How to Get the Most From Microgaming's Tournament Pokies

Added: September 5, 2014

One of the big changes that has happened over the past couple of years in the online casino world is the focus to the tournament format for different types of games. There are many different events that are called tournaments, and many of them aren't really tournaments at all. This is something you see a lot with leaderboard promotions and competitions that are based on how much you wager total instead of having a true tournament format. Microgaming focuses on the real tournaments, and their progress in this area has been really amazing.

If you want to get the most from these tournament pokies that they have been coming out with, and if you want to get the most from their tournaments themselves, then there are a few things you need to know. First, the format for these events are based on how tournament pokies themselves are created. Microgaming comes out with a new tournament pokie at least once a month, and these allow you to put up a set entry fee for a number of tournament chips. You play through these chips with bet sizes that are however large you want, and you try to run your score up as high as you can.

This brings us to another part of playing these events, and that's strategy. You don't typically think of strategy as being a major part of working with pokies, but in the tournament environment, that changes up a little bit. Instead of trying to get the highest score possible, your goal in these events is to try to maximize the piece of the prize pool that you get, and though it may seem like these are the same thing, they really aren't, and we're going to show you some examples of why that is.

There are two example cases that can happen 2/3 the way through your tournament chips that really show off how strategy can make a difference. In the first case, suppose you've hit some big wins and are already in the money. Then you should use small bet sizes to get a steady bump in your wins to maximize your return. However, if you have hardly any winnings, you should ramp up the bet sizes to make a final last-ditch effort to run yourself up into the money. If you follow this general idea, you'll get the most from these events.