Online poker tournaments – The best poker tournaments

There are basically two ways to make money with online poker – firstly by playing online poker tournaments, and secondly through so-called cash games. These are tables where you decide for yourself when you sit down at the table (if a seat is free), how much money you take to the table and when you leave the table again.
These types of games are also known as ring games.
Online poker tournaments, on the other hand, are run in such a way that everyone who registers for the poker tournament pays a certain fixed amount (the so-called buy-in plus juice, which is the fee for the organizer).
The sum of the buy-ins paid (number of participants in the online poker tournament multiplied by the buy-in) then results in the total prize money pot.
This is paid out according to a fixed distribution formula to the players who survive the longest in the tournament.
In an online poker tournament, you know from the outset how much you are risking.
Each player receives the same fixed number of chips for their entry fee.
On the other hand, you cannot drop out of the online poker tournament at any time, otherwise you would lose your buy-in.
So you play until you are eliminated (if you have no more chips) – or until you have won and all other players have been eliminated.

Where can you play online poker tournaments?

All online poker providers naturally have both cash games and online poker tournaments in their program.
However, the poker tournaments differ from provider to provider.
Practically all providers also have so-called freerolls in their program, which are online poker tournaments in which you can participate for free, but which have real money as a prize. There are also big differences, especially for online poker tournaments with a prize money guarantee.
In these tournaments, the organizer sets a minimum prize money pot to make the tournament (and the poker website!) more attractive to players. Example: At 888 Poker there is a daily online poker tournament with a buy-in of 50$ plus 5$ juice.
The guaranteed prize money here is 5000$.
In order to “get your money’s worth” in this online poker tournament, 888 needs 100 participants.
However, it is very often the case that fewer than 100 players take part in this tournament in particular – which means that the chances of winning in this online poker tournament are significantly better than in others.
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Who offers the most and biggest online poker tournaments?

The biggest “calendar” for online poker tournaments can logically be found at the biggest poker room in the world, Pokerstars.
New online poker tournaments start here around the clock, from the smallest buy-ins to the high-roller tournaments.
The most popular is the 1.5 million guarantee online poker tournament that takes place every Sunday.
For this online poker tournament you have to pay 200$ plus 15$ juice.
However, you can also earn your place in the final event through a series of so-called qualifiers and satellites with small and very small buy-ins.
The disadvantage of the online poker tournaments at Pokerstars are the usually huge fields of participants.
This naturally limits the chances of winning, and you also have to be patient – the 1.5 million online poker tournament at Pokerstars easily lasts 8-10 hours.
You can also play a little in the online casino on the side.
On the other hand, there are also a lot of freeroll tournaments here – but here too the number of participants is usually quite large.
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You can find more information about the best online poker tournaments on our website.
We tell you which online poker tournaments have the weakest fields of participants, which take place at the best times of day for German players, where the best freerolls are, how you can qualify for the big live poker tournaments through online poker tournaments up to the WSOP and much more.