Is it PokerStars or FullTilt who has the right to boast top billing in terms of poker tournament selection? Each poker room runs several tournaments each hour. Both Tilt and Stars provide a diverse selection of poker tournament types. Each of the poker rooms draws a huge amount of tournament players to their respective poker tournaments. So who has the best menu of tournaments?

If we are comparing sheer volume of tournaments, PokerStars has the advantage. Stars lists nearly twice the number of available poker tournaments on their website, as compared to FullTilt Poker’s stated number of tournaments offered.

Tournament Formats at PokerStars and FullTilt

If the bar is set by variety of poker tournaments, PokerStars offers a wide variety of poker tournament formats. Most notably, Stars offers Deep Stacks, various shootout tournaments, satellites, rebuys, shorthanded, turbo tournaments, and ante tournaments – just to list a few.

FullTilt’s tournament variety is reasonably good either. Tilt offers short-handed tourneys, as well as shootouts, rebuy tournaments, knockouts, turbo tournaments, heads-up tournaments, and double stack poker tournaments. As is the case at Stars, Tilt offers several satellites supporting both online events, as well as live poker events.

Overlays and Guarantees at Stars and Tilt

The presence of overlays to prize pools is a good indicator of good tournament selection. In June, PokerStars reports over $375K in guaranteed tournament overlays. During the same month, FullTilt reports $146K. This could suggest that there is more value more often in PokerStars tournaments.

Speaking of guarantees, PokerStars guarantees total prize pools of just above $52 million each month. In fact, PokerStars recently boosted their Sunday and Tuesday guaranteed tournament line-up by nearly $750,000 additional guaranteed tournament dollars. FullTilt guarantees north of $70 million in assured tournament prizes every month.

Variety of Tournament Formats at Stars and Tilt

Maybe having the best tournament selection means having the most different variations of poker available in tournament format. If that is an indicator of status, FullTilt shows holdem tournaments as well as Omaha tourneys, Stud poker tournaments, mixed game tournaments, and Omaha Hi/Lo tournament competitions. PokerStars puts on all the same types of tournaments Tilt does with the addition of 2-7 triple draw, and draw poker tournaments. Also included in the mix H.O.R.S.E. tournaments, as well as 8-games tourney competitions.

Biggest Tournament Ever at PokerStars and FullTilt

Maybe the player base votes in terms of who has the best selection of tournaments on the planet. If this is the case, then PokerStars has the edge. PokerStars is home to the largest poker tournament on the planet at present. When competing heads up for the world record, Stars beat out Tilt by a 15,000-poker tournament player margin. PokerStars amassed over 65,000 tournament players in their record setting tournament venture, while FullTilt’s attempt at the record mustered around 50,000 players.

While there are numerous factors we can consider for who has the better tournament selection, the fact of the matter is that both PokerStars and FullTilt provide a healthy spread of poker tournaments every day. Neither poker room will disappoint in the tournament selection department.