GGPoker’s World Series of Poker Silk Road satellite series is making the dream of competing for a WSOP gold bracelet available to everyone – including micro-stakes grinders.

Unprecedented Satellites

From July 1 through August 31, the online site is offering a series of satellites to WSOP bracelet events with buy-ins ranging from $1.08 to $21.60 with thousands of dollars in tournament tickets guaranteed.

But this is not a step system or a super-satellite, these are direct satellites – win and you’re in. Players that make it to the end of a Silk Road tournament will find themselves playing for a bracelet on GGPoker.

The guarantees start at $1,000 worth of tickets and climb all the way to $100,000. During the first week alone, there is more than $289,000 worth of WSOP entries on the line.

Silk Road LeaderBoard

In addition to having the opportunity to play a bracelet event for a previously inconceivably small buy-in, GGPoker is also giving Silk Road grinders a leaderboard that will award the winner a $5,000 WSOP Main Event ticket.

The leaderboard runs from the start of the series on July 1 through August 29, two days before the start of the Main Event. If by chance, the winner of the leaderboard has already locked up a ticket to the $25,000,000 guaranteed Main Event, then they will be paid out in tournament dollars.

Every time you play in a Silk Road event, you have the opportunity pick up points for the leaderboard. And calculating those points is easy with GGPoker’s published formula.

Leaderboard Point = f * sqrt (Prize pool / k)

• k is the place of finish
• f=2.0 (1st place)
• f=1.5 (Final table)
• f=1.0 (In the money)
• f=0.5 (Bubble)

An item of note for players is that the first World Series of Poker ticket won during the series is a must-play for any target event. It cannot be exchanged for tournament dollars. If a player wins multiple tickets for the same event, any unused duplicate tickets will be exchanged for GGPoker tournament dollars.

GGPoker WSOP Silk Road Series – Week One