Playing in Online Slot Competitions

There are two forms of slot tournaments that have gained tremendous popularity for the past so many years.

One is the actual or real life slot tournament where land based casinos provide information to the card holders of slot club of the forthcoming tournaments. The many slot tournaments of Las Vegas are a perfect example of actual slot tournaments, since the slot machines are some of the largest income generators for casinos.

The second type of slot tournament refers to those that are offered by some of the online casinos on slot machines.

What Happens In A Real Casino Slot Tournament?

 

Casinos generally offer full tournament participation, even accommodation for two or three nights along with meals for a low cost. For a slot tournament, an area is kept separately to accommodate a certain number of machines based on the number of participants. Slots are provided numbers from 1 to as many as needed. For every session, numbers are matched up with players as well as machines. Everyone anticipates his or her own machine to be performing better in comparison to all others.

All machines are identical types and come fitted with unique programs, which give away several additional jackpot combinations than normally expected. This brings in greater excitement with accumulation of more total points.

Majority of these kinds of tournaments have a few sessions and each session may last for a predefined time length, which is usually 15 to 20 minutes. Machines are started with a predetermined number of game credits or usually automatically stop within a certain time frame.

Advantages of Playing Slot Tournaments

 

Slot tournaments and normal slot play are two different things. In slot tournaments, one plays for points rather than trying to win money out of the machines. Since the slots are made to be played without money, the risk that a player has to face is only confined to the entry fee to the tournament, if any.

If the total cost is low and inclusive of accommodation and some meals, slot tournaments are good value for money even if one does not win a penny.

However, one should be aware that the tournament sessions take place several hours from each other. Thus one should refrain from losing money through real game play in the interim period.

Online Slots Tournaments

 

Some of the internet casinos organize slot machine tournaments. Many of them offer free slot tournaments and some offer real money slot tourneys. Several of the online casinos offer live, weekly multiplayer slots competitions which come with a sit-and-go system allowing players flexibility with regards to play timings. There are many online casinos where participation in slot tournaments does not entail downloading to play. Either a flash technology or Java is enough to help in playing.

Some of the notable online slots tournaments are River Belle Slots Tournaments, Weekly Slots Competition of FreeSlot.com, and All Jackpots Casino Slots Tournaments among others. The “Weekender” tournament of All Jackpots Casino gives out a prize pool of $20,000.