How Much Money Can I Make in a Poker Tournament?

Let me start off by saying, that I can’t quantify how much money you can make in a poker tournament. I don’t know you, I don’t know your playing style, and I don’t know the stakes you like. What I do know is that you will make far more money playing tournaments than you ever would playing traditional cash games at the casino. The stakes are higher in a tournament, the entry fees are often low, and the chances of placing are pretty good for a player with decent strategy.

Before we get too far into this, I would like to state that I am talking about online poker tournaments. There is no way that you could play enough brick and mortar tournaments to make anywhere the amount that you would need to play expenses. If you want to make a steady income from poker, or even use it as your career, you need to dedicate some serious amounts of time to online tournaments.

Let’s talk about how this is possible. With an online tournament (or even multiple tournaments at once) you get to play low risk, high reward games to your heart’s content. Add to the equation the fact that fish swarm online tournaments for their chance to be the next great poker star, and you have a winning combination. Online tournaments are your best ticket to a steady poker income.