It’s a brilliant premise, actually: pay a specific fee on a monthly or yearly basis, enter unlimited tournaments with no buy-in (and therefore no real risk), and, through your poker skills, have a chance to win the cash and/or prize promotions available. It’s not gambling; it’s a competitive club.

And, speaking of US-Friendly poker tournaments, there are quite a few to choose from. No-Limit Hold-em is a site favorite, so you’ll see that several times on the list. What changes is what you are playing for, be it cash, points, prizes, or chips. It’s difficult to list all the online poker tournaments that make up the $100,000 monthly cash up for grabs, but here’s a quick idea:

• $10,000 Guaranteed Cash No-Limit Hold’em Tournaments
• Deepstack $2,000 Cash (every Saturday)
• WPT Boot Camps
• TAGTuesdays: The prize? TAGHeuer sunglasses worn by Formula One Champion Kimi Räikkönen.
• $200 Nooners: ClubWPT takes Hump Day seriously with a noon tournament worth a couple of Benjamins.

VIP members get access to all the cash and glory, including seats at the World Poker Tour live tournaments, but basic members, who pay nothing for their membership, can have a pretty good time with all the play money tables until they’re ready for a more committed experience.

Read more about ClubWPT as mentioned in our Poker Blog, which also includes a graphic that details which states are eligible to play at this forward-thinking online poker room.

Right now, you can take advantage of getting two weeks of the VIP experience for free. Play poker in peace already.

Starting on Sunday, May 8th at 9am EST and ending on Friday, May 13th at 9pm EST, this free online slots tournament is open to all players. While the tournament entry fee is waived, should you run out of credits, a tournament re-buy is available for $4.99.

The $25,000 Mother’s Day Freeroll tournament is features Lucky Lady online slots, a 5-reel, 9-payline online slot game with 2 wilds, a paying scatter, and a high-flying bonus game.

For more information on this Mom Day tournament and other Mom Day gaming festivities, check out this Mother’s Day Casino promotions page, which includes plenty of great ways to spend the holiday!

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Crazy Slot’s May Kickoff $15,000 Guaranteed Tournament

Starting at 10:30pm (EST) on Sunday, May 1st and going until May 6th at 10:30pm (EST), Crazy Slots is hosting its May Kickoff $15,000 Guaranteed online slots tournament, with seven full days of the 5-reel Wheel of Chance slot game.

Entry fee and re-buy are an affordable $6.99 each

Get up, enjoy your blissful Sunday morning, have some leisurely fun in the afternoon, and then make sure to log into the $15,000 Guaranteed online slots tournament at 10:30pm.

Crazy Slot’s Cinco de Mayo Slots Tournament

Get a piece of the action with the Cinco de Mayo online slots tournament. Starting on Thursday, May 5th at 9am (EST) and rolling through 11:30pm (EST), the Cinco de Mayo slots tournament features a low entry fee–just 55 Cents–and gives each player a chance at winning a percentage of the gathered pot. Rebuys are also just $.55.

To keep with the theme, the featured slot game for the tournament is La Cucharacha, a 5-reel, 25-payline online slots game.

Pour your tequila, enjoy some guacamole, and dip your chips into that pot jackpot. Buenos suerte!

More tournaments are coming down the pike next week, including a $25,000 Mother’s Day slots tournament and a Friday the 13th Special Slots Feature. Stay tuned!

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First there was the Hollywood Poker iPad promotion. Then came the Doyles Room iPad promotion. Now Bodog Poker happily jumps on the technology bandwagon (otherwise known as the Apple Cart) in its Cash PerSuit promotion where four lucky players will hop, skip, and brag away with brand new iPad2s.

I think it’s safe to say that the Apple iPad2 is the new currency for online poker rooms this year. Not that anyone is complaining.

The Bodog Poker iPad2 promotion not only awards the coveted touchscreen prize, it also gives online poker players a chance winning entry into the $10,000 freeroll tournament as well as a chance at straight cash.

Bodog’s Cash PerSuit starts on Monday, May 2nd and goes for four solid weeks. To get the best chances to win, Bodog poker players are encouraged to play daily to rack up as many player points as possible. Several cash bonus prizes, from $15 to $30 per week, are available for those players who consistently earn specific amounts of player points day after day.

It’s a good thing that earning Bodog Poker player points is easy. All you need to do is:

• Play in Ring Games. Contribute to a raked pot, and your player points will tally automatically.
• Play in Cash Tournaments. Get 3 points for every $1 paid in tournament fees paid.
• Just Play Poker. For every hour you spend playing at real money tables, you’ll earn additional poker points (and no, sitting out doesn’t count), up to 500 points per month. Time spent at play money tables and freeroll tournaments does not count toward the tally.

Players from the US, you’re in luck–Bodog Poker is a USA-friendly poker room. You, too, have a chance to grab life by the touchscreen.

Is an iPad2 in your future?

Almost.

The Sumo Weekend Tournament starts on April 22nd and runs until April 24th. The buy-in is $5 and the prize pool is whatever pot is generated. The more sugar-rushed, candy-coated online slots players that participate, the more money you can win!

In the spirit of the holiday, I’d be remiss not to mention SuperSlot’s $50,000 Egg Hunt tournament, which features the Funky Chicken slot game and runs through the month of April. With 9 days left of game play, online slots players have plenty to time to rack up a decent finish, especially with the bonuses Funky Chicken tends to drop.

Good luck and Happy Easter!

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Not only is April 14th the absolute last day to qualify for the Battle of the Forums €5,000 Freeroll Slot Tournament, it also marks the start date of this monumental event. For the next two weeks, players will be competing for their favorite forums (yours, we’re assuming is the Online Players Union–what other ones are there?) and for that lovely first place prize: €1000 and a ticket to the Grand Slam of Slots tournament (and its $2,000,000 prize pool).

All the details are on the Battle of the Forums tournament page, so make that your next stop. You’ll need to use your time wisely, which is why I’m keeping this blog post short so you can take advantage of all that the tournament has to offer. If you’re already signed up for ht Battle of the Forums, stop reading and start playing!

(P.S. The tournament is unfortunately not open to players from the US).

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Just kidding. But seriously, this is yet another free slots tournament in a long string of free slots tournaments hosted through Games and Casinos at some of the best casinos on Vegas Technology software. With nothing to lose, and some free cash to gain, I can’t think of a better way to spend an evening. (Well, only if Matthew McConaughy isn’t around).

All the free online slots tournament details are found on the $250 Exclusive GNC Tournament page at Games and Casino. I won’t bore you with a replay, since the details are nicely spelled out elsewhere, but here is the gist:

• Featured Slot Game: Beat the Bank online slots, a 5-reel, 25-payline game with solid jackpots and plenty of opportunities to play bonus games and free spins.
• Free Slots Tournament Timeframe: The tournament started on April 1st and goes through April 30th.
• Tournament prize pool: Top prize gets $75; prizes go through the top 20 participants.
• Tournament Buy-in: Absolutely free, as long as you’ve made a deposit to the participating casinos by April 15th.

Don’t you love getting paid for something you would be doing anyway? Then there’s no reason not to join in on the fun. Well, unless you’ve got Matthew McConaughey waiting in your living room. And then we wouldn’t blame you.

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This big money tournament features the popular Reel Deal slots (see our review of the Reel Deal slots game). Online slots players pay a $10 tournament buy-in to participate and will stake 325 coins at first. Re-buys are available for an additional $10.

If April showers have you home-bound this weekend, an online slots tournament like this one may be just what you need. In the meantime, keep an eye on Go Casino’s ever-updating online slots tournament calendar. It includes daily, weekly, and monthly tournaments with prize pools and entry fees of various sizes.

Right now, Go Casino is boasting over $470,000 in guaranteed slots tournament prizes for April alone. And, really, shouldn’t some of that be yours?

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Hollywood Poker has over $16,000,000 in monthly tournament payouts, including their weekly Championchip Tournament, which features $200,000 in guaranteed prize money. They ask if you’ve “got what it takes”. The real question may be whether or not you’re willing to put it on the line.

Players get a chance at the big cash every Sunday at 1pm EST via direct buy-in to the tournament ($190+10), playing in the daily satellites leading up to the event ($2.20 buy-in), or playing in the Sit & Go Step Qualifiers, which start with buy-ins as low as $.90+$.10.

The manner of entry will depend on the manner of player–do you have more time than money or more money than time, and are you willing to put one or both on the line in the hopes you soon won’t have to worry about either?

One of the best things about weekly big money poker tournaments is that while you may lose a game, you’ll never completely miss your shot. There will always be a tournament around the corner to challenge your skills and tempt you into dreaming big.

The week is young and there is still plenty of time to qualify for this Sunday’s $200,000 Guaranteed Tournament. Will this be the week you take the big one home?

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The Great Egg Hunt starts today, April 1st (no foolin’!) and goes until the last seconds of April 30th, 2011. Buy-in is $10. Prize pool is $50,000. (Yes, I’d be dancing the Funky Chicken, too–for luck or otherwise).

The first day of the month comes a with a flurry of excitement, in particular when it comes to the SuperSlots online slots tournament line-up. Every “day one” of the month comes with a brand new month-long tournament, as well as a whole host of daily, weekly, and week-endly (you know what I mean) slots tournaments that add a bit more zing to normal slots play.

If you’re not sure you can participate in a long haul slots tournament, don’t be afraid to jump into the daily “Play for the Pot” online slots tourneys that start at 12:01am and go until 10:59pm that day. The more people that play, the more money for everyone, so tell your friends!

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