How to Play in Online Slots Tournaments

Slots Tournaments

Slot tournaments are events where players compete with one another for the top score while playing slots. Online casinos do not offer slots tournaments often, which is a pity since they are so popular and beneficial for players. Slots tournaments offer great value in terms of prizes you can win and total playing time that money can buy.

Some slot tournaments require you to pay a small entry fee. Others are free for everyone. Still others are free if you register at their site first. Free tournaments are called freerolls. These are the most popular of all slots tourneys since they cost nothing to join but have real cash prizes at stake.

The prize money in slots tournaments may be one of two kinds: cash or bonus funds. Cash prizes can be withdrawn and used like real money. But bonus funds are bonus gambling money you can use in their site. You have to wager the bonus funds for a certain number of times before you can cash out.

Cash prizes are often big in proportion to the entry fees (if any). A $20 entry fee may get you a $2,000 first prize. Also, for the same price, slots tournaments buy you more playing hours than regular play. These are the cool benefits of slots tourneys.

When you join a slots tournament, be sure to check your odds of winning. You don't have to do any math. Just look at the available prizes at stake, entry fees (if any), the number of players that will be competing, percentage of players that will get paid, and how much time you have to play in the tournament. Weigh them against one another. It may be better for you to play in an event with smaller prizes but fewer players rather than biggies. Just make sure the slots sites are reputable and licensed. Look for review sites' recommendations.

Slots Tournament Steps

This is how slots tournaments generally work, step by step:

1. You pay a small entry fee - say $5 or $20 - and get about $1,000 worth of playing credits. You can only use this in the tournament and everyone else gets the same amount.

2. You now play in the slots tournament. There is a schedule or time limit for each event. You may play for an unlimited length of time during the whole tournament period - say Jan 1 to Jan 31. Or you may be given a fixed amount of time to play, say 2 hours, which you can use at your own leisure.

3. You try to score as much as you can. Usually there is a list of top players that is kept updated. You will know from the list how you are doing. Depending on the tournament, it may be the top three players only who get paid, or five, ten, and so on.

4. Winning players are announced after the tournament.

That is how it works. Simple, isn't it?

Of course, the best slots tournaments are the freerolls. But the good thing about paid tournaments is that the prizes are often bigger and the odds of winning are better since there are fewer players who enter.

A relative of slots tournaments are slot sweepstakes. In slots sweepstakes, you accumulate points that convert into entry tickets to the sweepstakes. There may be a limit to the number of tickets you can enter per day. Sweepstakes may be weekly or monthly, local or international. Again, sweepstakes may be free.