This tournament will start Saturday, March 3rd at 3pm ET and ends Sunday, March 4th at 3pm ET. However, you will need to per-register for this tournament by Wednesday, February 29th at 3pm ET.

This is being listed under Pay Slots Tournaments even though it is a freeroll. This is because you will need to make a qualifying deposit of $50 or more to be eligible to register and play in this slot tournament.

The registration will open for the freeroll on Saturday, March 3rd at 3pm ET.

This is the way that this Slot Tournament will be played:

1) Click here to visit the Casino Titan slot tournament sign up page.

2) Make a deposit of $50 or more.

3) Select the March Madness Slots Tournament $5,000 Depositor Slots Freeroll and click pre-register before Wednesday, Feb 29 at 3pm ET.

4) Register for this slot tournament as soon as you can after the registration opens (Saturday, March 3rd at 3:00pm ET). This is because only the first 1,000 participates will be able to register. I would guess that you would at least have about an hour before the 1,000 spots are filled.

4) Enter the slot tournament sometime between 3pm ET Saturday and 3pm ET Sunday. Once you register, you can play anytime before 3pm ET on Sunday.

You are going to have a total of 10 minutes of playtime and 5,000 in Starting Chips. Basic math tells us that you will need to average about 500 chips per minute.

There are a couple of basic strategies that you can follow:

1) Bet the maximum amount (100) every spin. If you don’t get a bonus round, you will probably finish after about 4 or 5 minutes.

2) Bet the 2nd highest amount (25) to start. The idea is that you spin with a lesser amount if you think the reels will start off cold. You would change your betting to the maximum spin when your spidey-sense is tingling. The trick is always to hit the bonus round with a maximum bet.

3) Bet the lowest amount (10) if the reels don’t pay out anything for more than 3-5 times. The idea is not to waste the credits while there’s nothing to be won. It takes 10 spins at the lowest amount to equal one maximum bet. Still, if you hit the bonus round at the low bet, you probably won’t have a good chance to win.

If you would like to learn about these types of slot tournaments, take a look at this similar tournament at Silver Oak.

They use the same software for their slot tournaments as Silver Oak casino (called Real Time Gaming). They asked me if I could write a review for this new bonus and their slot tournaments.

I’m always glad to put up new information about slot tournaments that players in the US can play for free.

How to get the $30 Free Slot Tournament Bonus

This is very simple. All you have to do is download Cool Cat casino’s software and install it onto your computer. You will be asked to create your account and sign-in to the casino.

Then, you have to click on the Cashier button in the Casino Lobby. Once the cashier has come up, click on the Redeem Coupon tab and type in the Coupon Code: TOURNAMENTCHIP in the box provide. Then click the Redeem button.

You should instantly see the $30 show up in your casino account. Then, simply exit the cashier and click the Tournaments button to get started. This money can only be used to play in slots tournaments and cannot be used at Cool Cat’s casino games.

If you have read any of my other reviews on RTG slots tournaments, the rest should be pretty self explanatory. Just click on the slot tournament in the list and start playing.

Each tournament will have a set time limit and a starting credit. The object of the tournament is to get the highest score by using up as much of your starting credits as possible and while trying not to run out of credits too fast.

The average pace that you should set is 1000 credits per minute playtime. If you are ahead of this pace, drop you bet per spin down until time catches up. If you are behind the pace, bet the maximum amount per bet until you are on pace to use all your credits on time.

Updated – 6/16 – 1:15PM

The coupon code TOURNAMENTCHIP is now working again. If there is anyone else that got the message that the coupon code is expired, please try again and you should be able to claim the $30 free chip for slot tournaments.

If there is a problem like this in the future, the best way to get a hold of me is going to be through the Contact button at the top of the home page of the website (because I get too much comment spam).

Updated – 6/16 -12:30PM

Thank you Carla for alerting me to the problem with this code. I contacted Cool Cat casino and they confirmed that there is currently an issue with their TOURNAMENTCHIP bonus code. The lady I contacted at Cool Cat said she was having the same problem with the bonus code. I am awaiting a response for this issue.

As of right now, the coupon code TOURNAMENTCHIP cannot be used because the code will come up as expired. I’m being led to believe that this is only temporary and that this coupon code should be fixed.

Like I had previously mentioned before, I have been looking to find new free US slot tournaments for my website ever since Vegas Tech decided to pull the plug on their US customer base. I’ve been looking at software other than Real Time Gaming (Rushmore, Silver Oak, Club USA, etc.) but haven’t had success in that department. The other casino gaming platforms that are allowing US players (ie. Rival Gaming, Top Game, Parlay Entertainment, and Amigotechs) and none of these offer slots tournaments at all.

21GNet is another casino gaming platform. Although this software does not offer any slot tournaments, you will find a cool new blackjack tournament feature at casinos that use this software. The most popular of these casino is 5dimes. However, this too does not help my cause.

There are other slot tournaments out there, but these are hosted by either a Microgaming casino (such as 32Red, Platinum Play or GoWild Casino) or a Net Entertainment casino (such as Betsson or Casino Euro). Alas, none of these casino currently accept players from the United States.

So that leaves me to find more casinos that use RTG software, because this is the only gaming platform that still fits into my niche (Free US Slot Tournaments – duh).

Casino Titan Freeroll Slot Tournaments

So it is with much excitement that I can tell you that I have found more online slot freerolls! (Funny what a little bit of desperation can do) I’m not sure how long that Casino Titan has been running these freerolls; but they already seem to be popular without my help.

Casino Titan offers 3 daily freeroll slot tournaments. These tournaments run for 7 hours beginning around 9:00AM and 11:00AM (Eastern Standard) and the other begins at 9:30PM (These are estimates because the time can vary by an hour or so).

You will have to be on top of things because only the first 500 people to register can participate. The registrations open four hours before the start of the tournaments (around 5:00AM ET, 7:00AM ET and 5:30PM ET respectively).

These freerolls fill up fast, so I would try to enter soon after the registrations open if you want to get a chance to play!

The total prize pool is $50 for each of the daily freerolls. The first place prize is $12.50; 2nd gets $7.75; 3rd receives $5.75 and the top 8 places will receive more than a dollar. I know it’s not a staggering amount, but you can’t expect much more from a free daily tournament.

The early morning tournaments (9:00AM) and late night tournaments (9:30PM) have a 10 minute playtime and a total of 5,000 in credits. This means that you are going to want to play at a 500 credit/minute pace.

The midday tournaments (11:00AM) have a playtime of 45 minutes and still only a total of 5,000 credits. This is interesting because your strategy is going to have to come down to the credits you use instead of the playtime.

All you need to do is download Silver Oak’s casino software and create a user account. Then go to the Cashier and select the Redeem Coupon tab. In the Coupon Code, type in TOURNAMENTCHIP and press the Redeem button. You will receive $30 free at Silver Oak Casino. This $30 can only be used on Slot Tournaments!

Now it doesn’t look like Silver Oak offers many slot tournaments if you see the screenshot of the tournament lobby below. However, once you take a closer look, you will see that they have a lot to offer you. There are two daily slot tournaments that have $5.50 ($5.00+$0.50) and $16.50 ($15.00+$1.50) buy-ins. There is also a weekly slot tournament that has a $22 buy-in ($20+$2) and a monthly slot tournament which is Silver Oaks big draw.

Silver Oaks Monthly Tournament

The monthly slot tournament cost $8.25 ($7.50+$0.75) to buy-in to the tournament. There is a guaranteed prize pool of $7,500 for this tournament. The prizes awarded are based upon the number of entries placed.

This is a different type of slot tournament then many that I’ve shown you before. Silver Oak Casino uses Real Time Gaming software (the same as Rushmore Casino). All of Silver Oak’s slot tournaments are timed events with no rebuys and you are not allowed to use the Autoplay button.

How the Slot Tournaments Work

I’m going to use the monthly slot tournament as the example. You will start with 45,000 credits and 45 minutes of playtime. The object of the tournament is to post the highest score in the 45 minutes. You get one shot to do it so the pressure is on.

The things you have control over is the number of paylines that you can bet on and the amount of credits you bet per spin. There are two things that you do not want to do:
1) Don’t run out of credits early! 2) Don’t leave credits unused at the end of 45 minutes!

Betting in this type of slot tournament

The credits are the available bets that you have to use in the amount of time dictated by the tournament rules. When you bet, there is no getting the credits back. When you win on a payline, the total goes into your Score. That is the number you want to get as high as possible.

This means generally that you should be going at a pace of 1,000 credits per minute. Ideally, you would like to bet 100.00 credits (the maximum bet and maximum lines) on each spin. You may have to bump the bet down to 25.00 (or 20.00 in some of their tournaments) if you start to get ahead of the 1,000 credits/minute goal.

There is only one other bet setting lower and that is 12.50 (10.00 on some) credits per spin. I try not to make spins at this bet level because it tends to take up too much time and not enough of a reward when you hit the paylines.

The one thing that can help you out as far as timing are free spins. After activating them, the free spins may take several seconds to unveil the multipliers and number of free spins. It will also take at least 1 minute or more to go through your free spins without betting.

As long as you are ahead of the 1,000 credits/minute, make sure that you are betting the 100.00 credits max per spin to get the highest score possible.

April Freeroll Slot Tournament

Starting this month, Silver Oak Casino is also offering a free slot tournament for all of their players. There is a prize pool of $2,500 and the winner will end up receiving $625! You will get 45,000 credits to start and 45 minutes of playtime in the tournament.

If you need to stop for any reason during the tournament, hit the Back button and the Time Remaining will pause until you come back and make your next spin.

This freeroll only has 75 more entries left before all 1000 entries are filled up. If you would like to participate in this freeroll, you have to enter in the next couple of hours before you’re too late.

Would you like to play in Silver Oak Slot Tournaments for free? Take a look at my previous post to get $30 for free!

Would you like to play in the May Freeroll slot tournament at Silver Oak Casino? If you do, you had better act quick!

The 5K May Free Tournament has just started today and already 620 of the 1000 players available have registered. One of the limitations of the Real Time Gaming slots tournament software is that only 1000 people can register for any one tournament.

Even though this is only the first of the month, already more then half of the available players allowed have registered. I have already signed up and played this tournament; I am currently sitting in 65th place with a little more than 39,000 points scored.

That probably isn’t going to win me any money, though. The prizes are awarded to the top 70 finishers and with more than 400 people left to play I’m fairly sure I’ll be bumped out soon.

May Freeroll Prizes and Info

There is a total prize pool of $5000 for this freeroll. The first place player gets $1,200! 2nd place gets $750; 3rd receives $500. The top 9 places will get $90 or more; the other top 70 will receive prizes between $50 and $12.50.

You will start with 30,000 credits and 30 minutes of playtime. The best practice that I have found is timing the droughts on the reels with your lower bets (20.00 spins) and betting the max (100.00 spins) all other times.

The worst thing you can do in this tournament is hit a large payline with a small bet. You can only count on getting a set number of features or large paylines won. It is very important to hit each one with a maximum bet.

Featured Game

As I’m in a hurray to get this post up, I will only briefly go through the featured slot – Goldbeard

Goldbeard is a pirate themed video slot machine that has a substitute symbol of Goldbeard
and a Gold Coin scatter. Goldbeard can only appear on reels 1 and 5 during normal play and all paylines are doubled when Goldbeard is present. Receiving more than one of the Gold Coin scatters will win you a multiple of your total bet, but 3 scatters do not trigger anything in this game.

This slot machine has a free game (spins) feature that can be triggered when Goldbeard appears on both reels 1 and 5. You can win up to 24 free games. Each Goldbeard symbol that is on the reels will turn over to reveal a number of free games (either 2, 3 or 4). You can get 24 free games when you get all 6 Goldbeard symbols on the reels with 4 on each.

During the free games mode, you can also get the Goldbeard icon on the middle reel. The free game featured can be triggered again during your free spins.