Joining poker tournaments can both be fun and profitable, especially if you are confident of your poker-playing skills and strategies. Although in the past, poker tournaments can only be played live, today, poker players from all over the globe have the chance of joining one without ever leaving their homes through online poker tournaments. If you are interested in joining one, here is a guide that you can follow.

1. First, you would need to look for an online poker tournament that you would like to join. A lot of poker websites usually offer poker tournaments as well. To help you narrow down your options and decide which ones to join, you might want to go through the terms and conditions of each tournament, as well as the prize money.

2. You would then need to register for the online poker tournament. There are some tournaments which can start right away, provided that there are enough players who have already joined. There are also those that set up in advance and get players to sign up first to play at a later date.

3. You then have to determine the amount of time that you have for playing. There are some tournaments which can last for a long time. If you do not have a lot of time to play, then you might want to look for shorter tournaments. You should also make sure that you would be selecting a tournament which would start at a time that you are ready and prepared to compete.

4. You can then browse through the different types of tournaments that you can join. Some of the types of online poker tournaments include re-buy tournaments, auto tournaments and satellite tournaments.

5. You can then check how much you need to pay to play. Generally, there may be two fees that you need to pay: the first would be the cost to buy in that would give you the chips you would be playing with and the other would be the fee of the poker website.