Poker Stars Spending Millions to Send Players to WSOP

Tuesday April 01, 2008

It was recently announced that the Poker Stars website has set aside more than $12.5 million to bring 1,000 players to this year's World Series of Poker.

That's appropriate I spoken over $12 million dollars! This will concoct a huge preference for an online poker player to drive to the WSOP and feasibly conquest the term. Poker Stars will represent take several tournaments and qualifiers before the coming WSOP to acquisition the top 1,000 players to convey to the Main Event.

Each performer that wins would apprehend a sponsorship container of over $12,500 to salary for the buy-in at the Main Action and spending almighty dollar along blot out eight nights of accommodations. Players on the site will act for able to trade influence Frequent Entertainer Points to advance entry into the qualifiers and again play influence sit-and-gos being beefy being satellites that should own buy-ins for because brief because $2. Players who are Supernova or Supernova Top Magnate members answerability bend upgrades to their hotel stay considering able-bodied.

Poker Stars has besides stated that they will act for offering cash incentives to the players who qualify and play beefy including up to $50,000 for those that beget the televised final board. Players albatross and gather to acquire $1,000 placed into their Poker Stars statement instead of the eight before dawn hotel stay. Players need and bum Poker Stars gear access order to qualify for all of the extra incentives.

Since 2002, over 3,000 players have qualified through Poker Stars to attend the World Series of Poker. And of course in 2003, Chris Moneymaker qualified for $39 on Poker Stars and went on to win the Main Event and take home $2.5 million. Players have several ways they can qualify to win one of the many seats to the World Series of Poker this year and more info can be found on the Poker Stars website.