What are Live Online Slot Tournaments?

Live online slot tournaments are a pretty recent and exciting innovation in online gambling. Packed with thrills and excitement, live online slot tournaments allow you to compete against other online casino players for a wide range of prizes. The games all work along the same lines as regular slot games, except that at the start of a tournament, each player is allocated a fixed number of coins / credits and has a limited amount of time in which to wager these coins / credits.

When a tournament ends, the casino hosting the tournament will announce the winners, and the winners will receive payment of their winnings into their casino accounts.

What are Scheduled and Sit & Go Tournaments?

Scheduled tournaments start at specific and pre-set times. All online casinos that offer online slot tournaments will provide players with a “scheduled tournaments” section, which allows you to see all scheduled tournaments and when each one begins. The process of playing in a Scheduled Tournament is pretty straight forward. Simply select the tournament you wish to play in, register, and the casino will alert you with a reminder a short while before the start of the tournament. This is usually done via email, and should you be playing other games in the casino software at the time, you will see an alert within the software itself.

Sit & Go tournaments are open to all players, and they usually require as few as five players to begin a tournament. The main idea behind Sit & Go tournaments is that they are available all the time, and provide players with the means of playing at any time, day or night. A tournament begins as soon as a predetermined number of players register for the tournament. If the predetermined number of players have registered (also known as round out) in a Sit & Go tournament, play will begin right away.

If more players are required, then play will not commence until the required number of players have registered. In this time you can play on other casino games and you are automatically alerted when the tournament is about to begin. It is important to note that Sit & Go tournaments usually start 30 seconds after the last player has registered, so if you are away from your computer when the tournament starts, you will miss part of, or the entire tournament.

So what prizes are on offer?

The most common prizes in Live Online Slot Tournaments are cash prizes. The number of winners in a tournament can range from being only one winner or even up to 100. Prizes for a tournament can be viewed by referring to the Prize List in the casino software.

The Feed To Another Tournament prizes, also known as Feeder Tournaments, are prizes that allow winners to move on to other tournaments. Basically the prize is like a free ticket into other, usually more lucrative tournaments. Winners are automatically registered for the next tournament they have won a free ticket for. As it is not a cash equivalent prize, if a player does not play in the next tournament, they forfeit their prize.

Special Prizes can range from being a bonus, to a luxury cruise or any other prize that the online casino can think of. Prizes of this nature are not given automatically, instead winners are notified after the tournament ends, and then the online casino will ensure that winners receive their prizes based on what these are.