We think now would be a good time to give our loyal readers advance warning that the highly anticipated March to Riches slot tournament is going to be going live in the next couple of weeks!
As such if you both enjoy playing online slot games and have an account at any Microgaming powered sites that has the network wide slot tournaments available such as Royal Vegas, then you should register to take part in this huge paying tournament as soon as you can!
It has been quite a while since we saw a Microgaming network wide slot tournament offer the size of guaranteed prize pool that this March to Riches slot tournament has up for grabs, in fact the last one worthy of note was their Grand Slam of Slot Tournament last held quite a while ago!
March to Riches Tournament Structure
The March to Riches slot tournament is listed as one of Microgaming’s Extender tournaments, and as such that means that once you have played off your first attempt in the tournament you will be given the option of continuing from where your entry ended, or you can start again by purchasing a Re-Buy.
The guaranteed prize pool of which we have a complete breakdown of below, is €100,000.00 and to take a try and enter this content you will need to pay an entry fee of €20.00, be aware that many Microgaming casino sites are, at this moment in time, offering free to enter satellite tournaments on which you could win a free entry into this March to Riches slot tournament!
For your entry fee you are given 4500 in tournament credits and as is it the Finer Reels of Life slot game being used as the base slot on this tournament then you are able to play that game for a minimum of 30 coins per spin or a maximum cost per spin of some 150 coins. You are also given 15 minutes in which to play off as many of those tournament credits as you can.
Each entrant is permitted to take no more than five continues, and for each continue they purchase they will first have to pay another €10.00 entry free and for that you are given a further allocation of 2250 coins and another 10 minutes of tournament play time will be awarded to you.
Players can, if they choose, purchase up to 500 Re-Buys, but for each one they choose to use they will be charged a further €20.00 and will get their original entry cleared from the system and can then restart the tournament from the beginning and get another 15 minutes of play time and 4500 of tournament credits.
This March to Riches slot tournament will be live for a total of 31 days and that means you should find some available time in your casino game playing diary to give this tournament your best shot!
The Finer Reels of Life Tournament Slot
The base slot machine that you are going to be playing if and when you decide to give the March to Riches slot tournament a whirl is Microgaming’s The Finer Reels of Life slot, which is one of those games on which for each spin you make you are setting into play a whopping 243 ways to win, so you are sure to amass some fairly large sized payouts which will equate to some high scores, if of course everything falls into place!
One interesting feature that makes this one of the best slot games for such a high paying slot tournament is the Wild Celebration feature round, this is triggered randomly which means you could win it on any spin you set into motion, and when awarded the reels will shudder and shake and then slowly, up to five of the reels will turn wild before your eyes, and the more reels that become wild the bigger your winning payouts and hence you tournament score will become!
A multi stage free spins game is always awarded for spinning in three or more scatter symbols, and as you trigger it more and more then additional ways of playing your free spins will be on offer to you.
Tournament Prize Pool Distribution
There are a total of 35 cash prizes that can be won if you choose to enter this March to Riches slot tournament, and depending on where you finish the tournament and your final listing on the tournaments leader board then you could pick up some very sizeable amounts of cash!
It should be noted that all of the cash prizes awarded are in Euros, however should your casino account at the Microgaming powered sites you are playing this tournament from be in another currency, then you will be credited with any winnings in the currency you have set that account at, and the casino will make the necessary currency exchange.
The first placed entrant will win for themselves a payout worth €15000.00, the second and third placed entrants will pick up €12,500.00 and €10,000.00 respectively. Those entrants who manage to finish this tournament is positions four and five will pick up €8,000.00 and €6,000.00 respectively and players six and seven each get €5,000.00 each.
There are some sizable winning payouts awarded to the player finishing eighth and ninth for each of those players will both will pick up and be awarded with €4,000.00 each and the tenth and eleventh placed entrant get €3,000.00 each.
The twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth placed entrants each get a respectable €2,000.00 each and the seventeenth to twenty sixth placed entrants each get €1,000.00 credited to their casino accounts. The remaining entrants who finish in positions twenty seven to thirty five get, €900.00, €800.00, €700.00, €600.00, €500.00, €400.00, €300.00, €200.00 and €100.00 respectively.
The actual odds on any one single entrant winning presuming all 12,500 positions are filled and should each entrant take you one shot at the tournament are around 356 to 1! Be aware that as this slot tournament lets players purchase Continues and Re-buys then the more savvy entrants will be purchasing those to help them achieve a higher score and hopefully a cash prize awarding score!
