Online Casino Tournaments

June 28th, 2009 by admin

The North American brand of Bodog Casino, owned by the Morris Mohawk Gaming Group (MMGG) and powered by Real Time Gaming (RTG), is holding a craps online tournament. The tournament is in its third week and will get over on July 9. Most online leader board tournaments are won by players with the largest tournament chip balances at the end of the allotted playing time. Others are won by players who wager the most during the promotion period. This unique online tournament at Bodog casino is won by players who get a particular outcome of the dice the maximum number of times.

When the two dice in craps are rolled different outcomes are possible. One outcome shows the same number on both the dice. When the totals are 4, 6, 8 or 10, this roll is given the special name of “hard way”. This is because when a total of 8 is obtained in a roll it is easier to obtain it as a 6 and 2 or 5 and 3 than a 4 and 4. Hard way rolls have been given special names. Two 2s is called Little Jo from Kokomo, two 3s is called the Brooklyn Forest, two 4s is called Two Windows and two 5s is called Big Ben. In this craps tournament track will be kept of how many times a player rolls the dice the hard way. The players who do it the most time will be declared the winners. The tournament is appropriately named the Bodog Casino Hard Ways Dice Roll Contest.

There are two important conditions that players must bear in mind. All rolls the hard way do not count. The player must win any wager on that hard way roll. There are some wagers in craps that are complementary, such as Pass Line and Don’t Pass Line. One of these two wagers has to win. Therefore if such complementary wagers have been placed the hard way roll will not count, even though one of the wagers will win. For each legitimate hard way roll players will be given 1 Point. Players who have won the most Points during each promotion period will be declared winners.

There are two types of prizes offered in the Bodog Casino Hard Ways Dice Roll Contest. One is the weekly prizes. The weekly period runs from Thursday to Thursday. On Fridays a prize of a $100 Casino Chip will be given to each of the five players who have accumulated the most Points in the previous week. At the end of the complete promotion period one grand prize of a $1,000 Casino Chip will be given to the player who has accumulated the most points in the entire promotion period.

June 22nd, 2009 by admin

7’s Summer Series is a live multi table blackjack tournament being hosted at the popular Cherry Red Online Casino. The tournament is so named because it offers a final prize pool of $7,777. The tournament has just started on June 21, the auspicious occasion of the summer solstice. The finals will be held on Wednesday, September 30.

The broad structure of the live blackjack online tournament is as follows. The daily satellites will feed the $777 weekly feeders, which in turn will feed the $7,777 series finals. The daily satellites will take place on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays every week. The entry fees will be $7, $11 and $22 respectively. The winners of the daily qualifiers will win a free seat in the $777 weekly feeders on Sunday nights. If the demand is greater, Cherry Red Casino may increase the number of daily feeders.

Players can buy in to the weekly feeders at an entry fee of $44. The top five players in the weekly feeders will share the prize pool of $777. The top three players will be given a free seat in the 7’s Summer Series finals. The tournament will be played over 14 weeks and in all 42 players will be given free seats to the finals. Players can buy in to the finals for an entry fee of $110. The prize pool for the finals is $7,777. In all, almost $20,000 will be given away as prizes in the 7s Summer Series.

The distribution of the two prize pools will be as follows. In the weekly feeders the 1st place will get 42% of the prize pool amounting to $326.34. The 2nd place will get 25% amounting to $194.25. The 3rd place will get 15% amounting to $116.55. The 4th place will get 10% amounting to $77.70. The 5th place will get 8% amounting to $62.16. As mentioned earlier the first three places will also get a free seat to the finals. In the 7’s Series Summer Series finals the 1st place will get 26% of the prize pool amounting to $2,022.02. The 2nd place will get 19% amounting to $1,477.63. In all the top 12 places will share the prize pool. The 11th and 12th places will get 2% of the prize pool amounting to $155.54. The registration for all the events is open and players are advised to get their places booked as soon as possible. All tournaments begin 10.30 pm casino time.

June 20th, 2009 by admin

Especially for this weekend of June 20 and June 21 InterCasino has organized two freeroll tournaments for its members. The announcement of these tournaments has been sent in the InterCasino newsletter. On Saturday June 20 the online tournament will feature blackjack. Roulette is the designated game for the Sunday June 21 online tournament.

The structure and prizes for both tournaments are identical. Players will start with playing credits of $500 and the players with the highest balances at the end of the tournaments will be the winners. The procedure for entering the tournaments is described below. Players have to access the tournaments from the ‘Games’ menu by selecting ‘FREE Tournament’ from the list. Upon clicking the ‘Sign Up Now’ button the player will be credited with $500 in tournament credits and allotted 10 minutes of wagering time. Players need not use their full 10 minutes if they strike it lucky early on. Each of the two online tournaments offers a guaranteed prize pool of $500. This will be shared among eight players as follows. The player in the 1st place will get $250, the player in the 2nd place will get $100 and the next six players will get $25 each.

Players who want to try for a share of a larger prize pool can enter the $1,000 European Roulette online tournament. This will run till June 30. There is an entry fee of $25 and players will get 30 minutes to try to maximize their starting tournament credit balance of $500. The $1,000 guaranteed prize pool will be distributed as follows. The player in the 1st place will get $500, the player in the 2nd place will get $200 and the next six players will get $50 each. This online tournament has been billed as Big Break Tournament and is part of the Big Break promotion currently on at InterCasino. However it does not lead to the awesome prizes that the other Big Break events lead to.

For the huge Big Break prizes players will have to enter the Big Break Challenge, the Big Break New Players Specials or the Big Break Records. The Big Break winners can choose from one of four prizes that include a Ferrari driving experience, a VIP seat at London Fashion Week, a cooking experience with a top chef in France and piloting an aircraft. The Big Break ends on June 30.

The last date for accumulating cash back points is June 24. Players will get $1 for every 100 cash back points collected. InterCasino pays out to only those players who have collected at least 5,000 cash back points. Players falling short of the target have a few days in which to catch up.

June 19th, 2009 by admin

This month Online Vegas Casino is not charging entry fees for its online tournaments. Half the month is over and many online players have enjoyed themselves on the freerolls. Those who have not can pile on the band wagon now because the latter half of the month offers as interesting a fare.

Players can join the Free-nominal event on June 19 with the Tiki Lounge slot competition. This will run till June 23 and offers a prize pool of $50,000. Though there is no entry fee players who want another go in the tournament have to pay a rebuy of $15. Tournaments players on the Tiki Longe should look out for the wild symbol that doubles payouts, the free spins round with 20 free spins at doubled payouts and the bar tender symbol that offers a jackpot of 5,000 coins. Another identical $50,000 freeroll begins on June 26. This runs till June 30. The designated slot game for this tournament is Doctor Love. As the name suggests Doctor Love has a hospital romance theme with cutely crafted symbols on the reels. The symbol to watch out for is the love meter because it triggers the free spins bonus round. Up to 20 free spins can be awarded at tripled payouts.

Players who do not like the long drawn tournaments can opt for the daily freerolls. These come with small prize pools of $500 but then one cannot have everything. From now till the end of the month three online slot games will feature in these tournaments. They are Magic Monkey, X Marks the Spot and Sumo. Magic Monkey offers a payout of 6,000 coins when five of them appear in an enabled payline. The Magic Monkey also works his magic by substituting for other symbols in order to make winning combinations. Players should also be on the look out for the free spins round that doubles payouts. The more of these that the players are able to hit the more credits they will accumulate. Sumo offers a bonus game on the second screen instead of a free spins bonus round. This will make a welcome change for the online tournament players. Five Sumo symbols offer a payout of 5,000 coins and this symbol is a wild as well as a 2x multiplier. The best online slot is X Marks the Spot. It has fantastic graphics, a bonus game on the second screen and a free spins bonus round.

Players who do not like slots can take part in the video poker freeroll online tournaments. These tournaments offer a pot percentage prize pool instead of a guaranteed one, but that can cut either way. Online Vegas is powered by software from Vegas Technology. It has been licensed by the Curacao Internet Gaming Association.

June 16th, 2009 by admin

Texas Hold’em Poker is easily the most popular land casino gambling game. Most online gaming software providers offer an online version of this game that replicates the betting structure and thus offers the excitement of the poker game. But online tournaments in Texas Hold’em are rare. There is one being currently offered at VIP Casino and hence players should not let this opportunity go.

The Texas Hold’em online tournament is starting today but will run till June 30. Since the leader board is displayed, players will probably participate as late as possible so that they can see the existing rankings. However it is better not to leave it till the last minute because traffic will be very high at that time and there could be a problem in accessing the tournament. The entry fee for the online tournament is only $10. Players will start with a chip stack of $1,000 and get 30 minutes to play. The guaranteed prize pool will be distributed as follows. The first placed player will win $500, the second placed player will win $250 and the players in the third to tenth places will win $50 each. In case of a tie the prizes will be split between the players. The best thing about tournaments at VIP Casino is that the prizes are credited to the winners’ accounts within an hour of the completion of the tournament.

The Texas Hold’em game at VIP Casino has a side bet with bonus payouts that offers an additional opportunity to increase the chip balance. A pair of twos in the player’s two dealt cards offers a payout of 3 to 1 and a pair of aces offers a payout of 30 to 1. The hands ranked in between offer intermediate payouts. The real payout comes when both the player’s and the dealer’s dealt cards contain an ace pair. Then the payout is 1000 to 1, a sure fire mechanism to propel the player to the top of the leader board.

The main game also offers plenty of chances of winning big since players can increase their wager in stages. The player can place the wager in up to four stages. Starting with the ante bet, he can place further wagers before the flop, turn and river. He will place the later bets only if he has good chances of winning therefore chip accumulation can take place quickly.

VIP Casino is one of the oldest online casinos having been launched in 1999. It is powered by software from Cryptologic and offers more than 180 online casino games including the famous branded Marvel slots. VIP Casino is the sister casino of InterCasino and is licensed by the Lotteries and Gaming Authority of Malta.

June 14th, 2009 by admin

June will be a great month for online casino tournament lovers at Go Casino. Online tournament lovers relish freerolls and Go Casino has announced that “every single tournament in June is absolutely free to enter”. This is under the banner of the phenomenal Free-Nominon June Tournament Event. This event will offer guaranteed prize pools of more than $260,000 over the entire month. The first of the tournaments has already started and the last one will get over on June 30.

The Free-Nominon Event offers a number of freeroll online slot tournaments. The only thing common between all of them is that none of them have an entry fee. Some of the tournaments are single day affairs whereas others run up to a week. The best part is that each of them will be played on a different Vegas Technology online slot game. Some of the most popular slot games have been designated for the event. Cherry Blossoms is an eternal choice of slot for online tournaments. 20,000 Leagues is based on the novel by Jules Verne. The slot game features symbols like the Submarine and Captain Nemo. Wonderful video graphics and sound effects form the highlight of the 20,000 Leagues slot game. Another game chosen for the event is the 5 Reel Wheel of Chance. This game is modeled after the Wheel of Fortune television show. In the bonus game players actually get to spin a wheel of fortune and win bumper credits. Fat Cat is a slot game that has received a makeover from Vegas technology. Now in a 20 payline avatar Fat Cat features the life of business tycoon cat with all the trappings of wealth. Evel Knievel is dedicated to the American daredevil motorcyclist Robert Craig Knievel. The symbols on the reels depict a number of stunts performed by Knievel. The highlight of the slot game is the 10,000 coins fixed a jackpot. And last but not the least is Doctor Love. This hospital romance slot game features the Love Meter as one of the symbols.

The guaranteed prize pools for the individual tournaments also vary considerably. The smallest prize pools range from $1,000 to $3,000. Then there are some tournaments with prize pools of $7,500 and $15,000. Three of the tournaments have a prize pool of $50,000 and the largest of them all has a prize pool of $75,000. Though the tournaments do not have any entry fees players are allowed to rebuy. The rebuy amount varies from tournament to tournament and is generally commensurate with the prize pool.

Go Casino is a brand of the Golden Casino group of online casinos. The other leading online casinos in the group are Golden Casino and Online Vegas. The Free-Nominon June Tournament Event is being hosted at all Golden Casino brands. The online casinos of the Golden Casino group are powered by software from Vegas Technology and are licensed by the Curacao Internet Gaming Association.

June 14th, 2009 by admin

The Slot-tery online tournaments are very popular at English Harbour Casino. Every week the tournament is played on a different, but popular, Vegas Technology online slot game. The tournaments have an entry fee of $3. The winners share the collected pot in the manner stipulated by the online casino. In the Slot-tery tournaments players start with a tournament chip balance of $100 and try to increase it to the extent possible. The players with the highest chip counts at the end of the tournament are declared the winners.

English Harbour Casino has announced the dates and the online slot games for this month’s Slot-tery tournaments. The first tournament will be played on the slot game Solomon’s Mines. The event has already commenced on June 2 and it will run till June 9. Solomon’s Mines refers to the legendary treasure of King Solomon. The slot game offers plenty of opportunities to win treasures. To start with there is the fixed jackpot of 40,000 coins. Solomon’s Mines has a very intriguing bonus game on the second screen as well. Players have to select one from two vases. If they select the vase with the gem then they go on to the next round. There they have to make the same choice but with a higher multiplier. If they select the empty vase in any round then the game ends but they get credits equal to twice the triggering bet.

From June 9 to June 16 the designated slot game is X Marks the Spot. This is again a treasure hunt but of the pirate kind. The symbols on the reels are typical pirate icons such as treasure chest, hooked hand, parrot, lady pirate and pirate ship. The pirate is the wild symbol and the cannon is the scatter symbol. A bonus round with 15 free spins at tripled payouts is on offer. In the bonus game on the second screen players select from spots on the map marked with an X in order to win bonus credits.

The third tournament from June 16 to June 23 will be played on What’s Your Sign. This is a slot game based on the Zodiac theme. The symbols on the reels are the signs of the Zodiac and the sun and moon signs. The symbols have been crafted in a comic caricature style. The reels are appropriately set in the background of a starry night. The bonus game features a wheel containing each of the signs of the Zodiac. Each sign flashes in turn and the light settles on one symbol when the player clicks the “stop spin” button. Depending on the Zodiac symbol displayed, the player wins a prize. The player has the option of discarding this prize and spinning the wheel again.

The Slot-tery event ends with the Cleopatra’s Pyramid slot game played between June 23 and a June 30. This is perhaps the most popular slot game from Vegas Technology.

English Harbour Casino is the flagship brand of the English Harbour group of online casinos. It operates on software powered by Vegas Technology and is licensed by the gaming jurisdiction of Antigua and Barbuda.

June 14th, 2009 by admin

VIP Casino is well known for offering tournaments in card and table online casino games. It has announced a tournament in craps this month. One of the pleasures of the game of craps in land casinos is that players participate by rolling the dice themselves. At VIP Casino the online game of craps offers players this facility as well. If the player opts to roll the dice a long view of the entire table appears on the screen and the player’s hand picks up the two dice and bounces them off the wall at the opposite end.

The online craps tournament at VIP Casino has already commenced on June 1. But since it will run till June 15 there is plenty of time available for participation. The tournament has a modest entry fee of $10 and a prize pool of $1,000. The winner will get the lion’s share of the prize pool, amounting to $500. The player in the second place will get $250. The prizes go up to the seventh place with the remaining five winners getting $50 each. Participation in the tournament is a simple affair. Players first have to select “Game menu” from the left hand menu in the software and then select “Tournaments”. Finally they click on the “Sign up now” button and select “yes”. Players should note that the tournament fee will automatically be deducted when they sign up. One of the outstanding features of this online craps tournament is that players need not play their time in one stretch. They can exit from the tournament in between and later reenter and complete it. However they should follow the specified procedure. Wagering at craps outside of the tournament will not count for the purposes of the tournament.

The online craps tournament procedure is described in the Terms and Conditions and players should read it before signing up. On joining the tournament players will automatically be allocated $1,000 worth of chips. This is play money and cannot be cashed. Only the prize money is real. Players will be given 30 minutes to play and increase their chip balance to the maximum extent possible. Players have complete control over the time allotment. As stated earlier they do not have to play for the 30 minutes at one stretch. Also if at any time during play, they are happy with their balance, they can stop without using the remaining time. The players can check their ranking by following the instructions on the right hand side of the tournament screen. The winners do not have to claim the prizes, but the prizes will automatically be credited to their accounts within an hour of the tournament finishing. If two players tie, then the prizes will be split between them. Only one entry per person is permitted.

VIP Casino was launched in 1999. It is powered by Cryptologic and licensed by the Lotteries and Gaming Authority of Malta.

June 7th, 2009 by admin

June, July and August are the sizzling summer months and Millionaire Casino is raising the temperatures further by offering the 2009 Summer Slots $700,000 Series. This online slots event is being billed as “the richest online slots tournament ever held with combined prizes of $700,000 in cash to be won!”
The Summer Slots Series consists of three separate slots tournaments, with one tournament being held in each of the summer months of June, July and August. There will be a guaranteed prize pool of $200,000 for each of the monthly tournaments which will be shared by 8000 participants. The overall winners for all three tournaments combined will share a prize pool of $100,000. The details of the events are as follows. Part I of the event will be played on the online slot game The Right Prize and will run from June 10 to June 30. Part II of the event will be played on the online slot game Wheel of Chance and will run from July 1 to July 31. Part III of the event will be played on the online slots game The Reel Deal and will run from August 1 to August 31. Part IV of the event, which is the Summer Slots Overall Prize, will be decided on August 31. The entry free for each of the three online slots tournaments is $10. However players with 5 or more re-buys into Part I will receive a free entry into Part II. And players with 5 or more re-buys into Part II will receive a free entry into Part III.

The breakup of the prize pools of $200,000 for the first three parts of the Summer Slots is as follows. The winner will get $50,000. The player in the second place will get $15,000. The player in the third-place will get $5,000. The players in the fourth and fifth places will get $2,500 each. $1,000 each will be awarded to players finishing in the 6th to 10th places. $500 each will be awarded to players finishing in the 11th to 20th places. $250 each will be awarded to players finishing in the 21st to 50th places. $100 each will be awarded to players finishing in the 51st to 100th places. $50 will be awarded to players finishing in the 101st to 200th places. $25 each will be won by players finishing in the 201st to 1,500th places. And $10 each will be won by players finishing in the 1501st to 8,000th places. The five players with the highest combined balance over the three events will share additional $100,000 cash as follows. The player with the highest combined balance will win $50,000. The player in second place will win $20,000. The player in third place will win $15,000. The player in fourth place will win $10,000. And the player in fifth place will win $5,000.

Millionaire Casino is a leading brand of the English Harbour group. The event is being offered at the other group online casinos as well. The online casinos of the English Harbour group are powered by Vegas Technology and licensed in Antigua and Barbuda.

May 31st, 2009 by admin

Golden Casino Review

The May Flowers free roll slots tournament at Golden Casino has successfully come to a close, making one player $65,000 richer and many others quite content with some free cash in their pockets. One of just several big-money slots tournament held at Golden Casino over the years, May Flowers was the highlight tournament of the month, attracting several thousand registrants and paying out over $150,000.

But just because it’s over, don’t let that deter you from entering one of their many other tournaments. Another big one is sure to be on the horizon for the month of June. Besides, you can take advantage of an exclusive $555 Slots Bonus available through Online Casino Suite, and stretch out that bankroll even more.

As mentioned, the big winner - Jenny from Wisconsin - pocketed $65,000 in cash, which wasn’t bad at all for an $80 investment. Since the tournament was a free roll, there was no fee to join. The rebuy credits, which essentially allow each player to stay in the tournament longer, were $20, and this particular player only needed four of them to make a strong claim for the first place finish.

Following her win, Jenny was interviewed by Gold Casinos house manager. Turns out she has been playing every day at Golden Casino for quite some time. So much so, in fact, she knows several members of the support staff on a first-name basis. Perhaps all of this experience was what helped her become the May Flowers big winner.

If it is, she’s not sharing any secrets! When asked if she had a strategy for the tournament, Jenny replied, “I did, however, it’s my strategy and I’d like to keep it that way, LOL”. Still, her $68,000 in winnings on three spins (with the 20 free spins feature) definitely helped put her over the top.

It goes to show that playing slots need not be empty of strategy. Sure, you don’t have as low a Casinos Edge as some of the other strategy-based casino games, but that doesn’t mean you can’t employ bankroll management strategy at a minimum, and take mind to have fun and enjoy the entertaining aspect that slots offers.

And let’s not forget the convenience either. Jenny also noted that she is just a thirty minute drive from three land-based casinos, but prefers wearing her pajamas while spinning the reels - not to mention the customer service and great promotions offered at Golden Casino. Read the OCS Golden Casino Review for more information or Visit Golden Casino directly.