The 2011 World Series of Poker is less than two months away and, as usual, PocketFivers have a wealth of options to qualify online for the "Granddaddy of Them All," the $10,000 Main Event beginning on July 7. Every major online poker site is offering qualifiers to the year's biggest tournament; it's just a matter of where and when you can find satellites.Let this be your early guide to finding the suitable site to qualify for the 2011 WSOP Main Event at the Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino:
Full Tilt Poker
As it has in years past, Full Tilt Poker is again offering $10,000,000 to a qualifier that goes on to win the Main Event. In addition, if you qualify on FTP and finish in the money, the site will give you a free seat to the 2012 Main Event. That should already be enough incentive to qualify on the world's second-leading online poker room.
FTP is offering several ways to win a WSOP Main Event Prize package in 2011. Here's a look at just a few:* 150 Seat Main Event Guarantee ($600+40 buy-in on June 26)
* $1 Main Event Seats (Every Sunday)
* $200+16 Daily Shootouts (run at 15:30 ET and 21:30 ET every day, guaranteeing one seat in each)
* Race to the Main Event (win freeroll tournaments and claim one of 50 free WSOP packages)
* Steps to the Main Event (seven steps starting as low as $3.30)
Players can also qualify via the $1k Thursday satellites, running each week and guaranteeing five Main Event packages, as well a $300 satellite each Tuesday (two packages guaranteed), a $200 satellite each Wednesday (one package guaranteed), and a $200 satellite every Saturday (one package guaranteed).
As you can see, there's no shortage of opportunity at Full Tilt Poker.
UB.com
UB.com is running a new promotion this year that will guarantee its WSOP qualifiers a minimum of $100,000 for making the November Nine. The winner? A cool million.
UB will be offering at least one $12,000 WSOP prize package in a $530 Super Satellite every Sunday, with additional packages awarded for every $12,000 in the prize pool. There will also be a pair of 25-seat guarantees in June. Both will be held at 4:00 pm ET and feature a $530 buy-in, with the first running on Monday, June 6th and the second on Monday, June 20th.Players can also win a seat via Step tournaments starting as low as $0.10 and VIP Tournaments, available by invitation only -- so watch your Inboxes closely.
All players who qualify for a seat on UB will be given $1,000 just for wearing the site's gear, plus additional bonuses based on how far they make it in the Main Event:
Day 2 -- $2,000
Cash in the Main Event -- $12,000
Day 5 -- $13,000
Day 6 -- $14,000
Day 7 -- $16,000
Day 8 -- $20,000
The same bonuses apply for those who qualify on Absolute Poker, also a member of the CEREUS Network.
Bodog
Bodog kicked off its WSOP qualifiers on April 1. The site is running satellites starting as low as $1.10 for a chance to win a Main Event seat, $2,000 for travel, access to Bodog Poker parties, and more. Bodog is also running a second-chance tournament for a once-in-a-lifetime Vegas experience prize package for those who fall short of the WSOP seat.Players can work their way through daily satellites to qualify for a $500 Main Event qualifier that runs every Sunday beginning April 17 at 4:35 ET. Two seats will be guaranteed every week and one in 25 players will win a package from Bodog. The Main Event satellites run through June 20.
Cake Poker
Cake Poker players can qualify for the Main Event in a series of multi-table tournaments with a final $490 buy-in qualifier awarding winners a $13,000 prize package that includes the tournament buy-in as well as travel accommodations and spending money. The multi-table qualifiers can be found throughout the week with super satellites running hourly, semi-final qualifiers running daily and the final qualifier running every Sunday at 4 p.m. ET.Cake is also running qualifiers to Event #54, a $1,500 No Limit Hold 'em event on Saturday, July 3. These special $22 satellites can be found every Saturday at 5 p.m. ET and every Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. ET. Every winner will receive the tournament buy-in and $1,000 for travel expenses.
PokerStars
The world's largest online poker room sends more players to the WSOP Main Event than anyone, but you might be wondering why you haven't seen any qualifiers in the lobby yet. That's because the site is still promoting its massive Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) coming up in May, guaranteeing $45 million in cash over 114 events.Once the SCOOP kicks into full gear, expect to see PokerStars roll out its WSOP satellites. More than 1,700 players qualified for the Main Event on PokerStars over the past two years, each earning a $10,000 buy-in to the tournament plus eight nights hotel accommodation at the Palms Luxury Hotel Casino Resort worth $1,000 and another $1,000 for travel and expenses. Stay tuned to find out more details as soon as they're released.
All sites mentioned in this article accept players from the U.S.
Article written by: Brett bertminatti Collson
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