Guaranteed tournaments

The poker game has various tournament types and one of the most attractive is the guaranteed tournament.

The guaranteed poker tournament has a minimum prize pool so the players have the certitude of winning at least the designated amount of money regardless the number of players registered.

On regular tournaments the size of the prize pool is determined by the number of players registered to the tournament and the buy-in. For example in a 10 players regular tournament with $5.00 + $0.50 buy-in, the prize pool is 10 x $5.00 = $50.00.

In a $10,000 guaranteed tournament with $100 + $9 buy-in and maximum 2,000 runners the minimum prize pool of $10,000 will be divided to the winners no matter the number of the runners. So if the tournament has only 20 players registered they have more chance to win the same money prizes and if the tournament has 2,000 players registered then the prize pool to be divided is 2,000 x $100 = $200,000.

All major poker rooms have many guaranteed tournaments. Usually you can find this kind of tournaments daily starting from $100 prize pool with $1.00 + $0.10 buy-in and can go up to $1,500,000 prize pool weekly or monthly tournaments. All poker rooms also offer to the players the opportunity of entering big guaranteed tournaments for free by qualifying through satellite tournaments.

Titan Poker offers over $ 16 million monthly in guaranteed tournaments. The biggest guaranteed is $250,000 Guaranteed Freezeout NL with $300 + $20 buy-in. This tournament gathers around 1,000 players every Sunday.

One of the biggest poker guaranteed tournament online is $1,500,000 Guaranteed offered by PokerStars with just $215 buy-in. This tournament started as Sunday Million but because so many players wanted to participate, PokerStars decided to boost it up to $1,500,000. This tournament has at least 7,500 runners every week and is considered to be one of the best tournaments online because of poor players signing in.