If you’re looking for the easiest poker sites, there are plenty of online poker rooms to choose from, offering high-limit games and tournaments with massive prize pools. In order to regularly run in to tables playing these types of games, and to find tournaments with large payouts, you’ll need to choose a site with a bustling tournament schedule and a huge player base. Here are a few great sites that fit the description.
PokerStars
PokerStars is the place to be for frequent tournaments, big prize pools, and high stakes action. Of any poker site on the internet, PokerStars has the largest player base of people playing for real money. Each week, there are two massive tournaments: the Sunday Warm-Up with a guaranteed prize pool of $750,000, and the Sunday Million, with $1,500,000 in payout cash. High stakes games are competitive; the highest buy-in for a Sit And Go single-table tournament is $5,000. This means that the prize payout if you win will be enormous.
PokerStars offers a wide variety of game types to satisfy any card shark’s appetite. Game types include Omaha, Omaha Hi Lo, 7 Card Stud, Razz, HORSE, 8-Game Mix, Five Card Draaw, and variations of 2-7 are all included, as well as the poker juggernaut, Texas Hold’em. You can also accumulate VIP points to be spent on awesome prizes, such as a Porsche convertible.
Full Tilt Poker
Full Tilt Poker is another online poker site with a large player base and frequent high stakes tournaments. The site is a favorite among many pros, such as Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey, John Juanda, and Jennifer Harman. As with PokerStars, the biggest and best tournaments are held on Sunday. The action begins with the Sunday Brawl, in which you earn $40 for knocking a player out of the tournament. This is followed by the main event, the Sunday Guarantee, with a prize pool of $750,000. Players who get knocked out of the Guarantee will usually play in the Sunday Mulligan, a $200 buy-in tournament.
Smaller tournaments are also available at any time of day, some with only a single table. Entry fees vary, and scale in accordance with rising prize pools. Plenty of game types are available, including Hold’em, Omaha, Razz, Stud, and HORSE.
Party Poker
Party Poker has managed to maintain an enormous international player base, despite pulling out of the US market in 2006. Each week, the site offers a total of over $6,000,000 in guaranteed payouts. This includes a $300,000 Sunday tournament, as well as plenty of Sit And Go tournaments happening around the clock throughout the week.
Game types include Hold’em, Omaha, Seven Card Stud, and Seven Card Stud Hi Lo. Micro-limit games, such as one cent ring games, are not currently offered, but this won’t be much of an issue for players looking for high stakes tournaments.
Any of these sites will provide large payouts and enormous prize pools to skilled poker players. Competition on these sites is usually between soft and average in the lower and medium stakes games, but be aware the high-dollar Sunday tournaments will bring the pros out of the woodwork.
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