and the list goes on and on. With all this varied action available to choose from, it’s important to get value for your tournament dollar. Some events are a better opportunity than others, and it makes fiscal sense to find the better tournaments in which to play.

Some of the best tournaments you can find to play in are the guaranteed tournaments. These events are promoted by the poker room to attract as many players as possible. The poker room guarantees a certain prize pool which will be up for grabs. They hope that enough players buy in to accumulate the promised prize pool, but if this doesn't happen, the poker room will make up the difference. So that means that you can compete for big tournament money against a small field of opponents. You can’t find better value than that.

Most poker rooms have a minimum number of players that must enroll for the event to be played, but it’s usually a small number. The trick is to monitor the tournament registration, and if the event has a small number of entrants just as it’s about to start, you can sign up at the last minute. Some sites have added on as much as $25,000 to a tournament to reach the guaranteed amount. So keep your eyes open for guaranteed tournaments - you might just get lucky in one.

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