No matter which poker room you play in there will be plenty of times when you find a Guaranteed tournament that is ripe for the taking. What this means is, on top of the buy-ins from all the players there will be cash the Poker room has to put up to meet the guarantee. In other words, there are not enough players in the tournament to meet the amount everyone is expecting. Especially in the smaller rooms, you will find these all the time. The amount of free money will vary of course, but when you do find one, it is such an advantage.

If you have a poker tournament that has a $10,000 cash prize pool GUARANTEE with the Buy-in set at $50, you will need at least 200 players to meet the guarantee. Say only 175 players make it in the tournament, by the time late registration is over. That leaves 25 players already eliminated from the tournament, before you even start. This adds $1250 to the prize pool. This is fantastic for players who play in a lot of tournaments. This gives you better odds of not only making it into the money, but actually winning a good percentage more cash.

Listed below are a couple of poker tournaments that were hosted at UB.com, in which there were some nice overlays. Obviously finding these games takes some research, but you will find them soon after you start playing on a daily basis.

Notice in the $15K tournament there are only 178 players enrolled.  With a $60 buy-in you need 250 players to get to the $15,000.  This tournament was 72 players short and $4,320 was added by UB to fill the Guarantee.  What a great overlay this was for the players in this one.In this $2.5K guarantee poker tournament you can see that there were only 78 entrants.  With a $25 buy-in you need 100 players to meet the number.  This put us ahead of 22 players in guaranteed cash which is $550 added by UB.com to meet the match.