Fireworks, watermelon, cook outs and online slots tournaments. What more could you want for you want for your 4th of July holiday week? Okay, well the fireworks and cookouts, and probably the watermelon, will have to wait until this weekend, but the online slots tournament has already begun!

VIP Slots is hosting a Slottery online slots tournament with the 4th of July in mind. If you enjoy online slots tournaments and want to celebrate America’s independence then you might want to check out this particular Slottery.

The Independence Slottery has begun at 7pm back on Monday, June 27th. But it will be running through 7pm on the 4th of July, with registration ending at 6pm on the 4th.

When it comes to money and this online slots tournament the entry fee is only $5 and it gives you a $75 tournament balance. As of the time of this writing, the prize pool was up to $1,969.80 with only 275 participants at this point in time. Rebuys are available for $10 and will add another $75 to your tournament balance should you run low at all.

Want to take a stab at guessing which Vegas Technology online slots game is being used in this online slots tournament? That is right—it is the five reel, nine payline Independence Day. This online slots game includes the Declaration of Independence, Uncle Sam, a Bald Eagle, and the Liberty Bell—and did I mention a rather odd image of George Washington? No, well this game has that too.

There are still four days to get in on this Independence Day Slottery. Drop by VIP Slots to register or just to enjoy listening to the Canon go BOOM when landed. Better turn your speakers up.

And do not forget, this online slots tournament ends at 7pm—plenty of time to catch a local fireworks show.

The Slottery is at VIP Slots. This is a weekly online slots tournament in which the game changes each week and so does the amount of the prize pool.

For slots players who are looking for a relatively inexpensive tournament to play in with a chance at a decent amount of prize money VIP’s Slottery is a good candidate. Players can enter this slots tournament for only $5 and receive a starting balance of $75.

This Week’s Slottery

This week’s Slottery began at 7pm on April 4th, but there is still to get in on this action since the slots tournament does not end until 7pm on April 11th.  Rebuys are available for those who need them: $5 will get a slots player another $75 to play with.

At the time of this writing, there were 477 slots players playing for a prize pool of $4,821.60. Only the top eight players will receive a portion of the prize. The breakdown of the prize pool is as follows:

1st place: $1,687.56
2nd place: $964.32
3rd place: $482.16
4th place: $361.62
5th place: $48.22
6th place: $24.11
7th place: 12.05
8th place: $4.02

Like with any Slottery, the game changes each week. This week’s game is Funky Chicken. This is a farm-themed five reel with twenty five paylines. Slots players will find the reels filled with Eggs, Tractors, Farm Houses and Angry Farmers—apparently the funky chicken keeps giving him trouble.

Slots players do have a Wild on their side, a Corn Field, which will substitute for all other symbols except the Scatter.

The Scatter is, of course, the Funky Chicken and landing three of him will trigger fifteen free spins to help build a slots player’s tournament bankroll and increase their standing.

Considering it only has a $5 entry fee, the Slottery is a reasonably priced online slots tournament for players to take a shot at the prize money.

I have to say that I was first annoyed when I dropped by VIP Slots, clicked on Tournaments and only saw a screen talking about all these chances you have to win at VIP in their tournaments…but did not show me their tournament schedule. I found that to be a bit of tease—I mean telling me all about all these ways to win in these great tournaments but not telling me a word about them.

It turns out you have to log in to the casino first to see their tournament schedule. So oops, my bad.

But once I logged in and clicked on Tournaments in the Lobby I was rather surprised when the schedule popped up—rather surprised and excited.

VIP’s tournament schedule is definitely new and improved! This new way of listing their tournaments is more detailed than their previous method of listing.

For example, VIP is hosting a St. Patrick’s Slottery at the moment. It started on March 14th and is running through the 21st.  It tells you the slots game being used, the start and end times, the entry fee, the stake and that rebuy is available and how much it is. Nothing new there.

But this new schedule gives you even more information. For example, at the time of this post, I can tell you that there are 362 people playing in the St. Patrick’s Slottery. You can enter this tournament up until 6pm on the 21st.  Your maximum number of rebuys is 100 at $5 a rebuy. The total prize pool is $3,345.00 divided up as such:

1st: $1,170.75
2nd: $669.00
3rd: $334.50
4th: $250.88
5th: $33.45
6th: $16.72
7th: $8.36
8th: $2.79

The Slotteries are always playing for The Pot, which is whatever contestants have paid in, including rebuys. The more people playing, the more The Pot is.

The great thing about the new way VIP lists their tournaments is that it gives you all this extra information that you did not used to have available, such as prize pool break down and the number of people playing. VIP also updates this every few minutes so that the information stays current.

The reason for this new method of giving tournament details is that some players were entering tournaments on multiple accounts, increasing their chances of winning and making the tournament unfair to others playing in it.

So a big hand to VIP for finding a way to stop this. Players can only view, and also enter, tournaments when logged in. They have put a stop to players entering multiple times.

Just having the extra details is nice, but to know that VIP is stepping up to the plate on behalf of their slots tournament players proves that they have earned their name of VIP Slots Casino.