Poker sites base their marketing efforts around big money tournaments and this is hardly any surprise as poker tournaments are the backbone of online poker. Some of the bigger poker sites have the ability to sponsor and host some of the biggest online poker tournaments in the world while other smaller sites concentrate on offering regular quality tournaments to their patrons to facilitate frequent play. We take a look at a few of the best tournament touting sites below.

Full Tilt Poker

One of the most prominent poker sites is Full Tilt Poker.com that offers millions of dollars in guaranteed money every week culminating in their Sunday $750,000 Guaranteed(which turns into a $1Million Guarantee on the last Sunday of each month). Many unique tournaments such as Bounty where players receive bonuses for knocking other players out are available. Cashout tournaments also exist where withdrawal from the tournament can be at any time and one still receives a cash prize equivalent to the value of their chips at withdrawal. Unique to Full Tilt Poker is the automatic dealmaker, whereby if a player goes deep in a tournament they can make deals at the table without waiting for support to arrive and this can take anywhere between 10 and 15 minutes. This site offers tournaments in a variety of games such as Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Razz, Card Stud etc.

Player traffic is quite high and during peak times there can be up to 60,000 tournaments and 10,000 cash game players found at the money tables. The quality of players tends to be a bit tighter which even though it does not denote necessarily good players, they are harder to beat. The software available runs smoothly and is easy to navigate. Full Tilt Poker has one of the best bonuses-100percent up to $600 by either visiting the site or using the sign up code. Every few months, additional 50% bonuses are offered. Full Tilt customers support is 24 hours with fast response times.

Absolute Poker.com

This site runs dozens of poker tournaments with buy-ins for as low as $0.50. Small buy-in tournaments get a few hundred entrants with the owner getting about 300 times their buy-in. Absolute Poker.com offers tournaments throughout the week. If you prefer bigger stakes, everyday they run a $33 rebuy tournament with a $8,000 guarantee, a $55 one with a $15,000 guarantee and a $25 with a $10,000 guarantee. Sunday stakes are higher with a $30 tournament with a $100,000 guarantee, $215 with a $200,000 and a $130 bounty with a $40,000

The site is top of the log when it comes to bonuses even offering a generous sign up bonus followed by a steady stream of redeposit offers. Due to this, one can expect to find skilled opponents at your table but not everyone. Software wasn’t always their best selling point as in the beginning it would slow down an older computer but over time this has been looked into such that it wouldn’t prevent one from accessing the site. Customer support is also up to speed.

PokerStars.com

This site is excellent for total tournament volume as well as largest online poker tournaments week in week out i.e. they have over $6Million in guaranteed tournament prize money inclusive of their Sunday $1.5Million guaranteed tournament. Other notables include Super Tuesday ($400,000 guaranteed and $1050 buy-in) and Wednesday Quarter Million ($250,000 guaranteed with a $320 buy-in). Casual players can also be interested by playing the many small poker tournaments. They also offer tournaments in Stud, Razz, and Omaha etc.