Slots tournaments are played out both in brick and mortar casinos on slot machines and in online casinos using online slots games. And while the differences between the two styles of tournaments differ, the means with which slots tournaments are conducted—the slots games—are a bit different.

Online slots allow players more control over their bankroll. By that I mean that when a player is done playing, there simply sign out of the online casino. When playing on slot machines, players have to remember to retrieve their player card from the machine, otherwise their player card—and therefore their bankroll and winnings—could be picked up by whoever plays next. And while this is against the policy of casinos, it does not always stop players from taking another player’s card. In this aspect online slots are more secure.

But furthermore, there is more variety in slots games to choose from. While there is no shortage of choices in a casino, slot machines are more expensive to produce and maintain; whereas with online slots, the games are in an electronic form and do not require near the cost to produce and maintain. This leaves the developers of online slots game more time and more money to spend on developing new games.

As a result there are new online slots games every month from the most well-known software developers, such as Microgaming, Vegas Technology, Real Time Gaming and Rival Gaming. This means more slots for players to choose from, as well as more choices for their online slots tournaments.

So what online slots mean for slots tournaments is more variety for a fresher tournament offering and well as more regular tournament offerings.

No, it is not ghost money. VIP Slots really is giving away $100,000 in their latest online slots tournament, the Haunted 100K.

This is yet another Halloween online slots tournament that is being hosted this month. Actually this particular slots tournament is running all month. The spinning of the reels and movement on the leader board began on the October 1st. And the reels will continue to spin and players continue to move around on the leader board through 12:01 am on November 1st.

The $100,000 will be broken down among the top seven playing players. But there will be bonus money awarded to the remaining top ten places. Some places will have multiple winners, but the top five places will only have one winner. Here is the breakdown of the prize pool and bonus money:

Cash Prizes:
1st place: $50,000
2nd place: $10,000
3rd place: $5,000
4th place: $2,500
5th place: $1,000
6th place: $500
7th place: $250

Bonus Money:
8th place: $100
9th place: $50
10th place: $10

To go along with the Halloween theme of this month long online slots tournament, VIP Slots selected one of Vegas Technology’s appropriately themed slots games. The slots game for this tournament is called Black Magic.

Black Magic is a creepy five reel online slots game with twenty five paylines. It incorporates symbols associated with evil witchcraft, such as Bats, Snakes and Skulls. With its creepy, crawly dark symbols its atmosphere is perfect for a Halloween online slots tournament. Good choice on VIP Slots’ part.

Entry into this tournament is $10 and it will give players a starting tournament balance of $500. For any player who spins through that, rebuys are available for $10 each and each rebuy is worth another $500.

This is one Halloween party that you do not need a costume for. Though if you want to sit in front of your computer with a mask, go right ahead. VIP Slots has done a marvelous job putting their Haunted 100K together—it will be a fun online slots tournament to play in. That is if the creepy crawlies in the slots game do not scare you away.

Yes! They are finally here! Halloween online slots tournaments!

Online casinos will use just about any holiday to host an online slots tournament. And slots players typically do not mind at all.

While this announcement is a bit early, Go Casino will be hosting their Halloween Weekend this month. It will begin on Friday, October 29th at 8 pm, and will end on Monday, November 1st at 12 pm.

Go has done everything that they could to put the creepiness of Halloween into this slots tournament.

For starters the prize pool is $66,666. Now they could have gone for an even $666,666 but that might be pushing superstition and luck. So players can spin the reels to try to win a share of that $66,666.

And what reels are players spinning? Why it should be no surprise that Go would pull out the most Halloween-y online slots game that their Vegas Technology powered arsenal has: Monster Money.

Monster Money is a five reel, twenty five payline online slots game with a Dr. Frankenstein theme. This slots game comes complete with body parts, bolts and other science paraphernalia associated with a mad scientist bringing a body to life. Players have the bonus game with creepy doors to open in a haunted house on their sides to help boost them up the leader board.

Going along with the intent to create a creepy yet fun environment for their Halloween online slots tournament, Go set the entry fee at $6.66. This $6.66 entry fee will give players 300 tournament credits to play with. Should anyone run out there are rebuys available…for $6.66, of course.

While it is still a couple of weeks away, there is plenty of excitement surrounding this spook-tacular Halloween Weekend online slots tournament at Go Casino.

Often times players will play in online slots tournaments at the online casino where they already have an account. It is just easier that way. After all, they already have their player account set up and money deposited there.

But sometimes players want to see what is being offered at other online casinos. Often times they are looking for either a freeroll online slots tournament or a tournament with a large prize pool to play in.

And then there are online slots players who are new to the online casino world and who are still settling in. Perhaps they have not found an online casino to call home yet.

The point is that online casinos often use their tournaments—especially their freeroll online slots tournaments and big prize pool tournaments—to bring in new members to their casino. After all, nowhere is it written that players are only allowed to play at one online casino.

All that being said, it is important for online casinos to have their tournament schedules easily accessible. And the majority of online casinos do so. They will at least have the start and end times, the prize pool, entry fee, rebuys and game played posted. Some online casinos offer more about their tournaments than just those details, but it is accessible only after logging in.

But at least the basic information is there.

Unfortunately, Rushmore’s tournament schedule is only accessible when logged in to a real money account. This means that if a potential player does not have a real money account, he or she cannot view any information about the tournaments.

Granted, Rushmore just switched their tournament provider earlier this year so that online slots tournaments are new. I am hoping that they will make their schedule more easily accessible because it is a fine online casino to play at and is supported by Real Time Gaming.

Rushmore is offering their usual three online slots tournaments throughout the next week every day: Crystal Waters, Loose Caboose and Texan Tycoon. These three online slots tournaments have not changed in format since I wrote about them a few weeks ago. They are decent online slots tournaments and meet the needs of a range of players, from novices to high rollers.

Do you find yourself awake late at night? Perhaps you just cannot sleep. Maybe a little action will be enough to make you sleepy. If that is the case there is action to be had seven nights a week at Online Vegas. Online slots tournament action I mean.

One of the online slots tournament series that is hosted at Online Vegas is called the Red Eye Pot Percentage. And as the name suggests, these online slots tournaments go in to the wee hours of the morning.

Each one of these Red Eye online slots tournaments begins at 12:30 am and ends at 8:30 am the same day. And there is one every night. Or every morning depending upon how you look at it.

As also suggested by the name, players are playing for a percentage of the pot. So the more night owls that are up playing, the larger the post. Of course, the less there are the better your chances are of winning that pot. This might be an easy online slots tournament in which to pick up a bit of real money winnings.

To get in on the late night action players need to register for whichever Red Eye they want to play in and pay the $2.99 entry fee. That $2.99 gives players 250 tournament credits to play with. Rebuys are available for $2.99.

Online Vegas as selected seven of its Vegas Technology online slots games for this online slots tournament series, one for each night of the week:

Sunday: Eastern Dragon
Monday: Winter Wonderland
Tuesday: Parrot Party
Wednesday: Tiki Lounge
Thursday: Northern Lights
Friday: Butterflies
Saturday: Fire Hawk

Really it is clever of Online Vegas to offer such an online slots tournament series. Night owls will like what is most likely a diminished competition. And it does give you the chance of winning some real money when you happen to be up late.

Flying in the face of all schooling, VIP Slots is calling their month long online slots tournament $lot$ tember. Yes, all of my English teachers would be very not pleased too.

I am sure that the name of this online slots tournament is VIP Slots’ way of rebelling against the fact that schools traditionally resume in early September. Way to go, VIP!

$lot$ tember began back on September 1st and will run through the entire month of September, ending at 12:01 am on October 1st. So plenty of time for interested online slots players to join in the flouting of conventional English.

Entry into this online slots tournament is set at $10, which gives the player $75 in tournament credits to spin the reels with.

VIP is also offering rebuys to those players who find themselves in need of more tournament credits. Another $75 in credits can be yours for another $10. Players can each make a maximum number of 1,000 rebuys. Hey, there has to be a cut off at some point.

And of course with this being a month long online slots tournament, $lot$ tember is offering some nice cash prizes and bonus cash prizes:

1st place: $50,000
2nd place: $20,000
3rd place: $7,500
4th place: $2,500
5th place: $1,000
6th place: $500
7th place: $100 bonus cash
8th place: $50 bonus cash
9th place: $25
10th place: $10

You have got to love an online slots tournament that is awarding cash prizes, even if the hosting online casino is flying in the face of spelling conventions.

In all seriousness many online casinos are switching to awarding bonus cash instead of cash prizes. This is most likely due to a poor economy with less people gambling online.

Right now there are 801 players registered and spinning the reels on Beat the Bank, the online slots game being used for this tournament. This is a five reel online slots game produced by Vegas Technology with twenty five paylines.

There is still plenty of time to drop by VIP Slots and get in on this online tournament and to support the charming misspelling of September in their $lot$ tember online slots tournament.

Would you like a piece of that 100K for your labors?

Go Casino is pulling out all the stops for their Labor Day online slots tournament. Everything a slots player could want from an online slots tournament is here:

First the Labor Day online slots tournament is a freeroll tournament. There is no entry fee to get in on the Labor Day fun. And with $100,000 up for grabs, what is not to lose? Registering for this freeroll online slots tournament will get players 75 tournament credits for free to play with. Should anyone run out and wish to continue in the tournament, rebuys are available for $12.99.

Second this is no here and gone online slots tournament. Players have a whole week to play with their 75 credits—or with the credits they get through rebuys.

The Labor Day Freeroll will begin at 10 pm this Friday, September 3rd, and will run through 10:45 pm next Friday, September 10th. This gives players a whole week to take part in this freeroll and take their shot at a piece of that 100K.

Third, this freeroll online slots tournament has a prize pool of $100,000. Typically Go’s highest prize pool in a month is only $75,000, with $50,000 on their other tournaments. But this month the prize pools have turned. This month Go is paying out $100,000 on this freeroll tournament, and only paying out $30,000 for their other three weekend tournaments. So if you want your shot at a high prize this Labor Day freeroll is for you.

Go’s Labor Day freeroll is going to be played out on California Gold, a five reel online slots game from Vegas Technology with twenty five paylines. The strike it rich theme of this online slots game works perfectly with the Labor Day Freeroll that Go Casino is hosting.

Free entry, $100,000 up for grabs and a week to play—who could not ask for more from an online slots tournament?

Back in April there was a disagreement between Real Time Gaming and 21Gnet, the provider for Real Time’s tournaments. The disagreement was settled by Real Time and 21Gnet severing their working relationship, and Real Time was left to find a new tournament provider. The cost of this disagreement was the online blackjack tournaments at Rushmore Casino.

But online slots players had nothing but good things to say about the switch in tournament providers as it ushered in a new tournament era at Rushmore: the online slots tournament era.

That is right, Rushmore now offers online slots tournaments to their players. They are just still getting their wings off the ground with it though, and are only offering three types of daily online slots tournaments:

The first is called Loose Caboose and is the least expensive of Rushmore’s new online slots tournaments. Players register for Loose Caboose for $1.10. From that entry fee, $1 goes into the pot to be won by a player, and the $0.10 goes to Rushmore.

The Momma Bear-sized Rushmore slots tournament is called Crystal Waters. Players can enter this tournament for $5.50. Similar to Loose Caboose, $5 goes into the pot and the remaining $0.50 goes to Rushmore.

The biggest online slots tournament offered to players is called Texan Tycoon. This one costs $11 to play in, with $10 going into the prize pool and $1 being held onto by Rushmore.

All three of these online slots tournaments are offered on a rotation, with one starting at the top of each hour and the next starting on the next hour all day.

Each tournament is played out on the online slots game that it is named for and all were created by Real Time Gaming.

Upon registering, a player is given 10,000 tournament credits and have ten minutes to play with their credits. They can play their ten minutes at any time during the four hour tournament. Whoever carries the highest tournament balance at the end of the four hours receives a portion of the prize pool.

The more players there are the larger the prize pool goes. Right now the tournaments are very small with maybe a dozen players at most, but this can be owed to the fact that these are new online slots tournaments at an online casino that did not used to host slots tournaments. So I guess we shall have to see how the Rushmore online slots tournaments turn out over the next several months.

August offers up some of the hottest weather of the summer. And to show they are not afraid of the late summer heat, Online Vegas is hosting its own hot online slots tournament. This online tournament is hot both in terms of its prize pool and its entry fee.

The name of this online slots tournament? Online Vegas’s Hot August Freeroll.

Yes, this is a freeroll online slots tournament. Players only have to register to receive their one hundred tournament credits.

The Hot August Freeroll began last Friday, August 13th at 8 pm, but there are still two days left to play as it does not end until Friday, August 20th at 7:45 pm. And considering this is a freeroll online slots tournament, the chance to play is worth it. Tournament veterans can enjoy playing while those who are new to online slots tournaments can use it for practice if nothing else. But who does not want a free shot at a piece of that $75,000?

For the Hot August Freeroll, Online Vegas has chosen Fire Hawk as the online slots game that this tournament will be played out on. Fire Hawk was created by Vegas Technology, and is a five reel online slots game with twenty five paylines.

Considering that this is a freeroll online slots tournament there is no excuse not to play out the free one hundred tournament credits. After all, the prize pool is $75,000. That is $45,000 more than Online Vegas’s usual tournament prize pool. With a prize pool that high and this being a freeroll, this is one online tournament at Online Vegas that anyone can play in.

How much time do you have for your lunch? Most people only have an hour. For those who like to play online slots, they might play during their lunch, but it just does not seem productive since an hour does not offer a long enough time to play.

Now imagine that you could play in an online slots tournament within your lunch break and not miss a moment of the tournament action.

Such a thing is possible with the new online slots tournaments being offered by VIP Slots. Every single Sunday, Monday and Friday they host a tournament series called Quick Slots. Each tournament runs for only 45 minutes. So you could take your lunch break, sign in to VIP, join one of these online slots tournaments and 45 minutes later be the winner and end your lunch with a lot more money.

Another high point to these Quick Slots online slots tournaments is that they only cost $0.50 to enter. These are affordable online slots tournaments that are over and down with in quick order. And that means that the winners do not have to wait for three or four days to know they have won or to receive their winnings.

The Quick Slots online slots tournaments run several times each Sunday, Monday and Friday as so:

12pm-12:45pm
1pm-1:45pm
2pm-2:45pm
3pm-3:45pm
4pm-4:45pm
5pm-5:45pm
6pm-6:45pm
7pm-7:45pm
8pm-8:45pm
9pm-9:45pm

As for winnings, players are playing for the pot in this online slots tournament. Even though it does not award as much as some of the larger tournaments, these Quick Slots are fast and inexpensive to enter. And players are awarded money rather than more bonus cash to use at VIP.

It is easy to get in on this Quick Slots online slots tournament action. Drop by VIP Slots, sign in and register for the time frame you want to play this tournament in. Oh knows, you might find yourself with some extra cash at the end of your lunch break.