For the best prizes refer to the Top Ten list. I really added this page to talk about prizes generally. Because the prizes do have a cost and I want to address some of the hidden costs of playing Free Tourneys.
Prizes range from as low as $2 to thousands of dollars in cash, merchandise, seats in larger tourneys, and trips. All of the free tourneys are designed to get players into the poker site. The more traffic you have. The more poker players you get. The more poker players The more money you make. It is quite a cycle. We can take advantage of this if we select our spots well and for the beginner it is an absolute gold mine of experience if not real gold.
Very few poker sites have tourneys that are absolutely free. Most have some sort of real money requirement either to enter or to collect the winnings. Online Poker sites do not offer tourneys to give away money. It is a marketing tool, used to:
- Increase traffic at the site
- Entice new players to play for real money.
- Reward regular players for playing at the site.
Pokerroom has 2 Poker tourneys per day for anyone, and 3 weekly tourneys for real money players. To enter the 3 weekly tourneys you must exchange Players' Points. (These points are accumulated by playing at the real money tables.) So, you do pay something for the entry. I found that to accumulate the 500 pts required to enter the $6000 took a very substantial amount time at the $1/$2 tables. Since the points do not accumulate week to week, to enter the Weekly Tourney, every week, you must spend more than 20 hours playing each week. These tourneys have a front-end requirement, to enter. The daily tourneys on the other hand are free to enter but to collect your prize you must accumulate the same players' points. You must collect 4 player's points for each $1 of winnings. To collect the top prize of $75 will cost you about 14 hours of real money play, before you get the money .
RedLightPoker, a play money poker site, uses tourneys, and prizes of staterooms to the World Poker Showdown cruise, as a marketing tool. The tourneys and the great prize cost you absolutely no money, but you do spend time at the site, exposed to their ads.
New Poker sites will also have many tourneys; on the "What Is the Game?" page we looked at Doyle's Room where every 3 rd game is a tourney of sorts. They're not giving away a lot of money, but it is money and the normal tourney size is small. Since they have $.01/.02 games I guess a prize of 1.35 will go a long way. They require "Action" points to collect the prize but they are very easy to earn.
Okay so they're not really free, but some have some pretty good prizes for a small amount of risk. Let's look at some of the better prizes. Poker Cruises, $6000, Entry Tickets to real money tickets, World Poker Tour tickets, or even a chance to play with a real poker professional or better yet a super model.
Check the pages here at FreeTourneys247. We will always keep you up to date on what is available.
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