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WSOP* 2011

Find out how you can qualify for the WSOP 2011 with our WSOP* page. Find out who is running the most WSOP satellites, find out who has the best value poker satellites and the best tournament structures.

Towards the end of the qualification period for this years WSOP it is likely that some online poker websites and poker rooms will be offering WSOP freerolls - where you can freeroll to the World Series of Poker.

You can also view qualification routes to previous WSOP tournaments.

WSOP* @ Tower Gaming

45 All-Expenses-Paid packages are up for grabs! Online poker players can qualify for the WSOP* at Tower Gaming and it's never been easier. The online finals are running from now until June 5th 2011 with a buy-in of $320, but Tower Gaming players can qualify for as little as $2.20! Poker players have 12 chances to get into the finals every day, with buy-ins ranging from $2.20 to $54. For all the details on the $1/4 Million World Series of Poker Giveaway, check out Tower Gaming Poker.

WSOP* Qualification for €10+€1

InterPoker will be guaranteeing a €10,000 Main Event packages every week for the next 7 weeks for the 2011 World Series of Poker*!

You can qualify to win a €10,000 package from each WEEKLY FINAL, or win your seat through each of the €10+€1 Rebuy and €21+€2 Freeze-out daily satellites. The €200+€10 Weekly Finals will take place on Sundays at 18:30GMT between 24th April 2011 and 5th June 2011.

The packages include the $10,000 buy-in to the WSOP* Main Event and an extra €2,000 in travel and accommodation expenses!

Are you ready to give it a shot at becoming World Champion of Poker? InterPoker is giving you this opportunity for as little as €10+€1!

Read a review of InterPoker.

PKR Launch $4,200 WSOP Packages

Online poker Players can win their way to Vegas from just $2.30

PKR have launched their 2011 World Series of Poker Experience satellites, giving players the chance to win their way to Vegas from as little as $2.30.

Final Stage tournaments are rolling Wednesday nights at 19:20 GMT from now until June 15th 2011. Winners get a $4,200 World Series package including: Introduced last year, PKR’s World Series Experience packages put the focus on good times and great poker - a full-on VIP poker experience.

Hopeful players can take their shot at these packages in satellites ranging from $2.30 up to $215. And for those looking to write a true rag to riches story, lotteries are available from as little as $0.45.

PKR Marketing Director Simon Prodger said, “We’d rather send a bunch of players to Vegas to have a great time than send a just a few to the Main Event.

Experience Packages are a great way to experience all the excitement of playing a World Series event, enjoying 5 star Vegas and partying like a rockstar.”

Package: $4,200
World Series Experience schedule: Read a review of PKR

Best way to play at WSOP* 2011

There will be very few poker players out there who do not share the common dream of flying into Las Vegas, Nevada in the heat of summer to rub shoulders and do battle with some of the game's biggest names and stand the chance of winning a life-changing sum of money - and of course a coveted bracelet - at the World Series of Poker.

The problem most of these dreamers face is how to afford to play in any of the WSOP* 2011 events because even the more budget friendly $1,500 tournaments would put a massive dent into a players bankroll. In fact if you take the average bankroll kept by tournament players as being 150 buy-ins then to be properly bankrolled to play the $1,500 events a player would need $225,000 available and there are very few players in the world who have that sort of money laying around.

So short of winning the lottery how does the average man or women get to play at the upcoming WSOP? The most common way is through the various satellite tournaments that are run in the run up to the World Series of Poker. Thanks to online poker, these tournaments run daily right up to a couple of days before the start of the $10,000 Main Event and often start with entry fees of around $1 and sometimes even less. Last year's Main Event saw 7,319 players take part and it was reported that well over half of the field won their seat from online poker satellite tournaments.

Another way would be to try and sell a percentage of your action, something that is common practice amongst poker players. To sell a piece of your action you basically divide the entry fee up into percentage and one of your friends or someone willing to buy a piece, purchases some of you and if you win then you owe them that percentage of your winnings. For example, you enter a $2,000 and sell 50% of your action for $1,000. You then go onto win $10,000 so you have to pay out $5,000. Another variation of this is to swap percentages so you swap 10% of yourself for 10% of a fellow player. This is a great way to lower your exposure in poker tournaments and can allow you to play in higher buy-in tournaments than your bankroll would usually allow.

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