Online Slot Tournaments

Microgaming, the leading online casino game software company, was one of the pioneers of online slot tournaments. Microgamings state of the art software not only allows players to play hundreds of different types of slot machines for free or for real money, but also gives players the option of entering dozens of daily slot tournaments.

The popularity of these slot tournaments, which are held at the majority of online casinos utilizing their software, have grown in recent years, as players look around for a more cost effective way of playing slots online.

There are several different types of online slot tournaments offered at Microgaming powered sites, and to give you an idea of what you can expect, we have listed each type of slot tournament below for you.

Types of Online Slot Tournaments

There are two main types of slot tournaments found at Microgaming powered casinos, the first are the Sit and Go tournaments, and the second are the Scheduled Tournaments.

Sit and Go’s are tournaments which have no set in stone starting time, the way in which they work is relatively simple, as soon as the required number of players have registered to take part in them, then they will begin.

Scheduled slot tournaments will have a starting time along with an ending time, and entrants are allowed to register and play in them at any time during the allocated time in which they running.

Slot tournaments can, depending on which ones you are taking part in, offer several additional playing structures. Some of them will offer what are known as Re-Buys and some offer Add-ons.

A Re-buy will let you pay an additional fee which will allow you to replay the slot tournament if your original score was not a high enough one. When you purchase a Re-Buy then your original score in the slot tournament is wiped clean and you start the tournament again from the beginning.

An Add-On will let you carry on playing from where you left off at the point where your initial entry finished. It is of course up to yourself whether you opt to pay the extra stake needed to utilize either the Re-Buy or Add-On facility.

There is also an array of different categories of online slot tournaments, and below you will find an overview of each one of them, along with a description of each one.

Monthly Monster Slot Tournament – The Monthly Monster is a scheduled slot tournament which offers you the chance to share in a guaranteed prize pool of a large $25k.

This tournament is open on the last Monday of each month and closes 7 days later. You can win your way into this tournament via a Free Roll Qualifier tournament.

Weekend Whopper Slot Tournament – This is another guaranteed, scheduled tournament held in Microgaming powered casinos, when you take part in this Weekend Whopper tournament, which runs each Friday to Sunday a $10k prize pool is on offer.

Along with cash paying prizes, you could also win an entry into the Monthly Monster slot tournament.

Midweek Moolah Slot Tournament – Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays are the days of the week when you can take part in this scheduled slot tournament.

The Midweek Moolah slot tournaments offer a guaranteed prize pool of $10k which is distributed to those entrants finishing in the positions 1 to 19 on the leader board once the tournament ends.

Freeroll Slot Tournament – A Freeroll tournament is one of the most popular slot tournaments found online. As you may have guessed from its name, these are completely free to enter.

However, you may opt to purchase Re-buys and Add-ons if you think they will increase your chances of picking up one of the real money prizes on offer.

One Shot Slot Tournament – A typical One Shot slot tournament gives all entrants one chance of reaching a prize paying position on the tournaments leader board.

You will not be offered any Re-buys and Add-ons, and as such everyone who takes part in them will get a fair and equal chance of winning. This makes these types of slot tournaments the fairest ones offered online!

Survivor Slot Tournament – This type of slot tournament can be quite an exciting one for you to take part in, as they are multiple round slot tournaments, players who obtain the highest scores on each round will then be able to play in the next round.

One of the most commonly found Survivor slot tournaments in Microgaming casinos, will offer you, for your entry fee, a three round tournament, where the top 50% of entrants, those with the highest score in the first round, making it through to the second round.

The second round, when completed, will see the top 10 entrants in this round making it to the final round. Those finishing the final round with the highest scores will pick up one of the prizes as listed on the payout table.

Extender Slot Tournament – The beauty of Extender slot tournaments is that they will offer you the ability to purchase Adds-on and occasionally Re-buys. So once you have played your initial entry, you will then be able to continue playing from where you left off, or replay the tournament from scratch.

An example of an Extender slot tournament will see you paying a small entry fee and being credited with 5 minutes of playtime. The tournament will be activate for one hour, and three Re-buys and/or 5 Add-ons will be offered.

Reloader Slot Tournament – The most common type of Reloader slot tournament found at Microgaming software powered sites is made up of just one single round. This type of tournament will offer you Add-ons, which will give you a chance of increasing your score, however Re-buys will not be offered.

A typical Reloader tournament will be open for one hour, and for your initial entry fee you will be given five minutes of play time. The Re-buy fee is often the same as the initial entry fee and you can often Re-buy up to ten times during the tournament should you so wish.