Tournaments in online gambling usually are thought of as slot tournaments only. Vegas Technology, however, hosts a wealth of table and card game tournaments. This month there is something super special going on for both video poker and blackjack in the way of tournaments at Grand Vegas. Grand Vegas is an online casino using Vegas Technology software. This the most recent Vegas Technology powered casino to be launched, and USA players are accepted. Grand Vegas is fully licensed and regulated by the gaming authority in Curacao.
The video poker tournaments are referred to as the $2,5000 BB Guaranteed tournaments. The competitions will run 24 hours a day and there will be four tournaments a week. Players must pay an entry fee and show off their skills to climb to the top of the leaderboard. Luck will also have a lot to do with the results and players will go head to head with other players at the casino to win their share of the prize pool. The event starts April 12th and will start off with 100 hand Joker Poker. Then on Thursday April 14th there will be another tournament on Deuces Wild. On the weekend both Multi-hand Deuces Wild and Aces and Faces will be on Saturday and Sunday.
The entry fee for these tournaments are only $1.99 and there are unlimited amounts of rebuys available. The chip stack will start at $100, but the rebuys will have a starting stack of $175. The prize pool of $2,500 will be paid out as bonus money and the winners will have the prizes in their bonus balance. The top 500 players that place in the competition will walk away with a piece of the prize pool, the first place winner will win $350.
Also, blackjack tournaments will be held starting on the 13th. The first game in the Blackjack Pot Percentage competition will be Vegas Strip Blackjack. After this tournament takes place, there will others that will run 24 hours, for 3 days a week. The next online competition will start on Friday the 15th and the variant for this tournament will be Perfect Pairs.
Grand Vegas is the only Vegas Technology offering these tournaments and the blackjack competitions will not have a guaranteed prize pool. It will be a percentage of the prize pool, and the first 41 players on the leaderboard will be awarded 15% of the prize. The entry fee for this tournament is only $0.99 , but the rebuys cost $2.49.
