Free poker tournaments are becoming more and more popalar with just about every poker operator going. They offer a great way for everyone to learn tournament poker with no risk to there own money and with the chance of taking home a nice pot.

Poker tournaments come in various shapes and sizes, starting from the smaller sit’n go tournaments which start as soon as enough players are seated to the huge scheduled tournaments which can contain thousands of players battling it out to reach that final table.

Most poker tournaments are simply knockout tournaments, where you are given a set amount of chips to play with and as soon as you have lost them all to other players you get kicked from the tournament. You also get some tournaments which offer the ability to rebuy or top-up your stack, although this will cost you additional money it will give you another chance to compete for the big prize

Most poker rooms will offer a good selection of free tournament games throughout the day (and night) as well as the occasional special tournament with much bigger prize funds. You will also find that nearly all poker rooms will give you an exclusive new player freeroll tournament, which normally has a quite high prize fund but is limited to players who are new to the poker room or have never taken advantage of the new player poker tournament with that poker room before.

The odds of you taking a prize on these new player freerolls is normally much higher than normal tournaments because of the restriction on player entry.