Online Casino Tournaments

April 9th, 2009 by admin

Normally all casinos offer tournaments based on slot games. Those that offer tournaments based on other games do so in addition to the slots tournaments. In April VIP Casino is offering tournaments in poker games instead of the usual slots tournaments.

There are two tournaments on offer. The first is the Texas Hold’em Bonus Poker Tournament and the second is the Bonus Video Poker Tournament. Both tournaments run concurrently from the 1st of April to the 31st of April and have an entry fee of $10. Each tournament carries a prize pool of $1,000, which will be distributed as follows. The winner will get $500, the runner up will get $250 and those in the 3rd to 7th places will get $50 each. The tournaments can be entered through the “Tournaments” menu, which can be accessed from the “Games” menu. On signing up for the tournament the entry fee of $10 is directly deducted from the players’ accounts.

The procedure of play for both tournaments is the same. Each player will start with $1,000 worth of tournament chips. These are meant for tournament play only and cannot be cashed. The player is given 30 minutes in which to maximize his chip balance. One advantage that tournaments at VIP Casino offer is that players are not constrained to play their 30 minutes at a stretch. Players can withdraw at any time and complete the tournament by logging in later. If players feel that they have won enough they can terminate the tournament at any time they want. In order to ascertain if the chip balance is sufficient, the player can access his ranking by following the given instructions. One very important rule is that a player can participate in each tournament only once. Hence players should choose their time well. The winners will receive their prizes on the 1st of May.

The Bonus Video Poker Tournament will be played on the Bonus Video Poker Games on offer at VIP Casino. The Texas Hold’em Bonus Poker Tournament will be played on Texas Hold’em Bonus Poker. This is a casino poker game that is not very common in online casinos. It follows the general procedure of the Texas Hold’em games played in poker rooms but the players do not play against each other. Each player plays individually against the casino. The highlight of this game is a separate bonus bet that pays at 1,000 to 1 if both the dealer’s hand and the player’s hand hold a pair of Aces.

April 8th, 2009 by admin

The English Harbour group is one of the oldest online casino groups. The English Harbour online casino is the leading brand of this group. Every month a new set of tournaments is offered at English Harbour to be played on some of the best Vegas Technology casino games. The schedule for April is out and it offers very interesting fare.

The pick of the tournaments is the April Monthly Tournament, known as Buried Treasure. This will run throughout the month from the 1st of April to the 1st of May. The winners will share a guaranteed pool prize of $100,000, the biggest prize on offer in April. There is an entry fee of $10. This tournament will be played on the online slot game X Marks the Spot. Based on a pirate theme this slot features symbols like the sexy woman pirate, the hooked hand, chest of liquor, treasure chest of gold, pirate ship, cannon and map. The bonus game on the second screen is a treasure hunt with the players having to decide under which X to search for the buried treasure.

There are five weekly tournaments aptly called The Slot-tery. The first of these has already begun and will be getting over on the 7th of April. The game is Northern Lights. The other tournaments will begin on the 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th and will run for seven days each. The games for the tournaments are Fat Cat, Cleopatra’s Pyramid, Wheel of Chance and Lucky Lady. All these tournaments will have a pot prize pool and an entry fee of $3. Then there are the Play For The Pot daily slots tournaments. A different slot game will be nominated for each tournament. The entry is $2. There will also be a freeroll slot tournament played everyday for casino credits.

English Harbour also offers online tournaments in blackjack and video poker. The Weekend Blackjack tournament runs from Friday to Sunday, has an entry fee of $10 and offers a guaranteed prize pool of $5,000. There are daily black jack tournaments scheduled from Mondays to Thursdays for which the entry fee is $5 and the prize pool will depend on the pot. All blackjack tournaments will be played on U.S. Blackjack. Likewise the Weekend Video Poker tournament runs from Friday to Sunday. The game is Deuces Wild, the entry fee is $10 and there is a guaranteed prize pool of $3,000. The daily tournaments held between Mondays and Thursdays will be played on a different video poker game each day. The entry fee will be $2 and there will be a pot prize pool.

April 2nd, 2009 by admin

InterCasino is one of the first online casinos to announce promotions and tournaments for the new month. For April, InterCasino has three topical tournaments on offer.

The season begins with April Fools Tournament that will run from the 1st to the 10th of April. This is to celebrate All Fools Day, which is on the 1st of April. The April Fools Tournament is a blackjack tournament, where InterCasino has turned the prize pool of $500 on its head. The first prize is $100, the second prize is $150 and the third prize is $250. And this is no April Fools prank. Players are advised to keep a strict watch on the leader board and try and stop at the third place. The game on which the tournament will be played is Multi Player Blackjack. The starting stack is $500 and the time allowed is 30 minutes. The entry fee is only $10.

The next tournament celebrates Easter, which falls on the 12th of April. This tournament is the “eggscellent” Easter Special Tournament and will run from the 11th to the 22nd of April. This is a slots tournament based on the special guest slot for the month, Lucky Rabbit. The prize pool is $500 but it will be shared by the top eight players. The winner will get $250 and the runner up will get $100. Players in the 3rd to the 8th places will win $25 each. The players will start with a tournament chip stack of $500 and will get to play Lucky Rabbit slots for 30 minutes. The entry fee is $10, which will be deducted automatically from the player’s account while registering.

The final tournament for April is the St. George’s Day English Pub Tournament, which will run from the 23rd to the 30th of April. St. George’s Day falls on the 23rd of April, the traditionally accepted date of the saint’s passing away in 303 AD. St. George is the patron saint of England and the English also celebrate St. George’s Day as the National Day and therefore this day is meant to enjoy all things typically English, including the pubs. At InterCasino the St. George’s Tournament is being played on the Hulk Fruit Machine, which is a 3 reel slot but does not have the “fruit” symbols. Instead it features characters from the Incredible Hulk. The slot game has some interesting options that can enhance payouts like the Radioactive Cash Ladder, Hi/Lo Gamble Game and the Hold and Nudge feature. The prize pool distribution and other parameters are identical to the Easter Special Tournament.

April 1st, 2009 by admin

There is a special tournament at Golden Casino to kick start April. It is the April Fools $5,000 Bonus Freeroll. It begins on the 1st of April and continues till the 3rd of April. The slot game is Funky Chicken. The prize pool consists of 5,000 bonus points. Likewise a special event will be held at the month end. It is the End of April $10,000 Guaranteed. The buy-in is $9.99 and the game is Cherry Blossoms.

Every weekend between Friday and Tuesday Golden Casino will host the Guaranteed Weekend Tournaments. The event beginning on the 3rd of April will be played on Money Shot, will have a buy-in of $14.44 and a prize pool of $40,000. The remaining three events will have a buy-in of $20.00 and a prize pool of $30,000. They will be played on the online slots The Last King of Egypt, Magic Monkey and Northern Lights.

Those players who need lower buy-ins can play the Frugal Fridays. These events have a buy-in of $1.49 and a prize pool of $1,000. The tournaments will be held on the 10th, 17th and 24th of April. And then there are a host of freerolls in which players do not have to pay any entry fee. One set of tournaments known as $2,500 Bonus Buck Freeroll Bonanza runs from Fridays to Mondays. Another set known as the Daily Noon Freerolls is held every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday for a prize pool of $100 bonus credits. A third set consists of two day tournaments starting on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Each tournament has a guaranteed prize pool of $250.

The real action at Golden Casino is in the Showdown Battle. There will be three separate tournaments held on the 10th, 17th and 24th of April. Each tournament has a guaranteed prize pool of $1,500. What makes the tournaments attractive is that the winner takes away the entire pool. Entry to these tournaments is through feeder tournaments. There are three feeder tournaments for each Showdown Battle and the top three in each feeder tournament go to the final. This ensures that only nine players vie for the $1,500 prize. The feeder tournaments have a buy-in of $5 and also their own prize pool of $2,000.

Those players who do not fancy online slot tournaments can check out the Video Poker Pot Percentage Tournaments. There are four tournaments every week commencing on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. The buy-in is $2.99 and the top five players share the pot.

Golden Casino is powered by software from Vegas Technology and licensed by the Curacao Internet Gaming Association. The same tournaments are on offer at the other online casinos of the Golden Casino Group like Golden Casino, Online Vegas Casino and Go Casino.

March 18th, 2009 by admin

Over the next 30 days there will be a bonanza of slots tournaments at Lucky Nugget online casino. There will be no entry fees but players will have to earn the required loyalty points in order to qualify.

For the next three Saturdays, starting from the 21st of March, there will be three online slots tournaments each Saturday. The total prize pool on offer over this period is $7,500. The first tournament each Saturday is the $500 tournament. 20 players will share the prize pool and 750 loyalty points are required to qualify. The second tournament each Saturday is the $750 tournament. 24 players will share the prize pool and 1,000 loyalty points are required to qualify. The third tournament each Saturday is the $1,250 tournament. 29 players will share the prize pool and 2,000 loyalty points are required to qualify. The qualifying period for the 21st March tournaments is from the 16th to the 19th of March. The qualifying period for the 28th March tournaments is from the 20th to the 26th of March. The qualifying period for the 4th April tournaments is from the 27th of March to the 2nd of April. Players desiring to participate in these tournaments have to register in advance. They have to purchase at least 20 credits during the qualifying period. On the Friday before the tournament they should e-mail the casino to check if they have qualified for the online slots tournaments.

From the 10th to the 13th of April will be the $4,700 Grand Finale Slot Tourney. The qualification period is from the 3rd of April to the 8th of April. During this period players have to purchase 20 credits and earn 1,000 loyalty points. The prize pool will be shared only by 15 players.

During Sundays falling between the 16th of March and the 13th of April Lucky Nugget online casino offers a unique promotion called “Get Cracking to Win! Triple Point Sunday! The player has to crack the egg displayed by repeatedly clicking on it with the mouse. The cracked egg will reveal the name of a game. Players who wager on that game on the Sunday after cracking the egg will have all loyalty points tripled. As in the earlier promotions, players are required to pre-register.

Lucky Nugget online casino is a leading brand of the Belle Rock Entertainment Group. It is licensed by the Government of Gibraltar. Lucky Nugget is powered by Microgaming and carries eCOGRA’s “Safe and Fair” seal of approval.

March 13th, 2009 by admin

The major event at VIP Slots online casino is the free daily qualifiers to the $250,000 March Madness slots competition that is scheduled for the 1st of April. Every day 10 players will get free entry to the March Madness playing a different Vegas Technology slot game. However there is plenty of other online tournament action also on offer this month.

There are three cash prize slots tournaments to begin with. Though the guaranteed prize pool is not as large as that for the March Madness, it is still substantial. The Pot of Gold tournament will be held between the 11th and the 17th of March. The slot game chosen for this tournament is The Right Prize. This is based on the popular television game show The Price is Right. The prize pool is $25,000. The Pot of Gold tournament has an entry fee of $10 with a re-buy of $10. The Spring Break coincides with the Spring break in most colleges. It will run from the 18th to the 25th of March. This tournament features another slot game based on a television show, Wheel of Chance. The prize pool is $15,000. The entry fee and the re-buy are both $10. The last tournament is the Fourth Round, which will run from the 25th to the 29th of March. In keeping with the NBA action around that time, VIP Slots online casino has chosen a basketball themed slot, Money Shot. The prize pool is $10,000. The entry fee and the re-buy are both $5. In all three tournaments players will start with a chip stack of $300.

VIP Slots online casino offers daily slots tournaments in which the prize pool depends on the pot collection. These online tournaments have an entry fee of $3 and a re-buy of $3. The starting stake is $150. Every day of the week features a different Vegas Technology slot game. The games are Northern Lights on Mondays, Lucky Lady on Tuesdays, Black Magic on Wednesdays, Cash Caboose on Thursdays, Solomon’s Mines on Fridays, Tiki Lounge on Saturdays and Coral Cash on Sundays. These online tournaments require pre-registration.

Slots are not the only game for online tournaments at VIP Slots casino. Tournaments are also held in video poker and blackjack. Three 24 hour video poker tournaments are held in the week starting on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The entry fee and re-buy are $5 and the starting stake is $200. The prize pool depends on the pot collection. The larger tournament runs over the weekend from Thursdays to Mondays. This has a guaranteed Prize Pool of $2,000. The entry fee and re-buy are $10 and the starting stake is $500. The blackjack tournaments are held every weekend from Thursdays to Mondays. There is a guaranteed Prize Pool of $5,000. The entry fee and re-buy are $10 and the starting stake is $200.

March 4th, 2009 by admin

VIP Casino has been providing excellent gaming for online players since 1999. The casino is licensed by the Lotteries and Gaming Authority of Malta and is powered by Cryptologic. For the month of March VIP Casino offers not one but two slots tournaments because as the promo says “good things come in pairs”. For the tournaments VIP Casino has selected two of the best Cryptologic slots, Millionaires Club and Bejeweled.

The Millionaires Club tournament has begun on the 1st of March and will run till the 15th of March. The Bejeweled tournament will start on the 16th of March and run till the 31st of March. Both tournaments have an entry fee of $10 and a prize pool of $1,000. The prize pool will be distributed as follows. The winner will get $500, the runner up will get $250 and players placing from the 3rd to the 7th place will get $50 each. The tournaments can be accessed from the games menu. Players can join at any time during the promotion period. The entry fee will be deducted directly from the players’ accounts on signing up for the tournament. For the tournaments each player will be allocated $1,000 worth of chips. The player will be given 30 minutes to play. The objective is to maximize the balance at the end of the tournament. One of the useful features of the VIP Casino tournaments is that players need not utilize their 30 minutes at one go. They can leave the tournament in between and later take up from where they left off. If at any time during the tournament, the player is satisfied with his winnings he can stop without using the remaining time and the balance that time will count as the final score. The player can check his ranking by following the instructions on the right hand side of the tournament screen. Each player can enter a tournament only once. The winners’ accounts will automatically be credited within an hour of the tournament finishing. The chips used in the tournament are play money and cannot be cashed.

Millionaires Club is the leading progressive jackpot offered by Cryptologic online casinos, though the jackpot cannot be hit during the tournament. But players at VIP Casino can play it outside the tournament and aim for the $800,000 progressive jackpot as it now stands. Millionaires Club features a “spin a wheel” type of bonus game. Bejeweled is based on the popular game of the same name. It is a unique slot in that 5 lines are depicted on the screen instead of the usual 3 and that 5 of the paylines run vertically across each reel.

March 3rd, 2009 by admin

InterCasino, powered by Cryptologic, was the first fully functional online casino. Even today it sets the pace for the online casino industry through its excellent set of promotions. Featuring prominently are three tournaments hosted every month. Every month a new set of exciting and topical games are selected from the vast repertoire at its disposal.

This March the first tournament is the Street Fighter tournament that runs from the 1st of March to the 10th of March. The tournament has an entry fee of $10 and offers a prize pool of $500. The first prize is $250, the second prize is $100 and the next six places get a prize of $25 each. The players start with a tournament balance of $500 and get 30 minutes to play. The Street Fighter is one of Cryptologic’s famous branded slots based on Marvel Comics super heroes. It features Ken, Ryu, Guile, Chun Li and Sagat as the Street Fighters. The game enables players to choose their favorite super hero to act as the wild symbol. Street Fighter was converted to a slot game from an arcade video game and it carries the superb animations and sound effects of the original arcade game.

The second tournament, which runs from the 11th to the 17th of March, predictably features St. Patrick’s Day theme. St. Patrick’s Day falls on the 17th of March this year. The slot game chosen for this tournament is ‘Luck of the Irish’, which should not be confused with the Vegas Technology slot having a similar name. The Cryptologic slot offered at InterCasino is not on the list of slots routinely offered. This is pulled out of oblivion only on special occasions and offered for a short duration. Luck of the Irish will go back into hibernation after the 17th so players should make full use of it while it is there. The symbols are typically Irish and include Four Leaf Clover, Pot Of Gold, Horse Shoe and Leprechaun. The reels are set in a verdant green color, which is the color of St. Patrick’s Day. The structure of the tournament is the same as the earlier one.

The final tournament starts on the 18th of March and runs till the end of the month. It is based on the Multi Player Texas Hold’em Bonus Poker game that is very popular at InterCasino. This game is modeled on the poker game but with a difference. Players compete individually with the dealer, as in blackjack, and not with each other as in poker. A number of betting rounds are provided so as to simulate the excitement of the real Hold’em game. Players should watch out for the side bet that pays up to 1000 times the bonus bet wager.

February 28th, 2009 by admin

March Madness has been billed as the largest ever online slots tournament. It offers a prize pool of $250,000. The tournament starts on Sunday the 1st of March and will run till the 1st of April. The game on which this tournament will be played is one of the most popular online slot games from the suite of Vegas Technology - The Reel Deal.

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Though the tournament was announced a month back, the complete details have been posted at the participating online casinos only recently. The lion’s share of the prize pool, $100,000, will be paid to the winner. There will be one 2nd prize of $25,000; one 3rd prize of $15,000 and one 4th prize of $10,000. From the 5th prize onwards there will be multiple winners. The 5th prize of $2,500 will go to two winners; the 6th prize of $1,000 will go to ten winners; the 7th prize of $500 will go to ten winners; the 8th prize of $250 will go to twenty winners; the 9th prize of $100 will go to fifty winners; the 10th prize of $50 will go to 150 winners; the 11th prize of $25 will go to 250 winners and the 12th prize of $10 will go to 5,625 winners. There will be a total of over 6,000 players who receive prizes. And over 5,500 players will have recovered their entry fee of $10. In fact 280 players are being given free entries to the March Madness through freeroll qualifiers. 260 of those have already booked their places in the March Madness. 10 will be selected on the 27th of February and 10 on the 28th of February. The qualifying freeroll for the 27th of February is Magic Monkey and that for the 28th of February is Funky Chunky.

March Madness is being hosted by the English Harbour Group of online casinos. The English Harbour group launched its first online casino in 1997. They are the oldest and most reputed group powered by Vegas Technology. Though the group boasts of six excellent brands, Millionaire Casino, Super Slots Casino and VIP Slots Casino are especially recommended by Casino Advisor. The Reel Deal slot is extremely popular because it is based on the TV series Deal or No Deal, which offered fabulous prizes. In the United Kingdom the game show was immortalized by host Noel Edmonds. The Reel Deal slot game very realistically replicates the excitement of the television series.

Though March Madness is being touted as the largest slots tournament, slot fans will recall the World Series of Slots last year that had a prize pool of $500,000, double that of March Madness. The World Series of Slots was hosted by the Jackpot factory group and did wonders for its brands. Now English Harbour is hoping to repeat the same magic with March Madness.

February 18th, 2009 by admin

Bodog is an online gambling portal that was founded in 1994 by Calvin Ayre. It offers gambling products like poker, casino, sports betting and horse racing. Bodog Casino is powered by Real Time Gaming. Its North American site is licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission.

From the 12th of February to the 12th of March Bodog Casino is holding a Baccarat online tournament. Baccarat is a game made popular by James Bond. The secret agent played in the swankiest of casinos always dressed to immaculate perfection. However to play baccarat at Bodog Casino one need not dress to kill. The promo header says, “In fact, you don’t have to dress at all”. Players have to be valid members of Bodog Casino in order to participate.

The rules are very simple. Players have to play as many hands of baccarat as possible. For each hand that ends in a tie players will be awarded 1 Point. To get more points players have to get more tied hands. To get more tied hands players have to play more hands. The player with the most Points will win. A tied hand is one in which the player and the banker have hands of identical value. Cards from Ace to Nine have their face values. Tens, Jacks, Queens and Kings have zero value. A hand is valued by adding the card values and then dropping the tens digit from the sum. The highest possible hand value is 9 and the lowest possible hand value is 0.

The tournament runs through four weeks. On the Friday of each week prizes of a $100 casino chip each will be awarded to the top five players in the leader board. The number of Points won in the preceding week will decide the leader board standings. There will also be a Grand Prize of a $1,000 casino chip. This will be awarded to the player with the highest number of points in the entire promotion period. The Grand Prize will not be subject to any rollover requirements. In all prizes worth $3,000 are being awarded in this baccarat tournament.

The baccarat leader board is titled “Who’s the King of Swank?” There are already ten names in this week’s leader board. James of Branson heads the list with 244 Points. Hence there is plenty of catching up to do, but it is not too late. Baccarat hands play very fast and ties are not as infrequent as one may think. Those who are not members of Bodog Casino will have to join first. The procedure is extremely simple and takes no time at all. And new players are entitled to a 10% sign up bonus as well.