PokerStars launches European Poker Tour Season 7 Satellites

It is that time of the year again. After a highly successful Season 6, the European Poker Tour is launching the much anticipated Season 7. Although at press-time all the events and specifics are not nailed down, it looks like the new Season 7 will include 13 events! From London to Berlin to the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, players will be able to find an event in the destination of their choice.

The European Poker Tour satellites are being run in Euro currency only. Players will need to set up a Euro account through PokerStars in order to play in these satellites [as well as any other non-satellite games and tournaments they offer in Euros]. Part of the reason they decided to do this was because many players were getting really hurt by the conversion fees that PokerStars had to charge last year during the EPT’s Season 6.

Micro and Low Buy-In Tournaments at PokerStars

PokerStars is the largest online poker site. Not only does this mean there are more players playing at PokerStars, but it also means that they offer more tournaments each day, week and month.

This, of course, means that there is a much larger selection of micro and low buy-in for players who endeavor to increase their bankrolls and skills. Certainly, the play at these levels are nowhere near that of the higher events offered at PokerStars like the weekly Sunday Million or the Super Tuesday, but it is a great primer for increasing your skills, especially if you are looking to move up in buy-ins and prizepools. For those players who just like to play, but don’t want to spend too much of their bankroll, PokerStars offers a huge selection of weekly events.

Although the focus of this third installment in Micro and Low Buy-In MTT series is guaranteed prizepool tournaments, PokerStars offers many more non-guarantees each day. Players can, of course, find freerolls and tournaments as low as a nickel! All of the guaranteed prizepool tournaments here are under $20. However, dependent on your rebuy strategy, some tournaments here may actually exceed the $20 threshold. Once again, the focus is on fullring tournaments.

PokerStars guarantees seldom offer overlays. Those that do usually are the result of other things going on. A perfect example is the fall-off of traffic due to events like the World Series of Poker. With the amount of traffic at PokerStars, most tournaments shatter their guarantees, especially at these buy-ins.

Micro and Low Buy-In Tournaments at Full Tilt Poker

Full Tilt Poker offers a deep schedule of Micro and Low Buy-In tournaments on a daily and weekly basis. The tournaments listed here generally convey guaranteed prizepools. Although there are many very good non-guaranteed tournaments each day on Full Tilt Poker, the focus is on the guarantees.

Full Tilt Poker is i n a very good situation with regards to Micro and Low Buy-In tournaments. Although they are the second largest poker site on the internet, there are many advantages to playing here that are not present in smaller or larger player bases.

On the one hand, the numbers of players at Full Tilt Poker allows them to continue to offer these tournaments as the guarantees are met by the players. This allows Full Tilt Poker the opportunity to expand the tournaments offered as well as increase their guarantees.

On the other hand, the player base is not so huge that every time you get into a tournament you face 5,000 or more players and have to step lightly through the minefield of such huge fields.

Their guarantees have been broken down into groupings. Within each grouping I will attempt to explain the tournaments available.