Easy Poker tournaments

There are many way to evaluate how easy a tournament is or isn't. The criteria we used to develop this list are:

1. Soft competition is rather a subjective evaluation but some sites definitely have an edge over others. Some sites also react well to different styles of play. Generally the competition at new poker sites is a softer than most. Additionally new poker rooms often offer more guaranteed or money added tournaments than established poker rooms. The extra money in the prize pool can provide a positive expectation. If you pick your spots you can get great overlays verses easy competition.
   
2. Consolation tournaments during relatively big tournaments. Often poker sites will schedule a second poker tournament within two hours of the start of a Big Prize Poker Tournament. This tournament is designed to temp those that bust out of the big one with another tournament immediately. Here you get the weak players that busted out of the big one, and the better players that are often a bit on tilt. Of course you do have to listen to all the bad beat stories.
   
3. High entry fee poker tournament running concurrently with a smaller poker tournament with many players. The best illustration is a 20+2 buy-in with 1200 entries and a 100+8 buy in with only 200 entries. The small buy-in tournament has a bigger prize pool but the big buy-in only has 200 entries. The competition may be better but the expected value is probably better in the bigger tournament.

None of these tournaments will be as soft as your home strip poker game, but for a competent player they should provide a positive expectation.