There aren’t a lot of options for American residents anymore, but Carbon Poker, Bodog and Cake Poker are all still accepting US residents and each offers some decent size online poker tournaments where Americans can still earn a pretty penny playing poker.
Carbon Poker
Carbon is part of the Merge network, which currently houses the most American players of all online poker networks.
The biggest guaranteed tournament each week at Carbon Poker is the $100,000 guaranteed freezeout that takes place every Sunday at 3pm EST. The buy-in for the tourney is $100 + $9.
Carbon also offers a $25k guaranteed daily high roller tourney with a buy-in of $200 + $15. At Carbon Poker you are able to play for large amounts every day.
Bodog Poker
Bodog, which is the second largest of the online poker rooms still accepting US residents also offers a $100,000 guaranteed tournament on Sunday. Bodog’s $100,000 guaranteed begins at 4pm EST on Sundays and requires a $150 + $12 buy-in. Last week the winner brought home more than $22,500 and there was a total prize pool of $115,500 thanks to 770 entrants.
Cake Poker
Cake Poker is one of the few remaining online poker rooms that currently accept United States residents so I wanted to take a look at some of the big online poker tournaments offered by Cake Poker and see just how much money can be won at a site that is the third biggest poker room accepting US residents.
The biggest Cake Poker tournament that is held each week is the $25,000 guaranteed tourney that takes place on Sundays at 5pm EST. The buy-in to this tournament is $150 + $12, which means there needs to be at least 167 players for their not to be an overlay. Last week there were 175 participants and the champion took home over $5700 after 6 hours and 21 minutes of play.
The second biggest poker tournament held each week by $15k guaranteed with a $100 buy-in plus $9 fee. This tourney takes place a couple hours prior to the $25k guaranteed at 3pm EST. Last week there were 216 participants, which made for a total prize pool of $21,600, which resulted in first place being worth $4579.20.
Those tournaments only take place on Sundays though, so if you want to play in a big tournament during the week, or even daily at Cake Poker you have to be ok with playing for a little less cash. The biggest daily guaranteed tournament at Cake is the $5,000 guaranteed that takes place every night at 8pm EST. The buy-in for this tournament is $50 + $5.
As you can see there are still plenty of options for American residents looking for some big dollar poker tournaments online. Set aside your Sunday because that is the day that the majority of the high priced tournaments take place, but you can still find large tourneys throughout the week too, such as the Carbon Poker $25k guaranteed daily.