The Best Sites for Online Poker Tournaments

No-Limit Texas Hold 'em tournaments are growing quickly in popularity. It is probably the most popular form of poker today. Its boom can probably be attributed to the fact that most televised tournaments, including the WSOP main event, are NLHE (no-limit hold 'em) tournaments. This type of poker required a different strategy than cash games, as players must not only battle each other, but also the ever-increasing blinds. For further tournament strategy, go to our original poker strategy section. You can also see a breakdown of each site's tournament offerings in our online poker reviews.

TOP CHOICE
Poker Stars is easily the best site for tournaments. If you're a member here, you don't really need to ever open up another site to play a variety of events. Besides the everyday guaranteed events, they also host massive $1,000,000+ tournaments a few times every year. They host the most and the best tournaments online. View our full Poker Stars review.

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Available to U.S. Players.

#2 CHOICE
Party Poker also excels in tournaments due to their massive traffic. We're impressed with their range in tournament offerings, as smaller players will be able to find a good number of events. Alternatively, serious tournament players will find big events with plenty of other players. Overall, both their multi-table tournaments and Sit 'n Gos are very popular. View more tournament details in our full Party Poker review.

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Not available to US players.

Try Bodog or Mansion.

#3 CHOICE
As Pacific Poker has been gaining in general popularity, their tournament traffic has grown as a result. They've recently added a huge $200,000 guaranteed weekly event as well as daily $15,000 and $30,000 tournaments. Other than that, they tend to host tourneys every 15 minutes or so for a variety of buy-ins. Most events attract a large number of participants, which equates to big prize pools. View our full Pacific Poker review.

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