This situation is avoided when players play in free online bingo tournaments. A player enters a tournament by paying a fee and a buy-in. The buy-ins are pooled to form the prize pool for the winning players. The tournament covers a certain amount of time or games which is specified in advance of the commencement of tournament play. It could be hours, weeks, months or number of games. Each player who enters the tournament receives a specified number of cards and cannot buy additional cards. The value of playing in a tournament is that each player has the same number of cards and the same chance of winning. Players usually find that the monetary return on the investment is greater in a tournament.

Bingo is a game of chance that involves no playing skill. The outcome of the game is determined by the numbers that are selected. When the online bingo hall are all equally weighted then each ball has the same chance of being selected. The selection of every number is an independent and random event with no relationship to any other number that is selected and every play live bingo card has the same chance of having the winning numbers. The game is a fair game and the only action that a player can take to influence the outcome is to buy additional cards because each additional card represents and additional chance of winning. This means that players that play more cards have a better chance of winning than players who player fewer cards.