The network of poker rooms do offer guaranteed tournaments, satellite tourneys, and ring games, which in turn keeps players of varied interest levels in poker engaged with the poker globe.

Guaranteed tournaments poker room is one in which the prize pool assured for the tournament will be paid by the room in case enough number of participants do not make the buy in for the tournament.  Normally, the prize pools is decided from the buy ins made by the players.  If the poker site is going to declare a $100,000 prize pool for the final table in the guaranteed tournament and if the players have made a buy in of $95,000 only, then the remaining $5,000 should be contributed by the poker site.  This kind of guaranteed tournaments is advantageous to players that are money conscious, and also there are many skilled professional players that play only in a poker room that offers guaranteed tournaments because they play based on hourly winning targets.  Seldom are they interested in tourneys that do not have any kind of guarantee.

Satellite tournament poker room is normally run by sponsors towards a targeted advertisement campaign.  The prize pool is usually the play money to play in live events.  Normally the poker site sponsors the play money for the winning player to play in a higher level championship.  When a player has made a winning in a satellite tournament, they will be usually playing like a poster child for the poker site.  If the player is going to win, it is going to be a matter of great fame for the sponsoring poker site.  And the site gets automatically advertised, it brings in more business to the site.  The satellite tournament has a two way advantage, it brings in hopes to increase the business traffic to the site and also makes the skilled player make money and win championships without the pressure of spending his own money.

The basic difference between a ring game poker room and a tournament poker room is that there is no time limit for ending the game in a ring game, it is at the disposal of the players’ wish, but in a tournament there is a pre-determined starting and ending time for the tournament. Players can freely have their own re-buy to play the games.  There is no fixed limit of starting chips like in a tournament poker room.