Pokie Tournaments At Australian Online Casinos

Added: May 7, 2015

Microgaming powered Australian online casinos allow players to play pokies in a different manner as well. This is through online pokie tournaments. It is a multiplayer event in which a large number of members of the online casino contest against each other. You pay the fixed entry fee and are given a chip stack of a certain amount. All players pay the same entry fee and start with the same chip stack. You have to wager with the given chips in the given time period. Your objective is to end up with as large a chip stack as you can. At the end of the online pokie tournament all players are ranked on the leader board according to the size of their final chip stack. The top players on the leader board share the prize pool in the predetermined manner.

Online pokie tournaments at Australian online casinos are classified in different ways. There are tournaments that do not require players to pay any entry fee or buy-in. These are referred to as freerolls. They naturally offer much smaller prizes and are ideal for new online casino players to get the feel of the tournaments.

Pokie tournaments can also be classified based on the nature of distributing the prize money. In fixed prize tournaments the online casino declares the prize amounts that will be awarded. If the online casino collects less by way of the buy-ins then it has to make good the difference. If it collects more from the players than the prize money announced it keeps the difference. There are online pokie tournaments in which the pot collected is shared by the winners. So at the start of the tournament you are not certain as to what amount you will get if you win.

Then there are single level and multi-level online pokie tournaments. In single level tournaments once all players complete their rounds, the final leader board is set and the winners announced. In multi-level pokie tournaments a limited number of players move to the next round, whereas the others are eliminated. This process is carried out till the final round when the winners are declared. Most of the multi-level pokie tournaments at Australian online casinos are huge events. They offer massive prizes and take place over several weeks and months.

A special type of online for the tournament is one that offers re-buys. If you lose your chip balance before your time runs out, you can pay a re-buy fee and buy another chip stack. This tournament is ideal for high rollers who are willing to invest many times so as to get a really a high score at the end.