Slot Tournament Tips

All slot machines are completely random, and as such if you are considering taking part in an online slot tournament, then you may be thinking that there is not much more you can do, than just sit there are click the spin button of the slot game and hope for the best.

However, there are quite a few slot tournament tips we can give you, that may just help you get you into a prize paying position on many different slot tournaments leader boards. We cannot of course guarantee this, however below you will find a selection of our top hints and tips for playing in slot tournaments.

When to Play Slot Tournaments

Slot tournaments are up and running 24 hours a day at all Microgaming software powered casinos, the time of day you choose to enter and take part in them can often mean the difference in you picking up a cash prize or not!

The more entrants that are taking part in any slot tournament will have a direct effect of your over all chances of being placed in a prize paying position on that tournaments leader board.

Our first tip is for you to consider entering slot tournaments during the quieter times of the day or night, as at these times fewer players are online and playing, and that simple fact alone will increase your winning chances.

Consider Using Add-ons

Some of the savvier online slot tournament entrants will use Add-ons to increase their chances of picking up a prize. In fact some players have been known to constantly buy their way to the top of the leader board and guarantee themselves a big cash payout.

They do this by allocating as much time as possible to take part in the slot tournaments, and will simply play them in such a way that as soon as their timer has reached zero, or they run out of tournament credits, they will then keep on purchasing Add-ons to let them carry on playing, and therefore acquire a better score.

It will however, take luck in regards to getting a good score, but by continually purchasing Add-ons your winning chances will increase, along with the score achieved via the Add-ons.

Look out for players whose user names are always at the top of the leader board, as these players have done the maths, and are buying Add-ons nonstop!

Satellite and Qualifier Slot Tournaments

Many of the larger paying slot tournaments you will find online can be quite expensive to enter. However you could win your way into these tournaments by Satellite or Qualifier tournaments, which are held in the days or weeks before the main slot tournament begins.

This can often be a very cost effective way of securing a free entry into one of these larger paying slot tournaments, as occasionally these qualifiers are free to enter.

Obviously as is the way with all free roll tournaments, they are often fully subscribed, so the actual odds of you winning such a free roll qualifier will be very low, never the less they can often be worth entering when you have some free time, and as such you will have nothing to lose by entering them.

Slot Tournament Strategy

You should consider having a strategy in place when you are taking part in any form of online slot tournament, and we will now enlighten you on several different things you should consider doing before and during your tournament play.

When you are going to take part in a slot tournament, then make sure you have some funds in your casino account. The reason for us saying this is that should you decide to purchase either a Re-buy or an Add-on then you will not need to go through the banking system to make a deposit, which will slow you down.

By having some funds already available in your casino account, should you then decide to purchase a Re-buy or Add-on, then you can do this instantly without the need of going through the cashiers interface to add funds into your account!

Another handy piece of advice, is before the tournament starts, make sure you have closed down any additional applications which you may have running on your computer.

Depending on your computers power, running additional and unrelated applications alongside the casino software may often result in the speed at which the slots play being much slower than is normal.

You need to play as many spins as possible during any slot tournament, and any computer program or application which affects this should be switched off!

Try not to use the auto play feature if it is offered on the tournament slot machine which is used in the slot tournament you have entered. Often there will be a slight delay between each spin on the auto play setting, and this will once again slow down the number of spins you can make.

Another thing which can slow down the slot is when you have spun in a winning combination, as the credits as counted up on the screen, make sure you click your mouse onto the slot screen to stop this count up of credits!

Sit and Go Slot Tournaments

The best slot tournaments to take part in, if you want a 50/50 chance of winning, are the head to head Sit and Go tournaments. When you take part in these types of tournaments you will be playing against just one fellow player, and as such you will have an even money chance of winning!

Be aware however, that the casino will often take a small commission out of both your opponents and your own entry fee, and as such you will not get an even money payout should you win one of these slot tournaments.

However, the commission fee charged is often relatively small and as such these types of online slot tournaments are great fun to enter and you get a fair chance of winning them!