Online Qualifiers For WSOP Events Now Taking PlaceThere Are Plenty of Options to Try for a Bracelet |
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Winning a World Series of Poker bracelet is an achievement all poker players would love to accomplish, and thousands of players will descend on the Rio in Las Vegas in June and July to try to fight through the large fields and claim a piece of history (as well as a whole lot of money).
Online sites have just started running WSOP qualifiers giving players many options to get into the $10,000 main event, and even smaller buy-in events, for much cheaper than the listed buy-ins. Qualifiers like these are one of the things that make online poker so great. The satellites these sites run make it possible for even the most casual player to take a shot at WSOP greatness.
Here are some ways players can qualify:
Bodog
Bodog Poker will send at least 100 players to the main event, with prize packages worth $12,000. Right now, every Tuesday and Thursday at 7:15 p.m. ET and Sundays at 3:15 p.m. a $270 main-event qualifier takes place. One prize package is guaranteed in each of these tourneys.
Qualifiers for the $270 qualifier are running around the clock with the first-tier buy-ins costing $1.50, $1 with rebuys, or $5.50. For each $29 in the prize pool, a tournament ticket worth $29 is awarded. These $29 tickets can then be used to play in the second-tier of qualifiers wherein entries into the $270 tournament are won.
Players can try to qualify for the $270 by playing in multitable tournaments that cost $29, $20 with rebuys, or $8 with rebuys. The qualifiers take place all through the day.
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Cake Poker
Cake Poker is now assembling Team Cake for the WSOP, and they will not be playing only in the main event. Cake Poker is spreading tournaments to allow its players to win prize packages of $12,000 and $2,000, which must be used to play in the $1,500 no-limit event (event No. 52) on June 30.
The direct qualifiers for the main-event prize packages take place Sundays at 5 p.m. ET and cost $215. A $33 satellite into this tournament takes place at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, and satellites into both the $215 and $33 qualifiers run during the week and cost $5.50 and $7.70.
The $2,000 prize packages qualifiers take place Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. ($11 rebuy) and Saturday at 5 p.m. ($22 rebuy).
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DoylesRoom
DoylesRoom will be soon releasing a full schedule of WSOP qualifiers, but right now, players can try to win $10,000 worth of WSOP buy-ins during the site’s “Vegas Legends Tournament Series.”
The main qualifier costs $110 and takes place Sunday, April 20 at 4 p.m. ET. For every $13,000 in the prize pool, a $13,000 prize package will be awarded. The winners can use the money to buy into any WSOP event(s) they want. Winners also receive leatherbound copies of Doyle Brunson’s Super System (volumes one and two), clothing, and a poker strategy session with Brunson.
All week, 24 hours a day, single-table satellites to the main qualifier costing $11 take place. Multitable satellites take place Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and cost $1.10, $5.50, and $11. As a bonus, players who try to qualify for the $110 main qualifier but fail will automatically be entered into a second-chance freeroll that takes place Sundays at 5 p.m. ET.
Full Tilt
Again, Full Tilt is dangling a giant carrot in front of players who are trying to qualify for the main event online. Players who qualify for the main event at Full Tilt are automatically playing for an extra $10 million. That’s what Full Tilt will give to any of its qualifiers who go on to win the main event.
Full Tilt has a large schedule of qualifiers where packages worth $12,000 and $2,000 are awarded (each week, at least 15 $12,000 packages will be awarded from now until June 22). The site will even hold qualifiers to the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship.
Daily multitable qualifiers for the $2,000 cost $75 or $26, but those who have played on Full Tilt before know that players can win tournament tickets worth those amounts playing in literally hundreds of qualifiers that run all week and start for as little as $2.20.
Qualifiers that award the $12,000 packages to the main event take place Tuesdays ($200), Wednesdays ($300), Thursdays ($1,000), and Sundays ($500). Please check Full Tilt for a complete schedule of qualifiers into these events, but know that a full schedule of qualifiers where players can cash their tournament tickets worth $75 and $26 are running daily.
On Sunday, June 15, Full Tilt is holding a $535 qualifier to the main event that guarantees 150 seats will be won. And on Sunday, June 8, a $1,060 satellite where at least two $52,000 prize packages into the WSOP H.O.R.S.E. event will be held.
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PokerStars
PokerStars’ prize package into the main event is worth $12,500, and the site is offering its players cash bonuses for certain achievements during the main event. As long as the players agree to wear PokerStars gear, they can earn $50,000 just by making a TV table. If a qualifier goes on to make it to the final table, they will receive a bonus of $1 million.
Direct qualifiers into the main event include $33 plus rebuys multitable tournaments, $55 quadruple shootout sit-and-gos (they start when 256 players are registered), $215 double shootouts, $475 multitable tournaments, $650 multitable tournaments, and $1,050 multitable tournaments. Satellites for these events cost as little as $2 (plus rebuys). Most of these tournaments have specific paths to get into them for which the cost varies, but most are listed at $4.40, $8.80, $11, $16, $27, and $80. The best way to understand just how many paths there are to the WSOP at PokerStars is to download the software, click on the “events” tab and then the “WSOP” tab.
PokerStars is also running six-tier “steps” satellites into the main event. These single-table sit-and-gos start at $7.50. Place in the top two in the first step and move on to step two, which costs $27 to buy into directly (finish third and win another shot at the first step).
Place first or second in the second step and move onto step three, which costs $82 to buy into directly (third and fourth place gets to try step two again, while the fifth-place finisher gets to try step one again).
Place first or second in the third tier and move onto step four, which costs $215 to buy into directly (third-, fourth-, and fifth-place finishers get to try step three again). Finish first or second in step four, and move on to step five, which costs $700 to buy into directly (third place gets to try step four again, fourth and fifth place drop back down to step three, and sixth place gets to try step two again).
Finish first or second in step five and move on to the final step, wherein two $12,500 prize packages are awarded. Players who finish third and fourth in step five repeat step five again, while players who finish fifth and sixth drop down to step four.
Second- and third-place finishers of the final step win $1,500, fourth and fifth win $1,000, and the sixth-place finisher wins $500.
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UltimateBet
Join the UB Army by winning a $12,000 WSOP package through UltimateBet. Each Saturday at 8 p.m. ET, UltimateBet holds a $530 direct qualifier into the main event, but qualifiers into this tourney are running around the clock at the site.
Several $5.50 plus rebuy tourneys into the daily $55 qualifier, which awards seats into the $530 satellite, take place around the clock at UltimateBet.
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